Reply #124: I spoke to people in the Governor's office putting together Illinois' Race to the Top proposal. [View All]

[Radical Activist]

It's a public school plan. It's not giving more control to corporations to run private charters. It primarily works within existing public schools to support their efforts. I argued with their approach to a few things, like whether they were targeting vocational programs to low-income areas and college-track programs to higher income areas. That's a problem in many school districts. But, it was not a corporate private charter plan to destroy public schools.

So when I read the daily accusations of a big devious plot to destroy unions, public education and all things good in the world, it sounds a little too...conspiratorial for me to take seriously. Being the boy who cried wolf doesn't make someone progressive either.