The Attack on Public Education & the "Fight Back": Rebecca Kemble
Channel: Paul Baker
Date: 2011-09-15

Gov. Scott Walker and friends at Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce are determining education policy. I attended a meeting where they were planning to influence curriculum standards and benchmarks. There were asking corporations about what kind of workers they want, and then would place those skills in the curriculum and backmap that curriculum to four year olds.  Corporations want standards that require kids to just sit still in their chairs. 

Major bills going through the state legislature, the SB22 Charter School Authorization bill. 
http://nxt.legis.state.wi.us/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm&d=billhist&jd=top
Adds an avenue to go around the authority of local school districts, and opens up to virtual charter schools, charter school franchises. There are no limits on virtual charter school enrollment.

The Wisconsin State level school board consists of the governor's political appointees. They can approve charter schools beyond the authority of local control. This will cost the state and the districts a lot of money.