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alyssalyons1 — 2023-09-26 18:02:35 UTC

How does neoliberalism influence and contribute to the privatization of public education? Provide specific examples of what this looks like as discussed in class and in the readings!

Veronica Estefany- Neoliberalism

veronicaestefany25 — 2023-11-02 02:59:02 UTC

The article by Jonita Davis, talks about something called "disaster capitalism" in education. It's like when people see a problem or a crisis, like failing schools or natural disasters, and they use it as a chance to make money and push for private, profit-driven changes in schools. This often means more charter schools and voucher programs that take money away from regular public schools. These private schools have less oversight and can make things less fair for all students. The article gives real examples of how this has happened in different places, showing how disasters are used to make education more about making money rather than helping students.

Ana Maria Morel Diallo

2023-11-04 21:11:48 UTC

Neoliberalism influences and contributes to the privatization of public education by controlling how the economic factors from the government to the private sector are spent. In the article, "How School Choice Turns Education Into a Commodity", is a good example of how they use vouchers to get parents to take their children to specific schools. It is also a way of advertising for the school because parents can tell others about how to get it so that other schools can suffer from losing children in the public school system which lead into the funding that is provide by the government. In the article, "From Katrina to Maria: Disaster Capitalism's Playbook for School Reform", is a very good example of how neoliberalism plays a part in the education system. Due to mother nature hurricane disaster, the government and private sectors rearrange how schools were located and how they were going to be taught by putting charter schools in place. Charter schools is an example of how neoliberalism can control what goes on from the beginning.

Neoliberalism in Public Education - Justin Briones

2023-11-07 00:20:05 UTC

Neoliberalism influences public education through the uses of school choice, privatization of education, reduced funding, and inequality. The school choice is shown in the article, "How School Choice Turns Education into a Commodity, "during Trump's presidency education secretary Betsy DeVos, who is a believer of neo liberalizing the education system wanted public schooling to mimic the market. The problem with this mindset is that the market had both winners and losers. Neo liberalizing education is hardest on the poor. As for example, if the school they are attending loses, they are at a disadvantage when it comes to education as the institution is in danger of being shut down. From the article, "Two decades of this marketization has led to extreme defunding and closing of public schools; the funneling of taxpayer money toward for-profit charter ventures; economically disadvantaged parents with worse options than when the neoliberal social experiment began; and finally, no significant increase in student performance." To market education as a win or lose system destroys the significance of education, with greater priority towards those in a lower income neighborhood. Through neoliberalism there will be a lower amount of public spending on schools, making it significantly more difficult for those schools to garner the proper resources and quality education for students. This is apparent in schools like lower income neighborhoods. Turning education into a market drastically damages students, especially those of color that so desperately need this education to find better jobs.

Padlet 8- Donell moss- Neoliberalism

2023-11-08 01:24:42 UTC

dlet 8- Neoliberalism- Donell moss. From the article ( How School Lunch Debt Creates Shame and Inequality — and Our Fight to Abolish It by By Melissa Duvelsdorf, Elizabeth Lester-Abdalla, and Nick Marcil) I like how it explain that kids goes in debt for paying lunch, from my experience I've never paid for my school lunch. Kids had to fill out a lunch form in order to make sure they're eat everyday. Some kids wasn't eating school lunch at all in order to avoid lunch, kids used to leave school and buy food form the store, Neoliberalism played a part by contributing to the privatization of public education. the article also stated ( " Although 80 percent of Americans have consumer debt with an average of $96,371 per household, and about half of families live paycheck to paycheck, people seem hesitant to talk about debt, which makes developing collective power difficult. ) " education is a money making system that worry about making

Neoliberalism

anthonyphillips570 — 2023-11-09 22:16:00 UTC

After the second world war we as a country opened up a free market in order to compete and become a "Super Power." We privatized everything and reduced Government spending and funding into social programs and now we are here. In America we are combined as a poor and underprivileged nation more deprived of basic needs than other non-industrial nations, while we are the richest or one of. We have an open market that is selective and bias at times in areas of pay, childcare, and more. Katrina proved its capitalistic claws with land grabs that further put storm victims in a spiral to re-call parts of the third ward. Our early 19century way of doing things are seeming to re-emerge in the de-segregation of school by the rich elite who have profited from free market.

Kevin Casado #8

2023-11-15 15:41:14 UTC

The privatization of public education has been a detriment to the public school systems that are in undeserved communities. Neo-liberalism are practices associated with capitalism that encourage privatization and the deregulation from the government. This results in education becoming a business. When things become a business profit is the most important thing. Based on our discussion in class, we spoke about how this gave a rise to charter schools and the other types of schools that are not public schools. In turn these charter schools get to teach their own curriculum, hire whoever they want as teachers and implement their own practices. This may sound good in theory but it ends up having a negative effect on public education because now these schools are providing more resources but making it harder for someone without the needs to be in a charter school to have the same resources. The problem arises when the schools with the more resources do not provide an equal opportunity for the student who does not have the means to leave the public education system.

The public education system does not have the support from the government to allocate enough funds to be able to compete with the schools in the private sectors. In the article "From Katrina to Maria", it tells us about how the education system was dismantled after Hurricane Katrina. Now in New Orleans, the public education system is basically non-existent and people came in to privatize schools, but their true purpose was not to help the kids but to fill a void in the market and create a profit. I feel like the capitalist warriors as the article refers to them trying to fill a market and turn a profit would be okay if that did not come with attempting to block people fro opening up the public neighborhood schools for the kids that may not be able to travel or parents who can not afford child care, instead they force people to turn their schools into charter schools. Turning education into a market race is dangerous because then the main goal of education becomes lost in money

Samantha Dennehy

sdennehy1797 — 2023-12-19 04:30:21 UTC

Neoliberalism is used as a way to limit government involvement. This affects education by making people privatize schools, creating charter schools and vouchers for private schools. We often see that in cities where there is devastation from natural disasters, charter schools swoop in to save the day eliminating the potential for public schools to rebuild. Neoliberalism leads to a lack of resources for public schools.

Eliana Martinez Padlet 8

2023-12-19 06:03:51 UTC

Neoliberalism influences the privatization of public education in many ways. There seems to be an interesting relationship between the neighborhood's tax bracket and the treatment and resources the students in the zone school experience. This was made clear during COVID-19 when many students needed resources to be able to attend school virtually. For example, "School Debt: The Great Unequalizer", states "Debt enables creditors to direct priorities, determining who and what gets funded. While districts pay millions in debt service, school buildings deteriorate and educators’ wages dampen. Yet debt is rarely if ever, discussed in political terms". This quote depicts the tragic disparity in the amount of funding schools get, which then leads to the remainder of the necessary money needing to come from the families, this is where the privatization of education and funding comes from.

Nicole Alvarado- Padlet 8

nicolealvarado2002 — 2023-12-20 02:07:46 UTC

Neoliberalism is an economic and political philosophy emphasizing autonomy, deregulation, privatization, and a belief in free-market capitalism with limited government intervention. Funding plays a pivotal role in supporting the education system during crisis. However, capitalist derived profit from fundamental components to maintain school order. In Detroit, neoliberalism has dugged out more economic disparities than before. It is evident that this financial strategy will only favor the wealthy. Impoverished communities are suffering the unaffordability of charter schools since the public school system has demolished. Blakely states, “Education is not simply another commodity to buy and sell on a market.” The school system has turned into a supply and demand chain. There is a demand for supplies, medical services, etc. However, economists view these demands through a profitable lens. Public schools are at a more vulnerable state. There is a high population of attendees, and require more necessities than other schools. Thus, they are the target for neoliberalists.

Cecilia Guzman Martinez

2023-12-22 02:16:21 UTC

Different schools have different reputation and therefore that makes parents think that, schools that are private are more likely to get their kids in a better college and a better paying job one day. School enforce competition with one another in order to prove which school is better then others and have more kids enrolled in them, and have parents pay for tuition to private schools and invest in their kids future based on rating and grades done by schools. Having private and charter school, in NYC make public schools look like they have low-performing rating and in reality that is not true. Because the education that they are receiving is the same and it put's less stress on kids to perform better to keep rating of the school good. Sometime those privet school can hurt a kids education by not letting them learn at their own pace and then struggle in the end and don't end up learning much.

Estefania Rodriguez Padlet #8

estefrodriguez19 — 2023-12-22 02:23:20 UTC

Neoliberism is used to control the system education is provided. In other hands it would not be controlled by the government more but the people .

Education varies by schools and how they are run. Many parents believe that placing their child in prestigious private schools will open more opportunities for them and provide them with a better environment out of problems of racism, income indifferences. Well in reality alot of these schools label more children by their incomes than those who attend public.

Then, there is also Charter schools that are placed around to compete within charter and catholic. In between all these lies a big conflict of which schools will provide the better education for my child.

Cristal Perez: Neoliberalism

cristalaperez — 2023-12-22 14:07:30 UTC

Neoliberalism influences and contributes to the privatization of public education by turning it into a place where they can profit. In the reading " School Debt: The Great Unequalizer" By Eleni Schirmer, talks about the funding that these schools get. The funding for these schools has been so bad that they have been labeled as "unconstitutional". In the end the poorer schools and districts always end up feeling the costs and disadvantages from not having enough funding. It is bad enough that poor communities have to suffer from greed but to also make them pay with inadequate education is something else. In the article it states that white voters are "less likely" to approve money to fund public infrastructures like public schools in these predominantly Black neighborhoods. If things continue like this, many other public schools will also suffer from budget/funding cuts. This is only the start of privatization of public education that mostly affect poor communities.

Monay Butler

2023-12-23 19:54:15 UTC

Neoliberalism promotes and supports the privatization of public education. One of the ways neoliberalism influences and contributes to education is by implementing market-based policies like school choice and voucher programs. This creates competition amongst schools and also creates a marketplace for education. These acts also lead to charter schools and the turn of funds towards private educational institutions. Neoliberalism can lead to lack of resources between schools. Private schools have more resources and better school buildings, while public schools in certain areas struggle with funding. Essentially this contributes to an unequal education system that caters to those who can afford private education having access to a more qualifying education, and others are left in underfunded and unstaffed public schools.

Jayden Stephens

2023-12-26 22:52:40 UTC

I Believe recent education policy in Arizona, championed by leading figures such as Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, reflects racial neoliberalism and the push for privatization. The legislation allows students to move state funding towards private schools, homeschooling, or online education, thereby promoting a “school of choice.” This change comes as a part of a general movement that began in the 1970s with regard to making educational funding “portable.”

In any case, neoliberalism focuses on freedom as an individual through market-like structures aimed at reducing government intervention, privatizing public utilities, and introducing consumer choice within the public domain. In her life as one of the main proponents of educational neo-liberalization, DeVos has invested heavily both financially and politically into promoting voucher based education. When speaking on educational reform back in 2015, she emphasized that it was necessary to re-organize public schools so that they functioned more like commercial markets. Failing to do this would result in stagnation for DeVos in a government controlled monopoly dominated educational system. It is this perspective that reveals an ideological commitment to market-driven approaches for shaping the future of education.