By: James

James — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:59:51 +0000

What could go wrong? First of all, where will this new AI charter school be housed? In one of TSC’s mold filled classrooms? The college faculty teach in rooms equipped with loud dehumidifiers and signs that warn against turning them off due to “Poor air quality.” Also, I am not seeing how training eighth graders to use AI instead of working with them on their reading and math skills is innovative.This generation spends more time looking at screens than any other.Charter Schools USA is a for profit enterprise which ran the failed Renaissance School. You can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still a pig.
More importantly, John Hage is connected to the Heritage Foundation, a right wing instititution. See this excerpt from “The Proselytizers and the Privatizers
How religious sectarian school voucher extremists made useful idiots of the charter movement” by Katherine Stewart November 8, 2017 .”Charter Schools USA founder Jonathan Hage is a former staffer at the Heritage Foundation, and has a pattern of political giving to Republican politicians. He was rewarded by Florida Governor Rick Scott with a seat on Scott’s education transition team; from his perch, Hage reportedly influenced changes to state law intended to make it easier for charter chains to open new schools. Charter Schools USA is presently expanding into North Carolina, aided by such pro-charter politicians as the state’s two Republican senators, Thom Tillis and Richard Burr, both of whom have been recipients of DeVos’s political donations.”
TSC is fully aligned with the right wing at this point. So much for public education.

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