Public school daze

The decline of the public realm is affecting not only public open spaces.  All public services are targets for privatization, union-busting, and corporate profit-making, including prisons, mass transit, water supplies, and education. 

Charter schools are now the most politically popular strategy for privatizing education.  Charters, public only in that they get public funding and have to administer MCAS tests, are one logical step from vouchers, which simply give public money to private schools.