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February 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg has implemented an educational reform program privatizing 23 public schools under the control of private corporations.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Caleb Maupin, International Action Center, from New York, to further discuss the issue.
The following is a transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Tell us about these protests. And also, what does constitute as an under-performing school which has made it eligible for closure?
Maupin: Well, I certainly was at that demonstration. And what we have to understand is, right now in New York City, what’s going on is the same thing that is happening all across the United States which is right now they’re trying to transform public education which is education for the good of the people, education not to make a profit for a corporation, and they’re trying to privatize it.
And in order to do that they have to declare schools to be underperforming. There’s been a history of them cutting funding, increasing the class size, laying off teachers and, in addition, setting up more and more tests so teachers are constantly having to teach the tests as a way to constantly have schools perform poorly on these tests.
It’s a planned failure. They’re setting these schools up to fail on tests so that they can say, ‘see, they’re underperforming’, and then privatize them in order to then have what-are-called ‘charter schools’ which are schools run by private corporations where a private corporation is paid per student in the school.
In that way, banks and corporations can make money off of education. And education can no longer be something for the good of the student so that they can get an education and learn and contribute to society; but instead, be a for-profit industry just like everything else in this capitalist United States.
Press TV: Mr. Maupin, in the broader picture, can you elaborate what the aim of this educational reform program for New York educational facilities is?
Maupin: It’s very simple. Right now, capitalism is in an extreme state of collapse in the United States. They can’t make money off of the things they’ve been using to make money off of. So, the things that are held in common, the things that are public like water, like even air, are being privatized.
Among them right now in the US, for example there are also private prisons. You know, there are prisons where corporations get paid for the number of people arrested for crimes.
Well now, education is another part of this battle where they are trying to privatize things, trying to turn schools which are public institutions funded by taxpayer dollars so that children can get an education and be able to work and contribute to society. They’re trying to take those and turn them into a profit making mechanism.
So the profits can be made for corporations, and in the process destroy the teachers’ unions and make it so that teachers are no longer paid highly, and instead teachers are low wage workers just like in every other sector in society.
It’s part of a war on the working class here in the United States where they’re trying to privatize everything, turn everything into something they can pay the lowest wages possible for and make the most profits for some banker corporation.
GMA/JR
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