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Rallies In Oakland Protesting Charters & Education Privatization & Repealing Charter Laws

by Labor Video Project
Oakland Education Association members and supporters of public education marched and rallied in Oakland against charters and privatization of education. Kathleen Carroll, a lawyer and advocate of the repeal of California charter laws discussed the systemic corruption in the charter school industry and also how religious groups are using publicly funded charter schools to push religion.
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March and Rallies In Oakland Protesting Charters and Education Privatization & The CA Charter Repeal Initiative & Public Education With Lawyer And Public Education Advocate Kathy Carroll

Oakland Education Association teachers and supporter of public education rallied and marched in Oakland against "common enrollment" and the privatization through charters that are destroying public education. Participants discussed how public funds are being siphoned off from public schools and cults like the Gulen controlled Magnolia school chain are bringing their ideology into the schools.
This action took place on February 23, 2016.
Production of Labor Video Project
http://www.laborvideo.org


The CA Charter Repeal Initiative & Public Education With Lawyer And Public Education Advocate Kathy Carroll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL-HF-jDnq4
Kathy Carroll, a lawyer and public education advocate who also was a whistleblower at the Commission on Teacher Credentialing CTC discusses the growing corruption crisis in the charter school system. She outlines the systemic conflicts of interests and how religious cults have used the lack of regulation in charters to propagate religious ideology in their schools using public funds. This interview was done in Oakland, California during a march and rally by the Oakland Education Association OEA against privatization and charter schools.
For more information:
https://notocharterschools.wordpress.com
https://www.facebook.com/CitizensForEducationRestoration/
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/focus-family
Production of Labor Video Project
http://www.laborvideo.org
§Kathy Carroll Speaking On Repealing Charter School Laws
by Labor Video Project
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Kathy Carroll spoke at the OEA rally on the fight to stop public funding to privately run charter schools and the growing corruption and religious forces who have established schools to push their religion using public funds.
§Billionaires Selling Off Our School System
by Labor Video Project
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The Walton family which owns Walmart, the Gates Foundations, Broad Foundation, KIPP foundation and other billionaires are funding the California Charter Association to destroy public education in California and nationally in order to provide more profits to their companies.
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