[lbo-talk] Recipe for "privatizing" schools

[Jordan Hayes]

>> The book raises an important question: Why, even in the
>> age of Obama, is 95 percent of education reform about refining the 
>> Syracuse strategy rather than replicating Raleigh's?

Here's your answer right there:


>> In the 1970s, Raleigh began to see white flight from
>> city schools, as Syracuse did, but in 1976, the school
>> boards of Raleigh and Wake County took the bold step of
>> merging into a single Wake County school district.

Don't think that places like Buffalo wouldn't *love* to 
"metropolitanize" not just schools but all public services: police, 
fire, libraries ... but it seems a little disingenuous to ask this 
question when the answer is: because it was politically impossible to 
convince the suburban "white-flight"'ers to do it.

Buffalo has lost 50% of its population since 1950, yet the population of 
Erie County has stayed fairly stable.  Everyone who could leave, did.

/jordan