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New York Times
March 30, 2001
As Bid to Privatize Schools Ends, Supporters Second-Guess Effort
...local Democratic politicians rained scorn on a Board of Education proposal to allow a private company, Edison Schools, to manage five troubled public schools...
The speakers evoked the wounds of past discrimination, of the board's neglect of their schools, of the divisive decentralization battles of the 1960's, and of programs imposed by a Republican mayor and central school board that are deeply mistrusted in many of the affected communities...
Edison representatives and board officials listened in shock...
The opposition to Edison... was vigorous and highly organized. Opponents believed they faced a corporate beachhead into the domain they had shaped over decades. Publicly, they said schoolchildren were being reduced to dollar signs, while privately they feared an erosion of their power throughout the school system.
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