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Chartering through the long recession

Turmoil can throw up opportunities to pursue a political agenda.

By Brian Easton In Economy

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23rd June, 2012
Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine opens with a description of the American neo-liberals using Cyclone Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans as a chance to replace the city’s public school system with charter schools. This is but one of the book’s examples of their seizing opportunities following civilian turmoil to pursue their political agenda. Klein would not be surprised that our Act Party, with its tenuous hold on parliamentary representation, has used its leverage in a way that United Future has not. (I have no expertise on charter schools, but I am struck that the notion ...

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