Too Many Cooks in the Stakeholder Kitchen?
The concept of parent voice in public education has always been built into the structure of local control. Residents in each community vote for their school board members, who in turn represent their constituents with the best interest of the children in mind. Yet some things have changed in our public schools and one red flag is the word "stakeholders". Before those who believe in "education reform" laser focused on the " untapped market " of education, we didn't hear the term stakeholder applied to education. It is a business term, why would we? And yet, here we are. The screenshot from the article above is from 2014. Why would parents and community members give up their full role as the stakeholders in their schools to partners, such as businesses, corporations and politicians? Why would parents and community members give them any say at all? In this strategic plan example, it explicitly states that, "... key partners
