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it is a frequent refrain from the political right that america's school system is in shambles and a collective black eye for otherwise a proud nation we also frequently hear claims that our schools are so far down the road to hell that the only solution is privatizing education completely or at the very least using taxpayer dollars to give out vouchers and profit but competing that work of private parochial and charter schools it all almost sounds too simple doesn't it perhaps we would be well served by a closer look at the trail of bread crumbs and dollar bills behind this message and that task is exactly what doug martin and indiana based investigative reporter took on in his book hoosier school heist which follows the ins and outs of political campaign and nonprofit finance all across indiana had to really show who and why is

pushing the strong political current to disassemble and privatized our nation's schools johnstone earlier sat down with doug to find out more. martin thank you so much for joining me today i want to talk about your work as far as focusing on charter. schools and the privatization of public schooling one of the major arguments it seems in favor of privatizing in the borough lies in education basically as its argument that we need more freedom of choice to have charter schools and voucher programs and things like this would you say that you're opposed to such initiatives well yes in many ways the word choice is interesting in in some ways is or will only end nature because the same people who are. for school choice are also against choice in other ways the religious right for instance is not what you have to be be able to choose who you

marry but. if you want to go to a school vow to school then you know they're fine as far as you're concerned what is the the danger of this initiative to privatized public education. well here in indiana a lot of money is getting drained out of the public school system so you have tax referendums that are trying to go through you have transportation problems you have staff being laid off so. it's minute to dismantle public education as we know it and there is a lot of billionaire's behind this which i think a lot of people don't understand that that you have the balls family you have the walton family you have market bloomberg you have john arnold of only from enron there is just a host the people who are throwing money into this cause now the majority of those

people will never make a dime of this but they are using their wealth to dismantle the system as it now stands to set up a free market so-called free market system as we've seen in indiana though charter schools who have done horrible have and have even closed down are getting in there there are many wiped out i mean the they have loans from the state and the state has raced those loans so they do not have to pay those back so it's not truly a free market in many ways it's crony capitalism and how does that system really work out as it actually works such that you can make money on education or for you know for profit education. one terms of charter schools a lot of people who are politically connected have funded mostly the republican party and have a lot of these bills passed and some of them run charter schools and they're not

your mom and part charter schools these are charter schools that they run across the country so what they tend to do often is go into a local community and five politically connected people who they will put on a nonprofit who are and that nonprofit pretty much call the shots for the for profit organization behind it there is one group called imagine schools which was shut down in st louis who has connections to mitch daniels they have a scheme a real estate scheme where they basically jack up the rent and the nonprofit they have handpicked passes all of it through and some of the schools don't even have books it's that bad so the money is funneled upward the people running the schools are making i don't know about imagine that some of these people are making half a million dollars a year or more there's some charter franchise across america i mean they're raking

in these c.e.o.'s are raking in millions of dollars public money to run these jurors so people don't understand that dynamic as well. precisely and you mentioned indiana that's the focus of your book on the hoosier school heist but as i understand it the constitution is a constitution of indiana doesn't really allow for the state to actually. fund nonpublic schooling so how are the people of indiana responding to this this recent venture into about churches and charter programs. well there are arguments is that the money follows the child ok so it is for the school vouchers they have these s t o's they're called that are set up that take care of actually getting the money to go to the school. so. that's how that works now there's a lot of there's

a lot of things going on too with. no you know what was the question you know i'm sorry i have kind of got lost on trying to thought here yet as far as you know again if india has not really allowed to constitutional way you know fund these joint programs about jupiter that's how they get away with it and be how are the people responding how they get as they people responding to the how the public responding to these ventures ok well at first though not a lot of people understood what was going on after my book came out it made pretty big splash so it changed the conversation the media to that point were totally disregarded disregarding any counterargument to the narrative of the of the corporate score foremost in my book change that to a certain degree so you have some in the media actually reporting a little bit about the campaign money it's coming in from out of state the indianapolis public school board races been funded by people. all across the

american trying to get certain people on board to rubberstamp all those three so you have it coming from all different types of directions as a public reaction been opposed to the voucher system into the charter system. there is some resistance yeah. but it's not a major top of resistance there's going to be a rally at the state house next. but it's hard to to educate the people and the people who do have the money to try to get the word i don't really go about educating the people they throw their money into the political system trying to get democrats elected chang's all this but that that's never going to happen to see gerrymandering going on there is hardly any democrats who are pro public education left in the house and senate and d.m. in the majority is run by the majority of republicans in both house and and the

governor's office so i don't think you're going to change this by voting and i'll think that's going to happen and maybe eventually but you're going first have to educate people and you think of you i mean in the old days that you had unions you had the socialist movement you had dads who had their own newspapers days of reason trying to get out the real news to the general populace today as you know it's pretty much what you see propaganda a twenty four seven whether it's at the local level or the last or the but how can we trust the public school system at this point i mean does if if you look at the comparisons of where the u.s. stands in ranks as far as the you know the tests on an annual basis we are far behind other industrialized countries. there it does seem to be something wrong with the public education system no. yeah i will follow the testing

i don't believe in standardized testing i think it's a waste the money i think it pigeonholes teachers into basically p.c. teaching to the test and it tells you how well a specific student has done on that specific test but i agree there needs to be. some type of reform in public education you need to get rid of the steroids testing there's need to be more social justice taught there is need to be something true taught about american history instead of this americans exceptionalism and you know the massacres the white race is done throughout time is is want lost but i think the day that the issue seems to still stem from the fact of whether the government is spending money on public education or its spending money on private charter school link. there is there is still a sort of there's going to be any logical control the ultimate coming from the

coming from the government in some fashion or it's crony capitalism or whether it's basically you know potentially brainwashing of students in their history no yeah i mean there's not much talk of real issues in education if you think of education mean trying to understand why we're on this planet why we're alive in the bigger kind of questions we as human beings ought to be asking you don't have any of that . in public schools or at all weathers charter schools or traditional public schools it's all pretty much synergy on training the future workforce which may or may not exist and business has always been involved in education and that they want . for instance or the hope personalized learning movement that's going on now with the tech so you have i pads in schools you have online learning. so what's going on is the surveillance state the military industrial complex the commercialization of

the internet all of this is getting wrapped in twine together so you have these in tech companies that are interested not only in sewing their products schools but also their interest in arresting what these kids are doing on month so if you have a high school kid and they're doing an assignment for their english class chances are they're also looking up things on amazon no shoes dresses whatever it may be and that data is collected. after a shot of mother russia india was heckled harassed and abused practically every week for hundreds of weeks all because he and his eighty four year old neighbor had decided that the garbage piling up on the shores of her so va beach needed to be taken seriously but that didn't stop it nearly every weekend since october of two thousand and fifteen shot an ever growing team of volunteers from local fisherman

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president i don't want dollars to expand the turkeys military offensive in syria to the town of money beach risking a potential confrontation with us back forces. top u.s. democrats claim russian bots are responsible for a social media campaign to release a potentially explosive congressional memo. and the exclusion of many clean russian athletes from the upcoming winter games triggers an outcry in the sporting world. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow bases argy international and thomas got here with us the turkish president has announced a plan to extend his country's military operation against kurdish forces in syria

turkish troops are currently fighting the y.p. g n and will now advance to man beach area controlled by u.s. back to kurdish fighters. the operation we've launched many all of branch claims africa of terrorists successfully underway starting from member we will continue for you in the games which are being played along our borders and we will cleanse our region completely of this struggle. what we hearing from the turkish president is that he will now extend his military operation in northern syria to include the town of mann bridge which is around one hundred kilometers to the east of afrin which is where for the past few days the turkish military has been battling it out with syrian kurds who are backed by the united states now once the turkish military moves into man bridge this could potentially put the turkish

army in direct conflict with the forces belonging to a major turkish nato ally namely the united states washington is known to have some two thousand special forces on the ground in syria and while none of them are thought to be in the afrin area they are deployed amongst various kurdish enclaves that includes the town of man bridge now man bridge is controlled by u.s. backed kurdish syrian fighters at the same time we are hearing from the turkish president that more than two hundred and fifty syrian kurds as well as islamic state fighters have been killed by the turkish army and allied forces in the past few days these figures are being disputed by the kurdish side who is also accusing and career of civilian casualties this despite the fact that we are hearing from turkey that they are trying to avoid civilian deaths as far as possible now the american president donald trump has called for and is urging a deescalation and

a limit in the military operation that and create is conducting in northern syria it is now the sixth day since the turkish military moved. lost the border and no doubt in the coming hours and days the situation on the ground will only intensify . i. i. know of no. one to the right of their foreign tasks with tanks and more planes we did nothing to help them we are protecting our land and they're bombing us and we start them we have to sleep in the cellar because of the bombs we are free to go out on the streets what do they want from us well no only learned they should stay and there's also of course on

a matter how many planes and missiles they send this is our land we will not leave it and do what i do and wants all of this came to a head over the past few days after the united states announced that it was training and establishing a border security force that would comply as some thirty thousand personnel most of them could ever be deployed along the turkey syria and iraqi border and from what we're hearing on the ground we do expect the military operation to grow and no doubt the casualty count too will intensify crowds have gathered in cities across europe to voice their anger over turkey's military offensive. i was. just. in the german cities of berlin and cologne crowds waved kurdish flags of demonstrators branded president everyone a terrorist and killed him of killing civilians in africa meanwhile at least trying to people gathered outside the dutch parliament and ahead on wednesday calling on

turkey to end its military operation. but they never fought against islamic state for five or six years and freed large parts of syria and this is a thank you the good from the international community find it very disappointing that world powers are not taking any action my father my father and my two brothers along with their children are still in syria all of my relatives are in syria it's a highly dangerous situation they're living on the constant bombardment the people of often including the children and looking to europe in the entire world for how we need to protect the children. the conflict in northern syria is already spilling over the border into turkey several missiles hit the turkish town of the lease on wednesday killing two people and injuring a dozen more a mosque and a residential building were damaged local officials say that the rockets were fired from africa. international relations professor hussain

a banshee told us turkey and the us are on a collision course in syria. the expectation was that turkey is in a very short period and control the area in affluent and. stop and clean up turkish decision to extend their operational command which probably will last a little bit longer tonight president grant talked to the president. donald trump to the american side was insisting on about turkey is not going to stand the operation and what is more important that this. causality it should not be the case this is somehow. a warning by the americans to the turkish president i think the confrontation between turkey and the united states of america is getting more and more likely. that the turkish soldiers will face the american soldiers

supporting. probably. the turkish government. under. the count but first of all the operation in africa should be finished and should be completed i do not expect at the moment that turkey is undertaking operation directions which. just weeks to go until the winter olympics in south korea more russian athletes are now expecting their dreams of competing to be dashed to the international olympic committee has sent a list of eligible participants to russia and it excludes many athletes who have never failed a doping test. tensions in the sports world are hitting another high as the i.o.c. has confirmed that the number of russian athletes that are eligible to compete in the upcoming winter olympics is to be reduced now unexpectedly and without explanation now the full list of who is eligible has not yet been released but the russian olympic committee has disclosed

a number of names that are thought to be who will be disqualified and that decision is ruffling feathers not only in russia but abroad as well a french sports outlet has published a article online condemning the disqualification of two athletes in particular we will not be embarrassed to speak about a denial of justice. and are banned from the olympics because they participated in the sochi games both have undergone hundreds of anti doping controls since two thousand and fourteen and dozens more in recent months controls carried out of broad controls carried out by independent bodies by federations and analyzed throughout europe never in russia the result over the last four years a biathlete has never tested positive. in the is a by athlete who brought a gold home from sochi and he and his team mates. or leaders of team russia and were both two main hopefuls for winning medals and south korea as well they're both world champions and in all of their years competing neither has ever tested

positive for doping and that's one of the reason the the decision as an injustice the tone of this editorial will not please everyone that's obvious but there are still questions about the integrity of the decision makers since when can we condemn innocent sportsmen to punish the guilty is obvious to ban the russians that don't also for the rest know the i was he has promised to publish the full list of eligible athletes on sunday just under two weeks before the start of the games leaving an appeal unlikely and that means that a number of russian athletes who are still reeling from the fact that they will not be able to compete under their own flag will now be hit with another blow others said to be excluded from the list are prominent. hockey players and figure skaters again all of whom have never tested positive for doping and yet they will not be forced to watch the games from the sidelines with forty three other other teammates who have been hit by a benz earlier and another gold medalist who is also thought to be excluded speed skater victor on what he thought korean by birth which means that his dreams of

competing in his home country are looking rather dim at this point and while condemnation of the decision has continued to flow in but unlikely to change the i.o.c. is mind. a number of international athletes as well as the heads of olympic committees have condemned of the banning of athletes who have never tested positive for banned substances the head of the bulgarian olympic committee says everyone who broke the rules must be punished but the measures taken against russian athletes have been politically motivated one french biathlete has also said he believes the finger is being unfairly pointed at the whole country and the international union head has claimed that the organization has not been involved in the decision making process russian athletes from seven different disciplines are said to be missing from the list of eligible competitors for the list includes five prominent russian short track speed skaters there are also three champions and a two time world champion cross-country skier none of them.