Is Teach for America, Inc. morphing into Leadership for Educational Equity?
Is Teach for America, Inc. morphing into Leadership for Educational Equity?
Is there an image problem or are they just playing a shell game?
Dora Taylor
Seattle pushes back on Common Core Standards and high-stakes testing
The Battle for Seattle continues.
This resolution will be presented at various Legislative Town Halls throughout Seattle in March and to the King County Democratic Party.
RESOLUTION CONCERNING
RACE TO THE TOP AND COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS EDUCATION REFORMS
Listen up Seattle: Teach for America was kicked out of Pittsburgh
From the Washington Post:
Pittsburgh school board drops $750,000 Teach For America contract
Here’s some education news that you don’t hear every day: The Pittsburgh school board is rescinding a $750,000 contract with Teach For America, and keeping open an elementary school slated to be shuttered.
PA NAACP opposes high school graduation test in a powerful letter to the PA State Board of Education
TO: The Pennsylvania State Board of Education
Cc: The House Education Committee of the Pennsylvania Assembly
The Senate Education Committee of the Pennsylvania Assembly
The Citizens of Pennsylvania
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People recognizes that for most people, education is the gateway to the economic mainstream; and that as such, education is a civil right.
For this reason, the Pennsylvania State Conference of NAACP Branches strongly opposes regulatory action that links the Keystone Examination to high school graduation. We call for the removal from Chapter 4 of Keystone Examinations as a high school graduation requirement. We are certain that such a regulation will create a shameful condition that defames the dream of a free society.
Why corporate reformers fabricate public school failures
One interesting phenomenon that many of us see is how people, particularly parents, will say that schools are failing but the school that their children go to is fine.
They also say that they like the teachers and are satisfied with the education their child is receiving, it’s just those other schools that they constantly hear about that are failing. Which ones exactly? They’re not sure but “you hear about it all the time in the news”.
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What the court ruling on charter schools means for the state of Washington, so far
The people of the great state of Washington have voted three times against charter schools.
Then this year the Wal-mart Waltons joined ranks with Bill Gates and the kings of Dick’s Burgers as well as Jeff Bezos of Amazon to spend millions of dollars on Initiative 1240, a proposal to establish charter schools in our state.
Due to erroneous claims about charter schools in countless TV commercials, it was passed.
Now the initiative has become law and is being challenged on its state constitutionality by educators and parents.
A judge in Seattle just made a decision on the case challenging the new law.
About Us Charter Schools KIPP Charter Chain Race to the Top Common Core Standards Seattle The League of Education Voters (LEV) The Battle for Seattle High Stakes Testing and Opting Out Michelle Rhee Teach for America American Legislative Exchange Council
Testimony regarding Race to the Top funds for Seattle and student privacy
The following is testimony that I will be giving at the Seattle School Board meeting on Wednesday, December 4, 2013 regarding the approval of Race to the Top funding that is to be approved by the school board.
The Road Map Project, Race to the Top, Bill Gates, a national data bank, Wireless Gen…and FERPA?
One of the deals that we made with the devil when it came to accepting Race to the Top dollars is the relinquishing of our children’s information.
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The Weekly Update: Inequality for all, the charter school gravy train, Common Core, TFA and the pushback
Another part of the madness is the income gap that is increasing daily, putting most of us and our children in a very precarious position.
