Is Education a National Job?
Following yesterday's election results in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Arkansas, and elsewhere, there is a great deal of buzz about what the latest collections of primary votes in an off-year election year truly mean. The talking heads immediately keyed in on the "power" of President Obama's support, the strength of the Tea Party movement, and other such harbingers of what is to come.
Such talk also has direct impact on current education improvement efforts. Last fall's gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia have had real edu-implications. Just look at New Jersey, where Gov. Chris Christie has sought to revolutionize school finance efforts, freeze teacher pay, expand charter schools, single-handedly take down the New Jersey Education Association, one of the strongest state teachers' unions in the nation. As his reward? The NJ legislature provides lukewarm, at best, support for his Phase II Race to the Top application, an
Around the Edu-Horn, May 19, 2010
RT @TeacherBeat Hot performance-pay action: ED will announce the opening of the Teacher Incentive Fund grant program tomorrow.
RT @edReformer A call for teachers and tech savvy superintendents to share their stories with edreformer http://twaud.io/Xm7
RT @hechingerreport Worst job market for teachers since Great Depression? http://nyti.ms/aelh90
Spellings: NCLB still good policy - http://bit.ly/dsNZAz
An EdSec goes to Brooklyn - http://tinyurl.com/25j2ety