Arne Duncan's opposition: A partial list
This interesting dynamic marked a meeting this week between Education Secretary Arne Duncan and U.S. legislators representing 17 states:
Not a single lawmaker voiced to Duncan his or her very real objections to some of his key education policies.
According to Education Week, the lawmakers stayed mum about their concerns when Duncan asked them for help in supporting the Obama administration’s education goals. His deputies, however, got an earful about some of Duncan’s favored initiatives, including linking teacher’s pay with standardized test scores and the tough measures required to deal with low-performing schools.
Continue reading this post »Randi Weingarten: Rhee is wrong
The teachers union president whom D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee highly praised in an op-ed article this week -- the column in which Rhee tells New York schools boss Joel Klein that he has a lot to learn from her -- is taking strong issue with Rhee.
Rhee wrote in a Sunday piece in the New York Daily News that Klein, once Rhee’s mentor, should follow the same steps she took in negotiating a newly approved contract with the D.C. teachers union.
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