Rahmageddon and the phony parent trigger.
DECEMBER 10, 2010
If you check out the right side of my blog, you will find two different but related posts from two of my ed blogger colleagues.
JD2718 reposts from Schools Matter about California’s parent trigger.
The parent trigger is a dangerous new tactic by the Reformers intended to undermine public schools, teacher unions and parent choice. In a most cynical move, it is being done in the name of parental empowerment.
At least one of the ironies in this sad, though predictable, development among the corporate ed thugsters, is that the parents’ choices among the four school turnaround alternatives in Compton, or elsewhere, were derived from a select committee of insiders at Gates’s U. S. Dept. of Ed., and none of these turnaround alternatives has ever been voted