Protestors push back against right-wing voucher movement
Originally posted on The Fight Back DC. Check out the original post for audio interviews with protest participants.
“We come down to D.C. today to protest the national campaign for vouchers,” said William Browning, legislative and education director of Action United, a social justice group in Pennsylvania.
“Wisconsin has had the voucher system for twenty years and has had no success,” Browning said last week outside the Washington Marriott where the right-wing American Federation for Children’s (AFC) education conference was taking place.
Speakers at the conference included Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle
Teachers reflect on the failure of Rhee's evaluation methods
In the wake of the revelation that Michelle Rhee lobbied to sneak teacher evaluation language into Ohio’s SB-5, here’s a short video about how teacher evaluation fared in DC.
Posted: 4:19PM, May 25, 2011