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Friday, July 8, 2011

Stand for Children. “We got to decide all the fine print.” « Fred Klonsky's blog

Stand for Children. “We got to decide all the fine print.” « Fred Klonsky's blog

Stand for Children. “We got to decide all the fine print.”

It’s too bad there is not a transcript of the Aspen video of Stand For Children’s Jonah Edelman’s presentation. It could be studied in every Local and Region in the IEA.

Edelman looks at SB7 as a major victory over the teachers unions. So do I.

In fact, he believes it is a model for doing to schools and teachers in other states what they did in Wisconsin, without the mess.

He believes the catalyst was the IEA’s cave on the Race to the Top grant. So do I.

He says their ability to raise $3 million dollars from the Chicago corporate community allowed them to “jam it