Ask Haslam and Tennessee's Corporate Reform Schoolers about ACT Scores
Tennessee has been a leader in corporate education reform schooling since Gov. Lamar Alexander first pushed through the Tennessee Career Ladder program in 1984. Then Gov. Ned McWherter made history in 1992 by putting the Sanders Model for value-added testing into state law.
And by the time "Fund-It-With-A-Grant" Phil Bredesen left the Governor's Office in 2010, the Gates and Broad Foundations had turned the concept of leveraging into the practice of elbowing, as they were essentially running education in Tennessee. Now with billionaire oilman, Bill Haslam, as governor, and a corporate-owned Legislature in place, the Business Roundtable and the corporate foundations own education policy in the state
And by the time "Fund-It-With-A-Grant" Phil Bredesen left the Governor's Office in 2010, the Gates and Broad Foundations had turned the concept of leveraging into the practice of elbowing, as they were essentially running education in Tennessee. Now with billionaire oilman, Bill Haslam, as governor, and a corporate-owned Legislature in place, the Business Roundtable and the corporate foundations own education policy in the state
