Its Time for the Media Mouthpieces of Democrats for Education Reform to Come Out of the Closet
In her blog space at Education Week, Democrats for Education Reform board member Sara Mead, took the opportunity to respond to a Dana Goldstein piece critical of charter-public co-location schools. It was the second such response in two days from a Democrat for Education Reform leader in two days. Tom Vander Arkresponded earlier this week to a similarly cautious tail in the New York Times about sketchy test outcomes from technology based schools.
So what of this Democrats for Education Reform. A frequent target of their penned ire is education historian, Diane Ravitch, who traces the groups origin to “billionaire equity investors and hedge fund managers,” Whitney Tillson, , Ravenel Boykin Curry IV, John Petry, and Joel Greenblatt. Writes Ravitch:
In 2005, the financiers formed an organization called Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) to
