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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

An overview of neo-school reformers. « Fred Klonsky

An overview of neo-school reformers. « Fred Klonsky:

An overview of neo-school reformers.

Ken Libby does a good job of giving an overview of the network of what he calls EAOs, or Education Advocacy Organizations on Shanker Blog.
He focuses on those with a national presence like Democrats for Education Reform and Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst (what’s the deal with no spaces between words?)
I take a certain personal satisfaction that Libby’s reference to Stand for Children has the obligatory reference to their “controversy” in Illinois since I played a part in revealing their devious role in SB7.
Libby points out that while funding from Wall Street hedge fund managers and other private philanthropies