“Collective Bargaining Makes Boosting Student Performance Impossible”
by Jon Pelto from Wait, What
ConnCAN, the Connecticut charter school lobby group, has a new flyer (see link below) claiming that collective bargaining and unions “will not only make it impossible to enact reforms necessary to boost student performance, but it will likely prevent the most promising local and national leaders from choosing to run a [Commissioner’s] Network school.”
ConnCAN, the Connecticut charter school lobby group, has a new flyer (see link below) claiming that collective bargaining and unions “will not only make it impossible to enact reforms necessary to boost student performance, but it will likely prevent the most promising local and national leaders from choosing to run a [Commissioner’s] Network school.”
This week ConnCAN has eliminated any and all doubts about their real intentions.
Last year, the Wal-Mart’s “Walton Foundation” gave ConnCAN $1.3 million dollars to run a public relations campaign to promote “education reform.” With a new CEO in place, ConnCAN has become the number one cheerleader for Governor Malloy’s “reform” bill.
The Commissioner’s Network is about getting public schools out of public hands and over to private
