Should Community Schools Survive?
Reporter Jaisal Noor has created a gripping radio documentary about the fight to save neighborhood schools. He lets the “reformers” have their say. They want to close down the so-called failing schools and replace them with new schools that won’t be failing schools, at least not for a few years. Then they too can be [...]
Calling Jeb Bush! Calling Arne Duncan! Talk to this teacher!
Here is a comment from a first-year teacher who knows more than the “reformers” who wrote the laws in Florida. I can go one better — in my district here in southwestern Florida 50% of my final evaluation for the year will be based upon the test scores of children in grades 4 and 5. [...]
