At the SOS conference: Talking about reform.
The following is part of my presentation on the panel on union voice at the Save Our School conference this weekend in DC:
In 2009, to qualify for Race to the Top, Illinois Governor Quinn established a committee to create the state’s application. In charge of that committee was the newly hired Executive Director of the IEA, Audrey Soglin.
Soglin had been hired as IEA Executive Director to replace her mentor Jo Anderson, who had gone to Washington as Arne Duncan’s senior advisor in the Department of Education.
For a mere $500 thousand dollar grant to the state in Race to The Top money, Audrey’s committee wrote
In 2009, to qualify for Race to the Top, Illinois Governor Quinn established a committee to create the state’s application. In charge of that committee was the newly hired Executive Director of the IEA, Audrey Soglin.
Soglin had been hired as IEA Executive Director to replace her mentor Jo Anderson, who had gone to Washington as Arne Duncan’s senior advisor in the Department of Education.
For a mere $500 thousand dollar grant to the state in Race to The Top money, Audrey’s committee wrote