Tuesday, September 18, 2012

In Chicago the chickens have came home to roost for the IEA leadership’s “teacher-led reform.” « Fred Klonsky

In Chicago the chickens have came home to roost for the IEA leadership’s “teacher-led reform.” « Fred Klonsky:


In Chicago the chickens have came home to roost for the IEA leadership’s “teacher-led reform.”

It was only a month ago that IEA’s Executive Director Audrey Soglin was still extolling the virtues of Illinois’ Senate Bill 7 at a meeting of the National Council of State Legislators.
She was still claiming it as a national model of school reform. She was still calling it “teacher-led school reform.”
There is no need to tell once more the story behind Senate Bill 7, the role of Jonah Edelman and his Stand for Children organization, the hundreds of thousands of dollars handed out to state legislators and the capitulation –