UPDATE: Florida Boondoggle - Schools Matter: Why John DeBerry, Jr. Is Helping Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee Create Mob Rule for Memphis Schools

Schools Matter: Why John DeBerry, Jr. Is Helping Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee Create Mob Rule for Memphis Schools:

Florida Boondoggle

by skrashen

Posted on http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/gradebook/content/time-hardwire-florida-schools-senate-ed-chairman-says

Florida Boondoggle

The Florida Board is eager to spend nearly a half billion dollars to buy and set up equipment primarily so that children can take tests online.
There is zero research support for this kind of testing program. Nor is there any demand for a pilot study to be done.
As soon as the equipment is set up, it will be declared obsolete.
It will not improve student performance, so a more full-proof and expensive computer system will be developed.

Why John DeBerry, Jr. Is Helping Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee Create Mob Rule for Memphis Schools

by Jim Horn

If you want to see what corporate education smells like at the local level, smell no further than Rep. John D. DeBerry, Jr., the Memphis state rep who raked in more funds ($112.113) from the corporate ed reform schoolers than all other members of Tennessee legislative education committees, combined.

And Rhee's generosity is paying off handsomely, as DeBerry has become the loyal lap dog of the charter reform school movement in the state.  Sensing that time is running out before the public wakes up to the charter scam, the charter industry has pulled "parent trigger" in Tennessee to turn over public school decision making over