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Governor Cuomo and DFER Screw First Graders

I was not planning on writing anything tonight. I was cruising through Facebook, catching up on the latest person's dinner, reading the 60th birthday wishes to Geddy Lee, and checking out Badass Teachers Association. I came across this disturbing post by the blogger, Chris Cerrone, over on@thechalkface.

I rarely post someone else's blog verbatim because I feel it is not right, I find it lazy, and I find it not

being original. But this to me is, well disturbing is not the word, fucked up is the word, of what the reformers are doing to education in New York State.

 We have Governor Andy to thank for this and him being DFER's bitch boy. I wonder Governor, does Joe Williams at DFER have the decency to give you a reach around?

I can go into why this is so FUBAR and the train wreck that is coming but I have a new book, "Washington: A Life" by Ron Chernowthat I wish to read.


From Chris Cerrone; 

Holy Mesopotamia Batman: First Grade CCSS vocabulary.

Seattle Schools Community Forum: You Can't Make This Stuff Up

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You Can't Make This Stuff Up

So continuing on the parade that charters are better, more innovative and, above all, allow more accountability, we have Exhibit 1.  That would be former Indiana and now current head of schools Tony Bennett.  I'll let the Fort Wayne Journaltell you what "Mr. Accountable" did (bold mine)(graphic by Jersey Jazzman):

But when it appeared an Indianapolis charter school run by a prominent Republican donor might receive a poor grade, Bennett's education team frantically overhauled his signature "A-F" school grading system to improve the school's marks.

Emails obtained by The Associated Press show Bennett and his staff scrambled last fall to ensure influential donor Christel DeHaan's school received an "A," 

Data Center: 2012 Base API school scores and rankings - Inside Bay Area

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Data Center: 2012 Base API school scores and rankings

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Former Republican Indiana school chief made sure GOP donor’s charter school got top marks | The Raw Story

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Former Republican Indiana school chief made sure GOP donor’s charter school got top marks

By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, July 29, 2013 22:11 EDT

The Magic of Tony Bennett

A former Indiana school superintendent frantically overhauled a school grading system to ensure a Republican donor’s charter school received an “A” grade.

Emails obtained by the Associated Press showed that former Indiana schools chief Tony Bennett, a Republican, insisted that a new school grading system must give the Christel House Academy charter school top marks.

The Indianapolis charter school was run by Christel DeHaan, who has given more than $2.8 million to Republicans since 1998, according to the Associated Press. Bennett had received $130,000 from DeHaan.

Bennett had promised to hold “failing” schools accountable by implementing the new statewide A-F school grading system. The new grading system had initially given Christel House a “C” grade, because of the school’s poor test scores in algebra.

“This will be a HUGE problem for us,” Bennett wrote in a Sept. 12, 2012 email.

At the urging of Bennett, the grading system was quickly altered so that Christel House ended up with an “A” grade.

Bennett told the Associated Press that he wasn’t trying to tilt the system in favor of Christel House 

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