Seattle Schools Community Forum: More Ed Reformers (Sigh)

Seattle Schools Community Forum: More Ed Reformers (Sigh):

More Ed Reformers (Sigh)

But this time next year, we will have a new president and if it's not a Democrat, a Republican would probably flip the table on the Department of Education.  It would be hard to know how far-reaching a Republican president would go in revamping public education but you'd notice the change.  But Republicans love charters and vouchers and, naturally, the wealthy.

So in the Who's Who of billionaires who care and non-educators who think they know it all, let's add two more names.  

First up, Campbell Brown, fomer CNN anchor, who started an education group/site called The Seventy-Four (counting the 74 million U.S. children under 18.)  It is funded by "philanthropists" like Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Walton Foundation, and others of their ilk. From Huffington Post:

"We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure,” she wrote. 

Obviously that would be as defined by her group as there is no person or group that would be defending inequality and institutional failure.

She clearly dislikes unions and, a couple of years back created the Parents' Transparency Project to examine how NYC handled teacher sexual Seattle Schools Community Forum: More Ed Reformers (Sigh):