U.S. Senate set to confirm John King as Ed Secretary-Feb 25-Say NO
The Washington Post reports that the Senate education committee plans to consider President Obama’s nominee, John King, for education secretary at a confirmation hearing at 2 p.m. on Feb. 25.
Now is your chance.
You have power when it comes to elections, when it comes to approving John King as Arne Duncan’s replacement…use your power to tell them why you don’t like what John King stands for.
Click to easily look up contact information for your US Senator here. (Call- it takes 2 minutes-leave a message- tell them your concerns. It does not have to be fancy- it is YOUR tax payer money, YOUR children, your power to do so. USE IT.)
If you don’t know King’s history in New York, ruthlessly pushing inBloom data mining and Common Core, read about it here:
What Arne’s successor, John King, did to NY schools:
The disastrous rollout of the Common Core and its tests pushed the legislature to pass a moratorium on consequences for teachers resulting from the test score component of APPR—a moratorium opposed by John King. The legislature plans to reform APPR this session, although whether the system can be improved without a radical restructuring remains to be seen.
“You’ll see the rollout of a statewide data system that will give a lot more useful information to teachers and principals about student performance and a lot more useful data for policymakers.”- John King on inBloom
In the above quote, King was referring to the implementation of inBloom, funded and created by the Gates Foundation and the Carnegie U.S. Senate set to confirm John King as Ed Secretary-Feb 25-Say NO – Missouri Education Watchdog:
