Monday, September 5, 2011

A.J. DUFFY, closeted reformer all those years? Or do his views simply reflect those of whoever signs his paycheck?

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: A.J. DUFFY, EDUCATION REFORMER? Could Duffy have been a closeted reformer all those years? Or do his views simply reflect those of whoever signs his paycheck?:

A.J. DUFFY, EDUCATION REFORMER? Could Duffy have been a closeted reformer all those years? Or do his views simply reflect those of whoever signs his paycheck?

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Was A.J. Duffy, who recently was termed out as president of United Teachers Los Angeles, a closeted reformer all those years? (Los Angeles Times)

Was A.J. Duffy, who recently was termed out as president of United Teachers Los Angeles, a closeted reformer all those years? (Los Angeles Times)

smf notes: Fortune China reports that school ‘reform’ propagandist-in-chief Steven Brill in his philippic Class Warfare makes a suggestion:


(Brill’s) "Nixon-to-China" suggestion is for New York City: Hire Randi Weingarten, the powerful leader of the American Federation of Teachers, to run the schools. Brill says Weingarten actually told him she'd take the chancellor job. She even said Bloomberg offered her the post some years ago, Bloomberg denied this to Brill, adding, "It's a really stupid idea. Never in a million years."

4LAKids assumes that Mayor Tony, Monica GarcĂ­a and Eli Broad will welcome Duffy to the reform fold with the same enthusiasm in the same time frame.

September 4, 2011 - On several occasions over the last few years, A.J. Duffy sat in a conference room with the editorial board of the