Sunday, December 18, 2011

Schools Matter: Deasy Giving In to LAUSD Teachers, or Just Some Good Ropeadope?

Schools Matter: Deasy Giving In to LAUSD Teachers, or Just Some Good Ropeadope?:


Deasy Giving In to LAUSD Teachers, or Just Some Good Ropeadope?

When John Deasy offers his enthusiastic support of an education policy, anyone who cares about public education should run in the other direction as fast as she can.  Deasy's history of pay-per-test-score support and his stint as a successful policy elite with the Gates Foundation should be enough to tell anyone that his motives are entirely suspect, if not completely poisonous.

Deasy's most recent support for school autonomy in curriculum and budgeting decision should be viewed by what Deasy and the Gates goons have in mind at the end of the two year deal that the LAUSD teachers have just ratified with these changes embraced by Deasy.  Will Deasy or Deasy's replacement argue that teachers haven't delivered on raising test scores and simply move to convert the "autonomous" public schools to corporate