Tuesday, May 8, 2012

The “Great Education Reform” Compromise of 2012 (and the benefit of being Commissioner of Education - Wait, What?

The “Great Education Reform” Compromise of 2012 (and the benefit of being Commissioner of Education - Wait, What?:


The “Great Education Reform” Compromise of 2012 (and the benefit of being Commissioner of Education)


In the coming days we’ll learn more and more about the obvious and less obvious elements of the “Education Reform” compromise.
I’ll point out some of the key provisions in which the “reformers” took a huge hit, despite their claim they did well.  After spending upwards toward $2 million dollars lobbying the legislature they have little option but to claim they’ve “won” despite the fact that they haven’t.
That said, the great thing about a “compromise” is you often find out what is REALLY important to an individual or a group because they’ll compromise on a lot as long as they can protect the important things.
As we are reading, Governor Malloy claimed that the compromise plan still makes a major investment in education.  What he didn’t quite get around to saying is that although