Friday, April 12, 2013

Schools Matter: The New Republic Provides Wedding Details for Randi Weingarten and Bill Gates

Schools Matter: The New Republic Provides Wedding Details for Randi Weingarten and Bill Gates:


The New Republic Provides Wedding Details for Randi Weingarten and Bill Gates

To the 800,000 K12 teachers who are paying dues for AFT union support:
Your union dues are not going protect you and your students from the corporate onslaught by efficiency zealots, privateers, and proto-fascist ideologues.  In fact, your president, Randi Weingarten, has joined forces with the oligarchs to begin the Accountability Testing 3.0 regime that has failed so miserably in the two previous versions.  
Below is a full page informercial in the March 25 issue of that neoliberal rag, The New Republic.  
(A reception will follow the ceremony).

Six Steps to Effective Teacher Development and EvaluationBY VICKI PHILLIPS AND RANDI WEINGARTENSponsored by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and American Federation of Teachers


Sponsored content by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and American Federation of Teachers.
Some see us as education’s odd couple—one, the president of a democratic teachers’ union; the other, a director at the world’s largest philanthropy. While we don’t agree on everything, we firmly believe that students have a right to effective instruction and that teachers want to do their very best. We believe that one of the most