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Sunday, July 24, 2016

TBFURMAN: Who's Running These Schools? Part 3

TBFURMAN: Who's Running These Schools? Part 3:

Who's Running These Schools? Part 3

Who's Running These Schools? Part 3

And now, Part 4.

I've been writing this from-the-hip series on the mysterious governance of the Gulen-linked charters in Chicago, and none of this post will make sense to you unless you get some context.

Preface
Part 1
Part 2

So, today I was going to look at one of the other Concept schools to see if they had a faux board or governance committee or what have you, but I've decided to back up here because a lot of this work has already been done, as I discovered last night.

Back in May, Dan Mihalopoulos reported that Concept was still getting federal money via a grant in spite of the ongoing FBI/DOE investigation. It was a good piece; go back and read it. Just as a reminder, Dan uncovered a little nugget of fake-boardery in that piece; he talked about one of the members of an alleged "advisory board" who basically came right out and admitted there was no such board in reality.

Finch, a lawyer in private practice, said Concept vice president Salim Ucan offered him a spot on the advisory panel four or five years ago.

“I was asked to be on it and never heard anything further,” Finch said Friday.

So, it isn't hard to find the grant that Dan found; it's here. It was submitted on July, 11 2014, and it indicates clearly who is supposed to be on the "Concept Schools Board of Directors" (p. e85). Those people are below.

So, that's interesting. If you know what you're looking at, you can tell that this board is comprised of mostly insiders and one very unwitting outsider: Judge Ross. Hopefully, down the road, I'll be able to figure out how they glommed onto her. Dan Mihalopoulos already mentioned the Judge Ross angle.

Interestingly, the IRS 990 for 2014, which covers either calendar year 2014 or the tax year running 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2015, showed a different set of people than the one reported on their grant application. Here is the board reported to the IRS.

So, something's going on there. I'm not sure what. It appears to me that on July 11, 2014, the CEO of Concept signed the federal grant application, indicating that his board of directors was comprised of Group X, while later on (they filed their 990 on January 11, 2016), Concept indicated to the IRS that its board was comprised of Group Y during the time period in which the grant application was filled out.

Is it possible that the grant application wasTBFURMAN: Who's Running These Schools? Part 3:

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CURMUDGUCATION: Poverty (7/24)

CURMUDGUCATION: Poverty (7/24):

Poverty

I am on a two-week vacation, driving cross-country with my wife to spend time with family in Seattle. In my absence, I have dug into the archives and pulled up some reruns for you. Though what I most suggest is that you check out the blogroll on the right side of the page. There are some outstanding bloggers, and if there are some folks you've never sampled, there's no day like today.

Getting out of Poverty

Helping people escape poverty and trying to end it are two different goals.

Poverty and the Moral Imperative of Education

Why is it that we need such elaborate and often-specious arguments to support providing a decent education form poor children?

Poverty Matters (ex 2,364,339)

Yet one more data point (this one from Chicago) showing that poverty matters in education. What a shocker!

Milwaukee's New War on the Poor

Milwaukee shows how to turn the war on poverty into the war on the poor.

Excuses? Maybe a Few

That time reformster Chris Barbic gave up and quit his job running the Achievement School District. He was going to move the bottom 5% of schools into the top 25%, but he failed. Want to guess what he learned gets in the way of improving schools?

CURMUDGUCATION: Poverty (7/24):

The Manufactured Shortage: Driving Teachers Out of the Classroom

The Manufactured Shortage: Driving Teachers Out of the Classroom:

The Manufactured Shortage: Driving Teachers Out of the Classroom

Classroom key lying on the desk. In background empty classroom and a blackboard

Those in charge of public schools and politicians are hypocrites when it comes to the rhetoric surrounding a teacher shortage!

School districts around the country are describing hundreds of classrooms they can’t seem to fill. This has been a manipulated ploy to get rid of veteran teachers and employ alternative, revolving door teachers who will settle for smaller salaries.

For example, in Orlando they are crying that they are short 300 teachers. It is a similar story in the rest of the state. Yet, Orlando signed on to Teach for America in 2015, instead of trying to address the problem of teacher retention.

The State of Florida began courting TFA in 2010. They were not alone, following the lead of the U.S. Department of Education which chipped in with a competitive $50 million grant. This was part of a larger piece of the privatization pie.

From the New York Times:

The $650 million was given out in awards of three levels. The four largest awards of nearly $50 million each went to groups proposing to greatly expand programs, like Teach for America and the KIPP charters, that the department viewed has having been proved successful.

It isn’t like school administrators and politicians don’t know they have a problem retaining teachers in Florida or around the rest of the country. The State treats The Manufactured Shortage: Driving Teachers Out of the Classroom:

Trump Pledges To 'Rescue' Kids From Failing Schools

Trump Pledges To 'Rescue' Kids From Failing Schools:

Trump Pledges To ‘Rescue’ Kids From Failing Schools

He also warned that new immigrants could ‘overwhelm’ schools and hospitals.

During the Republican and Democratic conventions, The Hechinger Report will publish a new story each day, examining what the party proposals might mean for the future of education. Our staff reporters will provide education coverage from Cleveland and Philadelphia.

Education got only the briefest mention in Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican convention in Cleveland on Thursday.

“We will rescue kids from failing schools by helping their parents send them to a safe school of their choice,” he said.

He also blamed the current administration for failing the inner cities when it comes to education and warned that Hillary Clinton would allow in too many immigrants who would “overwhelm your schools and hospitals.”

Trump’s speech mirrored the rest of the convention in that it was focused more on foreign threats, the economy and the dangers of a Hillary Clinton presidency than anything else. Education policy was mentioned by only a handful of speakers.

Those who did talk about education either listed it as something Donald Trump would “fix” when he became president, called for more parental say in where children attend school or expressed disgust with the Common Core State Standards, a set of math and English learning targets currently used in 42 states.

Donald Trump Jr. pumps his fist after speaking about his father, Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump, during the second day at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio,

The Trump sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, made the most substantial remarks on education. Eric Trump said his father finds the state of the American education system humiliating and told teachers “forced to walk through metal detectors” that his father was “running for you.” His brother had even stronger language to describe what he sees as the failure of the American public education system.

“Our schools used to be an elevator to the middle class,” Donald Trump Jr. said. “Now, they’re stalled on the ground floor. They’re like Soviet Era department stores Trump Pledges To 'Rescue' Kids From Failing Schools:

Chicago Teachers Want Their Governor To Know That They Definitely Know How To Read

Chicago Teachers Want Their Governor To Know That They Definitely Know How To Read:

Chicago Teachers Want Their Governor To Know That They Definitely Know How To Read

Gov. Bruce Rauner called half of Chicago teachers “virtually illiterate” in 2011.

Chicago teachers are most definitely not illiterate, and they want their governor to know it.

Emails released this week by The Chicago Tribune reveal that Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) called half of Chicago Public School teachers “virtually illiterate” in 2011, before he was governor. He apologized for the email during a press conference Friday, calling it “inaccurate and intemperate.”

When Rauner sent the email he was an executive at a private equity group that was involved with the Chicago Public Education Fund, a philanthropic education reform nonprofit that invests in local school initiatives. Rauner sent the email to several of the Fund’s wealthy leaders to advocate for a strong teacher evaluation system in the district. It was released after the Chicago Tribune sued for access to emails regarding a scandal involving Chicago Public Schools.

Per the Chicago Tribune, the email read:

“Teacher evaluation is critically important, but in a massive bureaucracy with a hostile union, where 50% of principals are managerially incompetent and half of teachers are virtually illiterate, a complete multi-dimensional evaluation system with huge subjectivity in it will be attacked, manipulated and marginalized — the status quo will prevail,” Rauner wrote.

In response, teachers have started a “teachers read” hashtag, detailing their reading selections.

Rauner’s Friday mea culpa was preceded by the governor’s spokesperson Lance Trover releasing a statement Thursday apologizing, saying that the email was “sent out of frustration at the pace of change in our public school system.”

“Significant change can be frustratingly slow; this is especially true in public education. Many of us, at one time or another, have sent hastily crafted emails Chicago Teachers Want Their Governor To Know That They Definitely Know How To Read:

Clinton looks to move Democrats away from ‘Education Wars’

Clinton looks to move Democrats away from ‘Education Wars’:

Clinton looks to move Democrats away from ‘Education Wars’

Can she unite the party’s opposing sides?

In an event that could be called a love fest, Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton laid out her education priorities in a rollicking speech at the annual assembly of the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers union. Clinton profusely thanked teachers for doing the difficult job of educating the nation’s children, and the 7,500 educators in attendance responded with cascading chants of “Hillary, Hillary.”

There was, however, one moment of discord.

“When schools get it right, whether they are traditional public schools or public charter schools, let’s figure out what’s working,” said Clinton to loud boos over the mention of charter schools, which are publicly-funded, independently run public schools that often employ non-unionized teachers.

Clinton paused and continued: “We don’t have time for these education wars.”

In most policy areas the Democratic Party and the Clinton campaign want to be seen as the inheritor of the popular sitting president’s legacy, but perhaps no area has divided the party more than K-12 education. While the Clinton campaign has focused on issues that unite the party—such as expanding access to pre-kindergarten programs, raising teacher pay and increasing school funding— a recent fight over the party’s platform, a document that lays out the party’s policy goals, underscores how difficult ending the party’s internal education wars could be.

At a July meeting in Orlando, Florida to write the party’s platform, delegates appointed by Clinton’s main rival in the primaries, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, pushed through a slew of amendments to the original draft, which together represent a sharp turn away from the policies of the Obama administration which used federal funding to push states to raise academic standards and to tie test scores to teacher evaluations. The new language supports the rights of parents to opt their children out of standardized tests, demand more oversight of charters and oppose evaluating teachers using their students’ standardized test scores.

“We moved the debate and raised some issues that the party had ignored,” said Chuck Pascal, a Sanders delegate, former school board member and former mayor from Leechburg, Pennsylvania. “We introduced amendments that made the platform more reflective of the positions of rank-and-file Democrats in the field, educators and activists.”

“We needed to make clear that the party is not in lockstep behind what had become orthodoxy for a while, more charters and more testing and all of these things that have weakened public education,” added Pascal.

But the reformers who shifted the party away from its traditional stances, groups like Democrats for Education Reform, individual educators like Louisiana superintendent John White and President Obama himself, are still a potentially powerful force in the party, even if the platform, a non-binding proposal, includes rebuttals of Clinton looks to move Democrats away from ‘Education Wars’:

The Common Core Costs Billions and Hurts Students - The New York Times

The Common Core Costs Billions and Hurts Students - The New York Times:

The Common Core Costs Billions and Hurts Students

FOR 15 years, since the passage of George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behindact, education reformers have promoted standardized testing, school choice, competition and accountability (meaning punishment of teachers and schools) as the primary means of improving education. For many years, I agreed with them. I was an assistant secretary of education in George H. W. Bush’s administration and a member of three conservative think tanks.

But as I watched the harmful effects of No Child Left Behind, I began to have doubts. The law required that all schools reach 100 percent proficiency as measured by state tests or face harsh punishments. This was an impossible goal. Standardized tests became the be-all and end-all of education, and states spent billions on them. Social scientists have long known that the best predictor of test scores is family income. Yet policy makers encouraged the firing of thousands of teachers and the closing of thousands of low-scoring public schools, mostly in poor black and Hispanic neighborhoods.

As the damage escalated, I renounced my support for high-stakes testing and charter schools. Nonetheless, I clung to the hope that we might agree on national standards and a national curriculum. Surely, I thought, they would promote equity since all children would study the same things and take the same tests. But now I realize that I was wrong about that, too.

Six years after the release of our first national standards, the Common Core, and the new federal tests that accompanied them, it seems clear that the pursuit of a national curriculum is yet another excuse to avoid making serious efforts to reduce the main causes of low student achievement: poverty and racial segregation.

The people who wrote the Common Core standards sold them as a way to improve achievement and reduce the gaps between rich and poor, and black and white. But the promises haven’t come true. Even in states with strong common standards and tests, racial achievement gaps persist. Last year, average math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress declined for the first time since 1990; reading scores were flat or decreased compared with a decade earlier.

The development of the Common Core was funded almost entirely by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It was a rush job, and the final product ignored the needs of children with disabilities, English-language learners and those in the early grades. It’s no surprise that there has been widespread pushback.

In 2009 President Obama announced Race to the Top, a competition for $4.35 billion in federal grant money. To qualify, states had to adopt “college and career ready standards,” a requirement that was used to pressure themThe Common Core Costs Billions and Hurts Students - The New York Times:

Tim Kaine On Education: 7 Things The Vice Presidential Candidate Wants You To Know - Forbes

Tim Kaine On Education: 7 Things The Vice Presidential Candidate Wants You To Know - Forbes:

Tim Kaine On Education: 7 Things The Vice Presidential Candidate Wants You To Know

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., smiles as he takes the stage with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a rally at Florida International University Panther Arena in Miami, Saturday, July 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Hillary Clinton heads to the Democratic convention this week with her pick for vice president, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, by her side. During her speech on Saturday in Miami, the presumptive presidential nominee praised Kaine for increasing education spending in the state while he was governor as well as increasing enrollment in pre-K programs. Education, he said, is “the key to everything we want to achieve as a nation.”

Kaine, who worked his way up in politics from Richmond city councilman, is married to fellow Harvard Law School class of 1983 graduate Anne Holton, who is the current Secretary of Education in Virginia.

Virginia is home to just nine charter schools and Kaine and Holton are no promoters of school choice. He did, however, sign legislation in 2006 that allows parents with high school diplomas, and not just those with college degrees, to home-school their children. As a governor and now senator, he has promoted career and technical education.

Here are some of his views on education:

Free college:

We will make college debt-free for everybody.

Introductory speech, Miami, July 23, 2016

Education spending:

We had to make tough decisions when I was in office (as governor) because it was the deepest recession since the 1930s. But that didn’t stop us from expanding early childhood education, from building more classrooms and facilities on our college campuses so that more could go to school. Because we knew that education was the key to everything we wanted to achieve as a state and it’s the key to everything we want to achieve as a nation.

Introductory speech, Miami, July 23, 2016

No Child Left Behind:

The administration’s No Child Left Behind Act is wreaking havoc on local school districts. Despite the insistence of Democrats in Congress that the program should be funded as promised, the administration has opposed full funding and is refusing to let states try innovative alternatives.

Democratic response to President George Bush’s State of the Union, January 2006

Start school at age 4:

Someday soon, a governor will decide to lead a salutary change by adjusting K-12 education downward to begin at age 4, finishing at age 17, instead of the current 5 to 18 age norm that was set before we fully understood patterns of brain development. There is no question that there is a higher public return on investing in education for a student from age 4 to 5 than from age 17 to 18. I predict that we will eventually move to an earlier start to public education and experience great educational improvements as a result.

Education Week, November 2013

Teacher pay:

The pay of teachers is another issue that should be the focus of national discussion. Traditionally, this is a matter for states and local governments and not a federal issue. But, at the national level, we should show how teacher compensation practices in this country stack up to the “best in class” education systems worldwide… Many teachers pursue a rigorous national certification process after they have a few years of classroom experience. The multi-year certification process is a powerful form of professional development. How about a federal Tim Kaine On Education: 7 Things The Vice Presidential Candidate Wants You To Know - Forbes:

Turkish rivalry comes to San Jose amid allegations about Magnolia charter schools - Mercury News

Turkish rivalry comes to San Jose amid allegations about Magnolia charter schools - Mercury News:

Turkish rivalry comes to San Jose amid allegations about Magnolia charter schools

Turkey's heavy-handed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blamed a onetime ally now in exile in Pennsylvania for allegedly instigating a failed coup this month. But even before Erdogan declared a three-month state of emergency and arrested thousands, the Turkish government had been targeting imam Fethullah Gülen and his alleged followers in the U.S. -- including educators.

Gülen has been an outspoken critic of Erdogan but has denied involvement in the attempted coup. Still, Erdogan is seeking Gülen's extradition.

Erdogan also has gone after Magnolia Public Schools, which runs 10 high-performing charter schools focused on science, technology, engineering and math.

Earlier this year, when Magnolia applied to open a school in Fremont, Erdogan's government sent an attorney urging the school board to deny the request, alleging a nefarious link between charter-school groups, including Magnolia, and Gülen. Magnolia schools were founded by Turkish grad students in Los Angeles, and they have hired some teachers from Turkey. But Magnolia firmly denies any link to Gülen.

"He is fanning the flames of fear," said a Magnolia spokeswoman. "This is an attempt to firm up Erdogan's position in Turkey by discrediting opponents."

California State Auditor Elaine M. Howle just closed an audit of Magnolia and said that the group is financially sound. But earlier this summer, Magnolia announced it would close its successful Santa Clara charter school after a fruitless search for a new campus. The school just ended a tough year in East San Jose, unable to retain or attract enough students after being forced out last year from Santa Clara.

At the moment, Magnolia is not seeking to open more schools in the Bay Area. But in the fall, three of its 10 Southern California charter schools are up for renewal. Expect allegations of Gülen influence to resurface then.

Mike Honda tries to tie rival to Donald Trump

One of the speakers at last week's Republican National Convention caught the eye of Rep. Mike Honda, D-San Jose, who came in behind challenger Ro Khanna in the primary election and is now fighting to save the seat he's held for eight terms.

While the congressman didn't directly attack Silicon Valley billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel, he called on Khanna, a Fremont attorney, to explain why he accepts donations from such quarters.

"My question for Ro is will he denounce Donald Trump or continue aligning himself with Republican donors in order to get elected?" Honda asked in a statement the day Thiel gave a speech in Cleveland.

Thiel has donated $7,800 to Khanna since 2011, including $2,700 in the latest campaign. That doesn't make up much of the $1.5 million currently banked, but it's the thought that counts, said Honda's camp.

Honda has also accepted money from right-side donors, although perhaps none as high profile as Thiel. Hari Sevugan of the Khanna campaign called the attacks a sign that the incumbent is scraping the bottom.

"It's sad to see what desperate lengths Congressman Honda will go to now to keep his seat," said Sevugan, adding that Khanna has denounced Trump and endorsed and contributed to Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Khanna said in a statement that "it is true that Thiel has supported me and other Democrats such as Gavin Newsom." He added that "although I disagree with Peter on many issues, I am and will always be impressed by his founding PayPal and early backing of Facebook. I respect his courage tonight."

Sevugan slapped the Honda campaign for its reliance on political action committees, which account for about a quarter of the contributionsit has collected this season.

"If Mike Honda won't say 'no' to PACs and lobbyists," Sevugan said, "you know his attacks on Ro are as bankrupt as a Donald Trump casino."

CHARTER ASSOCIATION WALKS BACK K12 INC. SLAP

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