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Saturday, December 17, 2016
CURMUDGUCATION: The New Charter Packaging
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The New Charter Packaging
The election of Donald Trump presented nominally-Democratic reformsters with a problem.
How could they put some distance between themselves and Trump and his Ed Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos. Neither one would pass for a progressive in even the darkest alley, and yet their preferred policies are the preferred policies of Trump-DeVos. Charters? Check. Smoosh the teachers unions? Check. Even Common Core, which Trump promised to eradicate, is much beloved by DeVos.
What, exactly, is the policy difference between the so-called progressive reform education agenda and the Trump-DeVos inclination to dismantle public education and sell off the pieces?
The dance of the faux progressives has been interesting to watch.
Some have just said, "Screw it. We love the folks who have the power." Jeanne Allen of the Center for Education Reform took just six months to go from being alarmed that Trump was playing her song to thinking that, well, maybe he was swell after all.
Others, like Whitney Tilson and DFER, hedged their bets by suggesting that nobody should take a job with Trump, but maybe DeVos deserved a chance to prove herself.
But the preferred distinction is slowly being crafted and fine-tuned. Shavar Jeffries and Peter Cunningham tried it out at the end of November, and it is turning up in places like this tweet from the left-leaning thinky tank (and previous holding tank for former future Clinton administration CURMUDGUCATION: The New Charter Packaging:
The New Charter Packaging
The election of Donald Trump presented nominally-Democratic reformsters with a problem.
How could they put some distance between themselves and Trump and his Ed Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos. Neither one would pass for a progressive in even the darkest alley, and yet their preferred policies are the preferred policies of Trump-DeVos. Charters? Check. Smoosh the teachers unions? Check. Even Common Core, which Trump promised to eradicate, is much beloved by DeVos.
What, exactly, is the policy difference between the so-called progressive reform education agenda and the Trump-DeVos inclination to dismantle public education and sell off the pieces?
The dance of the faux progressives has been interesting to watch.
Some have just said, "Screw it. We love the folks who have the power." Jeanne Allen of the Center for Education Reform took just six months to go from being alarmed that Trump was playing her song to thinking that, well, maybe he was swell after all.
Others, like Whitney Tilson and DFER, hedged their bets by suggesting that nobody should take a job with Trump, but maybe DeVos deserved a chance to prove herself.
But the preferred distinction is slowly being crafted and fine-tuned. Shavar Jeffries and Peter Cunningham tried it out at the end of November, and it is turning up in places like this tweet from the left-leaning thinky tank (and previous holding tank for former future Clinton administration CURMUDGUCATION: The New Charter Packaging:
Digale a su senador que vote no por Betsy DeVos - Network For Public Education
Digale a su senador que vote no por Betsy DeVos - Network For Public Education:
Digale a su senador que vote no por Betsy DeVos
Digale a su senador que vote no por Betsy DeVos
Cuanto más aprendemos, más estamos seguros de que Betsy DeVos es mala para las escuelas públicas y para los niños.
Cuando De Vos tiene que elegir entre escuelas de calidad y el “libre mercado”, elige “el mercado libre” de la privatización cada vez. Los mejores intereses de los niños toman un asiento trasero.
Y sabemos que los DeVos “endgame” – cerrar las escuelas públicas de nuestro vecindario, y reemplazarlos con un mosaico de charters, escuelas privadas y aprendizaje en línea.
No podemos dejar que eso suceda y necesitamos su ayuda. Las generaciones presentes y futuras de niños dependen de nosotros para actuar ahora.
Únase a la Fase 1 de la campaña de NPE para que sus senadores sepan que deben votar “no” por Betsy DeVos. Ahora sabemos que algunos senadores tienen serias dudas. Es nuestro trabajo hacer que estas dudas crezcan en resistencia activa a DeVos. Nuestros senadores están en las oficinas del distrito del 12/17 – 1/2.
Aquí están nuestros tres kits de herramientas para ayudarle a hacer su parte.
Toolkit 1. Llame a las oficinas de sus senadores. El kit de herramientas con números y un script de teléfono se puede encontrar aquí. Incluye un enlace a los números de teléfono.
Toolkit 2. Envíe una carta al editor de su periódico local. Aquí puede encontrar un modelo.
Toolkit 3. Visite las oficinas de sus senadores. Si no puede obtener una cita, entregue una carta. Nuestro kit de herramientas, que puede encontrar aquí tiene un modelo para usar, y direcciones para encontrar oficinas locales. Si no puede entregarlo, envíe su carta por correo.
Cuando entras en los toolkits y te comprometes a una acción, tenemos un formulario simple que nos permite saber lo que quieres. Recibirás una insignia especial para tu página de Facebook o tu cuenta de Twitter cada vez que completes una acción, y serás introducido en nuestro dibujo para una copia de Reign of Error firmado por Diane Ravitch.
Comience su acción hoy. Comparte este enlace [http://networkforpubliceducation.org/2016/12/join-us-in-stopping-the-confirmation-of-devos-npe-toolkit/] en tu página de Facebook y cuenta de Twitter, o envíalo por correo electrónico a un amigo.
Te damos las gracias por lo que haces. Lamentablemente, los hijos de nuestra nación necesitan que hagas más.
Cuando De Vos tiene que elegir entre escuelas de calidad y el “libre mercado”, elige “el mercado libre” de la privatización cada vez. Los mejores intereses de los niños toman un asiento trasero.
Y sabemos que los DeVos “endgame” – cerrar las escuelas públicas de nuestro vecindario, y reemplazarlos con un mosaico de charters, escuelas privadas y aprendizaje en línea.
No podemos dejar que eso suceda y necesitamos su ayuda. Las generaciones presentes y futuras de niños dependen de nosotros para actuar ahora.
Únase a la Fase 1 de la campaña de NPE para que sus senadores sepan que deben votar “no” por Betsy DeVos. Ahora sabemos que algunos senadores tienen serias dudas. Es nuestro trabajo hacer que estas dudas crezcan en resistencia activa a DeVos. Nuestros senadores están en las oficinas del distrito del 12/17 – 1/2.
Aquí están nuestros tres kits de herramientas para ayudarle a hacer su parte.
Toolkit 1. Llame a las oficinas de sus senadores. El kit de herramientas con números y un script de teléfono se puede encontrar aquí. Incluye un enlace a los números de teléfono.
Toolkit 2. Envíe una carta al editor de su periódico local. Aquí puede encontrar un modelo.
Toolkit 3. Visite las oficinas de sus senadores. Si no puede obtener una cita, entregue una carta. Nuestro kit de herramientas, que puede encontrar aquí tiene un modelo para usar, y direcciones para encontrar oficinas locales. Si no puede entregarlo, envíe su carta por correo.
Cuando entras en los toolkits y te comprometes a una acción, tenemos un formulario simple que nos permite saber lo que quieres. Recibirás una insignia especial para tu página de Facebook o tu cuenta de Twitter cada vez que completes una acción, y serás introducido en nuestro dibujo para una copia de Reign of Error firmado por Diane Ravitch.
Comience su acción hoy. Comparte este enlace [http://networkforpubliceducation.org/2016/12/join-us-in-stopping-the-confirmation-of-devos-npe-toolkit/] en tu página de Facebook y cuenta de Twitter, o envíalo por correo electrónico a un amigo.
Te damos las gracias por lo que haces. Lamentablemente, los hijos de nuestra nación necesitan que hagas más.
Carol Burris
Directora de NPE
Rahm Emanuel: Don’t Be Afraid of School Choice | Diane Ravitch's blog
Rahm Emanuel: Don’t Be Afraid of School Choice | Diane Ravitch's blog:
Rahm Emanuel: Don’t Be Afraid of School Choice
Rahm Emanuel: Don’t Be Afraid of School Choice
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel published an opinion article in the Washington Post saying something about how choice is a good thing when it is a good thing, so don’t get your knickers twisted against school choice just because Trump is for it. At least I think that is what he is saying. Read it and tell me why you think he (or someone wrote) wrote this article to get people to think well of school choice.
I think he is saying that when Democrats promote privatization by charter school, that is a good thing, and we must keep doing it even though Betsy DeVos wants to turn every school into a charter school and/or give every student a voucher to attend a religious school.
Sorry, but I have a hard time reading anything allegedly penned by Rahm about schools without thinking of the day of infamy when he closed 50 public schools at one fell swoop. He will be remembered for the brutal, disruptive, heedless closing of 50 community public schools. That, and the awful youth violence that continues to plague Chicago, promoted to some extent by the deliberate destruction of communities.
At the same time that Rahm and his hand-picked board of the city’s elite were closing public schools, they continued opening charter schools. Chicago is not an example of the success of school reform. To the extent that we use the federal NAEP scores as a measure, Chicago is still one of the lowest performing urban districts in the nation. It has some very good public schools, but it also has many very poorly resourced schools. Rahm will not be remembered as an education reformer.
In this article, he boasts again of Urban Prep Academy. This is the all-black, all-male school where 100% of the students who reach 12th grade graduate and go to college. This is a school that Gary Rubinstein researched and discovered its high attrition rate and its low test scores, lower than those of students in Chicago public schools. When I googled Urban Prep to find the links, I noticed that newspapers around the country still report the news of its “100% graduation rate” and “100% college acceptance rate.”
Knowing what Rahm has done to the Chicago public schools, I find it hard to understand why he thinks he is in a position to offer advice to the nation about school reform. The reality is that he is comfortable with Trump and DeVos and the privatization movement and has no qualms about continuing to implement it in Chicago.Rahm Emanuel: Don’t Be Afraid of School Choice | Diane Ravitch's blog:
Michigan, Here I Come! – EduShyster
Michigan, Here I Come! – EduShyster:
Michigan, Here I Come!
Michigan, Here I Come!
Wow—a huge thanks to everyone who chipped in and made my *send EduShyster to the 
Mitten State* fundraising campaign such a success. In seven days, I raised $5,000 from 100 donors. Make that $5,025 from 101 donors. And while I did get a few three figure gifts (thanks Dad!), most of my contributions were small—$10 here, $18 there—from readers who want to know more about a would-be Secretary of Education and what the hell is going on in Michigan. So in just over three weeks, I’ll be hitting the road. Here’s where I’m headed, who I’ll be talking to and what I’m up to…
Mitten State* fundraising campaign such a success. In seven days, I raised $5,000 from 100 donors. Make that $5,025 from 101 donors. And while I did get a few three figure gifts (thanks Dad!), most of my contributions were small—$10 here, $18 there—from readers who want to know more about a would-be Secretary of Education and what the hell is going on in Michigan. So in just over three weeks, I’ll be hitting the road. Here’s where I’m headed, who I’ll be talking to and what I’m up to…First stop: Detroit
Here’s a question for you: do you know how many charter schools in Detroit’s rapidly expanding and radically unregulated charter sector provide bus service? No idea? Don’t feel bad. Turns out nobody knows the answer to this question. Which is one way of conveying the scale of Detroit’s wild West-ish-ness. I’ll be talking to parents about how they navigate this system, and recording their stories to share in a podcast. I’ll have some help from the amazing organizers at 482Forward, a group that’s been pushing back against Detroit’s voicelessness over its own schools, or as they like to say *nothing about us without us.*
Here’s a question for you: do you know how many charter schools in Detroit’s rapidly expanding and radically unregulated charter sector provide bus service? No idea? Don’t feel bad. Turns out nobody knows the answer to this question. Which is one way of conveying the scale of Detroit’s wild West-ish-ness. I’ll be talking to parents about how they navigate this system, and recording their stories to share in a podcast. I’ll have some help from the amazing organizers at 482Forward, a group that’s been pushing back against Detroit’s voicelessness over its own schools, or as they like to say *nothing about us without us.*
Sick out city
Remember those teacher *sick out* protests last year that, at least for a brief moment, got everybody talking about the deplorable conditions of Detroit’s schools? I decided that I’d like to meet some of the teachers who led the protests because, well, I have Michigan, Here I Come! – EduShyster:
Remember those teacher *sick out* protests last year that, at least for a brief moment, got everybody talking about the deplorable conditions of Detroit’s schools? I decided that I’d like to meet some of the teachers who led the protests because, well, I have Michigan, Here I Come! – EduShyster:
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