Tea Party Candidate David Harmer Wants to Abolish Public Schools

Tea Party Candidate David Harmer Wants to Abolish Public Schools

Tea Party Candidate: Abolish All Public Schools

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Tea Party candidate David Harmer, who is running as a Republican for the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 11th District, thinks the nation's public education system should more closely resemble the way it looked in 1825. In other words, Harmer would abolish public schools altogether.

In an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2000, Harmer wrote the following:

To attain quantum leaps in educational quality and opportunity, however, we need

Baltimore teachers reject proposed contract

Baltimore teachers reject proposed contract

Oct 15, 2010 8:06am

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BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Teachers Union says the city's public school teachers have rejected a contract that would have tied pay to classroom performance.

Union President Marietta English said Thursday that the results reflect misinformation about the contract.

The proposed contract included pay raises and kept health benefits at their current rate. But some were wary of a provision that would have replaced a system where seniority and degrees determined pay with one where they were paid by effectiveness in the classroom and pursuit of professional development.

The union and schools officials say 58 percent of the more than 2,000 teachers in the

Keep tight reins on charter schools | dailyworld.com | Daily World

Keep tight reins on charter schools | dailyworld.com | Daily World

Keep tight reins on charter schools

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When it comes to our deeply divided public discourse, there's an oasis of bipartisan consensus in a desert of talking points and talking heads. It's education reform.

The broad consensus is for measures pursued by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and Gov. Bobby Jindal, to give you an idea. They include monitoring of performance among disadvantaged statistical subgroups, performance standards measured by testing, an easing of work and tenure rules that make it tough to get rid of ineffective administrators and teachers, and — maybe the biggest change of all — charter schools.

Applications have been filed both in Lafayette and St. Landry parishes to operate the schools, so far unsuccessfully. Public money goes to the schools, which are generally operated by some entity other than

East L.A. Group to Challenge Charter Schools : Eastern Group Publications

East L.A. Group to Challenge Charter Schools : Eastern Group Publications

East L.A. Group to Challenge Charter Schools

By Gloria Angelina Castillo, EGP Staff Writer

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Applicant teams in the second round of Los Angeles Unified School District’s Public School Choice (PSC 2.0) are in the process of developing plans to be included in their application bids to turn-around chronically underachieving schools and manage new campuses. The applications are due Dec. 1.

Locally, East LA Star Academy High School falls under the district reform plan. Two charter school applicants, an education-focused organization, and a group from the LAUSD’s local district office have expressed interest in running the school.

Education chief calls Hillsborough schools a model

Education chief calls Hillsborough schools a model

Education chief calls Hillsborough schools a model

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Arne Duncan listens to Hillsborough teacher Amanda Newman during a round-table discussion.

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By SHERRI ACKERMAN | The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 15, 2010

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TAMPA The education community is a lot like a family, Arne Duncan said.

The adults fight and the children lose.

"We have to professionalize education,'' said Duncan, the nation's education secretary, during a roundtable discussion Thursday at Tampa's Rampello Downtown Partnership School. "Hillsborough already is at the forefront of that

Education-Minded Business Group Backs Class-Size Amendment | Sunshine State News

Education-Minded Business Group Backs Class-Size Amendment | Sunshine State News

Education-Minded Business Group Backs Class-Size Amendment

Amendment 8 faces tough test to pass

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Education-supporting business groups are backing the class-size amendment that would soften caps on the number of children in each classroom.

The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations, an organization of business-backed groups that support education with offices in all 67 counties, announced Thursday that a survey of its members revealed 84 percent of them support Amendment 8.

“We do think that’s pretty significant,” Mary Chance, executive director of CFEF, said of the results.

The survey, conducted in August by Dewey & Associates, a St. Petersburg consulting firm, also focused

NJ Spotlight | Administration's Attempt to Promote Privatization Studied By Assembly Committee

NJ Spotlight | Administration's Attempt to Promote Privatization Studied By Assembly Committee

Administration's Attempt to Promote Privatization Studied By Assembly Committee

Stealth RFP continues to draw fire from lawmakers and environmentalists

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The Christie administration’s efforts to promote privatization ran into significant opposition yesterday. The plan is viewed by some as a stealth proposal to privatize land-use permitting functions within the Department of Environmental Protection.

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The plan, detailed in a Request for Proposal (RFP) quietly issued by DEP in concert with the Treasury Department earlier this fall, should be pulled, several environmental organizations told the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee. That was a step backed by Assemblyman John McKeon (D-Essex), the committee's chairman.

McKeon told DEP officials he was concerned the proposal was put out as a RFP without any public discussion or debate, which he argued circumvented past procedures to review efforts to hand over some of the agency’s functions to the private sector.

“Are you not putting the cart put before the horse?’’ McKeon asked Irene Kropp, deputy

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L.A. Unified to issue its own 'value-added' ratings of district schools | California Watch

L.A. Unified to issue its own 'value-added' ratings of district schools | California Watch

L.A. Unified to issue its own 'value-added' ratings of district schools

by Louis Freedberg

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For the past year, the Los Angeles Unified School District has contracted with an outside consulting firm that has been doing its own "value-added" analysis of how effective schools are contributing to student outcomes.

The researchers with the firm, Education Strategy Consulting, said the results they have come up with are substantially different from those published for individual schools by the Los Angeles Times in its pathbreaking

State takes a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ approach to child care fraud

by Christina Jewett

Christina Jewett

California presides over a $1.4 billion system of unlicensed child care with virtually no mechanism to detect or recover fraudulent payments, according to a report issued yesterday by the Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes.

The report [PDF] reveals everything from gaping holes in oversight to deliberate ‘I-don’t-want-to-know’ attitudes by state officials who fear that fraud detection might force California to send money back to Washington, D.C.