Wisdom from a mom in North Carolina, where legislators adopted several aspects of the ALEC education agenda last session and cut education funding leading to decreased pay for teachers. “There is so much more to do. We have to let our teachers know we have their backs. Although parents divide...
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Real agenda of school choice advocates
This piece states our concerns. “Perhaps the most debated notion in elementary and secondary education these days is school choice. It is invoked constantly by so-called educational reformers and politicians (an overlapping pair), who arouse the public by asking, ‘Why shouldn’t everyone have the same choices the rich folks have?’...
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The following is an excerpt from, “Bring This City To A Place Where Our Children Really Are Put First:” Implementing Mayor-elect de Blasio’s Education Platform in New York City, written by an insider at the New York City Department of Education, and appeared on Diane Ravitch’s blog in December, 2013. Has...
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