The Clintons and El Broad... A major example of corporate reform as part of the attack on public education...
[Editor's Note: The following was posted earlier this week updating and clarifying an article from the Los Angeles Times. Despite the fact that the American Federation of Teachers executive council has already voted that the . . .
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The siege of Philadelphia's public schools... 'Unlike New Orleans after Katrina, where a natural disaster became a man-made disaster to advance a neoliberal privatization agenda, Philadelphia schools have been undergoing a completely manmade disaster since the state takeover in 2001...'
[Editor's Note. The following article originally appeared on August 29, 2015 at "Schools Matter." While we publish it here, we cannot reproduce all the links from the original piece and urge readers who wish to . . .
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Hillary? Eli Broad and the Clintons... Rolling back the New Deal and pushing corporate 'reforms'...
"For some people, sleep seems incidental. If you are one of them, I envy you. Bill Clinton, who I have known since he was governor of Arkansas, sticks out in my mind as someone who . . .
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TeacherMatch... Matchmaking Towards a Corporate Hell? Hiring of new teachers privatized through 'TeacherMatch'...
In Philadelphia, all new applicants to the School District of Philadelphia must create a login and apply througha corporate portal called TeacherMatch. All across the country, school districts, such as Chicago, are outsourcing their hiring . . .
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With Friends Like These... Senate passes renewal of No Child Left Behind, now called the 'Every Child Achieves Act''...with support from NAACP and most Dems...
The U. S. Senate has voted to accept its proposed version of the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA) by a bipartisan majority of 81 -17. The bill is a rewrite of the 1965 Elementary and . . .
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American Enterprise Institute 'scholar' speaks critically against Common Core... Really?...
Rick Hess, the resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the right-wing American Policy Institute, has an article in the Fall 2014 issue of National Affairs: �How the Common Core Went Wrong�. It . . .
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Common Sense in Philadelphia... Kenny wins election over Williams while AFT president continues working for Gates corporate plans...
�This sacrifice of common sense is the certain badge which distinguishes slavery from freedom; for when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.� -- Thomas Paine | Article |
Philadelphia -- Divide and Conquer 2015...'The splintering of Philadelphia�s labor movement is in contrast to 1973 when PFT struck for 7 � weeks, the union leadership was jailed for contempt without bail, but the strike was won when the city's unions readied a general strike!...'
Everyone concerned about corporate education reform and the influence of various venture �philanthropists� in their drive to privatize public schools should be following the Democratic primary on May 19th for the next mayor of Philadelphia. . . .
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Turning 'Collaboration' Into a bad word... The American Federation of Teachers and the American Enterprise Institute...'evaluating teachers by scores may actually reduce quality...'
[Editor�s Note: This post focuses on the collaboration of Randi Weingarten with corporate education reform. One basis of this charge can be found from a conference of the American Enterprise Institute held on February 5, . . .
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Randi Weingarten: sleight-of-hand-artist.... Randi continues collaboration with corporate America on Tavis Smiley's show...
On April 13, 2015 American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten appeared on the Tavis Smiley show to have a conversation about the state of public education in the United States.
In the course . . .
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Randi Weingarten: Sleight of Hand Artist � Part 2...
�The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is one of the oldest and most influential of the pro-business right-wing think tanks. It promotes the advancement of free enterprise capitalism, and has been extremely . . .
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Pennsylvania school funding to be greeted with protests
[Editor's Note: The following is reprinted with permission from the Notebook, Philadelphia. As this story goes up, we are resuming a great deal of coverage of information from the struggles across the USA that we . . .
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Which Side Are You On? Randi Weingarten's high level collaboration with Rahm Emanuel, the CGI, and corporate America's agenda
[Editor's Note: The following article was originally brought to our attention as a Comment on October 30, 2014 following our article exposing the speakers for the CTU LEAD dinner. After reviewing the entire article, we . . .
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Philadelphia school chiefs proudly describe corporate 'Portfolio' model at AERA... 'The great example of portfolio is in New Orleans... New Orleans after Katrina went almost completely to a portfolio system. Almost all of the schools in New Orleans are charters now...'
The leaders of Philadelphia's public schools, which have been under a corporate dictatorship for more than a decade, proudly described the "portfolio model" for managing the city's public school buildings at the annual meeting of . . .
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Charter schools now getting 30 percent of school budget... Philadelphia schools facing 'Doomsday Budget' eliminating most school positions
On Thursday, May 30, 2013, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission adopted for the Philadelphia School District what the local media has dubbed a “Doomsday budget” for the next fiscal year. The School Reform Commission is . . .
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Byrd Bennett's 'underutilization crisis' was written into a script published by the Broad Foundation three years ago (and removed from the Broad website last week)...Who is Eli Broad and why does he want to destroy public education and turn teacher unions into company unions?
The historically unprecedented explosion of wealth in recent decades for the top one percent of the American populace is leading to a reshaping of the American economy in the interests of this one percent. Having . . .
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