It’s called the parent empowerment act, not the teacher empowerment act, for a reason.
California Board of Education President Michael Kirst, reminding the Golden State’s NEA and AFT affiliates about who is supposed to benefit from the Parent Trigger law. And implicitly noting that teachers unions have had de facto empowerment in education policy for the past six decades.
When you start talking about “the mania–the pestilence–of testing, like mad cow disease, spreading across the land” and “putting teachers under the sword of ignorant, narrow accountability,” you’re edging into deranged preacher territory. And saying, as [Jonathan] Kozol did, that Secretary of Education Duncan is not only rejecting Brown v. Board but trying to restore Plessy v. Ferguson is really beyond the pale.
Education Sector’s Kevin Carey in his observation of last week’s Save Our Schools rally.
We did a study that showed only 16 percent of our kids were college ready. Only 16 percent, that’s not acceptable.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, explaining the reasons behind the Wolverine State’s latest school reform efforts.
Federal money may have unintentionally funded the infamous ‘dance of the lemons’ that has been a harmful practice in districts for decades. If these teachers truly were not good enough for one struggling school, we have to ask whether it is a good idea to put them in another one.
Tim Daly of The New Teacher Project on one negative impact of the federal School Improvement Grant program.