Duncan Agenda: Segregated Charters, Unqualified Teachers, and Pay-Per-Score Teacher Pay

[Hannah Bell]

From today's Washington Post, the amazing, incredible, and unprecendented Arne Duncan makes his reform by bribery efforts clear. We can only hope that most states will tell Duncan to take his 4 billion in bribes and go to hell with it:

". . . .the program is also a competition through which states can increase or decrease their odds of winning federal support. For example, states that limit alternative routes to certification for teachers and principals, or cap the number of charter schools, will be at a competitive disadvantage. And states that explicitly prohibit linking data on achievement or student growth to principal and teacher evaluations will be ineligible for reform dollars until they change their laws. . . ."

http://schoolsmatter.blogspot.com/2009/07/duncan-agenda-segregated-charters.html

[JDPriestly]

1. Another horrible appointment by Obama.

I'm thinking more and more that Obama is making a huge mess of everything he touches. I am so discouraged. Remember the Anybody but Bush campaign. I guess that's what we have got now. Obama is anybody but Bush. He showed so much promise, but he has made mistake after mistake. It is really hopeless at this point.

[omega minimo]

9. This is why accepting two illegal elections and no impeachment was a deadly mistake

[omega minimo]

2. Apparently one nest of the incestuous cesspool

is http://www.dfer.org/

What We Stand For
We support policies which stimulate the creation of new, accountable public schools and which simultaneously close down failing schools
We support mechanisms that allow parents to select excellent schools for their children, and where education dollars follow each child to their school.
We support governance structures which hold leaders responsible, while giving them the tools to effectuate change. We believe in empowering mayors to lead urban school districts, so that they can be held accountable by the electorate.
We support policies that allow school principals and their school communities to select their teams of educators, holding them accountable for student performance but allowing them flexibility to exercise sound, professional judgment.
We support clearly-articulated national standards and expectations for core subject areas, while allowing states and local districts to determine how best to make sure that all students are reaching those standards.


That's a prescription for charters and gutting/shutting public schools and a BIG CLUE about why they want to use the FUCKED UP and deceptive language that fools the public into thinking they mean "public schools" and the public school system when they mean: "the creation of new, accountable public CHARTER schools and which simultaneously close down failing PUBLIC schools"


BASTARDS! LIARS! FUCKING ROBBERS!!!

[SoCalDem]

3. As if any parent would want their kid to go to a "not" excellent school

Just pay teachers a decent wage, and let them TEACH.. cut the school big-wigs' salaries by 2/3, so they'll leave education and find other jobs.. they just tend to muck things up anyway..

[omega minimo]

5. Part of this poison being injected to kill the public school system is due to

the rise of the Consultancy Class and the whole glamour and flimflam that surround them, coming in and telling people (in businesses) what to do because the businesses didn't want to pay for the expertise in house.

Now these fucking overpaid leeches are gonna suck the blood out of the public school system and fill it with replicants.

[Hannah Bell]

7. explains why a certain person who posts almost exclusively about charter schools

is so insistent that "charter schools = public schools".

This is the tack they're using in Chicago too.

Chicago Civic Committee, run by a small group of super-rich people & corporate reps, put Renaissance 2010 in place, supposedly to "save" the public schools.

It closed some schools in poor neighborhoods (to bust local control & organizing), installed some charters, & boasted of the improvement chi-town "public schools."

But several years later, the Civic Committee comes back to say: "The public schools are still failing!"

The prescription = more charters, more closures.

Anyone who tries to pretend this is grassroots is a tool. It's absolutely top-down, planned in advance, & coordinated among the big foundations, corporations, & their political waterboys.

The folks who funded Ren 2010 are the folks who selected & funded candidate Obama.

[omega minimo]

8. If Duncan had no education experience before being appointed Superintendent of Schools

by Mayor Daly, what is going on with the Chicago school system? :wow:

I posted a photo here of the Termintator, Mayor Kevin Johnson and Arne Duncan at his appearance in California this week.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6476504&mesg_id=6477223

A weightlifter action movie star -- with no relevant experience -- becomes Governor

An NBA basketball star -- with no relevant experience -- becomes Mayor after multiple (ongoing) criminal investigations of his behavior at his charter schools

Another basketball star -- with no relevant experience -- becomes Chicago Superintendent of Schools and appointed U.S. Secretary of Education.


Who needs education when you've got CORRUPTION AND CONNECTIONS!!! :toast:

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. This country has no jobs for educated people that need work. So what's

the difference? Why not just turn the whole education system into a reality tv show? The situation could hardly get any worse.

[omega minimo]

6. Thank you for the spot on observation. The promises -- esp. coming from the national

level -- are horsehockey. Where are the jobs?

[omega minimo]

10. Kicking for apparently

continuous, nationwide, bullshit propaganda "charter" = "public"