Tony Bennett of Indiana is so sure that he knows how to reform schools. He knows that reform is all about threatening teachers and schools, holding their feet to the fire, and testing ceaselessly.
He has a new idea. He wants to take over districts with low scores. Indianapolis is in his sights. He wants to take it over, shut it down, possibly privatize it.
There is an election in November. Glenda Ritz is running against Tony Bennett. She is an educator. She wants to improve schools, not privatize them. This is a chance for the citizens of Indiana to stop the assault on public education and on the state’s teachers. This is their chance to repel Wall Street’s effort to take over the public schools.
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Every teacher in Indiana should be mobilizing everyone that they can to elect G. Ritz. Tell other teachers, get on the streets, talk to parents especially.
We, public school teachers have to begin to get more involved politically.
Go Ritz!
If I could vote our commissioner of schools out, I would. Too bad ours is appointed by our DINO governor.
Think of the damage private corporations have done to our environment and our financial systems. We should trust them with our most important institution, education?
It is not enough to just get Glenda Ritz in office. Without John Gregg as governor, the laws will stay the same. We need them both so that we can begin to fix what Bennett and Daniels has started to destroy.
There was a bill that was introduced last year that would have made the job of State Superintendent an appointed position. Luckily it died before it was voted on.
Tony Bennett is the lead character in Alec’s plan to privatize public education. Alec has always been populated by nearly every Indiana state senator and representative, but these past few years have seen Indiana overly represented with State Representative Dave Frizzell as president of the board of directors and a Senator Jim Buck as a member of the board. The recent education reform laws were word for word the laws that Alec wrote several years ago. Tony Bennett and these radical conservatives have set the stage for a disgusting takeover of public education. They know that Mike Pence will be elected governor and with a GOP legislature they will implement a school corporation take over law. With that in hand they will take over Indianapolis Public Schools and possibly try for Gary and Fort Wayne. These people are worse than disgusting; they will say anything to discredit and dismantle public education to see their dream of bringing in corporate education. Sadly there are some Democrats that help with this such as former Indianapolis mayor Bart Peterson and several Dem legislators who have bought into the Arne Duncan style of Democrats for Education Reform. Indiana is being sucked into a black hole and the educators are screaming for help. We need national attention which would bring some bigger dollars to help Bennett’s opponent, Glenda Ritz get elected. Diane help us, please spread the word of this dire situation!
..he has a plan to start a chain of holistic sun tan salons or a lawn mower sales