Jersey Jazzman has developed an equation: reform=disrespect.
Another way to put it: these so-called reformers don’t like democracy.
He detects a growing opposition to the top-down methods of the privatizers.
Something is happening in Jersey, and the rest of the country: slowly, a groundswell of opposition is building against the corporate reform agenda. People are starting to resent the idea that a California billionaire like Eli Broad has more influence over the directions of their children’s schools than they do. Paterson and Jersey City are also straining under their state-imposed yoke. Camden is pushing back against plans imposed from outside its borders. Even the ‘burbs have had enough.
Corporate School = Company Store
Sixteen Tons Of Tests
Another day older and deeper in dumb …
Perfect, Jon. when I listened to 16 Tons as a kid, I had no idea what it meant. Now I do!
I think the dam broke with the Chicago strike, and the support they had from real parent groups.
Yes, I agree. The ice is beginning to crack.
Our state superintendent is removing the following labels from our proposed teacher evaluation system:
“Highly Effective, Effective, and Ineffective”.
Please have your superintendent send the reasons why this is being done to Louisiana’s Supt. John White. Who knows it just might help!