Peter Greene in NPE 50-State Report Card

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1. David Greene says:

   February 2, 2016 at 11:44 am

   The report is comprehensive, well structured, clear and scientific. Kudos to all involved.

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2. NYS Parent says:

   February 2, 2016 at 11:50 am

   Translation:

   Political will has FAILED the public schools – not the other way around.

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3. Lloyd Lofthouse says:

   February 2, 2016 at 12:04 pm

   Is it okay to post a shortened summary on other Blogs with one image from the report and a link to the actual report? The shorted summary will be the actual three paragraphs on page 2.

   If the answer is yes, I want to post that shortened summary and one image on one of my Blogs—the image on page 5 of the report.

   I wanted to copy and paste from the report but it wouldn’t let me do it, so I took screen shots and created one image that can be used for blog posts and Twitter, and what about a shortened link to the report. The current link is too long.

   Click to access viewer

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4. virginiasgp says:

   February 2, 2016 at 12:43 pm

   Diane, while I totally disagree with virtually the whole report card, I think you mis-graded Virginia. Teachers are not evaluated based on standardized tests. Teachers literally write their own evaluations (all “great”). I’m sure that will make you all happy despite undermining our students’ education.

   Teachers are required to have certification and most have useless “advanced” degrees that get them higher salaries. All are good things in NPE’s book but shown to be nearly worthless for their students. Just thought you might like to update your scorecard.

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   • dianeravitch says:

     February 2, 2016 at 4:27 pm

     Virginia, why don’t you move to Florida, where teachers get VAM scores?

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     • virginiasgp says:

       February 2, 2016 at 8:50 pm

       I do enjoy the weather in Florida and Texas. But other than my school district, I like Northern Virginia. Note that I don’t support Florida’s implementation of VAMs where teachers are evaluated on courses they do not teach.

       I realize I’m combining your blog posts but you will be quite interested in my school board’s votes this evening.

       1. You referenced a constitutional amendment in Virginia that would take control of charters away from local school boards and allow the state to arbitrarily approve charters. The large charter companies (see Dennis Bakke’s Imagine Schools) is a big fan of this and has hired lobbyists to push for such amendments/rules. Our school board committee voted to disapprove of this constitutional amendment and Chairman Hornberger (Bakke’s right-hand man) even joined them in the vote. My hunch is that he is trying to show he is not an “undisclosed lobbyist” even though he’s supported charters on many votes in the past.

       2. A Northern Virginia legislator is also pushing for a voucher system in Virginia. Like Nevada, it doesn’t provide 100% of the school funding for a student but 90% of the state funding (that amounts to about 27% of the total per pupil cost to educate a child). Since the parents would only receive 27% of the cost to educate the child, poor families won’t be able to take advantage of the program and pay the additional 73%. But affluent families who already have kids attend private schools get to pocket about $3500/yr from this. While I do support 100% vouchers, this is nothing but a give-away to the rich that I do not support. Neither did the school board committee in another rather shocking vote.

       Once again, the chairman did not disclose his conflict of interest with his charter school billionaire boss. Neither did three school board members disclose their conflicts of interest in voting for teacher salary increases despite having a spouse working as a teacher. I’m not talking about recusal here. I’m simply talking about a board members saying “I have a spouse who works as a teacher so my family will benefit from this salary increase, but I think it’s the right thing to to”. Apparently, they oppose any and all accountability.

       For folks interested in my legal case against this chairman for violating Virginia’s Conflict of Interest Act, you can view my appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court here (just mailed it yesterday). I think most of your readers would totally agree with me on this. If I win my appeal, I can bring misdemeanor charges against Hornberger for failing to disclose his charter school conflicts.

   • KrazyTA says:

     February 2, 2016 at 7:08 pm

     dianeravitch: what greater confirmation could you receive that you folks did an outstanding job?

     I think this proves that anyone who can’t see that the NPE report has taken the discussion from the 13th to at least the 90th percentile re quality of assessment is not serious about data analytics.

     😎

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5. KrazyTA says:

   February 2, 2016 at 12:57 pm

   Just read.

   Well done.

   😎

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6. Susan Lee Schwartz says:

   February 2, 2016 at 1:14 pm

   Cross posted Peter’s article itself at
   http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/CURMUDGUCATION-NPE-Natio-in-Best_Web_OpEds-Education_Public-Education_Public-Education_Public-Money-160202-235.html#comment581678

   with this comment which has embedded links

   On april 16-17 the NPE will have its annual conferencein Raleigh North Carolina. If you want to know about real reform and what is ongoing in our nation, this is the place.
   http://networkforpubliceducation.org/category/npe-national-conference/npe-2016-annual-conference/

   The NPE supports the improvement of public education and produce studies, reports, meetings, and statements to inform the public. It is NOT connected to or supported by any corporation or political party. This is the citizens ‘PAC’

   The other part of NPE is called the NPE Action Fund. It will endorse candidates and produce studies and engage in other activities and public information to support public education.

   * On a personal note, I hope to present a SUE-TALK, that introduces the real Pew funded STANDARDS RESEARCH on EFFORT -BASED LEARNING that disappeared when Bush began the push to the Common Core CRAP.

   IN my comment: see image of
   THE HS PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
   (image by Susan Lee Schwartz) at the quick link

   Submitted on Tuesday, Feb 2, 2016 at 12:08:55 PM

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