Ohio legislators are pushing through a few tweaks to the state’s useless accountability system.
Republicans are using their super majority to ignore Democratic dissents.
Read through this description and see the game plan of labeling public schools as failing, giving them letter grades with no validity, cutting their budgets, and clearing the way for privatization.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Let’s face reality, Obama and Duncan are the people allowing all of this privatization and corporatization to happen now. Obama has been behind this action since 1995 when he was made president of the Annenburg Foundation for Chicago Public Schools and they over 6 years put about $170 million into the Chicago Schools and even their own study showed that they accomplished nothing except privatization and corporatization through Renaissance 2000 which is exactly that model. People do not want to face the facts of who he really is. Did he do anything about the Banking Crisis and the wiping out of most of the worlds wealth for just a few. Absolutely not. Even under Reagan during the S & L Crisis over 1,800 were prosecuted and many went to jail and that only concerned the U.S. Just in case some of you wonder what party I am from I am what I call a “Real Democrat” who are supposed to be for the people not just the wealthiest such as FDR and Eleanor were. It has been a long time since any president cared about the common person especially the poor. When was the last time you heard a major politician talk about the poor and to help them especially at the top?
Governor Kasich and all of the state representatives who backed Senate Bill 5?issue 2 last November are on the “list” of elected officials who need to go in Ohio. Can not wait to start campaigning against them here in Ohio.
“list” of elected officials who need to go
Would you have a list of officials who understand their obligation to protect human rights of Ohio schoolchildren?
We can start with those who voted against SB5. There were some brave Republicans who did, as well as the Democrats.
We have to start asking how long someone has to be an elected official to get a huge pension, and how much is that costing us in Ohio, as well as how much are Congressional pensions costing the nation. How does that compare to the pensions they are rallying against?
The sad part about the new rating system for schools is that no school leaders are asking questions. They are just blindly following our state leadership. Teachers will also be rated. Schools have been told that if they have teachers in the highest category, they will be audited. Really? And where does that obvious threat fit under the schools’ anti-bullying laws, and where does it fit in ‘the home of the free and the brave’??????
Another question that is not being asked is “Why are schools being rated on students who never or almost never attend classes?” Does this mean, if I get a deadly disease, it is my doctor’s fault, even if I never see him? If my computer breaks, it’s Bill Gates’ fault? Help me understand why school districts in Ohio are being punished because students who didn’t attend class ‘failed’ the test because they weren’t there to take it. Anybody? Mr. Kasich, can you help me understand this one?
We can start with those who voted against SB5….
What about those (including the OEA) who supported HB-1, highlighted in Ohio’s winning RttT application? Or Governor Strickland who pursued RttT dollars?