A new website called Cheats for Change has been created in the wake of the Tony Bennett scandal.
Please take a look. It is very funny.
For those of you who do not follow education politics closely, Cheats for Change is a parody of Jeb Bush’s group called Chiefs for Change.
Bush and his Foundation for Educational Excellence (FEE) created Chiefs for Change to advance the Jeb Bush agenda of charter schools, vouchers, testing, competition, accountability, removing teacher tenure, and replacing teachers with technology.
There are eight “chiefs for change” a la Jeb Bush and the Florida miracle.
Tony Bennett, who previously served as chair of Chiefs for Change.
The current chair is Hanna Skandera of New Mexico.
The other members of Chiefs for Change are:
John White of Louisiana
Stephen Bowen of Maine (he had a little problem about pushing online learning in Maine)
Deborah Gist of Rhode Island
Chris Cerf of New Jersey
Kevin Huffman of Tennessee
Janet Barresi of Oklahoma
These are the leading lights of the testing, choice, and privatization crowd. Two (White and Huffman) are TFA alumni. Three (Cerf , White, and Gist) are Broad Academy alumni.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
it’s excellent! thank you
And don’t forget Mercedes Schneider’s expose:
Like Spokes to a Hub: Chiefs for Change in Bush’s Service
I love it.
Check out this from TN posted this morning
:https://www.facebook.com/RemoveKevinHuffman?hc_location=timeline
“Birds of a feather flock together.
Tony Bennett, Florida’s education commissioner until last week, was forced to resign for granting special favors to a charter school–a charter school that he promoted heavily during campaign season and that donated millions of dollars to Bennett and other members of his party. Bennett was caught fixing the grades of a charter school, directing staffers to ignore certain scores to make the school appear to be successful. He’s been sent packing.
Kevin Huffman, it has been found, granted a similar favor to a Memphis charter school. Huffman, a flamboyant proponent of profit-focused reforms, allowed Promise Academy to ignore its TCAP scores when determining student grades. Promise Academy’s Thomas Beazley e-mailed Kevin Huffman requesting the education commissioner allow the charter school to ignore a law requiring every student’s grade to be based largely on the results of a standardized test. Huffman quickly granted Beazley’s request. Charter advocates are major contributors to the Haslam administration.
It’s even more clear than before: Huffman needs to be sent off to pasture just like his pal in Florida.
Photo: Birds of a feather flock together. Tony Bennett, Florida’s education commissioner until last week, was forced to resign for granting special favors to a charter school–a charter school that he promoted heavily during campaign season and that donated millions of dollars to Bennett and other members of his party. Bennett was caught fixing the grades of a charter school, directing staffers to ignore certain scores to make the school appear to be successful. He’s been sent packing. Kevin Huffman, it has been found, granted a similar favor to a Memphis charter school. Huffman, a flamboyant proponent of profit-focused reforms, allowed Promise Academy to ignore its TCAP scores when determining student grades. Promise Academy’s Thomas Beazley e-mailed Kevin Huffman requesting the education commissioner allow the charter school to ignore a law requiring every student’s grade to be based largely on the results of a standardized test. Huffman quickly granted Beazley’s request. Charter advocates are major contributors to the Haslam administration. It’s even more clear than before: Huffman needs to be sent off to pasture just like his pal in Florida.”
Yes, it does seem that there’s been fixin’ in the rigging.
Kevin Rhee Huffman is next.
drip, drip, drip.
B O O M !
I can see it now, on-line privatized learning…can education be anymore frustrating, and without empathy than that?
These pseudo-reformers make the Three Stooges look like characters in a Bernard Shaw play. — Edd Doerr
Every faux-refomer’s claim is the dogma that schools should be run like a business. If this is how businesses are run, it appears that cheating is the secret for running a successful business.
Exactly….cook the books, juke the stats, baffle them with bull$hit.
Our state is almost a month late releasing test scores and it was the same tests we have given.
Here’s the spin:
Normally, the much-anticipated scores on the Mastery and Connecticut Academic Performance tests are released in mid-July, but new protocols and procedures for verifying test data have caused the delay, according to the state education agency’s chief academic officer, Diana Roberge-Wentzell.
In a memorandum to school superintendents, Roberge-Wentzell said, “We are working quickly to ensure that these new systems for verifying data are working properly so that districts receive accurate information.”
Perhaps, as they continue to be exposed for what they truly are, these so-called reformers can be reformed! Here is to reforming the “reformers,”!