Jersey Jazzman reports on Camden’s portfolio district plan.
What does that mean? More charters.
What is the secret of their success?
Excluding children with disabilities.
Excluding the kids with the highest needs.
Doesn’t federal law prohibit this?
Apparently this is not a priority for the U.S. Department of Education or the Obama administration.
As hedge funders will sometimes acknowledge, those kids are not our problem.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Today Secretary Arne Duncan testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor/HHSE/Education. Sec. Duncan was defending the Obama FY 2015 budget request. During the hearing, Rep. Roybal-Allard (D-CA) expressed disappointment that there was no recommended increase for Part B of IDEA, noting that the federal share was supposed to be 40% and is only 16%. She questioned why the budget would recommend $100 million for a new competitive state grant program when funds were so badly needed for Part B. (The Administration’s proposal is to create a $100 million competitive grant program for states to implement the Results Driven Accountability system put forward by OSERS.)
Sec. Duncan responded by noting that these are tough budget times and if Congress wants to seriously take on full funding for Part B, he would like to talk. He noted that students never leave special education; that they go into special education, but never exit. He said students need to move out of special education so they can graduate from high school and that innovation is needed to promote this. He indicated that this new program would promote such innovations.
Duncan is clear about his interest in special education funding: tough beans. If Kids with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Learning Disabilities, Traumatic Brain Injuries, etc. can’t be cured in 12 years they should be punished for having a disability.
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“He noted that students never leave special education; that they go into special education, but never exit.”
If Duncan was opened-minded, he could clearly see its due to the rigor of CCS and not following the purpose of IDEA.
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Duncan is a complete and total moron and has no clue the diverse population of students in special education.
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Bill Gates probably didn’t want IDEA funding..so it won’t happen.
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He probably believes they should all be institutionalized like they were pre-IDEA.
He’s asking for major lawsuits here. You don’t want to anger parents of children with disabilities.
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jcgrim: So the problem with SpecEd kids is that they’re being themselves?
And because they refuse to comply with his mismanagement directives— keeping in mind that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure”—those no account money sucker uppers need to show some grit and stop being counted.
There! Problem solved! If they aren’t counted, they don’t exist, and we can all pat ourselves on the back for a job well done. If there are no SpecEd kids to count, then the leaders of the “new civil rights movement of our time” provided the secret sauce to eliminate all SpecEd challenges and difficulties!
Wow!
Rheeally!
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But leaving RheeWorld and its Rheeality Distortion Fields, and landing on Planet Reality where logic, facts and decency are held in high esteem by many:
Not really, according to a hard data, numbers fella.
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” [Albert Einstein]
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More proof charter schools are NOT “public schools.” They get public money, but lots of private entities do.
Duncan needs to be questioned in an impeachment hearing.
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Has the Jazzman yet been named to your honor roll?
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Did Arne click his heels and give the Nazi salute after he finished his testimony?
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No, he made a special kow tow to his billionaire friends.
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where are the ADA lawsuits? when Seattle tried to cut library mobile (home) service a few years ago, there were at least 4 suits in the pipeline within a month. The city backed off
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