If you live near Omaha, come say hello on Thursday evening.
My visit is sponsored by the Metropolitan Omaha Educational Consortium.
Thursday, November 12, 2015 7:00 p.m. event CenturyLink Center, Omaha, Nebraska
Nebraska is an amazing state. No Race to the Top. No Common Core. No charters. No VAM.
I’m looking forward to learning more while there.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Look forward to seeing Thursday night.
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Can’t wait to hear about your visit to Nebraska. I wish I could be there.
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Coming to socal any time soon?
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I was in LA last week to see family.if invited, I will return
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I took my additional Praxis exams at UNL to get certified to teach in Missouri. I’ve spent many a night in Nebraska. Sounds like I should have stayed. But I missed NC too much. Imagine that.
It is beautiful. Have a BLISSful time (that’s a play on the five types of grasses on the tall grass prairie): Big Blue, Little Blue, Indian Grass, Sidots Grandma and Switch Grass (prairie trivia for you).
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“Nobraska ”
Nobama, no VAM
No Race to Top ram
No Common Core sham
No chartering scam
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Will be interested to hear what Diane learns about the state of education in NB.
Pete Ricketts is now the governor.
Pete is the son of Joe and Marlene Ricketts, who together given $5 million to the Scott Walker-allied group — a significant haul from one of the GOP’s biggest donors.
Their son, Todd, is another Walker donor and co-chairman of his national fundraising efforts. In recent months he has hosted events for the governor and traveled with him on the campaign trail.
Joe Ricketts, the family patriarch, settled on Walker after private meetings over the past year at his New York apartment and his ranch in Wyoming’s Jackson Hole valley. They bonded over their Midwestern backgrounds and conservative views on spending.
The Ricketts family, which owns the Chicago Cubs, has quickly become one of the more active clans in American politics.
Joe Ricketts, 74, founded TD Ameritrade and in 2010 launched his own super PAC, Ending Spending, now run by son Todd.
That group spent millions supporting Republicans in 2012 and did the same during the 2014 midterm elections.
Pete Ricketts, one of the couple’s three sons, was elected governor of Nebraska last year.
Unintimidated is the Walker super PAC that can collect and spend unlimited amounts of money and is named after Walker’s 2013 autobiography, “Unintimidated: A Governor’s Story and a Nation’s Challenge.”
It announced in July 2015 that it has raised about $20 million from nearly 300 donors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/07/30/ricketts-family-gives-more-than-5-million-to-walker-super-pac/
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Fantasy of the week. Diane meets Warren Buffet in Omaha and persuades Warren to get Bill Gates to stop using the nation’s kids and teachers and schools as his guinea pigs. Warren changes his mind about gifting his billions to Gates and instead decides to gift an endowment to preserve and protect public education, with guidance from the oracle from Brooklyn.
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What a perfect fantasy. This is the problem with billionaires and their endowments. They think they know what’s best for the rest of us. Good luck. But Warren and Bill are such good friends.
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