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Diane Ravitch's blog 
New ed reform org in NH. It’s exactly the same as all the others:
“A new education advocacy organization with ties to a well-known political operative and a wealthy charter school supporter is set to launch in Rhode Island.
The nonprofit group, whose 501(c)3 arm is known as We Can Do Better R.I. and 501(c)4 arm is called EducateRI, filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state’s office on Feb. 26, according to filings reviewed by WPRI.com. A 501(c)4 organization is allowed to engage in political activity and is not required to disclose its donors publicly.
According to a mission statement provided by Trainor, the group “will emphasize sustained collaboration between all public schools, including district, charter and mayoral academies to share best practices.” The group also plans to “produce and disseminate objective, data-driven reports of reform progress and future options.”
New Hampshire seems to be one big ed reform experiment now. It’s also the state that has adopted the “blended learning” (computer instruction) the Obama Administration is pushing so hard. People really won’t be able to avoid any of the methods they’re using in charters- computer instruction, “no excuses”, constant testing. The ed reform lobbying groups now simply push everything they do in charters into every (low and middle income) public school.
I’d love to know how many people are employed in lobbying for public schools privatization at this point. It must be tens of thousands. It’s a whole new lobbying sector.
http://wpri.com/2016/03/04/new-school-reform-group-has-influential-backers/?utm_content=buffer676f0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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Where do they get those snappy slogans?
“We can do better, RI”?
“Don’t Fail Idaho”?
“Don’t Steal Possible”?
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I wonder if anyone has statistics to suggest a correlation between our years of producing short-term “magical” teachers and a subsequent hiring of these same short-term teachers into this growing number of school-privatizing lobbying firms?
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Snappy slogan, “Charter schools are here to stay, because they work.” What works is paying the politicians
to force charter schools on a population that doesn’t want them.
The Columbus Dispatch reported that the owner of the largest on-line charter school in Ohio gave a $25,000 political donation to the campaign of Democratic county commissioner, Paula Brooks, who supports an all-appointed state school board. We can hope voters in
Franklin County, elect her opponent, Kevin Boyce.
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Paypal link please?
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Need snail mail address please >
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NPE Action Fund:
http://npeaction.org/2016/02/19/donate/
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Network for Public Education
P. O. Box 150266
Kew Gardens, N. Y.
11415-0266
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