Jonathan Pelto warns that the vote is likely to be today.
The mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, has named the founder of one of the lowest performing charter schools in Massachusetts to the public school board in Hartford. Harold Sparrow previously served as a trustee at two elite private schools. He also was instrumental in closing down a successful early literacy program at the YMCA in Hartford.
What qualifies him to serve on the Hartford Board of Education?
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The school board now has a member that Trump or Devos might have picked.
The new polyticks explained: Ram through controversial folks and policies with little to no public input and then fight the “bad press” afterward all the while leaving the ramrodded picks and policies in place until a court orders otherwise (if at all).
Ed reform excludes public schools from public school policy.
It’s probably that cage-busting genius again. You probably wouldn’t have predicted that people who call themselves “public education advocates” would exclude public schools but that is indeed where we find ourselves.
The best thing public schools in Hartford could do now is convert to charters or private schools. That alone will put them in the “good” column. As long as they have the stigma of “public” they have no value in this country and no advocates in their own government.
Say you’re putting the schools on a barge or at an airport or something and and slap “academy” on the sign out front. Presto! Fashionable.
Sparrow just withdrew… Monday AM just hours before confirmation hearing.
Pelto did it!
Yes, congrats to Jonathan!
This is one of the hundreds of ed reform groups:Education Next:
Try to find a mention of public schools. You won’t.
Ed reform sets “public education policy” without public schools. It’s ludicrous and they don’t even see it.
Ignore what they say. Your schools weren’t consulted or even mentioned by any of these people in any of these schemes, and for God sakes if you’re a public school STOP hiring them as consultants They don’t even respect your schools enough to mention them. Don’t PAY them for it.
Charter schools would never hire an anti-charter consultant. It’s bad enough that you’re paying thousands of federal employees to oppose your school. Don’t volunteer for eradication.
Good going Jonathan!