As retired high school teacher Tom Ultican writes: This makes no sense.
The California Association of School Administrators endorsed Marshall Tuck, the candidate of the privatization movement, in the race for State Superintendent of Instruction, and snubbed Tony Thurmond, a steadfast friend of public education.
The Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Back-Stabs Public Education
Read his post to see where Tuck’s money comes from. It’s the Destroy Public Education Movement.
The old familiar faces. Walton, Broad, Jobs,Hastings, Fischer. And more that you will recognize.
I urge my friends in California to vote for Tony Thurmond. He supports public schools, and we should support him.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Sickening!
“I believe it is important to preserve and strategically expand high-quality public school options for parents, …. These public options can take many forms: some are magnet programs that focus on a particular academic discipline, some are charter schools that have flexibility to innovate with new practices, and some are specialty programs, like those that focus on the arts or sciences.”
It’s just so dishonest. Ed reformers promote charters. Unless they’re promoting vouchers AND charters. That’s it. That’s the sum total of their work. They do absolutely nothing to support or improve any public school, anywhere. The BEST they can offer is a promise not to actively harm existing public schools, and half the time they renege even on that.
I actually have less respect for the phony “agnostics” than I do the privatizers- at least the privatizers have the courage of their convictions.
It must be awful to be a public school family in one of these reform-dominated cities. No one represents them. They are an afterthought AT BEST.
Ed reform doesn’t even try to offer them anything! It’s as if they don’t exist.
Watching the voucher campaign in Illinois was incredible. NINETY per cent of the families in that state attend public schools. The entire debate was dominated by whether 3% of kids would get vouchers. They take public school families for granted. We’re the unfashionable majority that no one has to worry about pleasing.
cross posted at : https://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/The-Association-of-Califor-in-General_News-Education-For-All_Educational-Crisis_Money_Public-Actions-180306-917.html#comment692179
with this comment:
“The foundational lie of the Destroy Public Education Movement is that our public schools are failing. Add to the lie that unions block reform; that “bad teachers” abound in our schools; that great teachers need only five weeks of training; that money doesn’t matter; that choice solves all problems; that the best Wat to fix schools is to close them.”
None of these points, listed below, are true but they are repeated so often by extremely wealthy people and their sycophants that they sound true. It is all a part of the one great lie, “public schools are failing!”
And they will fail if people like Marshall Tuck are in charge of edcuation at the state level!
DPE Movement False Taking Points
Public schools are failing.
Teachers’ unions fight for the status quo and against education reform.
Standardized testing is a tool that fairly holds teachers and schools accountable.
Standardized testing proves America’s schools are not competitive internationally.
Teacher quality can be assessed with value added measures.
University professors of education are out of touch and an obstacle to school improvement.
Teacher training and professional development is better run by non-profit organizations and consultants than universities.
A college graduate with five weeks of training is qualified to be a teacher.
Experience over rated when it comes to good teaching.
Advanced training such as a master’s degree in education is not worth extra pay.
No excuses charter schools are superior to neighborhood public schools.
Business principles and experience are the key ingredients needed for reforming public schools.
Market forces and competition are the principles required to improve schools.
Public education needs disruption.
Schools districts should be managed using the portfolio model — close failing schools and replace them with higher performing charter schools or voucher schools.
Failing schools should be transformed into successful schools by changing the administration and replacing the existing teachers.
Interestingly, it appears as though the members of ACSA were unaware of the endorsement until after it was a done deal. Many of them are VERY angry at their association.
If the members are angry, they should rescind the endorsement
Boulder Valley Oublic School’s top 2 finalists for Superintendent. Sick.
http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-schools/ci_31713641/boulder-valley-school-district-superintendent-finalists
Unbelievable. We have a race to the bottom.
. . . of a bottomless pit.
Keeping Tuck out of Sacramento is equally as important as keeping Villaraigosa out of Sacramento. In other words, we must keep Eli Broad out of Sacramento.