In this post, Jeanne Kaplan tells the 15-year story of “reform” in Denver, which has recently been lauded by Betsy Devos and the Learning Policy Institute at Stanford University as a stellar example of school choice.
She describes how the board was persuaded to choose an insider when Michael Bennett stepped aside to join the U.S. Senate, in order to cover up a shady financial transaction. Kaplan was a member of the school board at the time that Tom Boasberg replaced Michael Bennett.
Now, she says, the board has only one candidate–an insider–to keep the shell game of choice going without asking questions about outcomes for students.
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Ah, Diane. You are using the word CABAL–which DEFINES those who have the wealth once owned only by nations and run our government through their assets… our politicians and legislators..
I use that word often, as you know, to describe the real CONTROLLER (NOT the Billionaires boys Club or the “Deep State”.., which is theTOOL of the Cabal that runs the nation).
There are a score of CABALS that run the world. BTW I was told, years ago, and more than once, by powerful people who worked in the government..
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I have no used for DFERs.
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We will have to hold governor-elect Jared Polis’ feet to the fire on public education in Colorado. The K-12 representatives on his education committee include on one public school representative among them. This bodes very ill for us. There’s a reason so many of us voted for his primary opponent, Cary Kennedy.
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While he has no use for the resistance and anti-reform logic teachers would bring to his policies, Polis would very much like the public image of working with teachers: teachers must organize, stand up, and repeatedly demand a very notable input/participation/voice or embarrass him endlessly through public shame that there are no teachers involved in his government.
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And as Jeanne mentions in her post, both parties are infested with corporate Democrats who have no interest in giving anything but lip support to public education. And that includes our Democratic senator, Michael Bennett, current governor, and a multitude of community leaders. But we are fired up now, after the midterms!
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