Mercedes Schneider has developed a keen ability to ferret out the background of Reformer organizations.
The plutocrats spit them out so fast that it is hard to keep track of them.
Read here to see how Schneider identified two new ones.
https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2019/01/09/locating-info-on-newly-formed-ed-reform-nonprofits/
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Mercedes is teaching us some of her strategies. I am grateful for her lessons, in addition to the discoveries.
Thanks to you, too, Laura. Your information on 50 CAN (as per connections in ILL-Annoy) was instrumental in certain points I was making in terms of helping voters look at which anti-public school organizations candidates accepted money from.
I better STOP saying, “Teachers are Wayfinders.” This term Wayfinder is being MISAPPROPRIATED.
The one thing all education reform organizations have in common is that they are richly supported by a small number of billionaires and not by the sweat equity or small donations of parents whose children actually attend schools of any type.
Those education reform organizations have overpaid shills in the top jobs and they also pay some charter parents to work on “outreach” but when you compare it to a real parent organization like a PTA or any of the grassroots organizations made up of unpaid volunteers, you can tell that they are driven by the top and not by hardworking unpaid volunteers who are also parents.
How to identify a reformer organization?
By the broomsticks and coffiins in the front office
I guess turnaroundists are now addressing the criticism they received about their top-down approach. Memphis Lift (one of the two nonprofits Mercedes identified in her article) has this TED video on their site with the founder of Memphis Lift, Sarah Carpenter,
https://memphislift.org/join/
The same woman talks at a TFA meeting asking for TFA’s help at about 7 minutes
Here she criticizes NAACP for putting a moratorium on charter schools
It’s worth seeing this video because in it, Sarah Carpenter claims that there is a break in the Black community over charter schools.