Chairman of Lorain Academic Distress Commission (ADC) says he ALONE will complete the CEO’s job performance evaluation
The Chairman of the Lorain ADC lives 130 miles from Lorain. He was appointed chairman about a month ago. He recently announced that he alone would evaluate the CEO.
HB 70 is an irrational state policy. It permits the State Superintendent to appoint a non-resident of a school district to chair the governance committee. This is absurd. It is like a resident of Lorain leading the Columbus school district or a resident of Cleveland being appointed as the president of the Columbus City Council.
HB 70 should be repealed as quickly as it was enacted—in one day.
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If Ohio legislators weren’t corrupt they would pass the repeal.
Ohio’s speaker of the house should try to justify Gates-funded SETDA speaking for state departments of ed. SEDTA self-appointed to influence public policy makers.
Info. about SETDA’s goals and functioning, from the site,
“foster public private partnerships”…promote digital learning and, for partners, which includes a choice of Gold, Silver, Event, and Strategic, “showcase innovative products”.
Representatives from 50 state department of ed.’s including Ohio are identified at the site.
The appearance is that the states endorse SETDA’s policy preferences. What a travesty when Ohio legislators could care less what citizens want… unless they are wealthy campaign contributors.
Democracy is dead in Ohio. The joke is on anyone who made a sacrifice for the nation thinking they were protecting the values that characterize a democracy.
Republican politicians should be shamed by July 4th celebrations, especially Peggy Lehman.
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“Democracy is dead in Ohio.” Aided and abetted by a state Democratic Party staffed by people who are not able to distinguish their collective a**es from holes in the ground.
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Today March 30, 2019, several Ohio newspapers had variations on the same announcement of a new non-profit headed by Lisa Gray, a long standing point person for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gray is now the “founder” of Ohio Excels, a corporate-led non-profit intent of making evidence of job preparation the priority for all high school graduates . The mission statement also includes educational choice, a policy perfectly consistent with the view that early apprenticeships and career prep from preschool are the singularly important missions of Ohio’s public schools.
This set of policy and practice priorities, comes to us hard on after the State Board of Education published Each Child, Our Future. Ohio’s Strategic Plan for Education: 2019-2024 in June 2018. That plan also included a strong emphasis on workplace skills and early career education, notably with Lisa Gray participating in a “workgroup” on “ High School Success and Postsecondary Connections ” led by LEAH MOSCHELLA from JOBS FOR THE FUTURE (JFF) where Moschella is a senior program manager for the Pathways to Prosperity Network, a collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
I judge that plan 2018 Ohio plan (a conceptual mishmash) left too many CEOs unhappy, so Ohio Excels will be putting a new plan is in place–one that is an offshoot of Jobs for the Future (JFF) and the Pathways to Prosperity Network.
I looked at the board of Ohio Excels and see lots of CEOs, many from activist positions in metro area business committees and civic and cultural groups. One is also on the board of Hillsdale College–a radical right school. I recognize another as a major supporter of the arts. Another was leading an initiative instigated by the MindTrust in Indianapolis, seeking more charter schools in Cincinnati with the usual patter about needing more “high quality seats.”
I am still unravelling the connections among all of these outfits, but so far I have discovered that JFF has received 35 grants for a total of about $122.5 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation dating from 2002. Early grants pushed the Common Core with “college and career” readiness, beginning in earnest in grade 9.
The Pathways to Prosperity Network has been funded within each member state (e.g., annual participation fee for California, $500,000) in addition to funds from the Carnegie Corporation of New York $450,000, the James Irvine Foundation (about $12 million, most in California), the Noyce Foundation (before it closed in 2015), and SAP an international Software company.
Jobs for the Future,appears to be inseparable from the Pathways to Prosperity Network. JFF has 18 projects in Ohio. All of these are designed to make Ohio education serve corporate interests. I have not yet done research on each of these projects.
Pathways to Prosperity Network (a project and all host to other efforts);
Center for Apprenticeship & Work-Based Learning;
Student-Centered Learning Research Collaborative;
Postsecondary State Network;
Student Success Center Network;
Nudging to STEM Success;
Early College;
Improved Reentry Education;
Jobs to Careers;
Counseling to Careers;
Middle-Skill STEM Pathways Initiative;
New Skills at Work;
Digital Career Accelerator;
Great Lakes College and Career Pathways Partnership;
Lumina Foundation Talent Hubs;
Google IT Support Professional Certificate;
Policy Leadership Trust, and the big surprise:
“Pay for Success in K–12 Education” wherein venture capitalists overtly hope to make money from turning K-12 education into a financial product with little or no public voice and oversight.
Jobs for the Future has “partners.” These are
GOOGLE,
California Endowment,
Salesforce.org (cloud computing, artificial Intelligence),
Educational Credit Management Corporation (ECMC) Foundation,
The James Irvine Foundation,
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
Social Finance (Pay for Success contracts), and yes–
US Department of LABOR and US Department of EDUCATION.
This national network of interlocking programs, foundations, and corporate groups has an agenda far removed from vocational eduction.
Ohio Excels, the new Ohio non-profit to be led by Lisa Gray has three staff and policy agenda for public education that has not been shaped by public discussion. Our students are to part of the “talent pipeline” that CEOs say they want. Never mind what the life of our students may offer or require beyond getting a job and getting ready for a job beginning in Kindergarten. I hope to offer more detail about “Ohio Excels,” Jobs for the Future, and Pathways to Prosperity in another post.
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Oligarchs behind every door. But, apparently the politicians who bash the ones in banking, agribusiness, telecommunications can’t find Gates.
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The SST’s and ESC’s here have all become stooges for the state. They are laying the infrastructure for state takeovers and competency based programs. It’s getting to be embarrasing.
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Plain SAD.
People drank the ‘kook’ aid.
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Bill Phyllis is correct.
I was a public school teacher in Ohio. Terrible what’s happened to this state.
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Ohio is deeply corrupt and it’s easy to see when one looks at public schooling and how it has been pushed to the brink.
Bill Phillis is a hero. Too bad there are so few like him in Ohio.
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And, Fordham is one of the villains.
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at least with this direct comparison citizens might be able to SEE the corruption in a stronger light
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Colorado politicians want to tell teachers how to teach reading. This is RIDICULOUS and just so WRONG. Like they know? Answer: They don’t know much of anything except how to be manipulative jerks. SICK of politicians telling teachers what to do. Politicians aren’t certified, nor have they done any student teaching and this????? Good grief.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2019/03/19/colorado-legislation-read-act-revisited/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cb_topic_co_capitol_report
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