Mercedes Schneider delved into the experience of Elizabeth Warren’s senior education advisor.
He entered teaching through Teach for America. I hear that his linked-in profile has been deleted since this post appeared but you might want to check to see if it has been restored.
I have met Elizabeth Warren twice, once in her Senate Office, about 2015, where we had a 30-minute conversation about education. I was greatly impressed by her quick intelligence. Earlier this year, I attended a house party in her honor at the home of a mutual friend in Manhattan and again was taken by her ideas about higher education, her passion, and her articulateness.
I was surprised and disappointed therefore to learn that her senior education advisor is TFA. TFA is a favorite of the Waltons, Eli Broad, and other billionaires who support privatization of public education. The Waltons have given many millions to TFA, at one point a single grant of $48 million; Broad assembled $100 million from a group of his allies for TFA. The organization supplies a large part of the workforce for private charter schools. Its leaders in high policy positions, like Michelle Rhee, John White, and Kevin Huffman have typically been pro-testing, anti-teacher, and anti-union.
I hope Warren clears the air by explaining where she stands on K-12 issues, whether she believes all children should have a credentialed teacher, whether she pledges to eliminate the federal Charter Schools Program (Betsy DeVos’ $440 Million Slush Fund), whether she supports the NAACP call for a moratorium on new charters, and whether she will actively fight to restore and protect teachers’ right to bargain collectively.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
It is a sad but true fact that money buys policy in education. Follow the money in this Warren controversy. It’s sad, troubling, and we need a way to stop it.
Too many good people succumb to money.
Okay, lets follow the money. Obviously you know something that we don’t. Please expand.
Now I have no clue about the activities of her education adviser. So being TFA participant may be concerning. But that in itself it is not definitive of where he or she stands today.
We have ample examples of people who once they achieved power turned out not to be who we thought they were..That can be a positive or a negative. The Hopey Changey guy being one such example. Is it still Charter Teacher Appreciation Week? Thanks Obama ! Even if it was honoring Charter teachers during teacher appreciation week . Yes I did appreciate a right wing email on that from “Joe the Plumber”
So I am less concerned with where he was as a young College grad and more concerned with where Warren stands today. And on consistency of message we have a fairly long record on most topics and the money does not want Warren.
Joel,
How hard would it be for Elizabeth Warren to issue a policy statement expressing her views about charters, vouchers, and TFA? Why should anyone speculate?
If the person doing the issuing is from TFA, I’d say it would be very hard.
TFA likes to hedge their bets (and bet on their hedges)
Bets and Hedges”
TFA gets
To highest ledges
By hedging bets
And bets on hedges
To clear the air”
The step to take
To clear the air
Is take a rake
To campaign lair
Eliminate
The weeds and rocks
And dissipate
The charter flocks
So rake and mow
The TFA
Has got to go
No other way
What TFA stands for
TFA’s a sTepping s Tone
To Fortune and to Fame
After All is said and done
The F will still remain
“To Fail America (TFA)”
To Fail America, train five weeks
Choose the haughty Ivy geeks
Supermen without their capes
Climbing down the fire escapes
Diane, this writer said the assumptions about the person who introduced Warren are wrong:
https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-how-internet-insinuation-becomes-campaign-fact/
“In the Bay Area so much heat was arising from the charges that I contacted Mehta to try to shed some light on the situation. This is what she told me: she has never been a lobbyist. She has never been a representative or employee of Great Oakland Public Schools. She was a fellow there in 2014-2015, while working full-time as a teacher, which, she told me, meant she went to a three-hour meeting once a month for several months. She volunteered with the organization later and she supports, she says, “aspects of its work on district budget oversight and parent organizing.”
She also told me she helped unionize the school she taught at, supported the 2019 Oakland teacher’s strike (which was evident in a social media post of hers earlier this year), went to the state capitol with the strikers to advocate for more public school funding, and works for an organization that also supported the strike directly. She’s ardent about Elizabeth Warren and public education and public funding for public education, as she made clear in her short speech.”
Did she mention that she was a fellow at the Walton-Gates-Bloomberg-NewSchools Venture Fund Surge Institute in 2018?
https://www.surgeinstitute.org/donor-listing/
Did she mention efforts to unionize the Surge Institute, by chance?
Warren like Bernie opted to unionize her campaign. Teachers won’t be swayed. Warren needs to clarify her stance on K-12 education.
If the Crown family, listed at the Surge link, is the same as the equipment manufacturer in New Bremen, Ohio, the company is in Jim Jordan’s arch conservative neck of the woods.
Not sure. There is also a super wealthy Crown family in Chicago that isis anti-teacher and anti-union.
When Stand for Children’s leader Jonah Edelman boasted at Aspen in 2011 about beating the teachers’ union in Chicago, he was sitting with a hedge fund guy from Chicago whose last name was Crown.
So, they are not only anti-teacher , but isis anti-teacher?
Yikes!
Does that mean they cut off teachers heads?
The national teachers unions should be all over this, asking Senator Warren to clarify her positions on public education, including privatization, testing, etc. TFA is anti-union, anti local control, pro testing and is an agent for the de-professionalization of teaching. The longer Senator Warren waits, the more traction this issue will and should get. Clearly, the donor class wants this issue to go away. Democrats that have sold out public school students and their families have enjoyed the relatively low-profile of this issue. Already, efforts are underway to quell the issue, accusing others of attacking Warren because she is a woman, or making a martyr out of her poor TFA advisor—as if this line of inquiry, and the passion behind it, is somehow illegitimate. Well, this time, public school allies are not going to sit back and watch another Democrat sell them out—and she does not therefore get the benefit of the doubt on this issue. Of course, there exists an easy remedy—a policy statement from Senator Elizabeth Warren.
A Policy statement from Warren would clear the air about where she stands on charters, vouchers, and TFA.
For now, her campaign seems to be content with having surrogates attack Steven Singer and me on Twitter about why she was introduced by a former charter teacher in Oakland who was a fellow at the aggressive pro-charter GO Public and a fellow at Surge Institute in 2018. https://www.surgeinstitute.org/donor-listing/
The irony is that Warren is being defended not only by her friends but by charter professionals and rightwingers who hate her progressive ideas.
Just for the record, aside from education, I greatly admire Elizabeth Warren. I can’t say it enough. She is great on the economy. She is right about student debt, which is now about $1.4 trillion. She is right about all the other big issues. She is super-smart. But I am completely in the dark about her views on charters and vouchers and TFA, especially since her senior education policy advisor is a two-year TFA alum.
Diane The rich don’t care which Party they are working in. It’s infiltrating and monetizing any Party as long as they can own those who have power.
Catherine, The Kochs are supporting Democrats. Now that Bernie & AOC’s progressive agenda has gotten traction they want it stopped. These little hitlers think that they can just trample everybody else – and that they SHOULD trample everybody else.
https://www.gq.com/story/koch-brothers-eye-the-democrats
They have seen their success with buying votes for school privatization, maybe the Koch’s think they can peel off more Democrats for their anti-government, anti-regulation, libertarian agenda.
jcgrim Yes, like other forms of cancer, the Koch’s and others are equal-opportunity–it doesn’t matter which party they buy–they just change their toxic game plan to suck the life out of the host. CBK
Chuck
You are right about the teachers ‘ unions, but I would just make a minor clarification.
It’s not the unions but their “leaders” , particularly the heads of the AFT and NEA, who have demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt their willingness to sell teachers down the river with their former support of standardized testing, Common Core, VAM, Bill Gates, Arne Duncan and all the rest.
Yes, the leaders—who need to actually lead this time. How about a report card?
Absolutely right, SomeDAM.
Warren should realize if she supports TFA and charters, she is on the side of dark money, Wall St. and Silicon Valley. This position would be totally contradictory to the rest of her platform. She would be a pawn of the charter lobby.
Retired teacher Yes–exactly right: “Warren should realize if she supports TFA and charters, she is on the side of dark money, Wall St. and Silicon Valley. This position would be totally contradictory to the rest of her platform. She would be a pawn of the charter lobby.”
Especially in the light of what Diane said here about Warren just a bit ago–I can believe, at least for the moment, that Warren doesn’t know she’s being conned-away from what they also know are her roots. CBK
retired teacher,
I totally AGREE with YOU.
Warren needs to read Diane’s blog. She would learn a lot.
Chuck, you are right. TFA is beloved by anti-union corporations and foundations because it supplies the labor force for nonunion charters. I have been attacked on Twitter by the TFA allies, by charter spokespeople, and by rightwingers who love charters (and hate Warren). It isstrangeto see Warren defended by people who despise her progressive ideas.
As you say, she could settle this by laying out her views on charters, vouchers, and TFA. For now, her campaign staff thinks they have avoided the issue by attacking Steven Singer (and me) for mistakenly calling the former charter teacher who introduced her as a “lobbyist.” She is not a lobbyist. I never called her a lobbyist. Steven Singer apologized for saying she was a lobbyist when she was an education policy fellow at GO Public. But she taught for five years in a charter, was a fellow with the aggressive pro-Charter GO Public in Oakland, and was a fellow with the Surge Institute, which is funded by Walton, Gates, Bloomberg, the NewSchools Venture Fund, etc. in 2018. https://www.surgeinstitute.org/donor-listing/
A Fellow with a hobby?
A Fellow with a hobby
Instead of with a lobby?
The claim’s a little knobby
If not a little bobby
Diane My guess is that many policy makers (and parents, etc.) are working under
a logic that goes like this: There are many problems in education. Public education is
not doing a very good job; charter schools CAN educate children; businesses run by
ceo’s know how to be successful; public-partnerships work well in other situations;
and there certainly are a lot of “good people” lobbying for them, . . .
. . . what could be wrong with charter schools? Let’s try it.
I think the problem is, in part, the depth of the problem itself, where aside from
the wealthy takeover artists like the Koch’s, the Gates’, and the Waltons, there
are those policymakers who, like my guess is, Elizabeth Warren, just do not
recognize either:
(1) the fundamental break with democratic culture that the loss of public education
as a cultural institution really represents;
(2) the threat that charters are to the creative, open nature of public education,
where no questions about ideologies (or brand names) are barred (like with
freedom of the press); and
(3) the sleazy predatory methods that organizations like ALEC and others use
to develop and spread around propaganda that prey on people in conditions
that they, themselves, helped to create, and that has at its core anti-democratic
ideologies; not to mention the Republican Party of late, where George Will
referred to them recently as a “cult.” CBK
Businesses open, businesses fold. Same with charter schools.
Where is Braniff Airlines?
Where is TWA?
Where is Eastern?
Where is Blockbuster Video?
Whether local or national, businesses fold.
Market failure is a feature not a bug.
Diane Yes of course–that businesses close (sometimes on purpose with nary
a thought about what that does to children) is an aspect of the dark underside
of the bells-and-whistles campaign that the charter “industry” is pushing.
My point is that I think the present thinking is too shallow to pick up on that dark
underside of the charter movement. My guess is that Warren would be on-board
IF she really understood it–considering her awareness-of and long-time attitude
towards predatory business practices.
Someone with a big voice needs to get to her–but it looks like “someone”
already has, in the form of an education adviser who either doesn’t “get it,” or who
has been “planted” there by the charter industry? CBK
It’s back, but can’t be archived on the WayBack Machine …
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuadelaney/
Special Education Teacher
Company Name Teach for America
Dates Employed Aug 2011 – Aug 2013
Employment Duration 2 yrs 1 mo
9th Grade Special Education Algebra Co-Teacher, Cross Keys High School in Dekalb County, GA. Co-taught 9th Grade Mathematics 1 and Common Core Algebra to students with and without disabilities.
employment duration: TWO YEARS 1MONTH — surely that is enough time to step up as an ‘expert’ and start advising Presidential hopefuls….
I hope Warren clears the air by explaining where she stands on K-12 issues, whether she believes all children should have a credentialed teacher, whether she pledges to eliminate the federal Charter Schools Program (Betsy DeVos’ $440 Million Slush Fund), whether she supports the NAACP call for a moratorium on new charters, and whether she will actively fight to restore and protect teachers’ right to bargain collectively.
This could be recast as a checklist for every candidate for President and state office.
I hope Sen. Sherrod Brown finds legislative aides who aren’t TFA dilettantes and who attended public universities instead of legacy admission (or, pay to go to the front of the line) schools. When median Ohio family income is less than $60,000, Brown’s choice of a graduate from a private school that costs $68,000 a year is off-putting.
Although I appreciate Solnit’s calling out the internet drama, the selection of a union member public school teacher as the face of EW’s education position would have spoken volumes. Let’s make ourselves clear about rejecting this privatization fraud.
Ms. Splint [Solnit] failed to address the toxic nature of what it means to be associated with GO, particularly after all the damage they have done in Oakland, and now setting sights on Richmond and Fresno. The use of the word “lobbyist” was unfortunate and has been corrected. But any association with GO, whether supporter, volunteer, recruiter, employee, use whatever word you want; It’ going to be called out and it should; it matters. It’s a nuance that the author failed to recognize for some reason. She should know better we just came off a strike. Instead a lot of “yes but” tone of the article. The former teacher is absolutely free to associate with any organizations she wants, but the optics were bad for Warren. Except for the “lobbyist” term, all other associations with GO, Surge, and Teaching Well (Rogers Foundation) were factual. And GO is most definitely a privatizing lobbying group supported by the Waltons. There is no dispute about that. The author also failed to recognize the role of TFA and its influence on Warren’s ed policy. And to be clear, I like Warren’s platform. But not convinced that she understands or is willing to articulate non profit charters are as much of a problem as for-profits.
Ms. Solnit, stupid auto correct.
Ms Splint
Ms Solnit splints
Her arguments
To help convince
The ignorants
Self correct is smarter than it sometimes appears.
“The organization supplies a large part of the workforce for private charter schools.”
Yes yes yes yes yes!
To the word private!
I, for one, am thrilled to have TFAers scramble and defend themselves. Their very existence exemplifies neoliberalism, the delusion that you’re helping those less fortunate—but you really justify maintaining the Winners-Take-All status quo. I loathe TFA because their cache has enabled them to ally themselves w/ the business & donor class which does NOT support career teachers. Career teachers are the lifebread of poor communities. Their stable force provides hope and pathways. —But TFA’s Teach-for-Awhile-Then-On-To-Law-School-Or-Policy helps deprofessionalize teaching. ‘Anyone can teach’—just hold on for 2 years for your real career—is a slap in the faces of those who invest their lives into teaching. Am not a fan and will not vote for Sen. Warren until she clarifies.
-35-year public school teacher
Bravo Kelley Ranch. Well said.
I hope that many voters will have decisive determination like you,
I, truly wish all women candidates in Presidential election, will learn from Hillary Clinton’s lesson = lean on corporation to bully the unfortunate with tax exemption = fail in the dream
Remember that educators cannot be fooled all the time. Yes, there are some very wishy washy with their career. Unfortunately!!! Back2basic
TFA’ers also end up at firms that lend money to charter operators.
Based on the demographics, IMO, it’s preying on communities, who think if people look like them, they won’t take advantage of them.
The fact that you have met Warren twice – including a thirty minute talk about education – is troubling in light of the fact that she still seems to support TfA and charters. I can’t imagine you didn’t try to educate her on these topics when you met or that you were in any way unclear or inarticulate. So it’s becoming clearer that lack of understanding is not her problem. The question is whether public pressure can overcome her willful “ignorance” on this topic, especially now that Bernie has spoken so clearly on the topic.
Indeed, Dienne77, we must educate ourselves on TFA, its history, its alignment with the business and donor class, its lock on federal grants, ALL the foundations and non-profits it pairs with, the ‘fellows’ after the 2-year stint, the charter chains (KIPP and IDEA, among others) which TFAers have established w/ federal grants and who hire lots of TFAers, etc.
Our district is ending its TFA partnership, but their tentacles are so entrenched in other areas (School Board, KIPP, non-profits) that they remain.
So “willfull ignorance” is fine as long as Bernie is also willfully ignorant, but as soon as Bernie decides not to be willfully ignorant, then one is allowed to attack the character and progressive credentials of other candidates on that issue now that Bernie has finally changed his mind.
By the way, I have never heard Bernie Sanders directly criticize TFA or any large charter network or CEO by name.
This would be the perfect opportunity for Bernie to differentiate his position on education from Sen. Warren’s position. Why do you think Bernie is so quiet on this? It would not surprise me if Bernie is also unwilling to criticize TFA or the Oakland group and that’s why he is not differentiating his position.
Bernie published an op-Ed in the San Jose Mercury Times a few days ago that made his views on charters clear
I couldn’t read Bernie’s op ed because it was behind a paywall.
I like Bernie’s education plan. And if he criticized TFA in that op ed, that is great.
However, even though I am very critical of Elizabeth Warren not clarifying her K-12 education position as much as Bernie did, I don’t think it would be fair if Elizabeth Warren had to renounce TFA by name and Bernie never does.
I think Warren should clarify whether she also supports the NAACP’s moratorium on charters and her other positions on non-profit charters. I would also like her to renounce TFA and DFER, but I think Bernie should publicly renounce both those organizations, too! I haven’t seen him do that, but if he did so in that op ed, then bully for him!
“TFA Exemplies”
TFA exemplifies
Everything that’s bad
The edu-fakes and edu-lies
By which we’ve all been had
Unfortunately, the misrepresentation of Diane’s words and motives by Solnit and others as an effort to smear Warren is an indication that the concerns of Diane and teachers are being met by little more than an effort to hunker down and lob grenades at the messengers.
The mere fact that people like Solnit are doing this means that they recognize that the actual issues must be avoided.
Thank you, SDP.
The real issue is where does Warren stand on education issues that matter. She appropriately rails against billionaires, as I do, but is she willing to stop their efforts to turn public education over to entrepreneurs and charter chains?
An article about Joshua Delaney in the Harvard Gazette, https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/17/10/hgse-hill-josh-delaney, and another including, “Some of the most pressing matters about which constituents contact the senator these days, Delaney said, concern college affordability and student loan debt, anxiety over new policies in the Education Department, and worry over for-profit schools that may not deliver on their educational promises,” https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/08/harvard-alumni-help-u-s-government-to-roll-along-smoothly/. “Anxiety over new policies in the Education Department” is an ambiguous phrase that sounds a lot like neoliberal triangulation we’ve heard for twenty years, especially coming from a TFAer who only taught the minimum two years and attended Harvard. I’d say Warren has a charter and testing fan working for her.
And I would say that matters a lot. He looks like education secretary nominee if Warren wins. She vowed to pick a “former public school teacher,” and yes, especially if she doesn’t clarify her position on federal charter funding and the NAACP call for a moratorium.
Come to think of it, calling it “anxiety” over testing and privatization policies is belittling. It would be correct to call it pain caused by testing and privatization policies, although I would give Delaney a small benefit of the doubt because he said it before #Red4Ed teachers strikes changed public opinion.
Delaney also did not prevent Warren from opposing charter school expansion in Massachusetts when it was on the ballot. Clearly there was tons of ed reform money to push that ballot initiative, but Warren did not do their bidding.
Warren could very well be wrong on this issue, and it absolutely right to criticize her on this issue. But if the criticism becomes innuendo that Warren’s position is in answer to some rich Wall Street guys, then her critics are doing exactly what Rebecca Solnit does and I don’t know why they would object to Solnit making untrue innuendoes if they do it themselves.
Too often legitimate criticism turns into ugly innuendo and character attacks, as it did in 2016. Diane Ravitch is not doing that at all in her posts, but sometimes the comments are guilty of doing exactly what Solnit did.
For a long time Bernie had the same position as Warren. He was wrong but no one accused him of being wrong because of some nefarious reasons. I don’t know why other candidates don’t get the same benefit of the doubt that when they are wrong, it is simply because their belief system is different or they don’t understand the issue enough, and not because they are acting for the benefit of big donors.
A teacher’s life under the boot of a Wall Street Democrat is intolerable. Please do not be so insensitive as to ignore that fact, NYCpsp. Obama did not campaign in 2008 on an Arne Duncan platform. He turned on us. Never again will I be fooled. Candidates now need to show very clearly they are not doing the bidding of hedge fund and tech billionaires or I. Will. Pounce.
Whew! I am a little hot under the collar over this. Obama abused me. He was following W. Bush and Bill Clinton’s lead doing it. He attacked public school teachers. He got the whole country to attack public school teachers. He abused me! Never again! Joshua Delaney’s position is unknown. To me that’s like being a dog whose previous owner used to beat me with a rolled up newspaper, and having a new owner sit there with a rolled up newspaper in his lap. (Now that’s innuendo.)
By Josh Delaney…
Still, “the righter you do the wrong thing, the wronger you become.” (Russell Ackoff)
As with charter schools, TFA simply is the wrong thing. Thus Josh Delaney doing righter by TFA necessarily contributes to making public education wronger.
Thewrongthing For America?
Diane This timely book and its review is in the Teachers College Record–see link below:
Title: Miseducating for the Global Economy: How Corporate Power Damages Education
and Subverts Students’ Futures
Author(s): Gerald Coles/Publisher: Monthly Review Press, New York/ISBN: 1583676902
Pages: 288, Year: 2018/Search for book at Amazon.com
With a list of their methods:
SNIPS: “Gerald Coles’s Miseducating for the Global Economy: How Corporate Power
Damages Education and Subverts Students’ Futures exposes the workings of an
elaborate con. Its perpetrators are the corporate architects of global capitalism. Its
marks are educators, parents, students, teacher unions, and anyone who cares about
the current direction of American education. And its effectiveness is such that the
discourses it seeks to perpetuate have come to pass as unquestioned truth: American
students will be left behind if schools don’t better prepare them for success in the
global economy; the global economy most values STEM disciplines, so schools need
to prioritize STEM subjects; given that school curricula are too often outdated, it is wise
to look to corporations, especially ones succeeding in the global marketplace, for new
ideas about educational leadership, innovation, and citizenship; and individual
responsibility, initiative, and determination, not social positioning, will invariably
determine student success in our increasingly competitive world.
“Notions such as these permeate today’s educational landscape. They have largely
determined the direction of public discourse and school policy over the past several
decades, finding bipartisan agreement and broad support. Yet they are, all of them,
fabrications. . . . ”
Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record, Date Published: May 30, 2019
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 22821, Date Accessed: 6/9/2019 1:31:20 PM
See Book Review at:
https://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=22821
Thank you.
May I offer a suggestion to NPE, one that will surely require a gargantuan effort but could include members in each state and congressional district? I think it would be useful to compile—and continually update—a list of of all congressional staffers who work on K-12 education issues. This would include the individual members of the House, Senate and the various committees of jurisdiction. It would be useful to know for a variety of reasons. How many have experience in public education? How deep do the tentacles of TFA, charter operators, and other privatizers reach into education advisory roles? It seems to me this could provide useful fodder and leads for journalists who cover education. If you think this has merit, I have another proposal about how we might actually get real educators to fill these positions.
I will pass it to staff and see if we have resources to do this
If someone has a copy of Congressional Quarterly’s most recent Congressional Staff Directory, you could get most of the names from it to speed up the process.
Based on the many comments I have seen over the years here, I’ve noticed a strong TFA component to congressional ed staffers. I’m sure this is not coincidental, TFA must have a placement capacity of sorts.
California Billionaire Arthur Rock gives TFA a large annual grant to pay for Congressional interns who work for members of the education committees. Maybe Appropriations too. That way, they can protect TFA’s interests, protect charter grants, and network.
Greg,
Try this and see if it helps: it is supposed to be a Congressional staff directory.
https://cqrcengage.com/fcnl/stafflookup
Good idea.
Members of Congress hiring dilettantes from billionaire-funded organizations to advise them on legislation- what could possibly go wrong for the 99%?
ALL As we speak (west coast time) Printers Row Lit Fest is having a live talk on C-SPAN’s BookTV. William Ayers, Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Jennifer Johnson (Chicago Teachers Union, Chief of Staff).
They’ll run it again, I am sure, and you can find it on BookTV’s website also–they archive everything. Excellent talk and featured books. CBK
To all commoners who can vote in the upcoming 2020 Presidential Election:
We should not be foolish to vote someone who cannot confirm her/his own identity regardless how mart or educated he/she is with his/her educational background.
Hahaha, at least we have shown the world that how powerful the majority of our decision is = let Trump win over Hilary in 2016 regardless that he is a perfect liar with his income tax returned. and regardless that Hilary had so much experience and smart plus very connected to bankers.
BUT we must admit that we are very dumb and very wishy washy or so hopeful with Trump who can undermine the world with willfully ignorance of strategy to deal with leaders in China and in Russia.
I will persuade all of commoners to unite in voting a President Candidate who affirmatively declares his /her support FREE PUBLIC EDUCATION in K-12 level for all American children regardless their status of legal or illegal immigrants. = AMERICA is the best HUMANITARIAN COUNTRY IN THE WORLD for all grades from K to 12 in Public Education according to Dr. Ravitch and her NPE organization plus all veteran educators with National certification in this Dr. Ravitch ‘s Education Blog.
Please eliminate all suckers or puppets for corporate like Gates’foundation, Walmart’s, Face Book’s Zuckerberg foundation, TFA’s Eli Broad with foreigner blood sucker (= looting our commoners’ tax payer fund and all teachers’ pension fund). No mercy and no sorry for our determination to have an affirmative voting right for candidate who is for commoners like us, NOT FOR HIS/HER OWN POCKET FULL OF CASH TO KILL OUR AMERICAN YOUNGER GENERATIONS. Back2basic
I am so disappointed to hear this. There is no way she can grasp the relaityof WLLL what learning’s looks like, if TFA is her advisor…. she needs YOU, or Carpl or even ME!
Maybe Warren can dupe Linda Darling-Hammond to shill for her the way Obama did …