The Center for American Progress has been the think tank of centrist Democrats and a refuge for veterans of the Obama administration and the would-have-been Clinton Administration. The media calls it “progressive,” but on education its agenda was aligned with the mainstream of the Republican Party. It never supported vouchers but it was all-in for charter schools. Now that Betsy DeVos is the new face of the Reform and Choice moment, it’s bizarre to call charters a progressive idea.
CAP’s new site “Think Progress” is folding. It could not find a patron. The problem may have been not just money but message. With Sanders and Warren vying for the progressive vote, CAP has lost its claim to be”progressive.”
Given its unrelenting defense of the privatization of public schools by entrepreneurs and corporate chains, it is clear that CAP was not in touch with the meaning of progressivism. It defended all the noxious tenets of Obama and Duncan’s Race to the Top. High-stakes testing, evaluation of teachers by test scores, closing schools with low scores, and charter schools. In D.C, these were the common threads in the Bush-Obama era. In state after state, these principles are being repudiated. They failed. They were corporatist, not progressive.
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The link shows that the staff had unionized and the news was not pleasing donors. Good riddance.
I wonder if the same fate will hit EdWeek, now with so many of its reports tailored to fit major donors, almost all of them, about fifteen, conspicuously out to undermine public education in one way or another.
Influence for hire. CAP’s board chair has a bipartisan lobby shop.
Despite the verbiage about helping students of color, it wasn’t until recently (after calls were made in SSIR, the mouthpiece of “philanthropists”, for black inclusion on non-profit staffs) that a single black person appeared in the CAP photos of its education group staff. The group’s former VP (white) was from TFA.
The women who are and were influential at CAP, like Ann O’Leary, strike me as fitting the description that Jezebel gave to Sheryl Sandberg who recommended CAP to Zuck (recall Facebook hired a Republican operative firm for Washington PR). Sandberg is representative of women who “view feminist progress in terms of their own individual success climbing the corporate ladder and making bank”.
Nothing about its pending interment at the Think Progress web site. I guess they are in denial.
What a hoot if CAP hired Bernie’s progressive supporters to work at the organization. The ensuing conflict would make for great drama.
If CAP hired Jeb Bush’s people, they’d fit like a glove.
LOL and HOORAY. “Think Progress” is an OXYMORON.
Think Progress is folding?
That’s progress.
If true, it will be the most progressive thing they have ever done.
Clever, Poet.
Think Progress is not “new” – it is/was founded in 2005 and was far more progressive than CAP on lots of issues.
Did Think Progress ever publish anything critical of charters?
Think Progress’ niche required them to write positions for cover. The advocated “pay increase” for teachers is an example.
The fact that Neera Tandem is still at CAP’s helm, after Hillary’s loss, makes a point to those who are listening.
Who told the polls that Hillary would win, knowing that Democrats are fair weather voters?
Who told Hillary that Republican cross over votes would replace rust belt Democratic votes?
Who chose Bloomberg to speak at the convention?
Who denied Nina Turner her time at the convention?
Who told Hillary that her talking points should cede protection of Social Security to Trump?
Why does CAP favor tax credits which lessen money for government?
Who told Obama to betray the people of Flint? (Michael Moore’s interview with the founder of CAP)
Bloomberg at the Democratic convention was a sad sign.
Are CAP’s funders happier when Republicans win? CAP and Jeb Bush, peas in a pod.