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Pennsylvania Speaker of the House Turzai did not have the votes to bring his voucher bill up for a vote.
Your emails, phone calls, and letters made a difference!
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He may bring his zombie bill back in the future.
The Network for Public Education Action Fund will keep watch.
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Great news. Democracy in Pennsylvania lives another day.
America Jesuit Review posted an article 1-25-2019 that quoted Andy Smarick, formerly of AEI and Bellwether. The article also referenced Partnership Schools (New York) which was identified, in a different publication, as a Bellwether client.
Tom Uhl, who hosts a podcast, newsletter and blog, Catholic Schools Matter, and who is also the Superintendent of Montana Catholic Schools, is quoted in the article, “For so long, we held up independence and site-based management as the hallmarks of good Catholic schools…But what we are seeing today is leaving someone alone to run their school…doesn’t always show excellence or progress.” The article describes Tom Uhl as belonging to “a group of …philanthropists, diocesan leaders…rethinking and advocating for the shifting of some authority from pastors and principals to other sources.”
We can read between the lines and surmise all of the same ed reform rationales and solutions we’ve heard before- – things can’t continue as they are, parochial schools are failing-economically (tweaking the propaganda about public schools, academically failing). The solutions we can anticipate- economies of scale (de-bundling, outsourcing, centralization, school chains) etc.
I’d speculate the example of Cristo Rey wasn’t trotted out for the article because it’s got blended learning, the purchase of Common Core curriculum and students working for 5 days a month doing jobs like filing and data entry for companies while returning the pay to the school.
In Philantropy Roundtable, AEI’s Frederick Hess, wrote that reformers wanted to “blow up the ed schools” when they weren’t moving along with the reformer program. I’m anxious to read what the reformers will want to do to those in the Catholic churches if they don’t go along with the program.
The Espinosa case which is before the Supreme Court is from Montana.
Great news! There are other sites where I appreciate being able to read about education news and politics, but this post is an example of why this blog is my daily first stop on the web.
Thank you.
NPE has allies in every state and many districts.
Thank you, NPE.
Pennsylvania Public school students, parents and teachers have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving season. It is a constant battle to fully fund public education in PA and stop the privatization of our public schools. Stay alert and informed.
perhaps we can hope that a bit of the journalistic tide has turned and that parents/citizens will now KNOW more, thus having a better chance at being honestly informed
Outstanding!