Chalkbeat reports that the privatizers at “Democrats” for Education Reform have identified their candidates for Biden’s Secretary of Education. They are three big-city superintendents who have worked harmoniously with charter schools.
DFER is an organization of hedge fund managers and financiers who are supporters of charter schools, merit pay, high-stakes testing, and value-added evaluation of teachers. In 2008, DFER successfully advocated for the appointment of Arne Duncan, a supporter of their goals.
Democrats for Education Reform is coordinating a behind-the-scenes push for Chicago schools chief Janice Jackson, the head of Baltimore schools Sonja Brookins Santelises, or Philadelphia superintendent William Hite, according to an email sent to supporters Monday by the group’s presidentShavar Jeffries and obtained by Chalkbeat. All three, Jeffries wrote, would represent a “‘big tent’ approach to education policy making….”
DFER was an influential actor in policy during the Obama administration, but those policies have mostly proved ineffective and/or rejected by teachers. In light of Betsy DeVos’ fierce advocacy for charter schools, DFER’s agenda is out-of-step with the Democratic Party.
In general, though, DFER has found some of its favored policies moving further from the Democratic Party’s mainstream. As a presidential candidate, Biden has proposed a slew of new federal restrictions on charter schools and been critical of standardized testing — a clear shift from the Obama administration, which promoted the growth of charter schools and teacher evaluations linked to test scores.
“It is certainly the Biden plan,” the campaign’s policy director Stef Feldman said at a recent event, describing the candidate’s agenda for schools. “The vice president is pretty committed to the concept that we need to be investing in our public neighborhood schools and we can’t be diverting funding away from them.”
A number of factors have driven the shift within the Democratic party — including disillusionment with Obama-era reforms, the increased political strength of teachers and their unions, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who is highly unpopular among Democrats and became a figurehead for school choice.
This shifting ground is reflected in DFER’s recent policy agenda, which was signed onto by a few civil rights groups; the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank; and major charter school organizations, including the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. The document emphasizes areas of likely agreement with a Biden administration, including expanding access to early childhood education, increasing federal funding for low-income students and students with disabilities, and raising teacher pay. Charter schools get only a brief mention in a section about “choices in quality public schools.”
The Center for American Progress is not a “progressive” think tank. It has long advocated the Obama-era education policies that align with DFER.
Bob Shepherd names his candidate for Secretary of Education
SHEPHERD: Diane Ravitch
I second that nomination. And should the honorable lady from the Houston section of Brooklyn decline, the transition team better damn well have a long conversation with her and have her three most recent books on the top of their stack of briefing books.
The Houston section of Brooklyn!!! LMAO!!!
Should Diane decline, Carol Corbett Burris
or Mercedes Schneider
Oh yes, Carol Burris would be great! Also, Bruce Baker for asst sec. Though he could do finance & Jitu Brown could be asst.
I second this nomination. I also nominate Bob Shepherd as Assistant Sec of Ed.
I also nominate SomeDAM Poet as the Dept of Ed spokes person.
Gosh, but I was holding out for Minister of Silly Walks!
I know, but at this moment you have a higher calling.
Spokesperson?
Is that the same as Secretary of DeVerse?
I accept.
Did you say there was a check involved?
My very first proclamation:
DeVos is out
DeVerse is in
Dear DeVerse:.
Will evil reverse.
Thus we avoid
More Ditzy DeVoid.
SomeDAM DeVerse
will evil reverse.
Thus we avoid
more Ditzy DeVoid.
I pledge DeVerse
Administration
Nothing worse
Than free oration
Mostly rhyme
And most of time
And mostly goofy
Doctor Seussy
Outrageous
Sent from my iPhone
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. . . they don’t let up. It’s a disease. I hope the democrats don’t lose their memory of just what these people did, and didn’t do. They are unrepentant. CBK
. . . you don’t have to be vindictive to be aware and careful. Let every democrat read “The Stranger.” CBK
DFER vultures are not wasting any time to attempt to infiltrate Biden’s education policy. NPE should remind Biden of the promises he made to teachers at the NEA Convention. Teachers remember them very well. Since the vast majority of students in this country attend public schools, we expect that Biden will appoint someone that supports quality public education. After four years of DeVos’ failed education policy, we need to build our public schools back better. We do not need more privatization that will drain more funds from already under funded public schools. NPE should send a list of potential candidates to Biden as well. https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/05/politics/joe-biden-appoint-teacher-education-secretary/index.html
Audience Member: “Given that standardized testing is rooted in a history of racism and eugenics,” the audience member asked, “if you are elected president, will you commit to ending the use of standardized testing in public schools?”
Joe Biden: “Yes, As one of my friends and black pastors I spend a lot of time with . . . would say, you’re preaching to the choir, kid.”
Biden also vowed to get rid of the federal slush fund that has funded and expanded privatization.
I hope mine is not a minority opinion, but I don’t want to see Randi Weingarten or Lily Ekelsen García in that post either. They’re labor leaders, and although Lily has far more time in a classroom than Randi, they should remain as labor leaders.
Agreed. I do not think Randi or Lily are candidates who would hold the line on privatization policies.
I agree. Appointing a labor leader would be too political and polarizing in my opinion. Biden should appoint a real public school leader as he said he would do.
Has the Network for Public Education put out the names of our recs for Sec of Ed? DFER has built a system that feeds the candidates and personnel pipline. Our side needs to build out that infrastructure to have people & policies ready to go as a counter weight to DFER et al.
Excellent recommendation. Create a shadow cabinet to support a good choice and to provide rapid responses in case it’s a bad one.
I think a great sec of education is Julian Helig-Vaszquez.
He would be a wonderful choice in my opinion. He is smart, competent, well-respected and knowledgeable. It would also send a positive signal to minorities that showed up for Biden.
Great choice!
I 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th that.
absolutely
I want to see Jahana Hayes as Secretary of Education. Connecticut Congresswoman and former National Teacher of the Year. She’s from a solidly blue district, so I think she’d be willing to give up her seat. Especially helps since she was a teacher during the NCLB era and understands how bad those policies are.
Interesting.
“In my year as National Teacher of the Year, there were four finalists for that honor,” Hayes said. “Last year, three of those four finalists went on strike.”
–Rep. Jahana Hayes, US Representative for Connecticut’s 5th congressional district, House Education Committee member, and 2016 Teacher of the Year
How about Jitu Brown for asst sec of ed?
Also, a very good choice.
Love it!
Let’s make connections. Neera Tanden as close to the Clinton/Obama wing of the Dem party as you can get and a leading voice against progressives heads the CAP – The Center for American Progress is not a “progressive” think tank. It has long advocated the Obama-era education policies that align with DFER.n
I’ve posted 2 comments about the Center for American Progress’ opportunity grant proposals & neither have been visible. Is there some type of block on this site for CAP links? Essentially their “new” proposal has some of the same features of Race to the Top.
Since the link will not post despite several attempts, if you want to see CAPs “new” proposal search with:
Public Education Opportunity Grants
Increasing Funding and Equity in Federal K-12 Education Investments
Here’s Diane.
Thanks, Yvonne. This short video is full of lots of thought provoking gems of wisdom. “The good charters provide cover for the bad ones.”
❤
While we’re at it let’s fill the entire cabinet:
Feel free to make suggestions.
Secretary of State:
Secretary of the Treasury:
Secretary of Defense:
Attorney General: Hillary Clinton
Secretary of the Interior:
Secretary of Agriculture:
Secretary of Commerce:
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of Health and Human Services:
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development:
Secretary of Transportation:
Secretary of Energy:
Secretary of Education: Diane Ravitch
Secretary of Veterans Affairs:
Secretary of Homeland Security.
SomeDAM for Poet Laureate!
Nobel Prize for Literature.
That would be the Noble Prize, but I won it if you count only the legal votes with the circles next to my name. –Donald Trump, Jr.
I also would like to nominate little donnie for a Darwin Award..lol
A shoe in for that!
Poet Laurel, in honor of Stan.
I second that, Greg!
I would like to see Warren in Treasury and Bernie at VA, where’s he’s chaired the VA committee. He could implement and pilot many of his ideas there and create a strong constituency for health care issues.
Bernie would be great in the VA. The wealthy keep pushing to privatize more of the services of the VA.
These are my dream picks (not necessarily realistic)
Secretary of State: Russ Feingold (former US Senator from Wisconsin/ former State Department Special Envoy for the African Great Lakes and the Congo-Kinshasa during the Obama administration/ voted against the Iraq War).
Secretary of the Treasury: Sarah Bloom Raskin (served as Deputy Treasury Secretary during the Obama administration/ former Federal Reserve Governor/ former Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation).
Secretary of Defense: Jeh Johnson (former Secretary of Homeland Security/ General Counsel of the Department of Defense during the Obama administration/ gained a reputation for improving employee morale at DHS).
Attorney General: Preet Bharara (former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York during the Obama administration/ known for prosecuting Wall Street corruption).
Secretary of the Interior: – Deb Haaland (Current US Representative from New Mexico; member of the House Natural Resources Committee; former San Felipe Pueblo tribal Administrator; former Chair of the New Mexico Democratic Party; Native-American).
Secretary of Agriculture: John W. Boyd Jr. (Activist/ founder of the National Black Farmers Association).
Secretary of Commerce: Andrew Yang (don’t like his stance on Charter schools, but that shouldn’t matter as Commerce Secretary)
Secretary of Labor: Jenny Yang (former Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission).
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Michelle Lujan-Grisham (Current Governor of New Mexico/ former US Representative/ former New Mexico Secretary of Health).
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Raphael Bostic (current President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta/ former Assistant HUD Secretary for Policy Development and Research during the Obama administration).
Secretary of Transportation: T. Bella Dinh-Zarr (former Vice Chair of the NTSB/ has a Public Health background)
Secretary of Energy: Arun Majumdar (former Director of Advanced Research Project Agency- Energy).
Secretary of Education: Jahana Hayes (see above comment)
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Anthony Brown (current US Representative from Maryland/ former Lt. Governor of Maryland/ former Army Colonel/ Co-Chair of the Obama/ Biden Presidential Transition Agency Review Team for the Department of Veterans Affairs).
Secretary of Homeland Security: Tom Donilon (National Security Advisor during the Obama administration)
I like the thought and logic you put into responding to this. Granted I have never heard of most of these people, which is ok with me.
Attorney General: Preet Bharara
Yes, yes, yes! Because he knows the DOJ and how to clean house and there will be a lot of house cleaning to do.
Feingold is a very good recommendation. Met him when he first ran for the Senate and my boss after he was elected was invited to take part in regular lunches Feingold hosted to get views from different stakeholders on issues he cared about. They would order out for sandwich delivery and then Feingold would go around the room and collect the money for them to pay. Love that imagery.
I would love to see Stacy Abrams have a role in this administration. She is smart and talented. We owe her for the work she has done in Georgia.
SecDEF: Alexander S. Vindman
Secretary of State: Marie Yovanovitch
Secretary of Labor: Andrew Yang
Secretary of Energy: Richard Muller
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Pete Buttigeig
Attorney General: Letitia James
Vindman & Yovanovitch are great choices.
Secretary of the Treasury: Elizabeth Warren
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Bernie Sanders
I answered on wrong thread above. My only comment on HHS is that after Reichsminister Azar, this position needs to be depoliticized ASAP. Bernie would be a lightening rod. He could do real things with the VA health system–the most socialized medicine system in the US–that could serve as models for bigger things.
We can’t lose any members of the Senate
Both replacements would be, I suspect, Democrats. Just floating Warren’s name for Treasury would send the stock price for the producer of Depends through the roof!
LOL
Diane is right. We can’t lose any members of the Senate. So, scratch those. I love your informed, thoughtful suggestions, Greg. Richard A. Muller is an emeritus professor of physics at UC Berkeley, wrote the great book Physics for Future Presidents, and concluded, after an exhaustive research review funded by the Kochs that anthropogenic climate change was real and dangerous. What you say about the VA and Labor makes a lot of sense to me.
Wall Street hates Warren.
Diane is never Right! She is, however, usually correct and insightful. But never Right!
lol
Also S.o.T. Warren & Sanders–HHS is perfect for him: Medicare for All!
Secretary of Defense: Alexander S. Vindman
Secretary of State: Marie Yovanovitch
I like this just for the theater of the confirmation hearings.
Love your suggestions for Defense and State!
Secretary of Labor: Andrew Yang
Secretary of Energy: Richard Muller
I’m guessing Sara Nelson of the Association of Flight Attendants is on the short list for labor. I think Yang would be a terrible choice, he has no labor bona fides. Energy needs to be a respected scientist, preferably a physicist who understands climate change.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Pete Buttigeig
Attorney General: Letitia James
Attorney General: since it can’t be Harris, Preet Bharara or one of the many US attorneys purged by Sessions and (dis)Barr.
Bharara is an impressive fellow.
Preet! Preet! Preet!
He is the best.
Incorruptible.
Mayor Pete would privatize more operations in VAffairs, not less. Not a big fan.
Attorney General: Zephyr Teachout
Bob: I keep writing that I like your choices of Vindman & Yovanovitch, but WordPress keeps disappearing this (&, now, putting it in the wrong place).
Thanks, Retired!
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Pete Buttigeig
Attorney General and Homeland Security are tough. We need in these jobs seasoned intelligence professionals.
It would be nice to have little-known, competent, and qualified professionals in charge. Remember the good old days when hardly anyone could name a member of the executive branch, even the vice president? When I was in college, I chauffeured Reagan’s first Ag secretary, John Block, around for a few days when he spoke at an American Farm Bureau Federation meeting. No one knew he was and when they did, he was quickly forgotten.
How very refreshing it would be to have actual, experienced experts in charge for a change. This is why I like Richard A. Muller for Energy, Steve Suitts for Education, and Marie Yavonovitch for Secretary of State.
Vindman’s resume is also quite impressive and deep.
Stephen Dyer as an undersecretary for DoEd would also be refreshing.
Preet for Attorney General!
Yes. That would be a superb choice. With you and Greg on this!
Mark Cuban for Sec. of Treasury
One of the most politically astute things that DFER and the ed reform movement did is to give leadership opportunities to people of color. I don’t know much about Janice Jackson or William Hite except that the DFERs like them and Janice Jackson is associated with Arne Duncan and DFER. But she is also part of Mayor Lightfoot’s administration.
From a parent’s perspective, I don’t think the unions are always right. I think there has to be a very strong union with strong worker protections, but there also needs to be some understanding of the reason why some parents can feel dismay when that goes overboard. But I also know that the unions are much more trustworthy than the billionaires who want to privatize education. And the unions speak honestly, while the ed reformers are often as dishonest as Trump in saying anything that will further their purpose.
So that is to say, how bad is Janice Jackson? How bad is William Hite? And what are some other suggestions of people in education who are not political hacks in the pocket of reformers, but those who genuinely want to find solutions and support public education?
Richard Carranza seemed like a good choice for NYC Chancellor to me. But he got politically trashed by both sides. That seems to be the problem to me — progressives like Carranza will always get trashed from the right, but it gets amplified when the unions and everyone else piles on because there are no solutions to the problems in education that are possible without compromise on all sides.
I just want to see people in charge who speak honestly. I love this blog because I love that Diane Ravitch wants to get it right, and speaks honestly, and changes her mind or defends her point of view with argument and facts instead of falsehoods. That’s the kind of national leadership that is needed. I don’t have to love Richard Carranza — I don’t — to recognize that he has not “sold out” and he is not evil or incompetent. He has the right values and is trying to make hard decisions in a world where every decision he makes is going to be unpopular with some group or another. I’d prefer a guy like Carranza – or Janice Jackson if she speaks honestly (I don’t know her at all) – over a dishonest purveyor of propaganda.
^^What I intended to say is that just because DFER recommends someone or they were once associated with the Center for American Progress does not necessarily make someone “in their pocket”. Just like I don’t believe that anyone that is associated with the union (like Randi Weingarten) is automatically a great choice because of that.
Arne Duncan was a bad choice because he just isn’t very bright. An example of white privilege where degrees from fancy colleges that have many truly brilliant and hardworking students give the students like Duncan, who are admitted because of privilege, the stamp of being just like the students admitted on merit.
But Janice Jackson doesn’t seem like Arne Duncan, even if she holds the same job he did in Chicago.
Dr. Jackson has the educational experience and degrees 😐, unlike Mr. Duncan with his sociology degree ☹️.
Janice Jackson has the degree and all the buzzwords but, by her own admission, she is ambitious.. She never answers a question directly, she never takes responsibility for anything negative (usually discovered by the news media) — standard answer: “we take this issue very seriously”. We need an education secretary that actually has a vision for education, not just a vision for personal career advancement, and can speak truth to power, not a politician.
Andrea Lancer,
Thank you! That is what I wanted to know.
It is less than helpful to see someone reduced to “she is evil because DFER likes her” or “she will do what CAP tells her”. It reminds me of when I hear those on the right screaming non-stop “she does what the union tells her” and usually has little truth in it.
So, instead of DeVos, who supports charter schools but was Trump’s appointment, we will get someone else who supports charter schools but is appointed by Biden? Is this basically the gist of this or am I missing something? (Asking in good faith).
We have to wait and see who Biden chooses, whether he follows in the Race to Top tradition or forges a fresh path.
We don’t know yet.
I think Biden needs pressure from the very beginning of a transition. We can’t wait for him. He needs to hear our agenda & our picks for DoEd. This blog & millions of public school teachers helped him get elected& he ows us much more than DFER or Broad or Shavar Jeffries.
Three names for Sec of Ed: Julian Vasquez-Helig, Diane Ravitch or Linda Darling Hammond
These are the compromise- no more no less. A softer-gentler Arne or John King will usher in another DeVos in 2024.
How could anyone be kinder or gentler than Arne?
Suburban moms love him. That says it all.
Steve Suitts would make a GREAT secretary of education.
Very serious about this. I really think that President-Elect Biden should consider him for the job.
Maybe the DOE should be disbanded. You don’t need a whole department to disburse Title I money.
Meanwhile, on the subject of education:
So Lucy Calkins is the expert now? We should all listen to her because she knows all?
This article makes it absolutely clear that there is an easy solution if every school just has a principal like Wendy Poveda, the principal of P.S 132, who was given the tools by the NYC Dept. of Education to help the students in her schools. Yea, NYC DOE for giving this principal the resources to manage a school of very disadvantaged students whose needs are far more expensive and difficult to meet!
Imagine if Poveda was like the reprehensible Eva Moskowitz and simply gave each student a laptop and told their parents that they better figure out how to get their 5 year old to log in every day and do whatever the school demanded and if not, just go away.
We just need to fire all the principals that don’t run their schools like Wendy Poveda.
I have to say that it is typical of the NYT and the de Blasio/Carranza haters that now their big attack on the 2 people who are the devils incarnate to them is that parents “only have one more” option to choose a hybrid system – which is the narrative being pushed by the de Blasio haters who are angry that de Blasio didn’t design a fully-remote only “perfect” system and the de Blasio haters who are angry that he didn’t re-open schools completely.
NYC is doing a lot better than any other urban school system in trying to give students in-person learning without forcing their parents to send them to school each day. Of course with over one MILLION students there will be students who turn out not to have the internet access they need or some other issue. But the NYC DOE is interested in fixing those problems, not in being perfect or being like Andrew Cuomo and constantly finding scapegoats for his own ineptitude.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard de Blasio blame the parents or teachers for bad things that go wrong, like the delays in rolling out the return to school in September. Which is a striking contrast to the charter school CEOs who always blame the parents, teachers, or even the kids (which is truly awful) when things go wrong. Trump, Cuomo, charter CEOs who blame children for their own failings are all cut from the same cloth.
And frankly, Carranza and de Blasio, even when they make mistakes, are not cut from that worthless piece of cloth.
I don’t care that much about De Blasio, Carranza, Lucy Calkins, or Eva Moskowitz. I’m really worried about what’s happening to students.
NYC PSP,
I don’t think de Blasio or Carranza are devils. De Blasio is term limited and will soon be gone unless Biden offers him a job. Carranza is a non-entity. He didn’t leave a mark in San Francisco or in Houston. Or in New York City.
FLERP!,
But I assume you care about what Wendy Poveda is doing because she provides a model for doing this.
I really don’t understand what you want. Re-opening schools totally?
I don’t get complaining unless you give some idea of what you think should happen that you believe is possible to do. Because as far as I can see, NYC is doing a better job than any other huge urban school system, but if you can point to another, I am interested in seeing what they are doing.
A generation of students has ALWAYS been suffering because the powers that be decided that they were too worthless to teach and they directed money to the people willing to identify the worthless ones who should be disappeared from richly funded charter schools and sent to underfunded schools.
So pardon me for not taking seriously those who complain NOW about the kids that they had no concern for when their schools were being underfunded and money taken from their public schools to give to entrepreneurs who profited from teaching those kids were who profitable to teach.
There is a pandemic raging and we don’t have a proper medical system nationwide to care for the people who will get sick. The parents of the most vulnerable students need help, but they always needed help. Not sure why you seem to think that forcing them back into underfunded and overcrowded public schools so they can infect their entire families is the answer.
But if you really are angry about not having in-person schooling, you should blame the people who fought so hard against small class sizes, like Eva Moskowitz, who made it her personal mission to lobby Congress and convince the public that small class sizes were totally unnecessary and a luxury that your kids and my kids absolutely do not deserve and should not have.
Remember, if Eva Moskowitz’ lies had not become the guiding principle of how to run public schools (including among Obama democrats), then urban public schools might actually look a lot like more like the private schools and suburban schools that have a much easier time re-opening. Blame the people who promoted those lies if you don’t like the fact that a generation of students are being left behind because liars like Eva Moskowitz said that the poorest and most vulnerable students do not deserve nor do they need what the richest and most privileged students get.
Students were left behind long before the pandemic and no one cared except to give some lip service about how they were “really worried” while they profited from marginalizing and demonizing the students who they professed to be “very worried” about as they showed them the door and kicked them on the way out.
And now public school administrators are left to try to address pandemic problems when they were already overstretched trying to address the problems that the lies of charters caused before the pandemic.
Imagine how mad you would be if a charter school CEO replied to your post this way:
If your child is suffering, it is entirely your fault or the fault of the child, because our system is perfect and I can point to these 10 parents who are perfectly content in their all-remote system.
If you find that a reprehensible thing to say, then we both agree.
And I hope you will offer some praise for Wendy Poveda and the DOE that is supporting her and if you don’t, then I really don’t understand what your point is.
I don’t follow what you’re saying.
Now and then I will post an article discussing the ongoing harm that students are suffering from school systems that effectively stopped functioning 7 months ago. I do it because it bothers me a lot, and because nobody else does it. Eva Moskowitz and charter school politics are not things that particularly interest or concern me these days.
Diane Ravitch,
We have different definitions of “leaving a mark”. Aside from establishing universal pre-k that was serving upwards of 60 or 70,000 4 year olds in all-day classes each year, there are far more efforts made to integrate public schools more.
Just because the DOE did not achieve some perfection does not mean that nothing happened. Ask any parent in District 15 if it was nothing. Even specialized high schools have 20% of their seats now reserved for Discovery students. Please don’t let perfect become the enemy of good, because you can’t get to “perfect” without passing through “better” first.
If Biden puts a “D”FER hit person in charge of the Department of Education, the actual Democrats will greatly diminish their chances of winning future elections. Also, this: https://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25920011&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.org%2Fv1%2Fblog%2F49%2Findex.html%3Fuuid%3D80980. Campaign promises are important. We are all tired of being disappointed by broken promises.
Agreed. Biden is supposed to be announcing his cabinet picks next week.
How about giving us your views on some pro public education candidates
I nominate KrazyTA for Ambassador to Greece
Where is KrazyTA these days? Long time no see.
Yes, I miss KrazyTA.
Also GeauxTeacher (NOLA!).
And Donald Trump ambassador to Gitmo, as long as he spends all of his time there.
This motion passes by a unanimous vote by the people that have common sense.
Nope. He needs to be extradited, along with Sessions, Miller, and Rosenstein, to stand trial before the International Criminal Court for Crimes against Humanity.
& exiled to Siberia…
If Johnson, Nixon, Kissinger, and George W. Bush were never tried in the Hague , Trump won’t be.
Linda Darling Hammond would be an excellent choice as Secretary of Education!
https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/person/linda-darling-hammond
Doesn’t want the job. https://edsource.org/2020/linda-darling-hammond-rejects-consideration-as-secretary-of-education-in-biden-administration/643327
Dr. Ravitch,
FYI – Dr. Santelises was never a TFA teacher, she was staff. And the Baltimore charters are uniquely all union.
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