Gary Rubinstein: One of the “Most Dangerous” Reformers Will Be #2 in NYC Ed Department
Gary Rubinstein writes here about the new leadership of the New York City Department of Education. He begins: Eric Adams will become the next Mayor...
Category : Corporate Reformers
Mercedes Schneider: How TFA Alums Use Their Network to Move into Top Jobs and Score Fat Contracts
This post is Mercedes Schneider at her best, pulling together the strings of a tangled web involving money, power, TFA, Chiefs for Change, John White,...
Oakland: Activists Win Six-Figure Settlement, which They Will Use to Fight Privatization
I am posting this notice after the press conference described here, but the details are important nevertheless. A group called Oakland Not For Sale formed...
Peter Greene: In Case You Missed Michelle Rhee…You Can Join the Zoom
Peter Greene wonders if you have missed Michelle Rhee, once the Wonder Woman of the edreform biz, but recently absent from the national scene. After...
Chicago Picks a Corporate Reformer as New Superintendent
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot selected Pedro Martinez, Superintendent of the San Antonio School District, as the Windy City’s public schools. Martinez is a “reformer.” In...
The Failure of the Obama-Duncan “School Improvement Grants” and Its Lessons for Today
A while back, I read a vitriolic article in a rightwing publication that expressed contempt for the public schools and congratulated Betsy DeVos for trying...
Bob Braun Explains the Opposition to Billionaire-Funded “Reform”
Bob Braun was an education reporter for 50 years. After he retired from the New Jersey Star-Ledger, he began blogging and paid close and critical...
Gary Rubinstein: Why I Left the “Reform” Movement
Gary Rubinstein is well known to readers of this blog, as I have posted almost all of his blogs. He is a career high school...
Maurice Cunningham: The Marketing of the “National Parents Union”
Maurice Cunningham watches the flow of “Dark Money” into the privatization of public funding for schools. A professor of political science, he has recently followed...
An Interview with Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider About ”A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door”
This interview was recorded by Town Hall in Seattle, which is a great venue for speakers but in COVID Times was recorded remotely. I interviewed...