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Mercedes Schneider: How TFA Alums Use Their Network to Move into Top Jobs and Score Fat Contracts

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 27, 2021September 28, 2021

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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,...

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Oakland: Activists Win Six-Figure Settlement, which They Will Use to Fight Privatization

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 26, 2021September 27, 2021

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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...

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Peter Greene: In Case You Missed Michelle Rhee…You Can Join the Zoom

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 25, 2021September 26, 2021

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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...

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Chicago Picks a Corporate Reformer as New Superintendent

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 23, 2021September 24, 2021

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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...

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The Failure of the Obama-Duncan “School Improvement Grants” and Its Lessons for Today

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7July 8, 2021July 9, 2021

July 8, 2021July 9, 2021022

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...

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Bob Braun Explains the Opposition to Billionaire-Funded “Reform”

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 10, 2021April 11, 2021

April 10, 2021April 11, 2021034

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...

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Gary Rubinstein: Why I Left the “Reform” Movement

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 9, 2021April 10, 2021

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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...

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Maurice Cunningham: The Marketing of the “National Parents Union”

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7March 24, 2021March 25, 2021

March 24, 2021March 25, 2021042

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...

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An Interview with Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider About ”A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door”

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7March 15, 2021March 16, 2021

March 15, 2021March 16, 2021058

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...

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Who Signed the Pro-Testing Appeals?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7March 5, 2021March 6, 2021

March 5, 2021March 6, 2021042

Education Trust, led by former Secretary of Education John King, sent two letters to the Biden administration, urging the administration not to allow states to...

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