Also, with no knowledge of how its membership felt about the nomination of conservative school - choicer Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, NEA rallied its activists to send over a million emails and make over 40,000 calls in an attempt to lobby Republican Senators to vote against her confirmation. (californiapolicycenter.org)
It was a bad night for conservative school reformers in two Colorado elections being watched nationally in the education world — and public education advocates did well in key Philadelphia races as well. (washingtonpost.com)
After speaking to more than a dozen observers of the teacher evaluation legislation from various points of view, the answer is a more complex layer of personality rubs, distrust and skepticism, mixed in with the state's longstanding feud between the state's conservative school reform community and teacher unions. (mcede.org)