It has been both amusing and instructive to watch the disintegrating nexus between the Democratic Party and one of its staunchest and most reliable constituencies, the teachers unions, over the reform of
public education around the country.
Pittsburgh Schools Superintendent Mark Roosevelt described just how bad Imagine's reputation is when Imagine was trying to open a school in the district: «A lot of my friends
in education around the country are very supportive of the charter movement.
Well just last year the NASBE accepted an $ 800,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to spend the next two years pushing the Common Core with state boards of education and other «stakeholders» involved with running
public education around the country.