I arrived at the Ed School knowing I wanted to either continue working in education nonprofits, teach in a classroom, or branch
out into education policy.
If you decide to
get into the education policy arena and have the audacity to challenge any position advanced by the teachers unions in power, chances are, you're going to be accused of accepting evil «dark money.»
It angers me — and my 600,000 members — that we have in Governor Cuomo someone who is sticking his
nose into education policy — about which he knows nothing — in order to use our public schools as a political football.
Foster Ed's founder is Fellow Jesse Hahnel, who was a classroom teacher before
delving into education policy as leader of the research and development team at the KIPP Foundation.
But crowdsourcing tools are slowly working their
way into the education policy world, designed to give teachers and district employees more say on big decisions that affect their school environment.
In an education system in which the federal government has no constitutional role in education, the United States has long flirted with the idea of injecting broader national
control into education policy.
Since 2008, almost 70 teachers with strong leadership and communication skills and
insight into education policy based in classroom expertise have worked with the department on a full - or part - time basis through the program.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, left, warned that Republicans may hold Congressional
hearings into the education policies of Democrat Bill de Blasio's administration in New York City.
'15 (Arts in Education) FALL SPRING I arrived at the Ed School knowing I wanted to either continue working in education nonprofits, teach in a classroom, or branch
out into education policy.
Another committee member, Donna Hearne — a former teacher and author who was an education appointee in the Reagan administration — said this is the council's first
foray into education policy.
I had a moment of reflection and decided to go back to school to develop my skills and leadership, to pursue a graduate studies program that I felt would launch me into a new career, to catapult
me into education policy like a slingshot.
Across the country, state education agencies have begun to institute new offices to specialize in innovation — searching for new ideas and helping them to make
it into education policy.