Photo of Secretary of Education Betsy Devos by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ. [DeVos rose quickly to national political
power over education reform through the authority given her by Congress in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
Will the NEA and the AFT continue to exert veto
power over education reform?
Not exact matches
First in his original budget, and then in the 30 - day amendments released last Friday, Cuomo placed controversial ethics and
education reforms in appropriations bills,
over which the Legislature is afforded very little
power under the state Constitution.
They will also carry on
reforming the Department of
Education and remove more
powers from local authorities
over how schools are run
For a guy with no legal
power over the schools, Booker has been a prominent force in Newark
education reform, both for popular and unpopular reasons.
Even as the party itself is divided
over embracing Common Core standards, has a retrograde on
education in the form of House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and com
education in the form of House
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and com
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school
reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper
over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent
Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and compensated.
They claim the higher scores in Massachusetts and New Jersey result from linking teacher evaluation to student test scores, «tiered intervention» (progressively stronger state control) in schools and giving the
education commissioner unprecedented
power to take
over schools, so we better rush to put those
reforms back into Connecticut's
education bill, SB24.
One of the most contentious aspects of Governor Malloy's «
education reform» proposal was the section granting Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, the power to take over a local district school, ban collective bargaining, fire the staff and hand the school over to a third party who would then be exempt from having to follow Connecticut's laws about competitive bidding and the law limiting the use of con
education reform» proposal was the section granting Malloy's Commissioner of
Education, Stefan Pryor, the power to take over a local district school, ban collective bargaining, fire the staff and hand the school over to a third party who would then be exempt from having to follow Connecticut's laws about competitive bidding and the law limiting the use of con
Education, Stefan Pryor, the
power to take
over a local district school, ban collective bargaining, fire the staff and hand the school
over to a third party who would then be exempt from having to follow Connecticut's laws about competitive bidding and the law limiting the use of consultants.
Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national
education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union
power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.
Over the last quarter century, the teachers unions have clearly been the most powerful force in American
education, and they have clearly been using their extraordinary
power — in collective bargaining at the local level, in the political process at the state and national levels — to undermine major
reform and to burden the schools (via seniority provisions, the protection of bad teachers, and all the rest) with ineffective forms of organization.
As recent
education reform failures demonstrate, robbing local districts of decision - making
power over education policies is a recipe for disaster.
Another
education - «
reform» - related race: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, Michelle Rhee's husband, had a «strong mayor» proposal on the ballot there that would have given him a lot more
power over city government — Sacramento contacts tell me that Rhee campaigned hard for it (despite not being registered to vote in Calif but in Tennessee, where her ex lives) and that a charter school run by Johnson was a big issue — I'll post the link separately since posting a link delays the post
Another
education - «
reform» - related race: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, Michelle Rhee's husband, had a «strong mayor» proposal on the ballot there that would have given him a lot more
power over city government — Sacramento contacts tell me that Rhee campaigned hard for it (despite not being registered to vote in Calif but in Tennessee, where her ex lives) and that a charter school run by Johnson was a big issue — I'll post... Read More