The real goal of "education reform" comes through in the latest Chicago
example, but citizens need to pay attention!
If one looks at the shenanigans closely, the school board was not aware
that some of the schools being closed had made tremendous strides in
raising student scores, even with the fraudulent evaluations used
against them. They were also not aware that principals and pedagogy had
been changed just last year and often yearly for ten years. This is
extremely important!
While the very involved parents and students know that sabotaging and
then closing their public schools has long been the goal, the board is
armed with FRAUDULENT data! It's another important example of the real
goal, like the evaluation that was exposed in the phillycom article I
posted a few days ago (the good teacher got a failing grade for "group
activities" even though the principal knew she was good at this).
These evaluation packages make a tiny group of education "experts"
millions of dollars! The simplistic measurement instruments are pushed
as valid and reliable at a bargain price for the businesses running
school boards. But they give arbitrary and failing grades to any schools
or teachers, and the entire system is pushed to adopt strategies to beat
the scheme behind the test, while the morale of good teachers is destroyed.
Invalid and unreliable measurements are no better than evaluating
teachers by the color of their shoes and maybe worse!
The university based reformers funnel the data crunching contracts to
their private companies and that's where the reformers make their millions!
Of course the victims in poor and working class neighborhoods know
beyond any doubt, THAT THIS FRAUD WAS NEVER INTENDED TO IMPROVE SCHOOLS.
It was always about building a disingenuous case, while simultaneously
de-funding schools one library and one music program at a time!
I saw the identical process close-up in behavioral health care. They
are closing down all those programs too, while the stocks in private
prisons skyrocket!
Glenn
PS: I saw about a year ago, Detroit raised its class size to 60 pupils,
in poor neighborhoods of course.
On 2/24/2012 9:22 PM, wil.p...@comcast.net wrote:
Chicago is where the President Obama's Race to the Top was born as a
kind of a joke between then Sen. Obama and Arne Duncan. Chicago nearly
as much as New Orleans sees the terrible effects of No Child Left
Behind and Race to the Top.
Ironically, Paul Vallas, from Chicago destroyed the Post-Katrina New
Orleans School District under the auspices of Arne Duncan. "The best
thing that ever happened to the New Orleans Schools was Hurricane
Katrina."
If people really care to they can do a search and verify this.
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From: glen...@earthlink.net
To: wil.p...@comcast.net
Cc: UnivCity@list.purple.com
Sent:Sat Feb 25 01:34:32 UTC 2012
Subject: Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open
Wilma,
Have you seen the latest from Chicago?
http://www.suntimes.com/news/10815524-418/board-of-education-oks-shake-ups-for-17-schools.html
Our brothers and sisters from Occupy Chicago are standing in
solidarity with students, parents, and teachers. Knowing Chicago's
history, this might be the first place where teachers and parents are
tazed and pepper sprayed in large numbers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw4PgOeRuLg&feature=related
Chicago recently implemented the same "permit rules" as our very own
Parks and Recreation. Isn't that a strange "coincidence?"
Peace and solidarity,
Glenn
On 2/24/2012 6:20 PM, Wilma de Soto wrote:
I for one am VERY happy about this.
Unfortunately those parents and children who do NOT have the money
and the clout behind them will lose their neighborhood schools and
be herded into corporate charter schools IF they would have them.
They will also be "counseled out" and have decreasing choices for
their education if charters do not keep them. The attrition rate
for African-American students, particularly males, is quite high
for corporate charter franchises.
Segregated, (mainly charter schools), have increased at a rate not
seen since BEFORE the Civil Rights Movement. The remaining public
schools are rundown, neglected from the siphoning of public funds
to corporate charters.
Thankfully, Parochial School children have averted this fate
because the right people support them. I just wish it could be so
for public school poor children of color.
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:07:15 -0500 (EST)
To: "krf...@aol.com <mailto:krf...@aol.com>" <krf...@aol.com
<mailto:krf...@aol.com>>, UnivCity listserv
<UnivCity@list.purple.com <mailto:UnivCity@list.purple.com>>
Subject: Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open
Also just announced on WPHT 1210 5:00 PM news, based on strong
alumni support. I was with Fr Marrone Wed nite; he was anxious for
an answer. His hard work and that of many others has been
rewarded, but the stewardship will have to be continuous.
Craig
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Click here: All four Catholic high schools saved
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