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Friday, February 7, 2014

2-7-14 Schools Matter - KIPP Has Low Friends in High Places

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Portland Teachers Strike Time To Get Rid Of Testing And Hire More Teachers
Portland teachers are leading the way people.Chicago, Philadelphia, Portland, teachers, parents and students are united.http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/06/us-usa-teachers-portland-idUSBREA1507V20140206Portland, Oregon, teachers vote to authorize strikeBY TERESA CARSON, Reuters


KIPP Has Low Friends in High Places

Another example of KIPP's effective use of billionaire corporate welfare artists to bulldoze a path into communities to set up their total compliance reform schools.  From the Chicago Sun-Times, by Tim Novak:Last Modified: Feb 4, 2014 02:14AMSarah Howard thought Bruce Rauner was an angel who would rescue her financially troubled, academically struggling charter school in East Garfield Park.Instead
2-6-14 Schools Matter - Two Decades Is Enough to Show Value-Added Is a Scam
Schools Matter: Two Decades Is Enough to Show Value-Added Is a Scamby Joey Garrison at The Tennessean:Tennessee’s largest teachers union has turned against the policy of including student learning gains in the evaluation of teachers, a flip that shows its growing discomfort with a major Race to the Top reform.When Tennessee applied for $501 million in federal Race to the Top funds in 2010, a criti