When a coalition of education and business advocacy groups stood up Tuesday to endorse Gov. Dannel Malloy’s education reform proposals, the real question was how far they would go to push for change they say is needed.
Compromise makes the world go round at the capitol, but finding common ground may not lead to eliminating the country’s worst-in-the-nation achievement gap.
Tuesday’s press conference was notable in that it brought business and school reform groups together. No teacher union groups attended
the announcement.
“Real change us going to upset people,” noted the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now’s Patrick Riccards. The real issues crippling public education — poverty, school district boundaries, parenting — will never be addressed this session. The new push for reform will reveal whether even modest changes can be made.
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Lobbyists are good that way. There’s enough pork to feed them all. It’s a bull market for these groups. When Romney gets elected its the next bubble market for non-profits: a tulip bulb frenzy in educational consulting.
If you read the fine print available on these group’s websites there looks to be serious thought behind these reforms. One should not dismiss this important cause with the cynicism so typical of today’s public discourse. Teachers – not their union representatives – have been asking for these types of changes for a long time. It is the system that is broken, and none of the reform advocates I’ve heard from are calling for a “war on teachers,” rather a new way of doing things that puts learning (student and teacher!) first and rewards excellence in teaching.
I for one am glad to see groups coming forward to tackle a tough issue that has for years been ignored at the sake of our children.