CAPPS, CCER, CABE, ConnCAN, CAS and CBIA (but definitely not the CT AFT and the CEA) will announce their joint support for education reform initiatives on Tuesday at the capitol with an 11 a.m. press conference.
That’s Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS); Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER); Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE); Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN);Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS); Connecticut Business and Industry Association (CBIA).
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Why are these groups investing so much time and money in fighting tenure? Economic segregation, poverty, single parent homes, and abuse play such an enormous role in student achievement, but there is little or no talk of it. I wish they can all come out and be honest and say this is not about education, this is about money, weakening unions, eliminating seniority, and lowering taxes. There is also a push to privatize education and overhaul elected boards of education. This country is heading in a disgusting and pervasive direction with this push for privatization. Going beyond teachers, America is becoming a place where democratic principles are disappearing. We see are elections now flooded with super PAC money, public education deteriorating due to lack of investment, companies movie jobs overseas and having the American workers work longer for less. Come on, do people really believe that eliminating any due process for teachers is going to fix things?
In 20 years, with the expansion of charter schools, and state takeovers of board of educations, students in their most influential ages will be taught the values of the “boards of directors” rather than the values of their own communities.
Interesting political polarization in Frank’s comment. And I’ve played that game too (I’m fairly politically conservative), where the “left” accuses the “right” of wanting to eliminate public education, and the “right” accuses the “left” of wanting to create a perpetually dependent and undereducated class. Putting the polarization aside, there is a school in Houston called Challenge (challengehs.org) that appears to have eliminated achievement gaps (social/racial/economic/gender) without lowering the standard. Curtis Linton (author of Equity 101) introduced me to this school, and I’m thinking maybe we can somehow get a solution mindset devoid of partisan politics? Just a thought.