tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post7872168434776565050..comments2024-03-22T02:15:56.280-07:00Comments on Jersey Jazzman: Who Will Clean Up the Reformy Messes?Dukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535645107179796099noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-12778236455286943482014-03-12T13:08:47.415-07:002014-03-12T13:08:47.415-07:00Hoping you have a chance to respond to the Carlos ...Hoping you have a chance to respond to the Carlos Perez Op-Ed piece in today's Star-Ledger. I know he's got some bogus stats in that piece, but I can't put my hands on more objective data.<br /><br />http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODE/StarLedger/LandingPage/LandingPage.aspx?href=U3RMLzIwMTQvMDMvMTI.&pageno=MTU.&entity=QXIwMTUwMg..&view=ZW50aXR5Sandra Talaricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747287918049683725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-70673150443303074852014-03-11T13:34:38.863-07:002014-03-11T13:34:38.863-07:00The charter movement can't really take over mo...The charter movement can't really take over most of the public school system because it would have to enroll the many categories of students whom it currently spurns and dumps on public schools. Reed Hastings, being a non-educator (though a former California state Board of Education president) apparently isn't aware of that. carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08127336930949752636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-32579840205939819542014-03-11T12:11:15.806-07:002014-03-11T12:11:15.806-07:00Wow, the arrogance and hubris of these reform CEO ...Wow, the arrogance and hubris of these reform CEO millionaires or billionaires is just beyond jaw dropping. Reed Hastings, an educational "expert" and not a fan of democracy it would seem.Giuseppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03418801372998968620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-62443450968567621322014-03-11T11:51:59.214-07:002014-03-11T11:51:59.214-07:00Important story from Politico:
DEMOCRACY DOLDRUMS:...Important story from Politico:<br />DEMOCRACY DOLDRUMS: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, a major donor to the education reform movement, offered a provocative view of what ails public education at the California Charter Schools Association’s annual conference last week. His diagnosis: democracy. Elected school boards turn over frequently and new members like to shake things up, he said. Districts change course often. But charter schools are run by non-profit boards or for-profit corporations that value stability and excellence, Hastings said. “Now, if we go to the general public and we say, ‘Here’s an argument why you should get rid of school boards’ — of course no one’s going to go for that. School boards have been an iconic part of America for 200 years,” he said. But with aggressive expansion, the charter movement could take over most of public education within 20 to 30 years and thereby wipe out elected school boards. “We are going to do it ...” he said, “because we are relentless.”<br /><br />— Hastings was greeted with enthusiastic applause and said he didn’t mean to imply that “the people in school districts are bad,” just poorly governed. “Most of them,” he said, “we want to pull them into the charter movement where they can see what a great public school is that doesn’t have the chaos inflicted by the rapid turnover of an elected school board.” His speech: http://bit.ly/N29Rmi.edlharrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14052852615803884665noreply@blogger.com