Comments on: State on no one’s Race to the Top short list http://toped.svefoundation.org/2010/03/02/state-on-no-ones-race-to-top-short-list/ Analysis, opinion and ruminations on California education policy Wed, 30 May 2012 07:31:37 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: CarolineSF http://toped.svefoundation.org/2010/03/02/state-on-no-ones-race-to-top-short-list/comment-page-1/#comment-6562 CarolineSF Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:01:03 +0000 http://educatedguess.org/blog/?p=1415#comment-6562 Actually, it was an organization made up of Chicago's most powerful business leaders that issued the report debunking the claims of success about Duncan's market-based privatization experiments with Chicago's schools. These were the business leaders who had advocated just the "reform" Duncan imposed, but who now view them as a mistake -- much the way former Bush I education official Diane Ravitch views the market-based reforms that she previously championed. Here's the info about the Chicago findings. http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-07-12-chicagoschools13_N.htm Actually, it was an organization made up of Chicago’s most powerful business leaders that issued the report debunking the claims of success about Duncan’s market-based privatization experiments with Chicago’s schools. These were the business leaders who had advocated just the “reform” Duncan imposed, but who now view them as a mistake — much the way former Bush I education official Diane Ravitch views the market-based reforms that she previously championed. Here’s the info about the Chicago findings.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-07-12-chicagoschools13_N.htm

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]]> By: Gary Ravani http://toped.svefoundation.org/2010/03/02/state-on-no-ones-race-to-top-short-list/comment-page-1/#comment-6555 Gary Ravani Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:25:31 +0000 http://educatedguess.org/blog/?p=1415#comment-6555 CA will be lucky if it can dodge the RTTT bullet. The available dollars are too few to make any significant difference in the devastation the governor, Republicans, and Grover Norquist have inflcited upon CA's public services and public schools. Soon CA will be the radical libertarian promised land they've alsways pined for. No government services. Kind of like Haiti. The basketball player as Sec of Education got his competition oriented, market based reforms dumped on Chicago schools. According to the U of Chicago they were giant flops. Student achievement went down. The competition/market based reforms will do for the schools just what they did for the economy. Duck. CA will be lucky if it can dodge the RTTT bullet. The available dollars are too few to make any significant difference in the devastation the governor, Republicans, and Grover Norquist have inflcited upon CA’s public services and public schools. Soon CA will be the radical libertarian promised land they’ve alsways pined for. No government services. Kind of like Haiti.

The basketball player as Sec of Education got his competition oriented, market based reforms dumped on Chicago schools. According to the U of Chicago they were giant flops. Student achievement went down. The competition/market based reforms will do for the schools just what they did for the economy. Duck.

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