Teachers have been advocating for real reform:
- fully funding education, especially at the most high-needs schools
- hiring highly qualified, credentialed teachers and administrators
- implementing a deep, well-rounded, developmentally appropriate curriculum
- elimination of developmentally inappropriate academic standards
- reinstatement of vocational education
- smaller class sizes
- elimination of high stakes testing
- freedom from scripted curriculum
- freedom to innovate
- openly addressing the effects of poverty on our children
Rhee, Arne, Gates, Broad and Company want faux reform:
- more testing
- larger class sizes
- minimally educated teachers
- more charter schools
- merit pay based primarily on one test score
- laying off our most experienced and effective teachers by eliminating LIFO based layoffs during budget crises
- hiring non-credentialed teachers with no background in education (TFA, TNTP, etc.)
- longer school day, week and year
- no due process rights for teachers
- scripted curricula
- privatization of public schools to enrich charter management organizations with taxpayer dollars
- administrators without a substantive background in education
- mayoral control of school districts
- closing “failing (poverty)” schools
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