BEWARE! Do not just assume that groups like these (with such pretty and positive names!) are for public education. They are evasive, and you should do some research before you support them. Their website and Facebook pages Some tidbits: The group’s new incarnation, Texans for Education Reform, will be pushing for school privatization schemes, including expansion of corporate-run charter schools and online learning, to further enrich some of its contributors. They promote more online learning to boost “virtual school” profits from tax dollars, more charter schools to let privately operated charter chains rake in tax dollars and a so-called “parent trigger” law to make it easier for a private charter operator to convince parents to turn over a neighborhood school and its state funding to corporate hands. - tsta.org/grading-t…/…/texans-for-education-reform Advocacy groups and business leaders have spent big money trying to apply business principles to schools, a particular brand of school reform built around school choice and fewer job protections for teachers. The group’s spokeswoman, Sherry Sylvester, declined to discuss what the group will go after next session, offering only that it will advocate research-proven reforms that empower parents, reinforce local control and provide pathways for intervention in chronically failing schools within a morally responsible timeline. - texasobserver.org/meet-new-money-behind-school-…/ Wow. And their Texans For Education Reform PAC is sitting on a lot of money: texastribune.org/…/00069647-texans-for-educatio…/ Why would the TER have someone who is not a trained educator as their president? Oh, yes, its about the money. But of course she does have a Masters in Public Service and was Perrys Education Advisor. Why do we stand for this bull? Weatherford Parents Opt Out of State Tests
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:22:05 +0000
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