Penny Schwinn Resigns as TN Ed Commissioner
On May 01, 2023, the 74 first reported that controversial Tennessee ed commissioner, Penny Schwinn, has announced her resignation effective June 01, 2023. According to the 74, Schwinn “declined to say...
View ArticleStudent Data Collector Aimee Guidera to be Next VA Education Secretary
On December 20, 2021, Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin announced that his choice for state education secretary is “education consultant” Aimee Guidera. In the ABC8News in which I read Youngkin’s...
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One-Time, Two-Year Teacher Jessica Baghian Wants to Be LA’s Next State...
Jessica Tucker Baghian wants to be Louisiana’s next state superintendent. No surprise here. According to the February 27, 2020, Advocate, Baghian, who currently holds a state assistant superintendent...
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Hanna Skandera: Her Consulting Firm and Her Mystery “Initiative”
Former New Mexico chancellor of education, Hanna Skandera, has been trying to re-establish herself as an ed reform name since her June 2017 departure from the New Mexico ed department. Hanna Skandera...
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NY Success Academies Is Relying on TFA-Spinoff, TNTP, to Fill Teaching Vacancies
On June 12, 2018, Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academies (SA) posted this job ad for middle school math and science teachers. Moskowitz is using Teach for America (TFA) spinoff org, The New Teacher Project...
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LA Dept of Ed Officials React to SPEDx’s Bad Publicity in Texas: An Email...
On December 15, 2017, the Texas Tribune reported that the Texas Education Agency (TEA) terminated its “controversial no-bid special education contract” with with controversial for-profit, SPEDx (aka...
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SPEDx: State SPED Data in the Hands of a Former TFAer?
If it touches the K12 classroom, ed reform can turn it into a business opportunity. Consider SPEDx, a Georgia for-profit that describes itself as follows on its website: SPEDx was founded by Dr....
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John White and Katherine Westerhold
On October 01, 2015, the Times-Picayune published a social scene article entitled, “All You Need is NOMA’s Love in the Garden.” As is usual for the society pages, names of notable attendees were...
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The Pahara Institute Proliferation of Corporate Ed Reformers
Pahara Institute is a nonprofit, market-based-education-reform mill designed to proliferate corporate reformers. It was formed in 2012 and is located in Walnut, California. The corporate reform message...
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Brand New NY-Based Charter-Boosting Nonprofit Has Michigan as First Customer
The School Empowerment Network (SEN) is a Brooklyn, NY-based nonprofit that received its nonprofit status in February 2016. Just-born SEN specializes in three services: principal development, teacher...
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Education Leaders of Color: Same Reforms, Newly Packaged and Gates Funded
The Gates Foundation is funding a brand-spanking new corporate reform nonprofit (that happens to be stuffed with veterans from two very familiar corporate reform nonprofits): Education Leaders of Color...
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La. BESE President James Garvey Active in the Purchase of 2010 Jeff Parish...
On June 04, 2016, I wrote a post about an email that Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) president James Garvey sent to the rest of the BESE board especially regarding one of...
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#TFA25FactCheck: Examining TFA’s Facade Cracks in Real Time
On February 5-7, 2016, Teach for America (TFA) will host its 25th Anniversary Summit in Washington, DC. Former TFAer Gary Rubinstein wants to fact-check TFA’s marketing of itself at said celebration....
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New TNTP President Among the First to Have Her NYC School’s Charter Revoked
In February 2015, TNTP (used to be The New Teacher Project, but now is just the letters TNTP) announced that effective summer 2015, TNTP will be making some executive-level changes (euphemistically...
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Teach Strong: More of the Same, But with a Game Board
A group of 40 organizations, including many that are chiefly test-score-driven, corporate-reform- bent, is launching an effort to prompt the 2016 presidential contenders who are saying little about...
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A Comprehensive Audit of John White’s La. Ethics Admin. Filings
On October 15, 2015, I read all of the documents that Louisiana superintendent John White has on file with the Louisiana Ethics Administration since January 11, 2012 to date, using the Ethics Admin...
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StudentsFirst’s Rebecca Sibilia and Her “Charter’s Little Helper,” EdBuild
One of the characteristics of those pushing the test-score-driven privatization of public education is that they easily hop from “venture” to “venture.” If time is up for them at one nonprofit or...
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Who Does Gates Fund for “General Operating Support”?
On its website, the Gates Foundation makes it clear that it often initiates contact with organizations to apply for specific grants and that it does not fund what it does not consider a Gates...
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Doug Harris’ June 2015, New Orleans Charter Event Wants Less Tulane Influence...
In June 2015, Tulane economics professor and Education Research Alliance (ERA) founder Doug Harris will (now) offer the public the opportunity to attend his three-day conference on “lessons from New...
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My Thoughts on Doug Harris’ January 15, 2015, New Orleans Community Meeting
Tulane economics professor Doug Harris is the founder of Education Research Alliance (ERA), an “initiative” housed on the seventh floor of Tulane’s school of medicine (1555 Poydras Street, New Orleans)...
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