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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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...
View ArticlePenny 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...
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