• 17 Apr 09
  

  Clay Burell

  Stuart Buck's boss at the "no peer-review necessary" U Ark dept of ed reform - funded by fundamentalist and anti-union foundations. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB123985052084823887.html%3Fmod%3Dgoo

  charters neocons vouchers schoolchoice

  • The Union War on Charter Schools 

    As New York shows, they want to kill any education choice.
  • appeasement
  • appease teachers unions
  • sacrificing
  • all meaningful types of choice
  • heavy regulation

    • Um, I think the days when "regulation" was a four-letter word are behind us. Find a new scare term, Jay.
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  • Despite their proclamations about supporting charters, the actions of unions and their allies in state and national politics belie their rhetoric.

    • This should get interesting. Let's watch.
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  • effectively

    • Gotham Schools notes that charters will continue to receive services (free) of district busses and building maintenance funds.
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  • New York charters already receive less money per pupil than their district school counterparts

    • Is that tax money only? Are you excluding the private donations? What's your source? Why not link?
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  • replaces secret ballots

    • This is dead wrong. Secret ballots are still an option. Card check is an additional one.
      
      I suspect Jay knows that.
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  • Goldwater Institute

    • Atlas shrugs, and so do I. Quote a far right thinktank to make a far right point.
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  • might
  • Page 844

    • Different unions have different contracts, and some of the charter teacher's unions are around 150 pages. I think I read that on Richard Kahlenberg at CAP, maybe on Eduwonk.
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  • Eva Moskowitz, former chair of the New York City Council education committee and now a charter school operator

    • ...who receives over $300,000 a year to run her four Harlem charters - nice for a "non-profit", and more than Joel Klein's salary for running the entire NYC public schools....
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  • put the interests of adults above the interests of children

    • (See last footnote about Eva's adult interests.)
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  • regulations

    • BOO!
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  • highest quality studies

    • Nonsense, unless you define your weasel-word "highest quality."
      
      The preponderance of studies leave the question open. Most show little difference. Given the lack of regulation you champion and smaller class sizes at most, the evidence _should_ be overwhelming for chartters. That it's not is actually quite damning.
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  • Vouchers made the world safe for charters by drawing union fire. But now that the unions have the voucher threat under control, charters are in trouble. It's time for reformers to increase pressure on politicians bending to the will of the unions and close the new education gap -- the one between what Mr. Obama and Mr. Duncan say about education and what they do.

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  Clay Burell on 2009-04-17
  Um, I think the days when "regulation" was a four-letter word are behind us. Find a new scare term, Jay.
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  Clay Burell on 2009-04-17
  This should get interesting. Let's watch.
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  Clay Burell on 2009-04-17
  Gotham Schools notes that charters will continue to receive services (free) of district busses and building maintenance funds.
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  Clay Burell on 2009-04-17
  Is that tax money only? Are you excluding the private donations? What's your source? Why not link?
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  Clay Burell on 2009-04-17
  This is dead wrong. Secret ballots are still an option. Card check is an additional one.
  
  I suspect Jay knows that.
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  Clay Burell on 2009-04-17
  Atlas shrugs, and so do I. Quote a far right thinktank to make a far right point.
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  Clay Burell on 2009-04-17
  Different unions have different contracts, and some of the charter teacher's unions are around 150 pages. I think I read that on Richard Kahlenberg at CAP, maybe on Eduwonk.
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  Clay Burell on 2009-04-17
  ...who receives over $300,000 a year to run her four Harlem charters - nice for a "non-profit", and more than Joel Klein's salary for running the entire NYC public schools....
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  Clay Burell on 2009-04-17
  (See last footnote about Eva's adult interests.)
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  Clay Burell on 2009-04-17
  BOO!
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  Clay Burell on 2009-04-17
  Nonsense, unless you define your weasel-word "highest quality."
  
  The preponderance of studies leave the question open. Most show little difference. Given the lack of regulation you champion and smaller class sizes at most, the evidence _should_ be overwhelming for chartters. That it's not is actually quite damning.

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