The Associated Press is reporting that while commissioner of
education in Indiana, Tony Bennett used his position and influence to have the
grade of a wealthy donors charter school adjusted up form a C to an A.
I asked less than two weeks ago if Gary Chartrand, the chair
of Florida’s Board of Education might have done the same thing to keep his
precious KIPP Impact Charter School from falling from a B to a D. His rule
change helped assured the Charter school would get a C grade.
You have to read the New York Times piece folks as it refers
to all the e-mails Bennett sent to his staff to have the grade raised. At one
point Bennett says, “I hope we come to the meeting today with solutions and not
excuses and/or explanations for me to wiggle myself out of the repeated lies I
have told over the past six months.” Shortly there after the charter school
miraculously went form a C to an A.
Friends he, Jeb Bush, Michelle Rhee and the rest of the ed
deformers don’t want the right answer they want their answer, the privatization
of public schools, and the destruction of teaching as a profession, to be right
and this is irrefutable proof of that.
By the way this is the guy who is running our schools.
I talked with a teacher today who works at Arlington Middle School. She has to teach both 7th and 8th grade Social Studies because the student population has dropped so much that there are enough students for only 1 1/2 teams each for 7th and 8th grade. She said the reason was that a number of charter schools had opened up in that area.
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