History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Principal: Congress gets it wrong again
- 02-10-2011
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Guest blog by George Wood/Washington Post
A while ago I wrote that I was disappointed that no one in Washington was interested in the wisdom to be found in our successful public schools. I put it this way, “Would somebody please explain to me how the success of my staff, and many schools just like ours, is no longer of value to a nation that seems to still want a good public education system?” Today it feels like déjà vu all over again. I received from the esteemed U. S. House of Representatives news that the first hearing to deal with education policy has been scheduled! In the new era of small government, of listening to the people, of getting Washington out of the way of real reform I was hoping the hearings this time around would be different. No more would policy wonks that have never dared put a foot in a classroom be ushering in school reforms that were unproven at best, damaging at worst. No, now we would hear from, as Carl Sandburg said, ‘the people, yes, the people.’ (more...)
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