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
Challenging corporate school reform and 10 hopeful signs of resistance
- 10-19-2011
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Rethinking Schools
“Corporate education reform” refers to a specific set of policy proposals currently driving education policy at the state and federal level. These proposals include: * increased test-based evaluation of students, teachers, and schools of education. * elimination or weakening of tenure and seniority rights. * an end to pay for experience or advanced degrees. * closing schools deemed low performing and their replacement by publicly funded, but privately run charters. * replacing governance by local school boards with various forms of mayoral and state takeover or private management. * vouchers and tax credit subsidies for private school tuition. * increases in class size, sometimes tied to the firing of 5-10% of the teaching staff. * implementation of common core standards and something called “college and career readiness” as a standard for high school graduation.
These proposals are being promoted by reams of foundation reports, well-funded think tanks, a proliferation of astroturf political groups, and canned legislation from the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC). (more...)
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