Correcting The Record On Education Reform
Reposted with permission from Philly’s 7th Ward. Growing up in the African-American community, one becomes intimately familiar with numerous time-honored phrases and colloquialisms. One such phrase was introduced to me as a teenager while walking to the corner bodega with a friend in East Camden. As we walked in the store, we saw (and heard) […] More
It’s an open secret; one that AFT, NEA, and their supporters are reticent to discuss: Public pensions, including those managed on behalf of educators, invest hundreds of millions of dollars into private prisons and immigrant detention centers. According to a two-part (part one & part two) series published by AFT last year, public pensions own […] More
Last week, the creators of the Serial podcast launched a five-part audio series in partnership with the New York Times. Nice White Parents explores the 60-plus-year relationship between white families and a Brooklyn public school, I.S. 293. The podcast is must listen material for anyone interested in educational equity. The most recent episode concludes with […] More
TeacherPensions.org touches on a subject rarely covered by traditional media: While teacher salaries have risen nearly 20 percent over the last decade (outpacing inflation, barely), their health care costs rose 27.6 percent and retirement costs exploded by 126.4 percent. Dubbed the “Pension Pac-Man” by researcher Chad Aldeman, benefit costs for teachers eat up nearly all […] More
As Retort has documented over and over, UTLA is the tip of the spear for outlandish and opportunistic COVID-related demands. Making the rounds today is this visual outlining UTLA’s demands for schools re-opening: Alarmed that their crisis capitalization would go viral and make them look bad, UTLA leadership scrambled to push out a response via […] More
Well, well, well. As reported by Mike Antonucci at The 74: Unions and their subsidiaries on the government’s list received a minimum of $26 million [in PPP funds] and may have gotten as much as $51 million. Though the The New York Times and The Washington Post gleefully reported on charter schools receiving funds (after months of […] More
Even by Hechinger Report standards, this week’s piece by Andre Perry (the site’s lone opinion columnist) is a particularly vile example of Ravitchian misinformation. Titled “Defund the private schools“, Perry makes a meandering, pandering case to eschew vouchers, close charters, and reinvest in school districts which largely assign students based on zip code; in other […] More
On the campaign trail in fall 2018, then-candidate Michelle Lujan Grisham proudly declared that she would not appeal New Mexico’s landmark educationlawsuit, Yazzie v. Martinez, which called foul on decades of inequitable distribution of education resources, particularly in Native communities. Lujan Grisham went so far as to demand a promise from sitting Gov. Susanna Martinez […] More
This post originally appeared here. It is increasingly vital that we stand up to the people who lie about and defame our allies and friends. As libel (and slander) increasingly permeate the media ecosystem by those for whom truth takes a back seat to a preferred ideology, it is incumbent upon the rest of us […] More
As Retort covered more than two months ago, the union-backed antics of NPE this spring are focused squarely on defunding charter schools and eschewing teacher accountability. After sending dozens of emails and near nonstop tweeting about a fabricated scandal involving some charter schools accepting Federal PPP funds aimed at buoying companies through COVID-related lock downs, […] More
This piece originally appeared here. It’s hard to believe, but an A rated school in Albuquerque, New Mexico for over four years – only one of 13% of schools in the state with that distinction – has been denied an expansion to serve the 1,000 students on the waiting list. Even in a time of […] More
This post originally appeared on Project Forever Free. This week, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and subsequent outcry over police brutality, the National Education Association and the American Federation Teachers took the unprecedented step of calling on Congress to take legislative action to significantly reform practices and policies in policing. They […] More
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