Petitioning Trump: Integrity for Ed

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Common Core, DFER, Donald Trump, Eva Moskowitz, Gerard Robinson, integrity, Jeb Bush, Michelle Rhee, petition, Pondiscio

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Missouri Education Watchdog by Cheri Kiesecker

BigMedia and BigData lost their bets when Donald J. Trump was elected the next President of the United States. Our nation surprised and divided, bloggers wrote So now what? and What happens to education?

The last few days have seen a flurry of announcements concerning who President Elect Trump might appoint as Secretary of Education. Truth in American Education wrote about Trump’s short list, which sources say, includes Pro-Common Core folks like Eva Moskowitz , who co-founded her Success Academy School with Common Core friendly (DFER) Democrats For Education Reform board member, John Petry. Trump’s list also names Michelle Rhee as a potential candidate for USDoE Secretary. Rhee has definitely promoted Common Core and was less than transparent when reporting Common Core test scores. President Elect Trump’s education list also names Common Core supporter Robert Pondiscio of Fordham Institute, who not only props up Common Core and aligned tests, but also labels parents as misinformed. Gerard Robinson of Jeb’s Digital Education Now! is also in the running, and would be a double whammy of Pro-Common Core and edtech student datamining. We all know that during the election, Trump promised to get rid of Common Core. Some of the names on his education short list concern grassroots parents, teachers, education experts and leave them hoping that President Elect Trump sticks to his word and doesn’t give into Corporate cronyism, edtech special interests, and Pro-Common Core reform groups.

In fact, a petition was started today, asking Trump for integrity.

We hope you will sign-on in asking President Elect Trump for integrity and to keep his promise[…]

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#NoCommonCore #integrity4ed

Moskowitz: Charter school booted from ‘not overcrowded’ building — #Charterswork

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Bill De Blasio, Charter Schools, Education, Eva Moskowitz, NYC, Success Academy

New York Post

The Harlem public-school building that critics say is too overcrowded to accommodate a new charter school actually has 15 percent fewer students than anticipated, according to a legal complaint.

Papers filed by the Success Academy charter network say that when the Bloomberg administration approved moving one of Success’s middle schools into PS 149 last year, the public school was projected to host 387 students.

But enrollment has reached just 327, says the complaint filed with the state Education Department.[…]

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Pro-Charter School Advocates and Parents Stand against Bill de Blasio’s Charter School Closings #Charterswork

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Andrew Cuomo, Bill De Blasio, Charter Schools, Education, Eva Moskowitz, new-york-city, parents right to choose, Progressive agenda, Success Academy, teachers-unions, UFT

CapitalNY

The de Blasio administration has reversed three charter school co-locations that would have allowed Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academies to expand, even as it implements the vast majority of co-locations approved by the Bloomberg administration last fall.

Of the 45 co-location proposals that the Department of Education decided on today, including 19 charter schools and 26 district schools, just nine were reversed. All three of the charter-related reversals involved Success Academies.

Six district school co-locations were also reversed. The 45 proposals affect about 4,500 children….

The teachers’ union and de Blasio would say that it is all for the children, it is not. Bill de Blasio has a personal vendetta against Michael Bloomberg, Eva Moskowitz, founder of Success Academy and charter schools in general, all of whom are despised by UFT president, Michael Mulgrew and his membership.

Translation: The teacher’s union supported Sandinista Bill under the agreement that if elected, he would decimate charter schools.

Start by decimating the strongest, the best, and the schools that show the most promise and work your way down from there until all that remains are the devastated minds of youth are in shambles….
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 #Charterswork