Teacher: Step-by-step guide to how ‘reform’ is harming public schools - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

This is a teacher from Louisiana talking about what reform looks like in her state.  How many of those same "reforms" are showing up here in CT?

Teacher: Step-by-step guide to how ‘reform’ is harming public schools - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: "The philosophies behind the legislation recently passed in Louisiana echo the pro-charter, pro-private philosophies of distinctly non-local figures as diverse as the anti-union former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee (who now finds her former district embroiled in a cheating scandal), the deep-pocket GOP puppetmasters the Koch brothers and, most significantly, the American Legislative Exchange Council. (ALEC, a conservative think tank that prizes small government and free markets, hosts large meetings at which it gives politicians dummy legislation that they can personalize and file in their home states; its influence is clear in some of Louisiana’s education bills.) Similar legislation has been proposed in other states across the country, particularly in legislatures that, like Louisiana’s, are overwhelmingly Republican, and teachers and others with an interest in public education would do well to pay attention to what’s going on here."

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