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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTeachers /Parents/ Citizens: Link to online petition re. replacing Arne Duncan.
Let's keep this kicked for a while.... yes?
Seems as though "teachers are revolting." Well, I could have told you that. But so are parents, non-parents and everyone who cares about education. ( Shhheeeeezzz: even *school administrators*. Holy jumpin' catfish!)
'Bout time, sez I. *Past* time, really. Let's keep this kicked.
http://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/arne-duncan-2/
Teachers Demand Arne Duncans Removal
January 29, 2012 By Mark Naison 8 Comments
Barack Obama, Arne Duncan
Educators Letter to President Obama Now Online and Ready For Signatures
Here is the link to the Educators Letter to President Obama that asks him to withdraw his support of policies which mandate high stakes testing, to include teachers and parents in all educational policy discussions in his administration and replace Sec of Ed Arne Duncan with an educator who has the confidence of the nations teachers. Please sign and circulate widely!http://dumpduncan.org/
Dear President Obama,
We, the undersigned, a cross section of the nations teachers and their supporters, wish to express our extreme displeasure with the policies implemented during your administration by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Although many of us campaigned enthusiastically for you in 2008, it is unlikely that you will receive continued support unless the following three dimensions of your administrations education initiatives are changed:
The exclusion of teachers from policy discussions in the US Department of Education and from Education Summits called under your leadership.
The use of rhetoric which blames failing schools on bad teachers rather than poverty and neighborhood distress.
The use of federal funds to compel states and municipalities to use student test scores in the evaluation of teachers and as the basis for closing low performing schools. (more at link)
ClassWarrior
(26,316 posts)NGU.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)xchrom
(108,903 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)DiverDave
(4,887 posts)eom
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)grntuscarora
(1,249 posts)Dump Duncan. The week is starting well.
LeftishBrit
(41,210 posts)EFerrari
(163,986 posts)Reader Rabbit
(2,624 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)EFerrari
(163,986 posts)girl gone mad
(20,634 posts)TriMera
(1,375 posts)ClassWarrior
(26,316 posts):kick:
NGU.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)dsc
(52,166 posts)To Obama's credit he is doing exactly what he told us he would do. I am not happy either which is why I was so dead set against him in the primaries but you would be hard pressed to say anything he is doing now that he didn't tell us he would do in 2008 in regards to education. Unless you accompany the firing of Duncan with the ending of Obama's policies in this regard it won't help.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)That's the point.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Including the people who don't even know what an Arne Duncan is.