Sounds good, sounds great. But also on the show are Arne Duncan, and some "Harlem hero". They won't be the only ones. She will also have Governor Christie and Mayor Cory Booker when they announce and provide details on the $100 million gift from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Here's the link to the part about Arne and the hero.
Waiting for Superman plus a big announcementMonday's show fired people up. Now, we're live in Chicago with two no-nonsense powerhouses, a young trailblazer, a Harlem hero and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
TUNE in on SEPTEMBER 24, 2010 to watch the show!
I thought I read she was going to have a show with teachers on Friday, but apparently not.
More about Christie and Booker's appearance.
Oprah to host N.J. Gov. Christie, Newark Mayor Booker for $100M school gift by Facebook CEOBut it appears that there will be a catch about the 100 million and public schools. It will go under the new mayoral control by Booker, and must include more charter schools and merit pay testing for teachers. So to be quite blunt most of it will go to "reform" the schools and achieve Arne Duncan's goals.
Christie and Booker will proclaim that the long-troubled Newark schools, which have been under state control for 15 years, are going to be placed under Booker’s authority. Together, Booker and the school system will embark on a massive program of educational change long opposed by teachers unions.
It will include an expansion of charter schools, new achievement standards and methods for judging which schools and teachers are effective, the sources said. The announcement was confirmed by a third person with knowledge of Booker and Christie’s arrangements. The sources detailed the plans on the condition they not be identified because they were not authorized to go public before Friday's show.
...."The reordering of the state's largest school district will be made possible by a challenge grant of $100 million from Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old billionaire who co-founded Facebook. The grant is an invitation for others to become donors - with a goal of raising another $100 million, bringing the total gift to $200 million. The grant from Zuckerberg alone amounts to more than 10 percent of the district’s annual budget.
That money will go to turnaround schools from public to charter schools. One of the Assembly speakers had a lot to say about this tactic, and she expressed her concerns.
The move was designed to "circumvent the local community and local control," Oliver said, adding that in order for the mayor to achieve control of schools by traditional means, the matter would have to go before a public referendum of Newark voters. "They probably know the mood in the Newark community is not one that would want to give the mayor appointing authority."
Charter schools are getting amazing amounts of funding. For Geoffrey Canada Harlem Children's Zone school it is a windfall from the government.
Harlem Children’s Zone Gets $20 Million GiftWell, actually two gifts. They will get 20 million from Goldman Sachs.
Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children’s Zone is having a good month.
Already one of the best known charter school operators in the nation, his schools and community service projects are about to move even more to center stage with the release next week of a documentary about the need for change in American education, “Waiting for Superman,” that highlights his efforts. (An Oprah appearance also is planned.)
From Washington, President Obama and the federal education department will soon announce 20 $500,000 start-up grants to communities around the country to replicate the best-practices of Mr. Canada’s approach. Called Promise Neighborhoods, their goal is to create integrated networks of educational and social services for adults and children.
And the Harlem Children’s Zone — which raised about $50 million last year — just received a $20 million contribution from Goldman Sachs Gives, a fund supported by the investment company and its partners, to build a new school building in a public housing project in Harlem, the organization announced on Thursday.
Hedge funds are making huge investments in charter schools as well.
Scholarly investmentsHedge fund managers may be better known for eight-figure incomes with which they scoop up the choicest Manhattan penthouses and Greenwich, Conn., waterfront estates. But they also dominate the boards of many of the city’s charters schools and support organizations. They include Whitney Tilson, who runs T2 Partners; David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital; Tony Davis of Anchorage Advisors; and Ravenel Boykin Curry IV of Eagle Capital Management.
The Tiger Foundation, started by the hedge fund billionaire Julian Robertson, provides a large chunk of financing for several dozen charters across the city. Mr. Robertson’s son, Spencer, founded his own school last year, PAVE Academy in the Brooklyn, while his daughter-in-law, Sarah Robertson, is chairwoman of the Girls Preparatory Charter School on the Lower East Side.
The Robin Hood Foundation, the high-profile Wall Street charity founded by Paul Tudor Jones II, a legendary hedge fund manager, considers charter schools “right there at the top of our list of priorities,” said Marianne Macrae, a spokeswoman. Ms. Macrae said that the foundation has given more than $150 million to schools and management organizations, especially in New York, over the last decade.
“If you’re at a hedge fund, this is definitely the hot cause,” said Joe Williams, the executive director of Democrats for Education Reform, a nonprofit group that lobbies for charters and is financed by hedge fund heavies.
I hope there will be time left on the show to talk to some teachers about the reforms.
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