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elleng

(136,108 posts) Sun May 4, 2014, 07:00 PM May 2014

Arne Duncan can keep his cynical NCLB waiver — Washington school board member

Here is an open letter that David Iseminger, a member of the school board in Lake Stevens and a Microsoft employee, wrote to Duncan about this turn of events. Iseminger is on the board of the Washington State School Directors Association, and active in state and national education advocacy. He works in the Cloud+Enterprise division at Microsoft as a senior content developer for business intelligence. Follow him on Twitter @DavidIseminger, or share your thoughts and stories with #NoWaiver.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/05/04/arne-duncan-can-keep-his-cynical-nclb-waiver-washington-school-board-member/

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Arne Duncan can keep his cynical NCLB waiver — Washington school board member (Original Post) elleng May 2014 OP

Duncan should have been replaced a ling time ago. charmay May 2014 #1

Amen to that. madfloridian May 2014 #2

He should NEVER have been appointed. elleng May 2014 #3

Why would she have gotten the gig? How much did she bundle at election time? Dragonfli May 2014 #4

He shouldn't have been appointed to start with. Enthusiast May 2014 #5

The red flags were there, back at the time. Jefferson23 May 2014 #6

Yes. Enthusiast May 2014 #7

It's done, why..I don't understand, but it's here. How we get the next Dem to add this to their Jefferson23 May 2014 #8

charmay

(525 posts)

1. Duncan should have been replaced a ling time ago.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sun May 4, 2014, 08:04 PM

May 2014

madfloridian

(88,117 posts)

2. Amen to that.

Reply to charmay (Reply #1)

Sun May 4, 2014, 08:11 PM

May 2014

elleng

(136,108 posts)

3. He should NEVER have been appointed.

Reply to charmay (Reply #1)

Sun May 4, 2014, 09:31 PM

May 2014

SHE should have been:

Linda Darling-Hammond, an adviser to Mr. Obama's campaign and an education professor at Stanford University, whose research and teaching has focused on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality, and educational equity.

http://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/today2.html

Dragonfli

(10,622 posts)

4. Why would she have gotten the gig? How much did she bundle at election time?

Reply to elleng (Reply #3)

Sun May 4, 2014, 10:04 PM

May 2014

If you want to play, you have to pay, just ask Wheeler.

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)

5. He shouldn't have been appointed to start with.

Reply to charmay (Reply #1)

Mon May 5, 2014, 06:02 AM

May 2014

Just one more horrible choice.

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)

6. The red flags were there, back at the time.

Reply to Enthusiast (Reply #5)

Mon May 5, 2014, 10:42 AM

May 2014

Obama's Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling
Wednesday, 17 December 2008 15:45 By Henry A. Giroux and Kenneth Saltman, t r u t h o u t

http://www.truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/81572:Obamas-betrayal-of-public-education-arne-duncan-and-the-corporate-model-of-schooling

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)

7. Yes.

Reply to Jefferson23 (Reply #6)

Mon May 5, 2014, 12:39 PM

May 2014

Why this multiple betrayal of union workers? Where is the President's staunch defense of the USPS?

Bully pulpit? Only where the TPP is concerned.

My God, what kind of a man did we elect?

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)

8. It's done, why..I don't understand, but it's here. How we get the next Dem to add this to their