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Related: About this forumArne 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/
charmay
(525 posts)madfloridian
(88,117 posts)elleng
(135,687 posts)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)If you want to play, you have to pay, just ask Wheeler.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Just one more horrible choice.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)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)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)campaign platform to turn this around is what worries me, a lot.