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elleng

(135,687 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

elleng

(135,687 posts)
3. He should NEVER have been appointed.
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?
Sun May 4, 2014, 10:04 PM
May 2014

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

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)
6. The red flags were there, back at the time.
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.
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
Mon May 5, 2014, 08:46 PM
May 2014

campaign platform to turn this around is what worries me, a lot.

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