Comments on: From the convention: Bush tells Democrats to ‘choose’ between unions and kids http://hechingered.org/content/from-the-convention-bush-tells-democrats-to-choose-between-unions-and-kids_5513/ By The Hechinger Report Mon, 13 May 2013 20:45:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Cindy Walsh http://hechingered.org/content/from-the-convention-bush-tells-democrats-to-choose-between-unions-and-kids_5513/comment-page-1/#comment-1001 Cindy Walsh Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:09:30 +0000 http://hechingered.org/?p=5513#comment-1001 As underserved parents fight to find adequate education for their children in this reform we are seeing none of the ‘lifting of those most in need’. That mantra is just a screen for what is social engineering of urban development. Everyone knows that charters are not offering better schooling, reform is not placing the best teachers in the underserved schools, and teacher’s wages have been push so low as to not attract professionals to the teaching career.

All this is of course the real purpose of education reform, but the constant use of improvement as the motive has been completely lost and continuing to promote that view places your organization in doubt.

Parents and teachers are working to end this kind of reform. Accountability yes, school choice and evaluations that fail no.

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