Etc.

This is why charter schools are NOT public schools:

Yet the nearby charter school has what’s called “selective enrollment,” which means if a kid misbehaves they can kick him out and off he goes to Jenna’s school. Public schools, of course, have to accept every student. Every time you hear of a charter school touting its unbelievable results, just remember this: Their primary “innovation” is that they don’t have to take the kids who can’t hack it. It’s that simple.

“If I could hand select my kids, of course it would make me look like a fantastic teacher,” said Jenna. “But that’s not public education."

Taxpayer money should NOT be going toward them.
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This monkey looks a lot more like Tony Bennett than it looks like Paul Ryan or any other human or near-human you can think of.
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The New York Times and Washington Post, both on the take from the billionaire "reformers," continue to bash teachers and peddle unworkable "evaluations" as if teaching is the problem with poverty.

The NYT took the excellent journalist Michael Winerip off the education beat, so now it is back to its irresponsible propaganda trashing public education.

These experts have said over and over and over that the method by which test scores are factored into an evaluation of how effective a teacher is are dramatically unreliable and unfair. Some say it will destroy the teaching profession because it will identify effective teachers as ineffective and ineffective teachers as effective. Some bad teachers will be fired but some good ones will too. Others will leave in disgust.

That’s what happened, for example, in New York City when Carolyn Abbott, who teaches mathematics to seventh- and eighth-graders at the Anderson School, a citywide gifted-and-talented school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, learned that her “value-added” score made her the worst eighth grade teacher in the entire city. The score of course didn’t reflect that her students already scored near 100 percent proficiency and were doing advanced math — but the formula didn’t care.

The value-added formulas actually compare how students are predicted to perform on the state ELA and math tests, based on their prior year’s performance, with their actual performance, as Teachers College Professor Aaron Pallas wrote here. Teachers whose students do better than predicted are said to have “added value”; those whose students do worse than predicted are “subtracting value.” By definition, he wrote, about half of all teachers will add value, and the other half will not.

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At least the disgraced former principal of Sparks Middle School (Nevada) wasn't mentioned at all in this piece about the new Reed High School mandatory uniforms. However, the article is a bit slanted.