Etc.

Funny how people got all up in arms over the referee strike and how they supported these part-timers making truly outrageous salaries, but when it comes to teachers, people bitch and moan about teachers.

I suspect the moaners would argue since teachers are on the taxpayer dime, they don't deserve to be compensated well.

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Another good piece excoriating charter schools and other "reforms" that don't work and never will:

Meanwhile, high-performing charter schools are portrayed as having cracked the code when it comes to educating poor inner city students. In reality, the quiet secret to their trumpeted success is simply a strategic divorce of cultures. Via lottery-purified enrollment, high-hurdled parent involvement, and hair-trigger expulsions, the highest of the high-performers embrace select children from the neighborhood while flatly rejecting the broad sweep of the neighborhood’s culture, preferring to substitute their own pre-manufactured culture-like products. Culture goes to neighborhood schools; it is there that we see the health or frailties our nation’s policies have wrought in our neediest zip codes. Tragically, creatively-selective charter schools portend national blindness to the suffering our policies foster.

Those are hallmarks of private schools, which charter schools ARE.
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Since a number of major school districts have rejected the funds because of all of the strings attached, which include harassing teachers out of their jobs by creating bogus negative evaluations in order to save money on salaries and benefits, WCSD should have rejected the blackmail money. Anything with Arne's name on it is no good. The problem in education isn't with teachers, and they don't need any grant to "improve" themselves or be forced into horrible merit pay schemes which don't work. Instead the problem is with idiot administrators who are protected to the hilt by school districts, including being given "jobs," and I use the term loosely as they are make-work positions, when they can't make the grade. Of course, rejecting any TIF money means WCSD would have to move worthless, failed former principals around to yet other make-work jobs to pad their pensions instead of firing them like they should.
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It "worked" for WCSD, and therefore Heath is well-versed in the ways of doctoring those graduation rates to work at his new school district.

Video of the narcissist: