Michelle Rhee, teachers' union adversary and one of the most controversial names in the education reform movement, is pitching the Connecticut reforms signed into law last month as a peace offering to the presidents of the nation's largest unions.
"We are pleased that both of your organizations have described the reforms recently passed in Connecticut as a victory," her Wednesday letter to the presidents of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers reads. "They can be part of a national model... Many states across the country are considering or have considered similar reforms... but advocates in those states have often had trouble securing support for these reforms from your local unions, and we hope you will speak up in support of these important reforms."
True, the unions endorsed the final education bill signed into law. But the process wasn't always that smooth.
Local affiliates of the NEA and AFT led two days of rallying at the state Capitol against key components of a bill proposed by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. The state's largest union spent hundreds of thousands of dollars airing television and radio attack advertisements.
Rhee points to three reforms signed into law that unions supported shortly after the bill was signed into law, including creating a network of schools the state intervenes in, building teacher evaluations linked to student growth and increasing charter school funding.
The implementation of one of these reforms is already causing consternation with officials at the CEA.
The Huffington Post has a good rundown of the rocky relationship between Rhee and the national unions and their reaction to her letter.
"NEA members know great public schools for every student are built on collaboration through trust and engagement, not by sending messages through the media," NEA President Dennis Van Roekel told the Huffington Post.
Rhee may be pitching Connecticut as a national model, but she has also said her lobbying for additional education reforms in Connecticut is far from done.
A mesage to Michelle Rhee. We don't want you in Connecticut. So stop with your for profit attempt to promote education reform. You are not welcome.
So Michelle Rhee is pitching her flawed education feform program in Connecticut. A message to Michelle Rhee,strike three and you are out. Go peddle your wares somewhere else.
She is playing all of you...WAKE UP!
She will be back and with Jonah Edelman of Stand for Children, which shoud be called Screw the Childlren, Stand for Profts.
We should all be suspicious, very suspicious when Rhee and Edelman are interested in our children and schools. Look what happened in MA. Edelman also attempted to "reform" their school, then when they didn't expect it, his true intent was clear:
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/140448-as-schools-struggle-to-get-bett...
Watch the video of Edelman in action (not sure he knew he was being videotaped):
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/disaster-capitalism-k-12-education-and-...
Pay no attention t Cliffy, the paid labor union hack posting here. The labor goons will do anything to continue the scam they are perpetrating on the students, parents and taxpayers of CT. Don't you just love the way they try to dismiss any competition and attempts at genuine reform by ascribing it to "evil" and "for profit" interests.
Every school needs a funding mechanism. The public schools do it by bilking us of our tax dollars and mislabeling it "education." Their efforts are about taking care of the adult employees, NOT the children. The childen are just the expendable cover for their own selfish interests. I know many excellent teachers, and respect what they do, but their efforts are not helped by unions which are anathema to our way of life. It all starts with forced unionization and goes downhill from there: forced union dues, spending of dues money to elect Democrats hostile to taxpayer interests, and the dumbing down of education.
Teachers who reject the ultra-left agenda of the modern Democrat Party need to assert their "Beck" right and get back that portion of their dues not used for collective bargaining. It is unethical and immoral to force individual members to finance candidates hostile to their and America's interests.
Pay no attention t Cliffy, the paid labor union hack posting here. The labor goons will do anything to continue the scam they are perpetrating on the students, parents and taxpayers of CT. Don't you just love the way they try to dismiss any competition and attempts at genuine reform by ascribing it to "evil" and "for profit" interests.
Every school needs a funding mechanism. The public schools do it by bilking us of our tax dollars and mislabeling it "education." Their efforts are about taking care of the adult employees, NOT the children. The childen are just the expendable cover for their own selfish interests. I know many excellent teachers, and respect what they do, but their efforts are not helped by unions which are anathema to our way of life. It all starts with forced unionization and goes downhill from there: forced union dues, spending of dues money to elect Democrats hostile to taxpayer interests, and the dumbing down of education.
Teachers who reject the ultra-left agenda of the modern Democrat Party need to assert their "Beck" right and get back that portion of their dues not used for collective bargaining. It is unethical and immoral to force individual members to finance candidates hostile to their and America's interests.
Rhee is a fraud and Jonah Edelman is a liar. CT citizens stay informed. If these two come back to CT during the next legislative season, BEWARE!
Michelle Rhee, teachers' union adversary and one of the most controversial names in the education reform movement, is pitching the Connecticut reforms signed into law last month as a peace offering to the presidents of the nation's largest unions.
She is playing all of you...WAKE UP!
She will be back and with Jonah Edelman of Stand for Children, which shoud be called Screw the Childlren, Stand for Profts.
We should all be suspicious, very suspicious when Rhee and Edelman are interested in our children and schools. Look what happened in MA. Edelman also attempted to "reform" their school, then when they didn't expect it, his true intent was clear:
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/140448-as-schools-struggle-to-get-bett...
Watch the video of Edelman in action (not sure he knew he was being videotaped):
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/disaster-capitalism-k-12-education-and-...
She is playing all of you...WAKE UP!
She will be back and with Jonah Edelman of Stand for Children, which shoud be called Screw the Childlren, Stand for Profts.
We should all be suspicious, very suspicious when Rhee and Edelman are interested in our children and schools. Look what happened in MA. Edelman also attempted to "reform" their school, then when they didn't expect it, his true intent was clear:
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/140448-as-schools-struggle-to-get-bett...
Watch the video of Edelman in action (not sure he knew he was being videotaped):
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/disaster-capitalism-k-12-education-and-...
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