Coming Soon: ALEC Enters the Ed Reform Debate
Now that the American Legislative Exchange Council is distancing itself from Stand your Ground voter ID laws, the next area of policy we are likely to see it rear its ugly head might well be what is...
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2 speech Tuesday: State of Education; State of Student
Photo by Sam Valorose.st, state of educationst, psu, necap, Deborah Gist has been doing her darnedest to ignore the Providence Student Union as of late. But before her annual “State of Education”...
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PSU heads to Chicago to build student movement
Imagine education activist groups from New Hampshire to Los Angeles gathering in one place. That’s how you’d build a movement for real education reform. This weekend, over 1000 students, teachers,...
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Four years later: Student achivement and Central Falls’ transformation
As we approach the four year anniversary of the tumultuous firing of the the teachers at Central Falls High School (CFHS), regarded nationally as a watershed event in the Obama administration’s school...
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Gist failed on ed reform agenda; B+ for funding formula
Deborah Gist came to Rhode Island guns blazing. She now seems destined to head west, to her hometown in the heartland. But she isn’t exactly riding off into the sunset. Gist is leaving her high-profile...
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NBC10 Wingmen: Jon Brien defends Deborah Gist
State education Commissioner Deborah Gist is leaving Rhode Island for Tulsa, Oklahoma and former Woonsocket state Rep. Jon Brien, my latest NBC 10 Wingmen adversary, says her departure is the fault of...
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Common Core, PARCC are destroying public education
The Rhode Island Council on Elementary and Secondary Education had a meeting on September 21 and other than the council members and RI Department of Education staffers, it was not well attended. These...
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