Category Archives: Big Ed Complex

Shocker. Mostly Political Jobs at TFA’s Leadership for Educational Equity

Posted on January 30, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

In the past, I’ve touched on Teach for America (TFA) and it’s offshoot, Leadership For Educational Equity (LEE).

I recently reportde on them when I found LEE money and Bloomberg money in the NC Superintendent race — for a Republican.

I just want to re-state what TFA and LEE are: Politically motivate recruiting groups, masquerading as subpar and taxpayer subsidized teacher training schools, whose main purpose is to seat it’s acolytes in places of political influence in order to further their specific ‘educational’ agendas. Those ‘educational’ agendas are often skewed a particular way and it’s not to the center or right.

I just want to lay it out clearly here. It’s not just my personal opinion that these groups are more politically directed than education directed. It’s fact. Follow the tweets.

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Revolving Door Between WCPSS and WakeEd Partnership Spins Again

Posted on January 26, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

Seems we have a little bit of a revolving door between Wake County Schools and WakeEd Partnership …

See who is spinning through it now, both past and present. Continue reading →

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Public School Forum Announces 2016 “Issues”

Posted on January 23, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

The Public School Forum of NC (PSFNC) held their second annual “Eggs and Issues” forum last week. NCSPIN was there, but the video isn’t available yet.

Yes, there were actually eggs (and bacon!) served. The event was held at the crack of dawn, in the middle of the week at Marbles Kids museum downtown again. This made it impossible for a parent to attend but perfect for business people. That’s by design I suspect.

At the forum, the president and executive director. Keith Poston. announced the top ten “issues” that PSFNC will focus on in 2016.

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More On NC’s ‘Partnership’ With The Gates Backed Hope Street Group

Posted on August 24, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Yesterday, I mentioned going into more detail about the cozy partnership NC’s Superintendent and current CCSSO President, Dr. Atkinson, entered into with the Bill Gates backed non-profit called Hope Street Group.

Here’s the deal….
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July NC Common Core Commission Meeting Postmortem

Posted on July 18, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

The North Carolina Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC) tasked with reviewing and making recommendations on the Common Core Standards met on Monday, July 20th. Continue reading →

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ACT to Advise Colleges About Prospective Students Using Info Not Available on Student Reports

Posted on June 24, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Originally posted on deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog:
ACT is revamping its test, creating new scoring subscales and combining other scales in new ways– and it also plans to advise colleges and universities regarding predicted student success in given majors.…

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