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Tag Archives: Potemkin Village
Common Core Cheerleading Group Gets Mult-Million Dollar Gates Foundation Grant
An education non-profit known for recruiting teachers to promote Common Core in the political arena has received a large grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In June of 2016, Hope Street Group received a grant for $2,650,003 for the purpose of ‘training teachers on policy’ and working on ‘perception improvements’. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Bill Gates grants, Common Core, Demitri Melhorn, Hope Street Group, Potemkin Village
Anonymously Registered Website Fear Mongers On #HB657
Parents, the same forces that came out to kill the Academic Standards Review Commission’s (ASRC) math recommendations have now come back out to try to kill HB 657.
CC ED Potemkin VillageIt’s basically the same groups who pressured various members of the ASRC to attack the Math work group leader, Dr. Scheick.
GET YOUR COFFEE.. THIS IS A LONG ONE… Continue reading
BEST NC Quietly Adds #WCPSS Board Member To Staff
Sometime in the last few months, ‘education non-profit’ BEST NC added a current Wake County Schools Board member to their staff. Continue reading
Posted in Big Ed Complex, EDUCATION, Wake County School Board
Tagged BEST NC, Keith Sutton, Potemkin Village
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2016 Runny “Eggs and Issues” Forum [VIDEO]
Last month, the NC Big Ed Complex’s NC Public School Forum held their “Eggs and Issues” Forum. I translated their “wish list” back in January, but now the video is out.
Last year, it was pushing more Common Core and they did more of that this year. Of significance this year, expect everything to track back to “race” via “Disparate impact”.
KEEP READING… Continue reading
Posted in Big Ed Complex, LL1885, The Articles, Video
Tagged Disparate Impact, NC Public School Forum, Potemkin Village
NC Board Of Ed Still Not Taking Up Common Core Recommendations
A brief update on the state of Common Core in North Carolina — the NC State Board of Education will apparently NOT be taking up the recommendations from the Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC) during their February meeting.
KEEP READING… THERE’S MORE. Continue reading
Revolving Door Between WCPSS and WakeEd Partnership Spins Again
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
Posted in Big Ed Complex, EDUCATION, LL1885, Random Musings
Tagged Ann Denlinger, Julie Crain, Potemkin Village, Teresa Pierrie, Tim Simmons, WakeEd Partnership
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Dispatches From The Common Core Potemkin Village: Another Hope Street Grp Op Ed
Edu Potekmin Village again.
The Hope Street Group is an outfit largely backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The main purpose is to recruit teachers who will advocate for their brand of education programs and agendas, including Common Core.
One of the tactics of this group is to blanket news organizations with Op Ed’s that further the Gates education agenda.
Here’s another ‘Hope Street Group Fellow’ with a rather poorly thought out and hypocritical Op Ed at the Citizen Times, titled Guest columnist: When everything old shouldn’t be new again.
KEEP READING Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, LL1885
Tagged Elliot Lunsford, Hope Street Group, Potemkin Village
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