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Colorado in sweet 16 for Race to the Top
Written by Todd Engdahl on Mar 4th, 2010. | Copyright © EdNewsColorado.org
Bravo, Colorado! People here in MA are excited to learn the news that they are finalists as well. Congratulations to all who worked so hard on the proposal. Keeping my fingers crossed that both CO and MA make it all the way!
Jill
[...] Well U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is a big basketball fan, too, and was once a good college basketball player. No doubt about that. So in one sense I understand why this morning Duncan announced 16 states are finalists for the first round of Race to the Top money. Colorado, which asked for $377 million to implement reforms, is among them. [...]
Glad to see CO made the top 16, but I don’t see where any $ has been allocated for STEM programs on the CDE details document. The only mention is for STEM certification. I know STEM issues were required for the R2T application, but I’d like to see where the follow through will be.
How were the members of the Council for Educator Effectiveness selected? Why were there no public school teachers from Denver chosen? Why are Barack Obama, Arnie Duncan and other self-styled reformers ignoring the fact that charter schools contribute to the re-segregation of public schools? Why are these same people ignoring the conclusion by the UCLA Civil Rights Project that magnet schools contribute to diversity and higher achievement than charter schools? While China and India educate millions more than the U.S., why do we continue to tinker with gimmicks such as charter schools? True educational reform is community based and collaborative not authoritarian dictates by amateur educators.
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E. Augden: Your questions are excellent, right on the mark, and important! It is my belief that charter schools are dangerous because they blantantly practice segregation, specifically with regard to our students with special needs. There is an agenda behind them that is elitist – one that we should be wary of.
Yes, what could be more segregationist and elitist than improving student learning and closing the achievement gap for disadvantaged NYC students? http://www.nber.org/~schools/charterschoolseval/
What could be more segregationist and elitist than serving an overwhelming FRL and minority student population yet being the highest performing middle school in Denver? http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_13362266
Why are educational options and parental choice so threatening to some people?
Ben: Give me some awesome charter school statistics re: students with with special needs and then I you will have my attention.
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