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Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy is set to further push for charter schools as the new ConnCAN survey on state education is released
As Connecticut governor Dannel Malloy looks more intent on bringing more charters to the state, a new Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN) survey has indicated the timing is right.
However, not everybody is keen, including officials at Trumbull High School, who rejected the ConnCAN appraisal because of its links to Achievement First, a private firm that runs 19 charter schools in Connecticut and New York and with the help of Governor Malloy wants to expand that to 35 schools, writes Louis K. Poniros at the CT Post.
Some say that the governor is looking to privatize the education of children in the state.
“Connecticut doesn’t need a Democratic governor aiding for-profit corporations in the privatization of our public schools”, writes Poniros.
“It needs a governor who is going to stop beating up on teachers and sit down with them to find real solutions for public education, including tenure, which is not the worst thing in the world.”
If signed into law, the district would be required to pay charter schools $1,000 for each student who enrolls in a charter school – raising the hackles of public school advocates who see taking any money from districts as making a bad situation worse, writes Alexander Soule at West Fair Online.
And while ConnCAN tries to convince the state to invest in a complete reform of the way it funds education, Malloy formed a task force last August to study the state’s the education-cost sharing (ECS) formula.
ConnCAN is thought to be eagerly watching how Massachusetts addresses education reform. Patrick Riccards, CEO of ConnCAN said:
“Over the last decade Massachusetts has taken a strong stance (on school reform), but Connecticut has coasted.
“Right now when we talk about adopting strong standards, Massachusetts is the model.”
This comes after Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan outlined similar thoughts.
Duncan said:
Massachusetts “addressed out-of-school factors that impede student learning.”
“It has invested in creating the largest extended learning-time experiment in the country. It has one of the best-coordinated early learning systems in the nation. In 2010, the Massachusetts legislature passed a law that calls for chronically underperforming schools to have a significant health and social services components in their turnaround plans.”
Connecticut education commissioner Stefan Pryor is already reorganizing his department to emphasize strategic priorities rather than compliance, writes Soule.
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It’s also worth mentioning the links between SDE commissioner Stefan Pryor and Achievement First. Pryor and the CEO of Achievement First created the Amistad Academy in New Haven–the first Achievement First school in CT. Achievement First stands to have its funding from the state increase by $2,600 per student if this new law is passed. Communities like Bridgeport, New Haven, and Hartford will see increases of less than $200. The “money follows the child provision” will end up being a money transfer of $1.4 million per year from Bridgeport to private, for-profit charter schools, like Pryor’s former company. Follow the money, indeed.
Is it really so difficult to find some charter-related research that endorses the charter movement and yet isn’t in some way funded by the charter movement? If charters were as great as the Right seems to think they are, this shouldn’t be an issue. And yet it is.
Along with looking for cunopos, should you see a item on the shelf that looks interesting or if it is from a manufacturer you’ve in no way heard of, mark the name down on your grocery list (together with any contact info) and check out their web-site if you get home. You don’t need to devote money on the product to get the information off of it. Then if they send you out a coupon, you could use it towards your initial acquire.
Scientists performing research have conflict of interest issues all the time. The research is still accepted assuming the conflicts were disclosed. You can’t arbitrarily disregard all findings that don’t appeal to you by invoking the “conflict of interest” boogeymen.
The issue in this case is that they survey doesn’t actually say what ConnCAN claims it is. Even after doing a survey designed to get the answers they wanted – they still had to doctor the results. Organizations do persuasion surveys all the time for release – but I’ve never seen one where they actually lied about the data
Here is my blog post on the subject
http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/03/03/o-what-a-tangled-web-we-weave-when-first-we-practice-to-deceive-sir-walter-scott/
Achievement First is NOT a for-profit, private corporation; It’s an education reform non-profit 501(c)(3) that runs PUBLIC charter schools. It makes sense that state funding should go to the PUBLIC school in which a student attends, as opposed to a public school the student doesn’t attend.
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