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“Above all else, we need to use the right messenger. Our goal is the best interest of the children. The best messengers are students, parents and teachers.” 

Yes, they are.

THE CASE FOR ALTERNATIVE TEACHER PREP.  A bombshell of a report in Tennessee finds that traditional, university-based teacher training programs have been preparing more highly-ineffective than highly-effective new teachers since at least 2012.   The report by the Office of Educational Research and Accountability – the “watchdog” arm of the Tennessee Comptroller of the Currency – has now been analyzed in depth by TN Professor J. E. Stone of the Education Consumers Foundation, who says “the implications are profound. The teacher prep programs are holding down disadvantaged children and undermining Tennessee’s educational improvement efforts,” whereas Teach for America and various other of Tennessee’s alternative teacher preparation programs have been producing the opposite – about a third more highly-effective than highly-ineffective new teachers.  As Prof Stone suggests, this data makes the case for applying budgetary incentives to the universities.

CAPONE WOULD BE PROUD. The Chicago public school system is withholding millions of dollars from charters that were guaranteed to them under a law enacted under former Governor Bruce Rauner, until the charters agree to support a new funding formula that would mean less money for charter public school students, as if that makes any sense.  The establishment expects that the charters may have to accede to their outrageous demands because the new anti-charter Mayor Lori Lightfoot plans to replace charter friendly school board members with not so friendly.  Charters should hold the line, demand what is rightfully theirs and let the legislature intervene if they want to change the law back to when charters received 70 cents on the dollar.

AUSTIN CHARTER SENDS 100% OF GRADUATING CLASS ONTO COLLEGE.  More bad news for the anti-charter mob comes from Austin, Texas and this news item that all 83 seniors in the IDEA Montropolis graduating class are heading to colleges and universities.  This is the 13th graduating class from IDEA Public Schools which enrolls 45,000 students in 79 schools and has an unbroken 100% success record of its graduates being accepted to colleges and universities.  We’d love to hear the Teachers Union pitch to these students telling them they would have been better off in a school mandated by the zip code.

HELP US HELP YOU.  We really would prefer to be bringing you a bed of roses instead a thornbush, but when kids lives are stake, you need to know what’s really going on.  Teachers and parents deserve better than being a political football for labor politics.

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