Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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The Texas Observer will present “School Reform Across Texas,” a public forum featuring former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch. The event is hosted by the Center for Health and Social Policy at The University of Texas at Austin. Saturday, February 23 3:00 – 5:00 pm LBJ School of Public Affairs, Bass Lecture Hall 2315…
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Corporate Interests Pay to Play to Shape Education Policy, Reap profits. From In The Public Interest: Emails Show Bush-Led Organization’s ALEC-Like Role in State Policymaking Emails between the Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE), founded and chaired by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and state education officials show that the foundation is writing state education…
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This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.
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Choice=grow=good? is the reasoning of a top ten of “Fast Facts on School Choice” recently released by the House Education and the Workforce Committee (see list below). Let’s test their “moving in the right direction” logic. I choose to spend money=my credit card bill grows=good? I eat too many calories=I become overweight and my waist grows=good?…
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In case you wondering the genesis of Wednedays’s quote… my favorite critical barracker on Linkedin had this to say about Cloaking Inequity’s last turnaround post: I find your headlines and general approaches for displaying issues a bit too disingenuous and misleading and superficial. The least you can do, in this case, is describe “turn-around schools”…





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