Foreign takeover of U.S. public schools ???????

Islamic group applies for a charter. February 28, 2010 by homegrownboy re: blog Resolute Determination   Fethullah Gulen is major sponsor of charter schools all over the USA. Now they have applied to open one in DE. A quick web search reveals them to be either a great institution or a terrorist outpost which uses the school’s constant stream [...]

DE DOE water cooler is leaking! Dan WTF is going on?

National hype over charter schools hits home First State Math and Science Academy, a 6-12 college preparatory school, plans to open in either the Christina or Colonial school districts. Founder Ahmet Gunay, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Delaware, said he chose this location after examining state test scores in math and science to see [...]

News Journal’s Ron Williams fire scuds at bloggers

Still skeptical, but a little less: Blog socks it to insurance commissioner I don’t think much of bloggers who claim to be journalists, or professional journalists who resort to blogging, for that matter. Anyway, that train has left the station. Bloggers and anonymous chatterer/idiots have become a part of the media, whether old fogy journalists [...]

Reward failure with Race to The Top funding

Delaware education: Every public school to share ‘Top’ dollars; Half of $100 million award will go to state There are approximately 203 public / charter schools in Delaware to share 50 million dollars over four years. The state’s plan includes programs meant to reward good work and efforts to boost struggling schools. Five top-performing schools a [...]

Race to The Top’s subliminal message

Arthur says: Those of us who have worked in education/the public sector/fought for education have seen this how many times before? A new program is touted, some morons say they shouted out loud with excitement and now we must work. Then the time line works like this:  - ‘We will need 12 -18 months to [...]