EdWatch Nevada by Joe Enge
Joe Enge serves as an education analyst with NPRI, as chairman of EdWatch Nevada, and as a member of the Carson City School Board. Author of two world history textbooks, columnist for Liberty Watch Magazine, Joe was a high school teacher in Nevada from 1988 to 2006 and a Fulbright teacher to the former Soviet Union. He was named a Madison Fellow in 2005.
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You know things are really bad when the Dems demand public school reform: Democrats for Education Reform
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I came across this group by way of Mike Antonucci’s Education Intelligence Agency
COMMUNIQUÉ. Mike has good stuff.
Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) was formed to, as they say below, “press for real education reform” and “we were frightened by our own party’s unwillingness to take on powerful entrenched interests to help them” (the students). Talk about encouraging and refreshing. It is heartening to see some of the Dems willing to do what is best for students instead of the interests. You can read their Web site by clicking here. Below are some excerpts from their site:
June 6, 2007
DFER Launches At NYC Event
Two years ago, a group of education reformers in New York and Washington, DC got together to see if an all-Democratic group could help nudge our party to press for real education reform. We were disheartened by the widespread failure of the public school system to give poor kids in America an opportunity to compete in the modern world, and we were frightened by our own party’s unwillingness to take on powerful entrenched interests to help them.
After several surprising but exciting victories, we have decided to expand our reach and launch a formal organization, called Democrats for Education Reform. We have hired an Executive Director, Joe Williams. Joe is a long-time journalist and Democrat who wrote Cheating Our Kids: How Politics and Greed Ruin Education.
We officially “launched” with an event June 5th in Manhattan. Guests came from all across the country, and included both educational and political activists.
This summer, Democrats for Education Reform will ramp up our efforts in New York and will expand our work to other promising battlegrounds. Great forces are still opposing us, but the tide is turning, and we believe that some important leaders and activists in our party are finally poised to make big changes.
July 23, 2007
DFER Quote of The Day
“The first ingredient in education reform is to tell parents the truth.”
– Former Georgia Governor Roy Barnes, via Charter Blog.