Back to A road map for addressing the Broad Foundation influence in SPS
I will be modifying the Road Map according to these comments.
=====On Thu, 5/27/10, Thushara Wijeratna <thushw@gmail.com> wrote======:
Do you think we should include a link to some voluminous compilation of the various failures of charter schools, high stakes testing and so forth? Could we find a "credible" web page that people can look at which summarizes these failures? Then we can ask the board to share that link with the public, the same way you are asking them to share the links from the Broad Foundation.
Also, is Broad the only foundation we want to tackle? Isn't Melinda Gates involved as well? Any particular reason you focus on Broad alone?
==============from Dan==============
KISS .... "Broad" is the largest and most obvious. Start there and see where it gets us.
Then if successful, a later expansion can come.
It is much harder to say "Broad's" influence is appropriate in Seattle than Gates. MG-J sits on the "Broad Board" and has announced her goal of having Seattle win the Broad Prize for Urban schools.
It could hardly be more simple than that. Let us see if we can fly this one first.
=====SUGGESTION: Concise summary with footnotes=======
1) a concise summary with foot-notes. Hopefully it should not be cluttered with unrelated links which people can click and get lost.
2) The "credibility" of the people doing the analysis is important.
Here are some folks with credibilty on high stakes testing, that we can use if this summary will mention high stakes testing: Richard Rothstein (heard recently on KUOW Weekday), David Berliner a university professor and critic of HST), Don Orlich (a prof. emeritus of WSU, already somewhat known in this area for his anti-HST, anti-WASL work.).
============SUGGESTED LINKS=======================
Video: Diane Ravitch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMq24tpuytI
general video (funny/sad): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D712J1V2Jsg
article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-ravitch/first-lets-fire-all-the-t_b_483074.html
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Dan Dempsey <dempsey_dan@yahoo.com> wrote:
Joan,
A few comments.
#1) Your request should not be for submission into the public record .... if using 28A 645.020
but rather for submission into the transcript of evidence records, which should be used for all school board decisions that are in anyway influenced by the Broad Foundation.
For past examples to which Broad influence would have been particularly relevant see:
the "School Closure" decisions
the "New Student Assignment Plan" decisions
and Certainly the signing of the NTN contract.
Note all violated 28A 645.020 and most violated other required procedures.
The requirement is for a record of the evidence used in producing a school board decision. These are the future records you want your communication to apply to .......
The public record may have nothing to do with the school board making a decision. (Required Evidence rarely has much to do with Board decisions either but we try).
#2..
MG-J has stated that a goal of hers is for Seattle to win the Broad prize.
This was stated shortly after her arrival by her. There is ample evidence of her focus on prize winning ( a lot more than any effort to follow the constitution and laws of WA state or Federal policies ).
Dan
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