If a non-profit organization has gotten substantial amounts of money from both the Gates Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation, you can be sure that organization is working for what amounts to the degradation (and ultimate destruction) of public education.
Teachers are fleeing the profession in droves.
So Pennsylvania has unveiled a new plan to stop the exodus with the help of an organization pushing the same policies that made teaching undesirable in the first place.
The state’s Department of Education (PDE) announced its plan to stop the state’s teacher exodus today.
One of the four people introducing the plan at the Harrisburg press conference was Laura Boyce, Pennsylvania executive director of Teach Plus.
Why is this surprising?
Teach Plus is a national 501(c)(3)nonprofit organization that works to select and train teachers to push its political agenda.
What is that agenda?
Teach Plus has embraced the practice of widespread staff firings as a strategy for school improvement.
Teach Plus mandates that test scores be a significant part of teacher evaluation.
Teach Plus advocates against seniority and claims that unions stifle innovation.
Teach Plus has received more…
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