Should 1.3 Million Indiana Voters Be Concerned?

If Superintendent Ritz is concerned about her office, should the voters who elected her be concerned too?

Want To Talk About Advocacy? I'll Be Here....

.....at the AEAI State Conference, October 18-20, at the Marriott East in Indianapolis.

Money For New Bureaucracy But None For Schools? Media Blitz Today

Why is Governor Mike Pence spending 5 million dollars on Executive Order 13-21? Don't we already have a chief education officer elected by 1.3 million Hoosier Voters to attend to matters related to public education? For the first time in Indiana History, the Indiana State Board of Education will now be independent of the IDOE and will answer to...Governor Pence. What is Executive Order 13-21 really all about? This new agency is purely political with huge ramifications to hurt public education in Indiana.

Please consider joining me in a blitz to inform the media that this is not how democracy works. 

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Gov. Pence: Did Supt. Ritz, Voters and General Assembly discuss new ed agency?

Northwest Indiana Times
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South Bend Tribune 
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Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
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Indianapolis Star 
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Education Reform reporter Scott https://twitter.com/ScottElliott_IN

Friendlies and possible allies:

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Indy Star 
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Times of Northwest Indiana 
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South Bend Tribune
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Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
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In An Attempt To Increase Creativity Development, China Officially Decreases High Stakes Testing On It's Children

This just in from Yong Zhao. Translation? The U.S. and China are trading education policy direction.

Stop This Madness!

The billions of dollars spent on politicians obsession with high stakes standardized testing is better spent on augmenting children's authentic learning experiences with extended fine arts learning, exploration into hands on science learning, smaller class sizes and improving the lives of 16 million children living under the poverty threshold in the World's richest country! Stop this madness!!!!

New Standards On The Way But Really, What's The Status Of Art Education Programs In The U.S.?

We all know that new National Fine Arts Standards have been written and are up for revision, but what do we know about the status of fine arts programs across the country? After massive cuts to public education funding in Philadelphia, Chicago and throughout the rest of the country, I am here to tell you the U.S. D.O.E. has no clue on the status of fine arts programs across the U.S.A..

Why is "this" a huge problem for Tony Bennett?

By now, news of Tony Bennett's nefarious acts of data manipulation are well known throughout Indiana and the rest of the Country. My question is this. Just what did he mean by "This is a huge problem?" The fact that one of his top donor's charter schools was not an "A" list school? Or was it something else? Was Bennett alluding to the fact that the A-F school grading system, standardized learning experience and state mandated high stakes testing is not an optimal way to educate children? Bennett could have pursued other directions in reforming schools such as alleviating student-teacher ratios, making class sizes smaller or emphasizing the arts in education or making sure the 1.1 million children who attend public schools are not suffering from food and health anxiety. But no. He had another agenda. Millions of taxpayer money went to high stakes testing publishers McGraw Hill and to privatizers of public education. There are more questions that need to be asked, for example why was the Indiana State Board of Education not protecting Hoosier children from data manipulation? For those of us who are concerned about the disinvestment of Indiana public education and policy manipulation by the likes of corporate reformers and stealth public school privatizers like Tony Bennett and his cohorts, this is only a beginning. 

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