“Any time hedge fund managers…when they walk into the inner city areas and start talking about poor children’s education, it’s not because they want kids to read and write, it’s because they know that the federal government spends $600B on education and they want it and they’re going to get it.”

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Danny Weil, 2009

“…charter chains would prefer national standards… This would allow them to use prepackaged curricula across their charter outlets no matter the location…for dummied down standardized curriculum keeps costs down and the dispensation is formulaic and repetitive. This is the Walmart model of education.”

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Overheard by Hedge Fund Manager:  Education?  Who gives a crap about that…? (okay, not really overheard, but yeah, I’m sure that has been said behind closed doors….)

Diane blogs on Illinois Governor Quinn running mate Paul Vallas.  You remember my post on George Schmidt’s experience with Vallas….he’s the one whom helped destroy Chicago Public Schools and closed good public schools in poor, predominantly black neighborhoods…

Chi Town resident posted this link to Bill Moyers’ take on education.

Diane on NAEP here.

Jan Ressenger’s take on the NAEP tests.  She also links to Gary Rubenstein’s blog on the gap between the wealthier kids vs. the kids seeking free lunch.  It’s interesting that the pro-Common Core school adminstrators are now starting to puff their chests and say that their scores have improved among their students, half of which are on the free lunch program.

Diane has a post on how Indiana repubs are doing their best to privatize Indiana schools.

Also, Glenda Ritz, the embattled PUBLICLY ELECTED State Superintendent of schools has had her lawsuit against the State Board of Education dismissed.  The Attorney General states that Ritz’ lawsuit is “unauthorized and invalid”.

More here on Ritz….a true Democrat.

She has a twitter feed here.