tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post4990255801213726070..comments2024-03-28T02:21:17.452-07:00Comments on Seattle Schools Community Forum: Who Are These Groups?Melissa Westbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-10980978521695593692017-03-14T12:28:06.537-07:002017-03-14T12:28:06.537-07:00Bring on vouchers. Close JSCEE
BlahBring on vouchers. Close JSCEE<br /><br />BlahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-41279023162399005952017-03-14T10:47:36.227-07:002017-03-14T10:47:36.227-07:00Thanks for the link, Cassandra. I'd not heard ...Thanks for the link, Cassandra. I'd not heard of the per pupil funding model referred to as "weighted student funding". A very quick google search showed Marguerite Rozza has been involved with this issue. Rozza is from the Gates funded CCER and pushed charter schools.<br /><br />"Marguerite Roza, a senior scholar focusing on education finance at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, affiliated with the University of Washington Bothell, said she believes current fiscal pressures are sparking some renewed interest in weighted student funding. School principals presumably have a better idea of their own needs than the central office staff, she said, so superintendents may think "if we attach flexibility to a cut, the decision can be made to fit the context of the individual school."<br />Weighted student funding can also help promote nonstandard staffing models that are growing in popularity, Ms. Roza said, offering as an example the Rocketship Education model. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based charter management organization combines online learning with small-group instruction. Standard funding formulas that provide a teacher for a certain number of students don't allow for that kind of flexibility, she said."<br /><br />http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/06/13/35weighted.h31.htmlWatchingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-7106741932513014572017-03-13T22:09:05.806-07:002017-03-13T22:09:05.806-07:00Yup and it opens the door to vouchers. All in the...Yup and it opens the door to vouchers. All in the name of "choice." Melissa Westbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-2494061887298074622017-03-13T21:24:32.595-07:002017-03-13T21:24:32.595-07:00Glad people are paying attention to the Campaign f...Glad people are paying attention to the Campaign for Student Success. They are pushing an attempt to totally change the state's method of funding schools toward a voucher-lite model often called "student based budgeting." <br /><br />The idea is that instead of giving every school funding for specific things like transportation, special education, teacher salaries, and so on, they just give a principal a pile money for each student and let them spend it as they please - even if that means not all student needs are met, even if it means services are cut.<br /><br />They're having a lot of "success" snookering newspaper ed boards into supporting this scam: http://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/editorial-reason-for-hope-on-school-funding-agreement/<br /><br />This model is sometimes called "weighted student funding" and is sold as providing equity - but in reality it does no such thing: http://commons.trincoll.edu/cssp/files/2016/03/Arguments-Against-WSF.pdf<br /><br />This is the number one threat to our schools in WA right now. Mobilizing to stop this is an urgent priority. We all need to be talking about this, because the ed reformers and Republicans are focused on this like you wouldn't believe.<br /><br />CassandraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-48061053275703714002017-03-13T17:09:44.836-07:002017-03-13T17:09:44.836-07:00Carolyn's link calls attention to RALLY's ...Carolyn's link calls attention to RALLY's involvement with Washington state's latest charter law,too..Watchingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-60135880491150862017-03-13T14:10:27.866-07:002017-03-13T14:10:27.866-07:00Melissa,
Thanks SO much for calling attention to ...<br />Melissa,<br /><br />Thanks SO much for calling attention to the Campaign for Student Success. Campaign for Student Success is a HIGHLY funded campaign. It is IMPOSSIBLE to track the dollars behind this group and they have enough cash to run TV ads.<br /><br />Campaign for Student Success has not registered with the PDC. Unless the Campaign for Student Success begins paying people to testify, they do not need to register with the PDC.<br /><br />I do find it interesting that individuals from Campaign for Student Success showed up- along with Stand for Children and alike- to testify for the Senate's funding proposal:<br /><br />http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2017-18/Pdf/Bill%20Reports/Senate/5607%20SBA%20WM%2017.pdf<br /><br />The Senate's funding proposal aims at changing the educational funding model from prototypical to per pupil. In my mind, the per pupil funding mechanism would benefit those wanting vouchers and charter schools. Interesting that the majority of those testifying against this bill included school districts- including Seattle Public Schools.<br /><br />In my mind, Campaign for Student Success is another Gates funded organization that convinced some well meaning individuals to join them without full understanding of their agenda.Watchingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-30430968644967978092017-03-13T11:49:16.761-07:002017-03-13T11:49:16.761-07:00Maybe it's time for some parents to join these...Maybe it's time for some parents to join these groups...Stan X.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-22498301727197488002017-03-13T11:46:40.963-07:002017-03-13T11:46:40.963-07:00You left out the group "FOSPS". The &quo...You left out the group "FOSPS". The "F" ain't for friends!<br /><br />BlahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-89443712131290142242017-03-13T11:35:09.722-07:002017-03-13T11:35:09.722-07:00Exactly and most of them are not parent groups at ...Exactly and most of them are not parent groups at all (as they like to claim)Melissa Westbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-77899099526870107522017-03-13T10:20:08.588-07:002017-03-13T10:20:08.588-07:00Who are these groups? Excepting the Network for E...Who are these groups? Excepting the Network for Excellence in Washington Schools, they are all essentially arms of the same octopus: the Gates Education Octopus. <br /><br />--GLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-20416384033933625212017-03-13T09:19:59.207-07:002017-03-13T09:19:59.207-07:00Yes, Rally seems to be the go-to communications/st...Yes, Rally seems to be the go-to communications/strategy place for many of these orgs.Melissa Westbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-62412141247680827742017-03-13T08:54:22.007-07:002017-03-13T08:54:22.007-07:00Beware of Rally. They had a hand in the defeat of ...Beware of Rally. They had a hand in the defeat of Democrat, Luis Moscoso, in the District 1 Senate race.<br /><br /><a href="https://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2016/08/20/following-the-charter-school-money-in-the-washington-state-primary-the-latest-money-scheme/" rel="nofollow">Following the charter school cash in the Washington State Primary: The latest money scheme</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09334851563070336675noreply@blogger.com