Tuesday Open Thread
The LA Times is reporting that spending for school board races in LA almost $4.6M. LA is the second-largest district in the country. Guess who's pouring the most money? Charter school groups and then, the teachers union. (LA has the highest charter school enrollment in the nation.) And, there's a new PAC in the mix and who are its top three donors? A Wal-Mart heir, former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg and LA rich guy Eli Broad. I do not expect to see that kind of firepower here mainly because we have no real ed reformers running. (But I think the ed reformers and their elected officials proxies are going to continue to try to get what they want via the Legislature.) Thinking testing is out of hand here in the U.S.? This was reported back in 2014 but worth mentioning here.