Principals pay a price so their districts can get Arne's money.

One of the ways to get part of the money that Arne Duncan is using to bribe school districts to do his bidding.....is to fire the principal and replace all or part of the teachers by rehiring or not.

These two principals I know about, but I am sure there are others.

"A Popular Principal, Wounded by Government’s Good Intentions"

(I differ with the title of the article. I think that all involved have no intention other than allowing business to profit from what was once public education....a field long closed to them.)



Another principal from Nebraska will suffer the same fate.

Popular Nebraska principal being replaced though considered effective. Arne's money the reason.



And what 4 very superficial things does Arne want districts to do?

Here are the requirements to get some of his 4.3 billion, or perhaps as he says...closer to 10 billion that he has at his discretion.

"Here is the amazing Transformation System for American Schools-

Arne Duncan's Turnaround model of transformation.



This is going to lead to high layoffs for teachers next year. There has been debate on resources available to easy the pain or to prevent the layoffs.

Congress does not seem too inclined to do this.

"Before Mr. Obama became president, Burlington officials began working to transform Wheeler to an arts magnet, in hopes of improving socioeconomic integration.

While doing her regular job, Ms. Irvine also developed a new arts curriculum. She got a grant for a staff trip to the Kennedy Center in Washington for arts training. She rented vans so teachers could visit arts magnets in nearby states. She created partnerships with local theater groups and artists. In English class, to learn characterization, children now write a one-person play and perform it at Burlington’s Very Merry Theater. A sign of her effectiveness: an influx of new students, so that half the early grades will consist of middle-class pupils this fall.

Ms. Irvine predicts that in two years, when these new “magnet” students are old enough to take the state tests, scores will jump, not because the school is necessarily better, but because the tests are geared to the middle class.

Senator Sanders said that while the staff should be lauded for working at one of Vermont’s most challenging schools, it has been stigmatized.

“I applaud the Obama people for paying attention to low-income kids and caring,” said Mr. Sanders, a leftist independent. “But to label the school as failing and humiliate the principal and teachers is grossly unfair.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/education/19winerip.html?pagewanted=2&_r=3&partner=rss&emc=rss

& destroying communities.

A massive fraud, all for profit & the destruction of the last organized bastions of the working class.

The capitalist ideal is a workforce of isolated monads, all in competition, bereft of any sense of solidarity or understanding of their class position.

Thus too stupid & isolated to offer any challenge whatsoever to the bulldozers of capital, capable only of fighting amongst themselves for crumbs; easy to manipulate & steer in whatever direction capital desires.

re-segregate the schools too receive duncan/gates money.

...by playing a game of 'shuffle the staff'. Fortunately, nobody's been fired or laid off.

http://www.sunjournal.com/city/story/852628

The title 1 school involved, Longley School, has 96% of its students qualify for free or reduced-cost meals, and 62% are immigrant students just learning to speak English. OF COURSE the school won't do well with tests designed for middle class, native-English speaking students. They've long known that they need more resources, and I think it's ridiculous that they must 'game the system' to get what they so desperately need.

I think the changes are good:
http://www.sunjournal.com/city/story/877684

They'll have to start firing folks soon if they want their share of federal funds.

What happened to the previous principal?

"Longley Principal Tom Hood will become the principal of McMahon Elementary School.

McMahon Principal Althea Walker will become principal of Farwell Elementary School.

Walker will replace Farwell Principal Linda St. Andre, who will be the new Longley principal."

placing members of rival gangs in the same high school!

In the wake of Duncan's rule:


"...More than a third of the victims of this past weekend's explosion of murder and mayhem in the city were Chicago Public School students, although none of the incidents took place in school. Of the 38 victims of shooting and stabbing, nine of whom died, 13 were students, according to Chicago police.

The violence didn't end Sunday -- two teens were shot and two teens were stabbed, one of them fatally, Monday night.

With two months left in the school year, the 21 fatal shootings of young people is on pace to match last year's total of 24. That would mark the second year in a row of alarming levels of violence among schoolchildren -– in the previous two years (2004-2005 and 2005-2006), there were only eight and seven gun fatalities, respectively, according to Chicago Public Schools.

"In previous years, we didn't get into the double digits like this," said a spokesman for city schools. "Last year was an anomaly and this year seems to be at the same pace."

Teenagers in Chicago are 10 times more likely to be the victims of gun violence than Illinois youngsters living outside the city, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. And more than 650 of them were shot and killed between 2002 and 2006..."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4704126&page=1

what does AFT(teachers union) have to say about this, and more so,what can they do about it, if anything?
Edited to try to fix my horrible grammar.

If this is not micromanagement, I am not sure what is.

This is simply a travesty.

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