WE ALREADY KNOW: New Yorkers are acutely aware that centralized testing and evaluation policies are driven by lobbying, campaign cash, media spending and revolving door cronyism. We know your predecessor was in sync with wealthy political donors who have declared open season on public education. We remember too the transformation of the US health care system to "market based solutions" which stovepiped wealth to the large health insurers for decades. More recently, Wall Street has announced that education is the next frontier, eyeing school budgets for profit and franchisation.
With this fresh start, it is vitally important New York has a fighter in the Education Department to stand up to corporate influence and the pay-for-play that has seen so many legislators led astray or led away in handcuffs. As a former teacher, we hope you will reclaim public education for the public, and help us to go back into classrooms to teach, free from Albany's distractive, destructive policies. Most importantly, we hope you see that NY school children are being exploited for financial and political gain and stand with us in the fight against corruption. Will you?
With this fresh start, it is vitally important New York has a fighter in the Education Department to stand up to corporate influence and the pay-for-play that has seen so many legislators led astray or led away in handcuffs. As a former teacher, we hope you will reclaim public education for the public, and help us to go back into classrooms to teach, free from Albany's distractive, destructive policies. Most importantly, we hope you see that NY school children are being exploited for financial and political gain and stand with us in the fight against corruption. Will you?
Original letter posted at Badass Teachers Association
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