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" Lies, Lies, Lies! Enough! A blistering critique of federal and state interventions into Ohio education; Diane Ravitch

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"At last, in Ohio, a fearless truth-teller, fed up with lies and empty promises. "The criteria for “underperforming” is written in such a way that even the highest performing public schools can be defined as such. In other words, the law allows parents to use tax dollars to fund their children’s private school education while “escaping” very high performing schools. This exact scenario has occurred in one of the top scoring school districts in the state, the Solon Schools.  Former OHIO superintendent Tom Dunn wrote a blistering critique of federal and state interventions into education that were lies, all lies. And the promises and lies continue despite the failure of all the previous promises; and ignoring th truth politicians continued to expand school choice options to allow parents to use tax dollars to attend private schools."

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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