WakeEd: “Accidentally revealing the media strategy for the school board lawsuit,” aka the “Reply All” story.
To be honest, there is nothing too revealing about the media strategy employed to undermine the Wake County school board majority. I am not surprised to read that Rev. William Barber, president of the state NAACP, wanted to meet with Jeff Shaw, Chris Fitzsimon, and Rob Schofield of N.C. Policy Watch. It has been a coordinated effort from the beginning and will continue to be so.
Greensboro News-Record: “Editorial: School reform, or not” aka the “Charter Lite” story.
News-Record editors nail this one. They write, “The details will be worked out later. The purpose wasn’t to craft a finished bill but to meet a deadline. North Carolina’s second application for a federal Race to the Top grant is due today, and Gov. Bev Perdue wanted it to include a school reform measure. Whether a shell of a school reform measure impresses evaluators at the U.S. Department of Education remains to be seen. Maybe they won’t look that closely.” Bam!
According to the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, North Carolina earned a B+ in the area of charter school autonomy. The average grade for the 26 states in the ranking was B+. Therefore, North Carolina is average in charter school autonomy. What do these findings mean for the Race to the Top education grant competition? Not much at all.
