DFER News Roundup
Featured:
- Last week we relaunched our California chapter under the leadership of Steve Barr, founder of Green Dot Public Schools! Read more about CA DFER’s plan for building strong schools across the state.
DFER Seen & Heard:
- Joe Williams participated in RedefinED Online’s series on the Democratic Party’s growing divide over education reform and school choice with a column about how suburban parents may hold the key to a resolution.
- The Long Beach Press-Telegram’s Nadra Nittle covered California DFER’s inaugural panel discussion, “Education in a Post-Vergara World.”
- Barr discussed the importance of bringing Democrats together to discuss meaningful education reform in Politico’s Morning Education.
- DFER Political Director Patrick Van Keerbergen spoke to Politico’s Maggie Severns about The DFER List and DFER’s 2014 election priorities.
Advocacy, Policy Briefs & Such:
- Statement | David Boies Explains Why He Will Chair Partnership for Educational Justice
DFER Blog:
- Policy Analyst Marianne Lombardo analyzes the relationship between state public charter school policies and charter student learning outcomes.
- Policy Analyst Mac LeBuhn writes, “Heading the wrong way: Ravitch’s view of Ed policy intersects with the right wing group.”
In Related News:
- Journalist Richard Whitmire also contributed to redefinED Online’s series on the Democratic Party’s growing divide over education reform and school choice.
- Campbell Brown appeared on The Colbert Report and Morning Joe (with attorney David Boies) discussing the Partnership for Educational Justice’s teacher tenure lawsuit.
- The New York Times’ Motoko Rich reported on attorney David Boies’ chairmanship of the Partnership for Educational Justice.
- For the first time ever, DCPS reported more than half its students are proficient in math.
- “Whoever is restricting access to public charter schools, they — and only they — are responsible for lotteries,” Mike Magee writes in the Providence Journal.
- EdWeek’s Alyson Klein reports on what changes could happen in national education policy if Republicans take over the Senate in November.
Fun With Infographics & More:
- Infographic | Democratic Mayors at Head of the Class on Charter/District Collaboration
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