{"id":656,"date":"2011-12-07T13:23:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T17:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/?p=656"},"modified":"2012-04-25T20:47:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T00:47:07","slug":"the-new-face-of-the-education-reform-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/the-new-face-of-the-education-reform-lobby\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Face of the Education Reform Lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <em>Huffington Post<\/em> article describes the new education lobby: ambitious, expansive, and mainly created by hedge fund managers and former government officials.\u00a0 In some ways, it is modeled on large, single-issue lobbying organizations like the NRA and AARP.\u00a0 The newer lobbying groups are focusing on teacher evaluations using student performance data, merit pay, better professional development, and elimination or reworking of tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Their impact is starting to be seen at the polls.\u00a0 Two groups, Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) and Stand for Children, spent $150,000 in a Denver School Board election race and secured a majority that supports their pet issues.\u00a0 Teachers\u2019 unions in the area overwhelmingly opposed the two groups\u2019 political machinations, saying that groups that can write huge checks to political campaigns are driving the stakes even higher in the education reform arena.<\/p>\n<p>Similar stories have played out in New Jersey, Illinois, and Texas, with Stand for Children playing a huge role in the two latter states.\u00a0 The group, which focuses on organizing families in targeted school districts to promote their agenda, is aiming to have affiliate groups in 20 states by 2015 (the currently have nine).\u00a0 StudentsFirst, a reform group founded by former DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee, is a single-issue group that played in a role in the New Jersey legislature elections and was vocal in its opposition to the recall of Michigan state Republican Rep. Paul Scott.\u00a0 DFER focuses its attention on reform from within the Democratic party, and actively links its donors with specific candidates for various political posts.<\/p>\n<p>This flood of money has put teachers\u2019 unions on the defensive.\u00a0 \u201cThe debate has been hijacked by a very small section trying to find an easy group to blame\u2026we\u2019re trying to eliminate this myth that there\u2019s this horrible group out there, the union, that doesn\u2019t care about anyone but themselves,\u201d says Henry Roman, president of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to track where groups like DFER and StudentsFirst get their funding; they insist that most of it comes from \u201ceveryday people,\u201d but detractors claim that the real funding comes from large foundations and \u201chedge-fund types.\u201d\u00a0 For example, last year Stand for Children received large donations from the Gates, Joyce, Casey and Walton Foundations, \u201cphilanthropic organizations that are the province of millionaires and billionaires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is also hard to predict the \u201cstaying power\u201d of these groups, but one test might be the upcoming presidential election.\u00a0 Joy Resmovits of <em>The Huffington Post<\/em> believes that if President Obama is reelected, this might lend more strength to these groups.\u00a0 \u201cObama winning the primary [in 2008] changed everything for us nationwide,\u201d said Joe Williams, executive director of DFER, \u201cEducation reform didn\u2019t affect the race at all, but the race affected state education reform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/11\/21\/education-reform-money-elections_n_1105686.html?ref=education\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/11\/21\/education-reform-money-elections_n_1105686.html?ref=education<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Huffington Post article describes the new education lobby: ambitious, expansive, and mainly created by hedge fund managers and former government officials.\u00a0 In some ways, it is modeled on large, single-issue lobbying organizations like the NRA and AARP.\u00a0 The newer lobbying groups are focusing on teacher evaluations using student performance data, merit pay, better <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/the-new-face-of-the-education-reform-lobby\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about The New Face of the Education Reform Lobby<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,77],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-policy","tag-politics","tag-school-reform"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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