The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it. Wednesday, July 1, 2015. Are our suburban heads in the sand? Parents prefer relationships to data. Most of us enjoy people more than numbers and like parent teacher conferences better than bar graphs. We take comfort in knowing that our kids are being educated in a safe space and worry very little about the high school profile or SAT participation rate in our town.

A review of documents from a Jefferson Parish charter operator that applied to run a historic high school in New. The Great NOLA Train Wreck. A Case Study In How Teachers Unions Influence The Media. What the privatizers are doing is they keep selling the same snake oil, school choice, as the answer to the problem. Union Spends Less In Louisiana, But More On Charter Organizing in New Orleans.

Are our good schools really good enough? We are the reasonable middle whose voices are rarely heard in education debates around school reform,. The common-sense parents and educators who live and work outside of big urban areas. We want the truth about our kids and schools. We want our own children to succeed, but we also care deeply about making schools better for all children. We are not satisfied with the status quo. We know our schools can improve.