Is Intra-Party Fighting Over Who's the Biggest Ed Reformer Inevitable?

by Mike Smith · 2009-09-15 09:12:00 UTC
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Where's the common ground on Democrat education policy? Do you stand for big changes or just demand more money and agree that incremental change is enough? JS Online asks where Democrats differ, and where problems may appear in future years: "Use of student performance data in evaluating teachers is almost sure to be a hot issue in the fall session of the Legislature. It's a good bet Doyle will be on one side and the teachers unions on the other. Again, all Democrats."

So can we make brave changes and avoid relentless intra-party fighting? Alan J. Borsuk contends that mayoral control of public schools is key to making important changes happen, but first you've just got to convince everyone that you're the person most in favor of reform.

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Mike Smith is associate editor at Change.org.
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