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Teach For America, Inc. Is Not Worth The Expense
This morning Crystal Bonvillian ran an interesting article about the Huntsville City School board’s plans to hire up to 110 new Teach for American, Inc. teachers over the next three years. These...
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Evaluating Teach For America
[UPDATED] Thanks to several good researchers (and friends!), I have been reviewing an independent evaluation of the efficacy of the Teach for America teachers that the board heard a recommendation for...
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Teach For America Costs Twice the Reported Amount
Once again, I underestimated Dr. Wardynski’s brazen commitment to giving public funds back to The Broad Foundation. On Thursday night, the Superintendent recommended that the board approve the...
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“Good” vs. “Poor” Studies of Teach For America
At the last board meeting on Thursday, November 3rd, Dr. Robinson defended her support of the superintendent’s recommendation to sign what was at the time a $1.7 million dollar contract with Teach for...
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Teach For America Contract Costs Increasing Again
A quick follow up to my post from last Saturday, November 5th, Teach For America Costs Twice the Reported Amount: It would seem that I was correct that the cost of TFA was at least twice as much as...
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Special Education Presentation at the Board Meeting Tonight
Just shy of two months ago, I posted my findings concerning the reductions in the Huntsville City Schools budget for Special Education. Using numbers provided to me by Mr. Frank Spinelli, CSFO, and...
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Experience Matters
Last night during the Huntsville School Board meeting, Dr. Philip Kovacs, a concerned parent, asked Dr. Wardynski and the board a few specific and direct questions concerning the Teach For America...
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What Changes Wardynski Hath Wrought
Dr. Wardynski has been superintendent of Huntsville City Schools since July 5, 2011, or a just shy of five months. It’s been a busy five months for him. Here’s a quick summary of the changes Dr....
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Why Should You Care About Special Education Funding?
Yesterday I argued that Dr. Wardynski was hoping to divide the city of Huntsville over the issue of Special Education funding. He seems to be hoping that he could silence me and others of his critics...
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Internal Reviews Only Review The Past
No, old man, you have not hurt these people if they are of good conscience. But you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road...
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Taking Control: Centralized Hiring of Teachers
On January 19, 2012, Dr. Wardynski recommended to the board, whom subsequently unanimously approved (no surprise there), yet another step towards his plan for total control of Huntsville City Schools....
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Teach For America’s Biggest Cheerleader Speaks
In a move that is somewhat out of character, Dr. Wardynski offered an interview to the editor of Rocket City Mom yesterday in the third article of a series concerning the reasons for and role that...
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Wardynski Speaks: “We’re Moving With Purpose”
Editor’s Note: Below you will find a transcription of Dr. Wardynski’s nine minute monologue that he delivered after the conclusions of Citizens’ Comments on February 2, 2012. This type of response from...
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Entirely Unacceptable: Morale Matters
Another Sunday, and another pep talk for our teachers from the Superintendent. Well, I suppose you might find it motivational if you work for Teach for America. If, however, you one of the thousands...
View ArticleTeachers Ordered To Learn From TFA
So today is a professional development day in Huntsville City Schools, and some teachers across the district are being told that they must learn to teach from teachers who have five weeks of training....
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Teach For America: Coming to Your Child’s School
There is an idea in this town that if it isn’t happening at my school, I don’t need to worry about it. There are a lot of reasons for this. One might be that people are simply too busy to keep up with...
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New and Improved: TFA Is Neither
You remember when you were a child going to a store, and you saw a toy you wanted? Perhaps there are just two on the shelf. Maybe two Lukes from Star Wars. They look exactly the same to you, except...
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An Appropriate Education
So there’s another board meeting tomorrow night at 5:30pm at the Merts Center, 200 White Street. I’ll be there, and supposing that there aren’t any technical issues that halt the broadcast as there...
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Another Bad Week For Teachers and Principals
When your goal is to replace as many qualified teachers as possible, even leaving them with the last week of school to celebrate and say goodbye to their kids is just too rich an opportunity to pass...
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Double Standards Continue For Teach For America
Since Dr. Wardynski arrived, the district has operated under two sets of rules and according to two standards. Hypocrisy had been normalized here. We’ve seen it in response to the rules applied to The...
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