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Backlash Brews Against Corporate Education Reform

PSN on April 27, 2013 - 10:02am

Recent scandals in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. that revealed coordinated efforts by teachers and administrators to manipulate student test scores are shining an even brighter spotlight on the failure of standardized test-centric policies in the states. A backlash is brewing in many states as more and more parents and legislators alike start asking questions about corporate education "reform":

Tennessee Health Care Campaign

Working for guaranteed affordable choices

Spotlight Shines on ALEC's Anti-Middle Class Agenda - and its Cost to States

Charles Monaco on May 20, 2011 - 11:51am

As the middle class remains under sustained attack in state legislatures, media attention is increasingly turning to the corporate interests orchestrating a national spread of industry-written bills seeking to weaken state economies, strip workers of their rights, suppress voter turnout, and capitalize on the politics of division and fear – all in pursuit of private profit. In a spate of recent reports, specific scrutiny is being focused on the role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in allowing corporations access to influence state laws that benefit their bottom lines at the expense of the economic security of families.

Having Dealt Blows to Nurses and Teachers, Conservatives Take on… Kids

Tim Judson on April 7, 2011 - 11:58am

 

Not content that parents with jobs have had to work increasingly long hours over the last thirty years, some conservative lawmakers would like to send their children to work, too.

 

Department of Justice to States: Don’t Sue Polluters

Fabiola Carrion on September 2, 2010 - 1:18pm

In a blow to states’ leadership over clean energy, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that states cannot sue power plant operators that generate pollution. The Justice Department alleges that: (1) the Environmental Protection Agency has already started to regulate greenhouse emissions; and (2) states lack standing to assert a federal nuisance claim.

TN: Tennesseans Favor Arizona-Style Immigration Law, Poll Suggests

PSN on July 29, 2010 - 12:06pm
Tennesseans favor bringing Arizona’s controversial immigration measure to the state by a 4-to-1 margin, a poll conducted by The Tennessean and other media outlets found.

Seventy-two percent of voters in the state say they would support enacting a law that would require people stopped by police to prove they are in the country legally. Such legislation would be modeled after an Arizona immigration statute scheduled to go into effect Thursday that lets police charge people who cannot prove their citizenship status under the state’s criminal trespassing laws.

2010 Legislative Session Roundup: Tennessee

Cristina Francisco-McGuire on July 12, 2010 - 12:31pm
Tennessee’s much-publicized educational reforms overshadowed the fact that the state’s policy decisions during the 2010 legislative session took a sharp rightward turn.  Immigration and abortion were big targets, but public health and safety were also negatively affected by legislation that defied common sense.

TN: Gov. Bredesen Signs Anti-Immigrant Bill, Says He Didn’t Think Bill Was Necessary

Julie Bero on July 1, 2010 - 1:46pm

NASHVILLE — Gov. Phil Bredesen said Tuesday he signed a bill requiring local jailers to try and determine the immigration status of prisoners in part to keep the issue from “throwing gasoline on the fire” in this year’s political campaigns.

But the governor, a Democrat who is barred by law from seeking a third term, also said that while he doesn’t like how the bill is being used “symbolically,” he views its requirements as not unreasonable in light of similar local-federal partnerships already under way in the state’s four biggest counties.