Re: Democrats for Ed Reform Board

[aburke5054@aol.com]

Dianne Piche serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement, 
Office of Civil Rights.



Funny how people vilified on ARN as enemies of poor children and 
minority children and as nefarious conspirators against the public 
schools keep winning national recognition for their civil rights 
advocacy.   It's kind of like you just can't believe ARN, isn't it?     




Art



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Susan Ohanian posted this info, with comments, on the board of 
Democrats for Ed

Reform. The 'more' links may not work, but the link to her web page 
does. Joe

Williams is the director. Monty





http://susanohanian.org:80/outrage_fetch.php?id=552



Warning About the Democrats for Education Reform



Democrats for Education Reform[sic]



What We Stand For



* We support policies which stimulate the creation of new, accountable 
public

schools and which simultaneously close down failing schools



* We support mechanisms that allow parents to select excellent schools 
for their

children, and where education dollars follow each child to their 
school.



* We support governance structures which hold leaders responsible, 
while giving

them the tools to effectuate change. We believe in empowering mayors to 
lead

urban school districts, so that they can be held accountable by the 
electorate.



* We support policies that allow school principals and their school 
communities

to select their teams of educators, holding them accountable for 
student

performance but allowing them flexibility to exercise sound, 
professional

judgment.



* We support clearly-articulated national standards and expectations 
for core

subject areas, while allowing states and local districts to determine 
how best

to make sure that all students are reaching those standards.





Board of Directors



Alan Bersin - Member of California Board of Education, former 
California

Secretary of Education, former San Diego Schools Superintendent, former 
U.S.

Attorney for Southern California, member of Harvard University's Board 
of

Overseers. More.



Kevin Chavous (chair) - Former Washington, DC, City Council member and 
chair of

the Education Committee.



Tony Davis - Anchorage Capital, board chair for Achievement First East 
New York,

in Brooklyn.



Charlie Ledley - Cornwall Capital, NYC, board member and treasurer of 
Harlem

Village Academy [Rupert Murdoch gave them 5.5 million in May 2009] and

Leadership Village Academy Charter Schools.



Rafael Mayer - Co-founder and managing partner, Khronos LLC, board 
member for

Planned Parenthood of NYC, KIPP AMP, and The Dalton School.



Sara Mead - New America Foundation, former analyst for Education Sector 
and the

Progressive Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.



John Petry - Gotham Capital, co-founder of Harlem Success Academy 
Charter

School, NYC.



Dianne Piche - Citizens Commission on Civil Rights, former national 
field

coordinator for NARAL, part-time instructor of education law, policy 
and ethics

at the University of Maryland - College Park graduate school of 
education.



Andrew Rotherham - Co-Founder and Publisher, Education Sector, former 
White

House education advisor to President Clinton, author of the blog, 
Eduwonk.com.

And served on the Broad Prize for Education Review Board.



Whitney Tilson - T2 Partners and Tilson Funds, vice chairman of KIPP 
Academy

Charter Schools in NYC, co-founder of the Initiative for a Competitive 
Inner

City. [founding member of Teach for America]



Caprice Young - President of the California Charter Schools 
Association, former

president of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education

[defeated by union challenger], and former assistant deputy mayor in 
Los

Angeles.



(Note - Organizations listed here are for identification purposes only 
and do

not imply an endorsement or affiliation.)



The DFER Board of Advisors



William Ackman - Founder, Pershing Square Capital. His game is to drive 
up the

stock and get out -- fast.



Steve Barr - Founder and CEO, Green Dot Public Schools.



Cory Booker - Mayor of Newark, N.J. [named a political hustler by Black

Commentator.] More. And more.



David Einhorn - Founder of Greenlight Capital, LLC.



Joel Greenblatt - Founder and Managing Partner of Gotham Capital.



Vincent Mai - Chairman of AEA Investors, LP.



Michael Novogratz - President of Fortress Investment Group.



Tom Vander Ark- President of the X-Prize Foundation. More.And More. And 
more.

And more. And more.



Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) Reformer of the Month: Senator 
Michael

Bennet (Colorado) More. And more. And more.







Monty Neill, Ed.D.

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