Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department