Democracy And Education Institute Careers in Sacramento, CA

Campaigns for a democratic approach to schooling . A major problem is that most of the media and the politicians has been sold a mindset or framework of accountability by advocates such as Michele Rhee. Corporate sponsored networks and “ think tanks” such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, the Bradley Foundation, the Olin Foundation, and others and their access to the media is not likely to change. The domination of the accountability frame within the media and political circles must be opposed. There are many advocacy strategies. However, the most important is to share and magnify teacher voices. Politicians make bad decisions – such as the current budget cuts, or an over reliance on testing- because they are not listening to teachers voices. Instead they are listening to paid consultants, and “experts” from the corporate establishment. Newspaper writers and other media writers make the same mistake. They call their favorite “source” which just happens to be a corporate