Michelle Rhee is the creator of Students First and the former Chancellor of the Washington D.C. public schools. Now she pushes for education reform including school choice. EAGtv spoke with Rhee at a Hispanic Creo event in Florida.
September 24, 2011 at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, families came together to show their support for charter schools at the Charter Schools Day of Action and demand their right to make educational choices for their children.
National Right To Work Attorney Erin Wilcox talks to EAGtv about the case where 15 Ohio teachers are suing the OHEA.
National Right To Work is helping teachers in Ohio sue to separate from the Ohio Education Association. Mark Mix the head of National Right To Work explains the details of the case and the impact Senate Bill 5 could have on unions in Ohio.
This is part two of a conversation EAGtv had with NFL Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton who wrote an editorial about the need for school reform in America. It appeared in the Wall Street Journal under the title If NFL Played By Teachers’ Rules.
NFL Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton wrote an editorial about the need for school reform in America. It appeared in the Wall Street Journal under the title If NFL Played By Teachers’ Rules.
Tarkenton talked to EAGtv about why he wrote the opinion piece.
Even though the Ohio law SB 5 was signed into law by the governor, it’s on hold until voters decide the matter in November. However, the bill is already saving Ohio school districts, like Lordstown, money and jobs.
Jalen Rose, a member of the Fab Five and former NBA player answered questions from the Michigan Senate Education Committee. Rose opened a charter school, The Jalen Rose Leadership Academy, Fall 2011 in Detroit. Dr. Tony Bennett, the Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction also talked to the committee about the education reforms Indiana has made this year.
Messmer College Prep Catholic Academy in Milwaukee was the site of a recent union protest. Participants did not want Governor Scott Walker to appear at the school to read to students. Vandalism and threats occurred during the protest.
While WEAC activists were mounting a protest at the New Berlin school board meeting, taxpayers responded in-kind. The New Berline school board is taking advantage of a cost-saving law enacted by Gov. Scott Walker. EAGtv reports from the scene.
