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or maybe not in Indiana, where well known and accomplished educators of many years, Mitch Daniels and Tony Bennett (not the singer), are demanding the teacher unions sign onto the state’s RTTT proposal without have seen the proposal
“to sign on to such reforms by this week, or the state would not bother to apply.”
In recent meetings with union leaders, Bennett tried to sell Indiana’s Race to the Top proposal, “but declined to allow them to see the proposal for the federal grant, saying that other states might steal the more innovative ideas. Both unions were then asked to write letters of support — for a proposal they had not seen.”
Maybe Bennett and Daniels are “in the know” or part of the intelligentsia.
http://www.mathdittos2.com/ednews/index.html
http://www.indystar.com/article/20100417/NEWS04/4170340/1013
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