The Meaning of Indiana's Superintendent of Education Race

  That is really what it's about.
  As a parent, even one who comes to school every week and talks to teachers as friends, i cannot know what happens there.
  i have heard unsettling things.
  Kids routinely denied recess to cram for The Test.
  Teachers being made to drill kids during bathroom breaks, to prep them for the months-off test.
  Test Anxiety?

  In their coverage of the election results, the Indianapolis Star recorded several Bennett supporters lamenting the end of school reform.  But i believe this is hasty and premature.   Newly elected IPS school board member Caitlin Hannon seems to have more the correct idea.  A reformer herself,  she was "struck" by Bennett's concession speech words that "he said that he only did what was best for kids without worrying about what people think."  emphasis added
  “We, as a board, have to find a middle ground there,” Hannon said. “You always will frustrate some people, but people need to feel like they were heard in the conversation.”

  With the governor and legislature committed to reform, it is going to happen.  Many of the tools are in place regardless of what Glenda Ritz may or may not like.
  Her victory represents not only teachers, but also PARENTS and community members demanding a voice in the process.
  Do not cut us out.