Comments on: IEA, NEA input helps shape Race to the Top http://illinoiseducationassociation.org/featured/iea-nea-input-helps-shape-race-to-the-top/ The advocacy organization for all public education employees Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:08:56 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jerry Mulvihill http://illinoiseducationassociation.org/featured/iea-nea-input-helps-shape-race-to-the-top/comment-page-1/#comment-987 Jerry Mulvihill Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:42:19 +0000 http://illinoiseducationassociation.org/?p=4309#comment-987 “I think it’s coming,” said Audrey Soglin, executive director of the Illinois Education Association. “In what form, in what shape, remains to be seen. We want to be at the table to help frame it.” Whether "this is coming" or not is irrelevant to the fact that our union should represent the interests of our members on this(By the way, our members interests reflect the fact that there is no clear-cut research to support the fact that pay-for-performance helps kids learn better, or more). Does the fact that Joe Anderson is now in the USDE mean that the IEA becomes Arne Duncan's marching army? Audrey, Ken and the rest, stand strong for us please. “I think it’s coming,” said Audrey Soglin, executive director of the Illinois Education Association. “In what form, in what shape, remains to be seen. We want to be at the table to help frame it.”

Whether “this is coming” or not is irrelevant to the fact that our union should represent the interests of our members on this(By the way, our members interests reflect the fact that there is no clear-cut research to support the fact that pay-for-performance helps kids learn better, or more).

Does the fact that Joe Anderson is now in the USDE mean that the IEA becomes Arne Duncan’s marching army?

Audrey, Ken and the rest, stand strong for us please.

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