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1. Who benefits from the recommendations being proffered in this report? How are the recommendations advanced to reinforce the conservative agenda? For example, a long time agenda has been to create avenues for non-educators to acquire state licensure to be educational leaders. This is a well endorsed theme in this report and it has been advocated by such neoliberal groups as the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation headed by Chester Finn, a long time neoliberal critic of public education. How is this report a balanced one and whose agenda is being advanced in issuing it?
2. The linking of principal pay with student evaluation (test scores) is one of the central tenets of the neoliberal/neoconservative advocates in education. How does this benefit improve public education? Where is the research to support “pay for performance” in the form advocated?
3. The report advocates and advances “non-university-based programs” to obtain state approval based on “research”  funded by other neoliberal think tanks such as Thomas B. Fordham Foundation of Dayton, Ohio. How was the “research” cited in this report vetted and how was the rigor and quality of that “research” determined?
4. Which professional bodies have endorsed the criteria cited in the Bush report as those most important to practices of state agencies in issuing licensure for school leaders?
5. Currently educational leadership programs are using the ISLLC standards as a basis for program curricula and to ensure candidates have the knowledge, skills and abilities to be an effective school leader upon completion of the program. Most programs also track data such as completer rates and candidate growth towards the standards. Since the university is the body which uses these data to ensure program efficacy and candidate competence, what types of data (if any) should the states be responsible for the collection, analysis, and utilization of the findings? It seems as if we should also be addressing what we’re already doing and support the idea of the university as the decider of what data should be collected and made public. Why is this not addressed in the Bush report?
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