NEW: Ed Reformer Butke Leaving RI-CAN to Run for State Senate
Monday, July 09, 2012
Maryellen Butke is stepping down from post as executive director of the Rhode Island Campaign for Achievement Now (RI-CAN), the State Senate candidate announced in an e-mail today.
RI-CAN is part of a nationwide organization that advocates for education reform.
In her e-mail, Butke touted RI-CAN’s role in bringing the Achievement First charter management organization to the state and highlighted the organization’s role in starting “important conversations about reforming school staffing policies, removing obstacles for implementing proven strategies in all of our public schools and funding for charter school buildings so they can be on equal footing with the rest of the system.”
“I have decided to step down from RI-CAN so that I can devote my full energies to running for Senate District 3 in Providence,” she wrote. “This isn’t the end of my journey as an advocate for kids but just another chapter in a story that began when I was pulled into this work to advocate for my own children.”
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Comments:
Michael Trenn
9:55pm on Monday, July 09, 2012
This is a set-up. Rhoda Perry waited until AFTER the filing date to step down, so that the hand-picked successor could have a clear path to the seat. Not very transparent, but completely Progressive. The smoke-filled back room lives!
barnaby morse
7:51am on Tuesday, July 10, 2012
or is this a set up for Anna Cano Morales to be RI-CAN's director?
Ed Jucation
8:31am on Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Instead of running for office she should visit the schools of the children she supposedly represents and SEE WHAT THEY DO ALL DAY. After a few "F" bombs thrown her way, witnessing a student throw a textbook at another student, students showing up to class with no notebook or pencil and excessive absenteeism maybe she will see what teachers put up with every day. I will do everything in my power to see that she is NOT elected.
Russ C
9:53am on Tuesday, July 10, 2012
"Not very transparent, but completely Progressive."
RI-CAN progressive? Not so much.
Joseph Fazio
12:43pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Wow, after a less then stellar reform effort in education this wanna-be is now tackling the RI Senate. Can mediocrity be a campaign issue? Can she bring the same lack of ideas and no creativity to the RI senate? Let's wait and see how this edu-wonk makes out.
Michael Trenn
1:19pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012
It was Rhoda Perry who was not very transparent.
Jonathan Flynn
9:42pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012
The Republicans would love to do this. They just don't have any long-term incumbents.