STW Key Elements

• Change from knowledge and skills to serve global economy in jobs selected by workforce boards!

• Bypass all elected officials on school boards and in state legislatures

• Use a computer database, a.k.a. "a labor market information system,“

• Use the new slogan "high standards" to cement national control of tests, assessments, school honors and rewards, financial aid, and the Certificate of Initial Mastery (CIM), which is designed to replace the high school diploma.

• Control the vocabulary of education, so that many words have double meanings.

• Coopt the Governors and the CEOs of large corporations to front for these "reforms" by promising the former some control over the flow of federal funds and the latter some free teenage labor.

• School-to-Work Will Train, Not Educate