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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
CUSD sets date to return to bargaining table with teachers
Read more: http://www.oclnn.com/orange-county/2010-04-20/education/cusd-sets-date-to-return-to-bargaining-table-with-teachers#ixzz0lhwDFMQW
Sacramento Press / Johnson critics raise concerns about consulting firm, audit
Johnson critics raise concerns about consulting firm, audit
Oseguera will ask the City Council on Thursday to hire Sjoberg to conduct the audit. Some of Johnson’s critics pointed out in comments on The Sacramento Press that Sjoberg has worked with the law group Bell, McAndrews and Hiltachk. That group's managing partner, Thomas Hiltachk, wrote the strong mayor initiative.
Johnson would have obtained more authority from the initiative, which was struck down by Sacramento County Superior Court in January.
In their comments, Johnson critics Marion Millin and Rhonda Erwin urged residents to ask their representatives on the City Council to reject Sjoberg for the auditing job.
“I sent my letter to my council member and I also sent it to additional council members,” wrote community activist Erwin. “I've asked each to read — in full — your comments and how a vote for this firm for the CDD Au
Suspended classes resume at Horizon Charter School | News10.net | Sacramento, California | Education
Suspended classes resume at Horizon Charter School
Oakland teachers start a blog on strike (and more) | The Education Report
Oakland teachers start a blog on strike (and more)
Local News | Gates Foundation boosts aid to community colleges | Seattle Times Newspaper
Gates Foundation boosts aid to community colleges
Strengthening Title IX – ED.gov Blog
Today, Vice President Biden announced that the Administration has issued a Dear Colleague letter that withdraws a 2005 interpretation of Title IX policy.
Enacted in 1972, Title IX mandates that any educational institution receiving federal funding for programs and activities cannot discriminate on the basis of sex. The 2005 policy issued compliance standards that were widely criticized for being inadequate and inconsistent with Title IX’s nondiscrimination goals. Today’s announcement reverses this interpretation and returns to a more thorough test for assessing compliance with Title IX.
See the press release and the Dear Colleague letter.
Lazear Elementary teacher placed on administrative leave - Inside Bay Area
KYW Newsradio 1060 Philadelphia - No End In Sight To Teachers' Strike In North Penn School District
Posted: Tuesday, 20 April 2010 9:07PM No End in Sight to Teachers' Strike in North Penn School District | ||
by KYW's Peter Jaroff Negotiators for striking teachers and the North Penn School District met on Tuesday night -- but have not yet reached a settlement of their contract dispute. Teachers walked out on Monday, canceling classes for 13,000 North Penn students (see previous story). The school district is calling the latest union proposal "negative" and |
Capo Board of Trustee Agrees To Resume Negotiations With Teachers Union
Capo Board Agrees To Negotiate
by MISSIONVIEJODISPATCH.COM on APRIL 20, 2010
Today the attorney for the Capo Board of Trustees wrote to the Union’s executive director, Christine Balentine, agreeing to return to negotiations. Following is the text of the letter:
Dear Ms. Balentine:
This letter is sent in response to your letter dated April 19, 2010.
Pre-conditioning a return to the bargaining table upon the acceptance of a negotiation proposal backed up by a threat of a strike constitutes, among other things, an unfair labor practice.
In any event, as previously indicated, the District is willing and prepared to return to the bargaining table to commence negotiations regarding various items, including but not limited to, “restoration language” regarding the recently
Ohio Education Association to Pay $3.75 Million in Damages to Retired Staffers | Intercepts
Ohio Education Association to Pay $3.75 Million in Damages to Retired Staffers
1) Ohio Education Association to Pay $3.75 Million in Damages to Retired Staffers
2) The Burden of Proof
3) Recommended Reading: The Beholden State
4) Last Week’s Intercepts
5) Quote of the Week
Oakland Education Association � STRIKE POSTPONED! BREAKING NEWS -- DISTRICT REFUSES TO BARGAIN!
STRIKE POSTPONED! BREAKING NEWS — DISTRICT REFUSES TO BARGAIN!
As voted at Rep Council on Monday, April 12, the one-day strike set for April 22 was postponed until April 29 to insure that we are "strike legal," allow us time to study the fact-finding report (received April 14), and to go back to the bargaining table in an attempt to reach a fair settlement of our long-standing contract dispute. Remember: the fact-finding report is non-binding and advisory, and any favorable recommendations contained in the report would have to be bargained in order to be part of a tentative agreement. But it appears the District is unwilling to pursue a fair settlement, giving us no choice but to strike.
Download the following reports/letters/flyers and get them to your colleagues:
Fact-finding report
Letter to be distributed to parents and community members about why we are striking April 29th. It will be available in multiple languages next week.
Informational flyer about a special informational meeting for all OEA members on Thursday, April 22 at 4:00pm at Oakland High School, 1023 MacArthur Blvd. to discuss the fact-finding report and prepare for April 29th.
Strike flyer to distribute to parents and the community highlighting our demands for a fair contract! Available in multiple languages at April 22 meeting.
ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE!!!
These web pages provide parents, community members, and employees with the latest information on negotiations with OEA. They also contain information for parents that should prove useful in the event of a strike, background on the District's financial status and perspective on California's economic woes. As developments warrant, we will update this page to keep pace with changing events.
For more information, please contact Troy Flint at troy.flint@ousd.k12.ca.us or (510) 473-5832.
Remainders: Reports from inside a classroom full of test prep | GothamSchools
Remainders: Reports from inside a classroom full of test prep
- The USDOE is rescinding a 2005 rule on Title IX, but the change is largely symbolic.
- More than 2,000 schools, districts and non-profits are planning to apply for federal innovation grants.
- A pro-charter group continues its advertising blitz with an upstate radio ad campaign.
- John Merrow fondly remembers a star principal who was slain in D.C. this week.
- A teacher refuses to use the words “test prep” with his students, but says that’s all he’s doing anyway.
- Corey Bunje Bower has mixed feelings on New York’s new teacher certification plans.
- A forthcoming report on education schools in Texas is drawing controversy even before its release.
- InsideSchools takes a look at the benefits of a “gap year” between high school and college.
- An Education Sector blogger dives into the ruthlessly competitive world of bulletin board decorating.
- And what can Joel Klein learn from the NFL draft? A blogger has a list of lessons.
Silverton speech students go solo to reach state finals | OregonLive.com
Silverton speech students go solo to reach state finals
By Wendy Owen, The Oregonian
April 20, 2010, 4:45PM
View full sizeJamie Francis / The OregonianAs teacher Matt Ogle sat with his daughter at Doernbecher Children's Hospital this fall, his Silverton High School speech and debate team did what they thought would help him most -- they practiced their speeches.Team captains took charge and helped their new teammates, many of whom had never given a speech until this school year. Ogle had been in the midst of teaching them the basics when he had to rush his daughter to Portland.
"The only real help that we could have given was to maintain our work without him having to worry about us." said Gavin Knox, a junior.
With a substitute teacher monitoring, the students practiced and judged each other, giving pointers about voice inflection, tone, body positioning and, in some cases, fine-tuning the speech itself.
Who: There will be 489 students, representing 66 high schools. Slightly more than last year.
Where: Western Oregon University in Monmouth
When: Starts Thursday with debate at 8:30 a.m.. Individual speeches begin Friday at 8 a.m. with semi-finals and finals for all events on Saturday starting at 8 a.m.
What's next: The winners in each school division are the state champions.
Source: Oregon School Activities Association
Still, 15 students qualified for the state tournament, which begins Thursday atWestern Oregon University in Monmouth.
The Silverton team will compete in multiple categories: Lincoln-Douglas debate, public forum debate, humorous interpretation, after dinner speaking, expository, radio commentary, dramatic interpretation, prose reading and student congress.
The school year got off to a rough start for Ogle. He learned in August that he would have a single speech and debate class rather than two, forcing him to cut more than a dozen of the 50 kids who signed up for the class.
Then, in November, his 5-year-old daughter caught the H1N1 virus. It started with a cough and fever and turned into pneumonia and a collapsed lung.
"It was frightening," Ogle said. Even the doctors didn't know if Laura would be OK. The girl's lung wasn't re-expanding as expected.
For 18 days, Ogle and his wife, Ginger, sat with their daughter, a tube in her chest, in an isolation unit at Doernbecher.
"When I was up there with my daughter, I just trusted that things were OK (at school)," Ogle said.
When he called, the substitute told him, "The kids are practicing. The (student) coaches are herding them and making sure they're doing what they need
Student Activism Duke Student Govt Rejects Bias Claim by Ousted College Republican President
Duke Student Govt Rejects Bias Claim by Ousted College Republican President
Justin Robinette was impeached last Wednesday, just three weeks after he was re-elected as the group’s president, and just days after several members of the group learned of his sexual orientation. He says that members of the group called him “disgusting” and a “faggot,” and that their anti-gay bias led to his dismissal.
Last night the Duke student government’s judiciary took up the case, and this morning, after a ten-hour meeting in which they heard testimony from nearly two dozen people, they rejected his claims in a three-to-one vote.
In its ruling, the committee’s majority found that the College Republicans impeached Robinette because of
Board of Regents Approves Alternative Teaching Master’s Programs - NYTimes.com
Alternative Teaching Master’s Programs Approved
By LISA W. FODERARO
Published: April 20, 2010
RelatedThe New York State Board of Regents voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve a pilot program that would allow educational groups like Teach for America to create their own master’s degree programs, a role long reserved for education schools.
Alternate Path for Teachers Gains Ground (April 19, 2010)
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Edumacation Archive Supposed Education Reformers Don’t Do Irony
Supposed Education Reformers Don’t Do Irony
Posted April 20, 2010 by thatsrightnateCategories: education reform
Tags: ALEC, education reform, Florida, Irony, New York, RTTT, SB6, Thomas Carroll, West Virginia
Following the #RTTT channel on Twitter, I’ve noticed that the neo-liberal education reformers who post on there seem terribly deficient in their ability to notice irony. Maybe that’s why so many people who seem intent on destroying the public education system as we know it and exacerbating the differences between the haves and have nots always have happy fuzzy bunny names like Education Equality Now or something. If you want to understand neo-liberal education reform, you have to follow the money and that means following it into dark alleys. There’s a reason that Goldman-Sachs has been so active in promoting this garbage. There’s a great deal of money at stake here if you know where to look.
New York: Some supporters of New York Charter schools have been fuming at the thought of an open discussion about charter schools. Instead they want to blindly raise the charter cap. In the New York Post today Thomas Carroll cried union conspiracy. I can’t help wondering if it’s his own misdeeds that have him scared. The main villain in this drama is State Senator Bill Perkins who has called for a public hearing. In the hearing notice he says, “The purpose of this hearing is to examine the business of charter schools by reviewing their development as a privatized solution to public education. Towards this end, we will hea