Republicans to Hold School Funding Hostage to Pensions (Image by Mike Licht) Gov. Brown has not yet revealed his plan for dealing with CalSTRS, although he has promised to spare K-12 education any further cuts next year if voters approve tax increases on themselves in the June election (an exaggeration ...
California Billionaires Profit on Backs of Poor Redevelopment is Good for the Poor Gov. Jerry Brown wants to eliminate state funding of Redevelopment Agencies (RDA) as a way to help offset California’s $28 billion deficit. Elimination of RDA funding would save the state $1.7 billion. Speculators ...
Bloomberg Threatens Cuomo: Kill Teacher Seniority, Or Else! NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg demanded that Gov. Andrew Cuomo use his upcoming state budget to reverse teacher seniority rules. Bloomberg hysterically claimed that current state law could force him to fire all 5,000 teachers hired in the past five ...
f Only Teachers Could grade Legislators If only teachers could grade legislators From Chris Guerrieri (Education Matters blog) Legislators Grade (image by amboo who?) The Florida legislature is considering a bill that would require teachers to grade their students’ parents. As you can ...
