nypost.com - Michael Goodwin After reading my reports from New York teachers who say they are forced to raise grades and pass failing students, a friend has questions. He writes: "If nine years of mayoral contr...
nytimes.com - TEN years ago, Congress adopted the No Child Left Behind legislation, mandating that all students must be proficient in reading or mathematics by 2014 or their school would be punished. ...
keystonestateeducationcoalition.blogspot.com - When they were recently asked whether the current administration is seeking to privatize public education, a couple of PA State Senators used the term "selective dismantling" in discussions with sc...
nypost.com - The e-mail box runneth over with bad tidings. Teachers are reporting that cheating is rampant in New York City schools -- and they claim principals are the culprits. The reports are responding to m...
nbcchicago.com - Richard Daley, Ex-Mayor, (Another) New Job Former Mayor Richard Daley has landed a job with the firm that negotiated Chicago's parking meter deal. Daley will be "of counsel" to Katten Muchin Rosenm...
thenotebook.org - The School Reform Commission passed a budget that was roundly criticized by a roomful of students, parents, advocates and others for cutting essential services like full-day kindergarten and most f...
projo.com - CRANSTON — Critics of Mayor Allan W. Fung’s proposal to open five charter schools in Cranston said at a hearing Tuesday that the plan was the latest attack on the public school system, one intended...
golocalprov.com - Email to a friend PermalinkTuesday, May 31, 2011Stephen Beale, GoLocalProv News Editor A second union in the Central Falls School District has held a vote of no confidence in Superintendent Franc...
ibtimes.com - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company had underestimated the risks a tsunami can cause to the nuclear installations in the ...
democraticunderground.com - Source: The HillMenendez says Dems won't back Medicaid cutsBy Sam Baker - 06/01/11 03:06 PM ETCuts to Medicaid are no more palatable than cuts to Medicare, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) told report...
news.firedoglake.com - My response to this San Stein story about the fast-growing Hispanic demographic reality that will imperil the GOP is that it’s a story, but maybe not as big as this makes it out to be. On May 26, t...
democraticunderground.com - Source: Think ProgressWashington State Supreme Court Orders Reversal In Cuts To Medicaid For Disabled ChildrenBy Zaid Jilani on Jun 1, 2011 at 3:55 pmThe Washington state supreme court.Across the c...
modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/06/oaxacan-teachers-resist-tests-merit.html"; On May 23, 70,000 teachers struck in Oaxaca, Mexico. They were not asking for raises or better benef...
news.firedoglake.com - There are plenty of areas where the Obama Administration has dashed hopes and failed to live up to expectations. However, while I’m not an expert on the reorganization of the Civil Rights Division ...
ednewsparent.org - This week’s healthy rewards for kids tip As part of a new campaign to attack childhood obesity and improve children’s health and learning, we offer you tips about healthy snacks and non-food rewa...
connectedprincipals.com - Posted by Akevy Greenblatt on 6/01/11 • Categorized as Best Educational Practicespicture: noupe.com As we come to the end of a school year many of the tweets and blog posts that I have seen talk ab...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Dear Seniors: Please, Just Go | Mr. Teachbad's Blog of Teacher DisgruntlementDear Seniors: Please, Just Goby mrteachbadHoly shit…you guys are the cat’s meow…let me tell you. You seniors…But you don...
gothamschools.org - by Philissa Cramer Exactly what Christine Quinn is proposing the DOE should cut instead of teachers. (City Room) The company under investigation for a city contract to run city payroll has folded. ...
reverendmanny.com - One of the distinctions that is always worth making is the differences between what labor used to do, and the direction labor needs to grow in the future. Among the new pathways unfolding themselve...
whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release June 01, 2011 June 1, 2011Dear Mr. Chairman: (Dear Madam Chairman:) (Dear Representative:) (Dear Senator:)This report to the Con...
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Big losers are social services and schoolsThat's right. This week, former mayor Daley landed his pay-back job with the very firm that negotiated his notorious sell-off of the city's parking meters....
sacramentopa.blogspot.com - Ryan Lillis Sacramento Bee -- City Beat May 26, 2011 With Kings owners Joe and Gavin Maloof and dozens of fans in attendance at City Hall, the Sacramento City Council is getting its first look at t...
teamsternation.blogspot.com - It's official. The American middle class is dead. For decades the American middle class was defined by the clothes it wore, the cars it drove, the products it consumed. And for decades, Madison Ave...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NYC Public School Parents: Diane Ravitch on "Frozen Assets" by Marguerite RozaDiane Ravitch on "Frozen Assets" by Marguerite Rozaby Leonie HaimsonDiane Ravitch has a great oped in today’s Times on ...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Educators and Innovation - E.D. Kain - American Times - ForbesEducators and Innovationby E.D. KainI have received some surprising emails recently. Apparently my recent critique of teachers’ unions ...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - More area community college students bypassing UC, CSU - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento BeeMore area community college students bypassing UC, CSUShare By Laurel R...
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A compilation of news articles about charter schools which have been charged with, or are highly suspected of, tampering with admissions, grades, attendance and testing; misuse of funds and embezzlement; engaging in nepotism and conflicts of interest; engaging in complicated and shady real estate deals; and/or have been engaging in other questionable, unethical, borderline-legal, or illegal activities. This is also a record of charter school instability and other unsavory tidbits.
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“Film Story” Is A Very Impressive Site
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Film Story is an interactive site where you can search for theatrical films
by geographical location, history or science subject, historical era, and
film ...
Waiting For The Testing Tide To Turn
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Diane's got a post up about the NYDOE encouraging its teachers to lie to
students about the purpose of a new test they're running in June.
It's a field t...
Sacramento Music Scene Archives: Party of 1999
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Building archives of local music scene history for SacTV.com has generated
a whole new world of adventure. It helps that I happened to take a lot of
vide...
WEEKEND QUOTABLES
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Pedro Noguera
*"The way we are now as a country, not only aren't we living up to the
Brown decision, we're not even living up the Plessy v. Ferguson ...
The States: More Bully Politics of Education Reform
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From South Carolina to New Jersey to Wisconsin—and all across the
U.S.—universal public education is under assault by the bully politics of
education refor...
NY State Ed Dept: Lie to Students
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As you may know, there has been growing parent dissatisfaction about the
amount of testing that their children are subjected to. initially, the
tests and t...
‘Qualities of mind and heart’ - by Kathryn Baron
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For nearly two-and-a-half centuries Americans have fought and died to
protect the nation’s fragile democracy. From the earliest days of the
Union, the foun...
A Whole Month Left (A Freewrite)
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“You’re going to miss us!” “Yes, I’m going to miss bothering the heck out
of you!” I mean, why do students think we’re actually going to spend our
off time...
a thought about the Florida voter purge
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let's presume I am a US Citizen who has been voting regularly and legally.
Let's further presume I receive one of the notices informing me that the
state...
“Anything has to be better than this…”
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From the discussion on Diane Ravtich’s blog on “reforms” to special
education compliance… putkidzfirst Diane, I’m a sped teacher who believes
the focus on ...
Horace Mann & Compulsory Schooling
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I have continued to ponder why school for kids continues to be compulsory
(with the requisite coercion) while most everything else we do in America
(except...
Quick Hits (5.25.12) – Graduation Edition
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Promises kept. Twelve years ago, a Georgia businessman made a promise to
first graders that he would send them to college. This year, they’re taking
him up...
Les Miserables at CAPA – it almost didn't happen
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I had the privilege of seeing *Les Miserables* at Philadelphia's High
School for Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) Thursday night.
I've seen *Les Miz* ...
Deception by NYSED about the state field tests?
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There's lots of controversy about next month's NY state field tests, and
due to be given next month in all public schools statewide, in certain
grades and ...
The Flipped Class: Students Talk
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"There is no one-size fits all in education,
but as teachers,
we always can benefit from observing and listening to our students." Results from Student Sat...
It's Principal Firing Season in DC Public Schools!
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Written By Candi Peterson
Recently letters were sent out to DC Public Schools principals notifying
them whether their yearly contract as a principal will ...
Labor Leader Paves Way for Teacher Concessions
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The region’s most powerful labor leader says the school district and the
teachers union must sit down immediately to forge a solution that avoids
more than...
'The New Jim Crow'
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The manufactured school "crisis" we are living through may have much to learn from the "crime" and "drug" crisis that has built prisons instead of schools, t...
From Isolation, to Collaboration, to Leadership
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This guest blog post comes to InterACT from Cate Kruse Schroeder, a
bilingual-kindergarten teacher from San Jose, CA. A member of Accomplished
California ...
Educational (in)Equity Part 3
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This week we were going to highlight some data from our Ready Middle Schools Project, but it seems more pertinent to comment on the recent articles by the Ex...
Growing Bill Looms for School Repairs
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San Diego Unified has pushed back its plans to fix up aging schools because
of financial woes and the desire to get other things done first. That will
cost...
Kids These Days
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The Occupy movement continues to grow...globally! Here in Sacramento,
Cesar Chavez Park remains the center of Occupy activity, with protesters
saying the...
Sacramento Scoop is on Vacation
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Sacramento Scoop is taking an end of summer break. We hope you will enjoy
some of our previous posts and we will be back soon.
Is This Really Fair CPS?
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The Chicago Public Schools want to give teachers a 2% raise for 29% more
hours. For a beginning teacher this is $3.08 an hour. That’s considerably
less t...
My Review of Freshwaterboys by Adam Schuitema
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Well, Litstack went live on Monday and my first review went live today. You
can find my review of Adam Schuitema's wonderful collection of short storiesh...
Todo el mundo ama los Viernes
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Everyone loves Fridays. My office is filled with the sounds of “Happy
Friday!” and “Thank God it’s Friday!” and other festive Friday greetings.
Monday is...
The Ghost in the (Learning) Machine
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So, David’s initial concern was that some people come to MOOC’s without the
requisite knowledge they need to really advance. That’s not a denial of the
imp...
10 Years of Blogging: Time for a Change and a Book
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So last week it marked 10 years since my first blog post, a full decade of
writing and sharing online. As I’ve said many times before, it’s been an
amazing...
College & Careers, No More Cuts! (Video)
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Governor Cuomo is proposing a $1.5 billion cut to public school funding,
the largest cut in New York State History. In this entry to the Alliance
for Quali...
It's really great that every now and then I ca...
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It's really great that every now and then I can make a statement on a
critical issue in such a compelling way that nobody disagrees!
Of course, no one agre...
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