Sunday, May 8, 2011
Calling all teachers! Do you have qualified educators in your district’s leadership? « Failing Schools
Calling all teachers! Do you have qualified educators in your district’s leadership? « Failing Schools
Calling all teachers! Do you have qualified educators in your district’s leadership?
I just finished reading a comment on Mark’s recent post “The Silent Majority and Vocal Minority”. It comes from Dan Middleman, M. Ed. and it reads: I’m in Wake County (Raleigh). We just got Rhee’s underling Tony Tata. So far, though, he’s treading lightly and avoiding controversial moves (in the face of a very conservative [...]
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: STUDY SAYS CALIFORNIA TEACHERS' PENSIONS FALL SHORT OF OTHER PUBLIC WORKERS
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: STUDY SAYS CALIFORNIA TEACHERS' PENSIONS FALL SHORT OF OTHER PUBLIC WORKERS
STUDY SAYS CALIFORNIA TEACHERS' PENSIONS FALL SHORT OF OTHER PUBLIC WORKERS
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, NY Times | http://nyti.ms/kCgYOn A teacher in Los Angeles. California might reduce public pensions to trim its huge budget deficit.Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images May 5, 2011 - As states and cities debate whether benefits can or should be cut back for public workers, a new study suggests some of those workers have a lot more to fight for than others. The study found
Where is the district leadership on budget cutting and keeping teachers? « A "Fuller" Look at Education Issues
Where is the district leadership on budget cutting and keeping teachers? « A "Fuller" Look at Education Issues
Where is the district leadership on budget cutting and keeping teachers?
I see and hear a lot of district leaders and district leader organizations supporting HB 400 which does the following:
1) Raising the 22-1 class size cap for grades K-4 to 25-1.
2) Eliminating the requirement that districts cannot pay teachers less next year than they earned this year. It also would eliminate the state minimum salary schedule, letting school districts set their own compensation systems with their own rules.
3) Allowing school boards to furlough teachers and reduce their salaries accordingly.
4) Changing the date for notice of non-renewal of a teacher’s contract from the current 45th day before the end of instruction to the last day of instruction.
5) Allowing a district to declare a financial emergency at any time for purposes of doing a
Daily Kos: Obama - giving credit where credit is due
Daily Kos: Obama - giving credit where credit is due
Obama - giving credit where credit is due
I am often critical of this President and his administration, most notably on educational policy.
But I also believe in giving credit where it is deserved.
My immediate reaction a week ago is that he and his administration did a remarkable job of keeping the operation against Bin Laden closely held. Here I cannot help but remember someone in the Bush administration who bragged - I think it was to the Wall Street Journal - that they could track Bin Laden by his satellite phone, which of course was then promptly turned off.
Obama knew there were risks, considered them, gave people on his team a chance to express them and thereby improve the overall plan.
When Steve Croft tried to push him in particular directions, he was able to respond in a way that demonstrated considered judgment, a reasonableness of temperament that one would want in a leader making critical decisions. He also did not find it necessary to
Place No One Above Ya, Sweet Lady | The Jose Vilson
Place No One Above Ya, Sweet Lady | The Jose Vilson
Place No One Above Ya, Sweet Lady
Recently, I was watching the movie 2Pac Resurrection, the posthumously narrated biographical film about the rapper Tupac Shakur. In one of the segments, 2Pac discusses his prison stint and the people who sent him letters and visited him during his time behind bars. One of those people, of course, was his mother, Afeni Shakur. Their relationship strained over the years, but his prison sentence forced the two back together. The irony, of course, is that they were once together in jail while Ms. Shakur was pregnant with 2Pac during her time as a Black Panther.
When I first heard the song, I couldn’t fully grasp their situation. I knew as much about 2Pac’s life as MTV would reveal. To the general media, he was a chart-topping, record-selling, reckless, Black thug with way too much money on his hands and too much celebrity. I didn’t know much about Dionne Warwick nor C. Dolores Tucker. I
Budget cuts, class sizes, and removing teacher safeguards (HB 400): Dooming the future of Texas « A "Fuller" Look at Education Issues
Budget cuts, class sizes, and removing teacher safeguards (HB 400): Dooming the future of Texas « A "Fuller" Look at Education Issues
Budget cuts, class sizes, and removing teacher safeguards (HB 400): Dooming the future of Texas
Education cuts are happening around the country and Texas is by no means immune from this phenomenon. Indeed, Texas arguably is facing the largest deficit of any state in the union. Yet, despite a surplus of money in the rainy day fund, opportunities to raise revenue by retracting subsidies to certain sectors of the economy, and fixing the structural deficit to raise the revenue promised by Governor Perry in 2006, our Governor and Legislature believe they have a mandate to decimate school funding for the foreseeable future. Indeed, for the first time in 27 years, we wil
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as shared by 7 people on bigeducationape.blogspot.com - State of EmergencyYour help is urgently needed to defeat three CTA-opposed bills that attack teachers directly. The bills will hurt students, as well. The three measures are set in the Senate Educa...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Attention Whoring With Ruben BrosbeAttention Whoring With Ruben BrosbePosted: 08 May 2011 02:00 PM PDTI am enraged. I have had it, and I am going to not censor myself in this bl...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Plessy AND Ferguson Unite for Civil Rights at our SOS Webinar Thursday! :: Save Our Schools March and National Call to ActionPlessy AND Ferguson Unite for Civil Rights at our SOS Webinar Thursday!b...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The DeVos Family: Meet the Super-Wealthy Right-Wingers Working With the Religious Right to Kill Public Education | | AlterNetThe DeVos Family: Meet the Super-Wealthy Right-Wingers Working With the ...
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learningismessy.com - My 5th grade class sent up a high altitude balloon … well actually, Dr. Eric Wang from the University of Nevada, Reno, Mechanical Engineering Department and the NevadaSat program sent up a high alt...
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news.firedoglake.com - As we get more clarity on the menu of options in the upcoming budget debate, we’re seeing a narrowing of differences between the two parties. The Republicans may not want to admit it, but they’ve g...
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democraticunderground.com - Source: LA TimesEnergized by Republican gains in the last election and still stinging from the passage of President Obama's healthcare overhaul, conservative lawmakers in statehouses around the cou...
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washingtonpost.com - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama ordered the commando raid that killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after deciding the risks were outweighed by the possibility “of us finally getting our man...
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 | bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Finland Phenomenon: Learning from the new Tony Wagner film | Connected PrincipalsThe Finland Phenomenon: Learning from the new Tony Wagner filmby Jonathan MartinStep aside Waiting for Superman ... coopmike48 |
 | bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: Empowering America's WomenSen. Kirsten GillibrandEmpowering America's WomenAs we celebrate Mother's Day today, we pay tribute to our extraordinary mothers, grandmothers, da... coopmike48 |
 | educationvotes.nea.org - With this petition, I commit to standing strong for our students, educators and public schools. Along with the NEA, I will work to: Defeat efforts in Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, Idaho and across the ... mikeklonsky |
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schooltechconnect.com - I've been taking a couple of days off here, but I've also been trying to keep up with the CTU House of Delegates' heroic ixnaying of SB7. In fact it is this particular comment over at Fred's that h...
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 | alleducationmatters.blogspot.com - Since many of you have expressed an interest in knowing what it was like for me to live and work abroad, AEM has launched a new series entitled, "Living Abroad." These pieces are about American exp... coopmike48 |
dailykos.com - at Alternet this morning. It is by Rachel Tabachnick, and is titled The DeVos Family: Meet the Super-Wealthy Right-Wingers Working With the Religious Right to Kill Public Education The piece is v...
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 | hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 5:10 pm, May 8, 2011 Photo Credits: Janet Napolitano In a speech at the Atlanta Press Club Saturday, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the federal government, not st... coopmike48 |
 | hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 3:10 pm, May 8, 2011 Photo Credits: Florida Immigration On Florida, anti-immigration bills, SB 2040 and HB 7098, died as the legislative session winds to an end in Florida.The Miami H... coopmike48 |
chinapost.com.tw - Braving spring drizzle, thousands of demonstrators gathered at a park in Tokyo's Shibuya district, many holding handmade banners reading: “Nuclear is old!” and “We want a shift in energy policy!” T...
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 | uppitywis.org - The proposal to short-circuit public participation and opposition to a proposed open pit iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin, by reducing the permitting process from five years or more to a mere 30... coopmike48 |
democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - The Republicans have been doing everything they can to return to the same careless economic house of cards they had before, under Bush, the same one that collapsed and wiped out 8 million jobs. I ...
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rosemont.patch.com - Imagine enjoying a sea breeze, waterfalls, caves, cliffs and mouth-watering local foods while you are hiking a trail along the edge of Jeju Island. Jeju Island, located 130 km south of the Korean P...
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joannejacobs.com - At New York City’s high-priced private schools, the $35,000-a-year tuition includes free-range, cage-free, locally sourced, chef-designed lunches, reports the New York Times. Forget about mystery m...
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Posted on May 8, 2011 by Dr. Ed Fuller
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