Denied Educational Equity or Discriminated Against by LAUSD?- Perdaily.com
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Denied Educational Equity or Discriminated Against by LAUSD? (Negó la Equidad Educativa o discriminados por el LAUSD? por L. Joanne Tachera) by L. Joanne Tachera - Perdaily.com:Denied Educational Equity or Discriminated Against by LAUSD? (Negó la Equidad Educativa o discriminados por el LAUSD? por L. Joanne Tachera) by L. Joanne Tacheraby Leonard Isenberg(Mensaje se repite en Español)(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)PARENTS: Does your child's teacher and school have the resources ... more »
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Grumpy Educators: Florida: Parent, community member, and tax payer opposition strengthensBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-25 minutes agoGrumpy Educators: Florida: Parent, community member, and tax payer opposition strengthens:Florida: Parent, community member, and tax payer opposition strengthensby SandraFlorida legislators introduced a Parent Trigger bill, calling it the Parent Empowerment Act. Under the bill, parents and teachers could vote to turn a public school into a charter school if 51% agree and the local elected school board has no say in ... more »
Elk Grove Citizen : News
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Elk Grove Citizen : News:Elk Grove teachers union to host education activist’s speech, Jan. 20By Citizen staffPublished: Friday, January 13, 2012 2:35 PM PST Diane Ravitch, a nationally renowned public education advocate, will be speaking at the Sacramento Convention Center on Jan. 20.The Elk Grove Education Association, which represents teachers in the Elk Grove Unified School District, is hosting the event, “An Evening with Diane Ravitch.”Ravitch wrote the book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System and ... more »
Top Content this Week - The Educator's PLN #edreform #edchat
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Top Content this Week - The Educator's PLN:Top Content this WeekTop Content Rank1No Chicken or Egg ChoiceAdded by Thomas Whitby on January 11, 20122Josh Stumpenhorst, 2012 Teacher of the YearAdded by Thomas Whitby on January 5, 20123EdchatAdded by Shelly Terrell on October 17, 20094Favorite FREE Web 2.0 AppsPosted by Thomas Whitby on November 23, 20115Bring it on 2012: A Resolution Worth KeepingAdded by Anne Beck on January 5, 20126To Compute or Not to Compute?Added by Mark White on October 27, ... more »
Capitalists: Venture vs. Vulture | MyFDL
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Capitalists: Venture vs. Vulture | MyFDL:Capitalists: Venture vs. VultureBy: dakine01 Saturday January 14, 2012 11:48 am Tweet Author’s Note: Please take a few minutes and Join the Firedoglake Membership Program today. FDL provides the tools that help me and others extend our reach with our rants so we need to support FDL when we can.So there I was, surfing around the intertoobz this morning when I came across this headline at CNN:Stop vilifying venture capitalistsI have to admit, I was ... more »
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Randy Dorn Comes Out Against Charter Legislation
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Seattle Schools Community Forum: Randy Dorn Comes Out Against Charter Legislation:Randy Dorn Comes Out Against Charter Legislationby Melissa WestbrookFrom OSPI, Randy Dorn on Education Reform:January 2012 - State Superintendent Randy Dorn is pleased that education reform will be front and center during the 2012 legislative session. Dorn believes – and hopes legislators agree – that discussions around education reform must be mindful of the Supreme Court’s January 6 ruling on McCleary v. State, which held that the state isn’t providing ... more »
Missouri Education Watchdog: Republicans are Supporting the Federal Takeover of Education. How to Register Your Displeasure with the Republican Leadership.
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Missouri Education Watchdog: Republicans are Supporting the Federal Takeover of Education. How to Register Your Displeasure with the Republican Leadership.:Republicans are Supporting the Federal Takeover of Education. How to Register Your Displeasure with the Republican Leadership.by stlgretchenThis picture of Obama, Arne Duncan and Jeb Bush illustrates the bipartisanship present in the current educational reforms pushed by the current administration. We keep asking the question: Why are Republicans backing the federal centralization of education? Aren't Republicans supposed to be t... more »
Mother Crusader: Reviewer #1 and the Smoking Gun
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Mother Crusader: Reviewer #1 and the Smoking Gun:Reviewer #1 and the Smoking Gunby darciecimaOn Thursday Tikun Olam lead applicant Sharon Akman was quoted as saying that she did not misrepresent anyone's position. Yesterday I detailed that even if she is trying to claim former Edison Mayor Jun Choi and Assemblyman Peter Barnes flip-flopped on her, despite the fact that she never bothered to obtain official statements of support from them, how does she explain that Bishop Bootkoski clearly stated St. ... more »
MLK Jr. Day 2012: Organizations v. Community | Dailycensored.com
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MLK Jr. Day 2012: Organizations v. Community | Dailycensored.com:MLK Jr. Day 2012: Organizations v. CommunityWritten by Paul ThomasEducation, PoliticsJan 14, 20120diggShareLet me preface this commentary with a confession: I have lived my entire life in South Carolina, a non-union state, and I have always felt a tug toward a Henry David Thoreau-Groucho Marx-Woody Allen-esque recalcitrance to join anything. That said, I have come to see a powerful and often unspoken distinction between organizations, about which I remain deeply skeptical, and ... more »
Keeping My Feet Under Me and Staying Off My Ass | Lefty Parent
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Keeping My Feet Under Me and Staying Off My Ass | Lefty Parent:Keeping My Feet Under Me and Staying Off My Assby Cooper ZaleMy “day job” (that pays the bills) is working as a “business process consultant” for Kaiser Permanente. Honestly, I have a lot of issues with the U.S. health care industry, particularly the for-profit part of it, because it seems to be more about profiting from illness by selling more pills and procedures than promoting health. KP on ... more »
Grumpy Educators: Florida: Parent, community member, and tax payer opposition strengthens
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Grumpy Educators: Florida: Parent, community member, and tax payer opposition strengthens:Florida: Parent, community member, and tax payer opposition strengthensby SandraFlorida legislators introduced a Parent Trigger bill, calling it the Parent Empowerment Act. Under the bill, parents and teachers could vote to turn a public school into a charter school if 51% agree and the local elected school board has no say in the matter. However, in a combined statement, these Florida parent groups have come out publicly opposing the legislation:Florida ... more »
Tim Tebow’s unusual education - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
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Tim Tebow’s unusual education - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:Tim Tebow’s unusual educationValerie Strauss at The Answer Sheet - 1 hour agoTim Tebow’s life story is now familiar to football fans, who know this about the Denver Broncos quarterback: * He was born in the Philippines to Christian missionaries. * His mother was very ill while pregnant with him and was urged by doctors to have an abortion, but she refused. Read full article Report: We still don’t ... more »
NYC Educator: Kim Jong-Un Hearts Mayor Mike
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NYC Educator: Kim Jong-Un Hearts Mayor Mike:Kim Jong-Un Hearts Mayor Mikeby NYC EducatorYo, my peeps. It's me, Kim Jong-Un, and let me say, yo, I am blown away by this Bloomberg dude. I mean, here I am, the Supreme Leader, and there's this little fat dude doing everything I want to do and more!!!!First of all, this merit pay thing is sheer genius, dude. I mean, like, I can barely find the cash to pay my armies, and then, like, ... more »
Modern School: America Worse Than Apartheid on Black Incarceration
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Modern School: America Worse Than Apartheid on Black Incarceration:America Worse Than Apartheid on Black Incarcerationby Michael DunnMichelle Alexander, who wrote the book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” was interviewed on Democracy Now on Friday, January 13, 2012. According to the interview, there are more African Americans under correctional control today than there were enslaved in 1850. More African American men are disenfranchised today than in 1870 as a result of felony disenfranchisement laws. And, ... more »
What Happend To… « DFER Watch
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What Happend To… « DFER Watch:WHAT HAPPEND TO…Posted by ken libby on January 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment The image below comes from a letter sent to Education Reform Now supporters at the end of 2010. The year 2011 is over now, and those two reports ERN planned to publish in 2010 haven’t come out yet: the “Grading State Leaders” report and the report on teacher union political power:It is entirely possible that:
Saturday coffee.+ Old school « Fred Klonsky
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Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky:Saturday coffee.by Fred KlonskyThe Park Ridge Education Association turns folks out for Lobby Day. Maybe that’s one of the reasons the IEA leadership cancelled it for this year. Spring is over in the Heartland.Thursday night about eight inches fell on Chicago. That is enough to make the commute difficult but not enough for a snow day. A cold blast has now followed the snow. At 11AM it is fifteen degrees.I’m still pissed and amazed at the ... more »
NYC Public School Parents: Bloomberg's damaging education proposals to cost $350 million per year
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NYC Public School Parents: Bloomberg's damaging education proposals to cost $350 million per year:Bloomberg's damaging education proposals to cost $350 million per yearby Leonie HaimsonThere's horrific news in today's Daily News: that NY State Education Commissioner King is likely to approve the mayor's proposal to fire half of all of teachers at 33 struggling schools:"That's a pretty aggressive teacher evaluation system,” the state insider said. “We believe the switch meets all the federal requirements.”Firing a fixed quota of at least ... more »
PECO Funding Dries Up; What Does it Say About Rick Scott’s Economic Policies? | Scathing Purple Musings
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PECO Funding Dries Up; What Does it Say About Rick Scott’s Economic Policies? | Scathing Purple Musings:PECO Funding Dries Up; What Does it Say About Rick Scott’s Economic Policies?by Bob SikesIn the Miami Herald, Mary McGrory writes:TALLAHASSEE – There isn’t likely to be any new money for school construction and maintenance for the next few years, Florida economists said Friday.That’s because state officials expect to receive less revenue next year from the Gross Receipts Tax, a tax on electric, telephone ... more »
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle High Schools
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Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle High Schools:Seattle High Schoolsby Melissa WestbrookA request was made for a thread about high schools and parents' experiences with them. I did a quick check and it appears most high schools are having at least one daytime tour and one evening tour (Roosevelt and Hale seem to be the only ones with a single tour.) Again, while the tours aren't always the most fun, it is a very good way to get a feel for ... more »