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A Letter to Parents from a Parent | United Opt Out National

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 13 minutes ago
A Letter to Parents from a Parent | United Opt Out National: A Letter to Parents from a Parent by admin *This letter was written almost one year ago and we present it today as we begin to prepare for the 2012-2013 school year. There are many ways for parents to opt out of corporate education reform. What will you say to parents in your neighborhood? Send us your letters today at unitedoptoutnational@gmail.com. Together we will change the narrative.* Aug 21st, 2011 Dear Parents, I write this letter as a parent myself, who also happens to be an educator for over twenty years (a... more »

Diane Ravitch: Common Core State Standards Rolled Out in 45 States Without A Field Test Anywhere | Truth in American Education

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 16 minutes ago
Diane Ravitch: Common Core State Standards Rolled Out in 45 States Without A Field Test Anywhere | Truth in American Education: Diane Ravitch: Common Core State Standards Rolled Out in 45 States Without A Field Test Anywhere by Shane Vander Hart [image: Click on picture to Listen to Diane Ravitch] Diane Ravitch, a historian of education and research professor of education at New York University, wrote about the Common Core State Standards this morning to say she’s neither for or against because they have not been field tested. She wrote: I have neither endorsed nor rejected the ... more »

Geaux Teacher!: CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS ARE DANGEROUS

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 18 minutes ago
Geaux Teacher!: CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS ARE DANGEROUS: CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS ARE DANGEROUS by noreply@blogger.com (Lee Barrios, M.Ed., NBCT) *Texas GOP Declares: "No More Teaching of 'Critical Thinking Skills' in Texas Public Schools" * I would have liked to re-post this entire article but permission is required, so I am including the link for you to read yourself along with a few excerpts to peak your interest. This is one of those believe-it-or-not moments. If anyone researchs the veracity of this report and finds it is not true, I will be glad to share that research. htt... more »

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Where is Byrd-Bennett?

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 1 hour ago
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Where is Byrd-Bennett?: Where is Byrd-Bennett? by Mike Klonsky Back on April 30th, CPS made a major announcement. *Barbara Byrd-Bennett* had been named to replace *Noemi Donoso* as the interim Chief Education Officer. Donoso jumped ship after serving less than a year in the Rahm/Brizard regime. Donoso herself was brought in more than a year when the post remained empty following the departure of Barbara Eason-Watkins. BBB, who during her time in Cleveland was the highest paid school superintendent in the nation, was supposed to come in to town on M... more »

Jersey Jazzman: Arne Duncan Does Not Get It

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 1 hour ago
Jersey Jazzman: Arne Duncan Does Not Get It: Arne Duncan Does Not Get It by Duke *Our new Secretary of Education* Diane Ravitch points us to this conversation with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan about using test scores in teacher evaluations. Just watch the first minute or two in the clip to see Duncan, once again, prove he has no idea what he is talking about: *So again, let's sort of look at where we are as a country. For decades, zero percent of a teacher's evaluation was based upon whether their children were learning.* That's hogwash for two reasons. First, principals an... more »

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. This year school principals measure test scores, dropout rates and funerals. « Fred Klonsky

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 1 hour ago
Life in Rahm’s Chicago. This year school principals measure test scores, dropout rates and funerals. « Fred Klonsky: Life in Rahm’s Chicago. This year school principals measure test scores, dropout rates and funerals. by Fred Klonsky Linda Lutton of Chicago public radio reports on Chicago’s year of increasing violence. Leonetta Sanders is principal at Harper High School in the Englewood neighborhood. But on this day, she’s also a mourner, one of hundreds overflowing a little church at 88th and Hermitage. She is wearing a bright orange shirt, the color of lilies and popsicles.One ... more »

One more time. Repeat after me: “It’s not a benefit problem. It’s a revenue problem.” « Fred Klonsky

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 2 hours ago
One more time. Repeat after me: “It’s not a benefit problem. It’s a revenue problem.” « Fred Klonsky: One more time. Repeat after me: “It’s not a benefit problem. It’s a revenue problem.” by Fred Klonsky *Ralph Martire. executive director of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, a Chicago-based bipartisan fiscal policy think tank.* No matter how many times we say it, it is just really hard for some folks to wrap their head around the idea. The current underfunding of the state’s public employee pension plans is not the result of unsustainable benefits. The problem is 40 year... more »

Shanker Blog » The Data Are In: Experiments In Policy Are Worth It

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 2 hours ago
Shanker Blog » The Data Are In: Experiments In Policy Are Worth It: The Data Are In: Experiments In Policy Are Worth It by David Dunning *Our guest author today is David Dunning, professor of psychology at Cornell University, and a fellow of both the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association. * When I was a younger academic, I often taught a class on research methods in the behavioral sciences. On the first day of that class, I took as my mission to teach students only one thing—that conducting research in the behavioral sciences ages a person. I mea... more »

The Death and Birth of Teacher Unions | assailedteacher

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 2 hours ago
The Death and Birth of Teacher Unions | assailedteacher: The Death and Birth of Teacher Unions USA Today claims that the nation’s largest teacher’s union, the National Education Association, has lost nearly 100,000 members since 2010. That is a decrease of 16%. The blogosphere is awash with postmortems of the NEA. The explosion of online learning, the rise of non-unionized charter schools, the passage of right-to-work laws in many NEA states, the general disregard for the rights of collective bargaining and the transience of many newcomers to the teaching

Indentured Students Rise as Loans Corrode College Ticket - Businessweek

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 2 hours ago
Indentured Students Rise as Loans Corrode College Ticket - Businessweek: Indentured Students Rise as Loans Corrode College Ticket By Janet Lorin on July 09, 2012 Geraldine Damiani Brezler took out a $5,000 student loan in the late 1960s to study at the State University of New York. She became a nurse, got married, bought a house and repaid the debt in less than three years. Today, her son, David, 38, owes about $85,000 in loans for a master’s degree in education at New York University. He can’t find full-time work, lives with his parents in White Plains, New York, and has deferred... more »

My View of the Common Core Standards « Diane Ravitch's blog

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 3 hours ago
My View of the Common Core Standards « Diane Ravitch's blog: [image: Click on picture to Listen to Diane Ravitch] My View of the Common Core Standards by dianerav I have neither endorsed nor rejected the Common Core national standards, for one simple reason: They are being rolled out in 45 states without a field trial anywhere. How can I say that I love them or like them or hate them when I don’t know how they will work when they reach the nation’s classrooms? In 2009, I went to an event sponsored by the Aspen Institute where Dane Linn, one of the project directors for developing ... more »

Brown names former head of military charter to State Board | EdSource Today

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 3 hours ago
Brown names former head of military charter to State Board | EdSource Today: Brown names former head of military charter to State Board by John Fensterwald [image: Bruce Holaday] Gov. Jerry Brown has named Bruce Holaday, who for five years ran the military charter school in Oakland that Brown founded, the next member of the State Board of Education. The governor’s nontraditional appointment to the 11-member board was long in coming. Former member Greg Jones resigned 18 months ago, and two other members’ terms expired in January. Holaday, 59, currently does fundraising and designs... more »

Two sets of college standards: One for foreign students and one for native English speakers | Get Schooled

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 3 hours ago
Two sets of college standards: One for foreign students and one for native English speakers | Get Schooled: Two sets of college standards: One for foreign students and one for native English speakers by Maureen Downey Here is an interesting essay by Rick Diguette, an Atlanta area writer who also teaches English at a local college. By Rick Diguette A student from China recently sent me an email. “In this summer I enjoy your lecture,” she wrote, “and I know that you care about every student. However, I have to consider withdrawing myself.” She then explained that in order to transf... more »

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 3 hours ago
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES: WEEKEND QUOTABLES by Mike Klonsky Pat Deutschman Pat Deutschman *When the Florida commissioner of education, who is appointed, not elected, tells a room full of hundreds of elected school board members to basically stop questioning the testing regime and to do as we are told, something is terribly wrong with the balance of power and I honestly feel is a significant challenge to democracy. --* Citrus Cty. Chronicle. Pat is a member of the Citrus County School Board. She can be reached at: deutschmanp@citrus.k12.fl.us. Florida T-Part... more »

The Innovative Educator: Educators Examine Flipped Classrooms

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 3 hours ago
The Innovative Educator: Educators Examine Flipped Classrooms: Educators Examine Flipped Classrooms by noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Nielsen) I was recently interviewed by NPR about why I'm not flipping over the flipped classroom. Here is the story. Share Tweet E-mail 1 Comment Print Credit James Sarmiento / Flickr By ADAM COTTERELL LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW Educators from all over Idaho meet in Boise Tuesday and Wednesday to talk about creating 21st century classrooms. One of the themes of theEduStat conference is flipping education. Greg Greene is principal of a high school in subur... more »

Texas GOP rejects ‘critical thinking’ skills. Really. - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 3 hours ago
Texas GOP rejects ‘critical thinking’ skills. Really. - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: [image: Answer Sheet] Texas GOP rejects ‘critical thinking’ skills. Really. by Valerie Strauss In the you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff department, here’s what the Republican Party of Texas wrote into its 2012 platform as part of the section on education: *Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learnin... more »

Missouri Education Watchdog: What School Board Associations Should Be Teaching their Members: They Have Little to No Power in Educational Decisions for their Districts

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 3 hours ago
Missouri Education Watchdog: What School Board Associations Should Be Teaching their Members: They Have Little to No Power in Educational Decisions for their Districts: What School Board Associations Should Be Teaching their Members: They Have Little to No Power in Educational Decisions for their Districts by stlgretchen The actions of most school board members to Federal Control of their schools The Missouri School Board Association's explanation of its purpose sounds promising. From the first two paragraphs under "history": *The school board is a unique institution in American ... more »

Is School Segregation Still Legal? Chicago Teens Reflect on Their Racial Isolation - Education - GOOD

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 3 hours ago
Is School Segregation Still Legal? Chicago Teens Reflect on Their Racial Isolation - Education - GOOD: Is School Segregation Still Legal? Chicago Teens Reflect on Their Racial Isolation by Liz Dwyer [image: little.rock.arkansas] Legal school segregation ended back in 1954 with the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, but for most students across the nation, racial isolation is still the norm. Nationally, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, 52 percent of black students and 58 percent of Latino students attend schools where 75 percent or ... more »

CPS Board President David Vitale is back. « Fred Klonsky

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 3 hours ago
CPS Board President David Vitale is back. « Fred Klonsky: CPS Board President David Vitale is back. by Fred Klonsky Strange. For some reason my drawing of CPS Board President David Vitale was removed from my blog. I didn’t do it. But I’m putting it back.

People’s School at Lakeview Elementary School in Oakland California Says “Fight Continues”, Announces Next Steps | Dailycensored.com

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 3 hours ago
People’s School at Lakeview Elementary School in Oakland California Says “Fight Continues”, Announces Next Steps | Dailycensored.com: People’s School at Lakeview Elementary School in Oakland California Says “Fight Continues”, Announces Next Steps by Danny Weil Early Tuesday morning, on what would have been the 18th day of the Sit-in and 12th day of the People’s School, OUSD police and other Oakland area police forces raided the encampment and school. While participants were allowed to remove their items, the police arrested a parent as well as a former Lakeview student, and subse... more »

Judge revokes state oversight of 6 schools in prominent charter system | California Watch

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 3 hours ago
Judge revokes state oversight of 6 schools in prominent charter system | California Watch: Judge revokes state oversight of 6 schools in prominent charter system Corey G. Johnson Brian Turner/Flickr A superior court judge has invalidated the State Board of Education's oversight of one of the state's biggest charter school companies, giving six schools until June 2013 to gain approval from local school districts or be forced to close. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jo-Lynne Lee found that the board improperly awarded Aspire Public Schools rights to bypass local district oversig... more »

The Educated Reporter: NCLB: A Glass Now More Than Half Empty?

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 3 hours ago
The Educated Reporter: NCLB: A Glass Now More Than Half Empty?: NCLB: A Glass Now More Than Half Empty? by Emily Richmond The number of states granted waivers from the most onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind crossed the halfway mark when Washington and Wisconsin joined the 24 others that have obtained waivers from the U.S. Department of Education. "It is a remarkable milestone that in only five months, more than half of the states in the country have adopted state-developed, next-generation education reforms to improve student learning and classroom instruction, while ens... more »

Why Does Governor Christie Have a Grudge Against Teachers? « Diane Ravitch's blog

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 12 hours ago
Why Does Governor Christie Have a Grudge Against Teachers? « Diane Ravitch's blog: Why Does Governor Christie Have a Grudge Against Teachers? by dianerav One of the best bloggers in New Jersey, if not the whole northeast, is Jersey Jazzman. He has gathered statements that Governor Christie has made about teachers that are quite negative. His teachers remember him fondly. By all accounts, he had an idyllic childhood and experienced great public schooling.

Drummond: Oakland School superintendent wrong target - ContraCostaTimes.com

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 13 hours ago
Drummond: Oakland School superintendent wrong target - ContraCostaTimes.com: Drummond: Oakland School superintendent wrong target BAY AREA NEWS GROUP Posted: 07/08/2012 12:00:00 AM PDT Updated: 07/08/2012 03:22:23 AM PDT There is a line between a peaceful demonstration and intimidation. The people who marched to Oakland Unified School District Superintendent Tony Smith's house to protest the closing of five public elementary schools crossed it. The crowd gathered outside Smith's house Tuesday evening demanding he reopen the schools or resign. Luckily for Smith, neither he nor his... more »

Save Our Schools D.C. Convention 2012 :: Save Our SchoolsSave Our Schools

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 13 hours ago
Save Our Schools D.C. Convention 2012 :: Save Our SchoolsSave Our Schools: Save Our Schools D.C. Convention 2012 Speakers/Supporters. Deborah Meier, Shanta Driver, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Rose Sanders, and Jonathan Kozol *Please Join Us in D.C.*Last summer, we brought thousands of people to the SOS March and Rally in D.C. This August, teachers, parents, students and community activists are gathering again in the nation’s capitol at the SOS People’s Education Convention. Join us to adopt a People’s Principles on the most urgent issues facing public education. Let’s use this meeting as ... more »

Stephanie Rivera: A Liberator | United Opt Out National

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 14 hours ago
Stephanie Rivera: A Liberator | United Opt Out National: Stephanie Rivera: A Liberator by admin Today we welcome Stephanie Rivera. Stephanie is a Rutgers University student and a future teacher. She occupied the Dept. of Ed. in D.C. with United Opt Out and she can be followed on Twitter @stephrrivera and at her blog: Teacher Under Construction. In the words of William Lloyd Garrison, who famously declared in the first issue of The Liberator: “*I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD*.” Stephanie Rivera w... more »

The Latino Namesake | The Jose Vilson

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 14 hours ago
The Latino Namesake | The Jose Vilson: The Latino Namesake by Jose I landed in Orlando / Cocoa Beach a few hours ago, and had the fortune of getting a van all to myself to escort me to the hotel. On such occasions, I usually don’t think about the privilege I have to work in an environment where my boss places cultural barriers on my person. As for my driver, that wasn’t the case. I read his name tag: Domingo, same as my uncle. As we walk away from his dispatcher, I start to notice his English isn’t too fluid. Noticing his struggles, I wait until the elevator to code-switch. I said... more »

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Education in Louisiana

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 14 hours ago
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Education in Louisiana: Education in Louisiana by Melissa Westbrook You did hear about Louisiana, right? After Katrina, New Orleans is virtually a charter district. And, pushed by Governor Bobby Jindal (and maybe next VP), a bill was pushed through that gives voucher money to parents to choose where their education dollars go for their child. This includes religious schools. Here's some interesting outcomes so far: - many private schools - the good ones - are restricting the number of space to those parents who have vouchers dollars. - some... more »

Peg with Pen: Eye. On. The. Ball.

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 14 hours ago
Peg with Pen: Eye. On. The. Ball.: Eye. On. The. Ball. by Peggy Do not get distracted. We are looking at four key things we need to shut down: high stakes testing, value-added measure, common core and charter/choice - they lose if we shut these down. Keep your eye on the ball. That is the advice I’ve received from a good friend this week whose opinion I trust implicitly. At United Opt Out National we issued a statement. We revised the final paragraph for clarity. I haven’t commented on any of it personally because I felt that the statement by United Opt Out and the revision w... more »

Jersey Jazzman: Does the Star-Ledger Enjoy Embarrassing Itself?

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 14 hours ago
Jersey Jazzman: Does the Star-Ledger Enjoy Embarrassing Itself?: Does the Star-Ledger Enjoy Embarrassing Itself? by Duke Why does the *Star-Ledger* continue to embarrass itself by publishing schlock like this? The Newark school system once served more than twice as many kids as it does today, but it still has almost as many schools. So it’s full of empty space, with more than 8,000 vacant seats at last count. That’s an expensive albatross. The city is also home to a thriving charter school movement that is bursting at the seams. *The best charter organizations, such as North Star ... more »

Geaux Teacher!: GATES FOUNDATION VS HUMANITY

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 14 hours ago
Geaux Teacher!: GATES FOUNDATION VS HUMANITY: GATES FOUNDATION VS HUMANITY by noreply@blogger.com (Lee Barrios, M.Ed., NBCT) This blog which appears in Education Week Magazine on line can be found with all of its links open at: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/07/the_gates_foundations_leverage.html *The Gates Foundation's Leveraged Philanthropy: Corporate Profit Versus Humanity on Three Fronts * By Anthony Cody on July 4, 2012 11:47 AM Guest post by Chemtchr. Part One of Two. Philanthropy wonk Lucy Bernholz defines the buzzword leverage as "the idea that yo... more »

50th Anniversary of the Ash Grove. « Fred Klonsky

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 14 hours ago
50th Anniversary of the Ash Grove. « Fred Klonsky: 50th Anniversary of the Ash Grove. by Fred Klonsky [image: Earl Monroe] Back in the sixties. On Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood there was a folk club called the Ash Grove. Most weekends during my high school years you could find me there. Unlike the time I spent in my classes at Fairfax High School it was at the Ash Grove that I received my real education. John Lee Hooker. Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Ponies (Linda always barefoot). Son House. Ry Cooder. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The Chambers Brothers. Taj Mahal. Sonny Terry and ... more »

#ISTE2012 and the Importance of Educator Connections « My Island View

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 14 hours ago
#ISTE2012 and the Importance of Educator Connections « My Island View: #ISTE2012 and the Importance of Educator Connections by tomwhitby I recently attended a complete immersion of education philosophy, education methods and pedagogy, technology tools for learning and connectedness with education thought leaders from around the world. All of this took place at one of our premier annual education conferences, ISTE 2012 in San Diego. Educators attend these conferences with their own focuses. They select the sessions they need from a smorgasbord of high-quality presentations on educa... more »

Jersey Jazzman: NJ Charters: A Growing Embarrassment

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
Jersey Jazzman: NJ Charters: A Growing Embarrassment: NJ Charters: A Growing Embarrassment by Duke *Cross-posted from Blue Jersey* [image: Christie tolld the group New Jersey could be a national bellwether.] *Something is very wrong with charter schools in New Jersey.* This week, the citizens and school boards of Cherry Hill and Voorhees won a major battle against a proposed charter school that neither community wanted nor needed. Blue Jersey has previously detailed the story of Regis Academy's founder, Pastor Amor Khan, an anti-marriage equity crusader and political ally of Chri... more »

What the No Child Left Behind Waiver will mean to Washington State | Seattle Education

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
What the No Child Left Behind Waiver will mean to Washington State | Seattle Education: What the No Child Left Behind Waiver will mean to Washington State by seattleducation2011 The sum of all these changes means that test scores will matter even more in the states with waivers than in the states oppressed by NCLB’s heavy-handed regulations. The following was written by Diane Ravitch and posted on US News’ The Daily Beast: Obama Grants Waivers to NCLB and Makes a Bad Situation Worse Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Secretary Arne Duncan is right about the No Child Left Behind law... more »

Carol Burris on the Art of Teaching « Diane Ravitch's blog

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
Carol Burris on the Art of Teaching « Diane Ravitch's blog: Carol Burris on the Art of Teaching by dianerav This morning I posted Carol Burris’s essay about the Relay Graduate School of Education. Carol Burris is the principal of South Side High School in Rockville Center, Long Island. Many people wrote comments and discussed what they thought of Relay’s method of teaching as represented by a video embedded in Burris’s essay, taken from the Relay website. I invited Carol to respond to the many comments, and this is what she wrote today: *My Answersheet blog on Relay opened up an in... more »

NYC Educator: Who Are We Representing?

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
NYC Educator: Who Are We Representing?: Who Are We Representing? by NYC Educator At the AFT Convention, the exalted meeting place in Detroit for UFT members who've been invited to join the Unity Caucus, there will be two resolutions. One will be in protest of excessive testing. The other will be in support of the Common Core. Precisely why the AFT needs to support Common Core, as it's already been accepted by many states, is a mystery to me. But if you're going to oppose excessive testing, perhaps supporting a measure that will see kids tested 9 times a year is not precisely the b... more »

Sunday links. « Fred Klonsky

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
Sunday links. « Fred Klonsky: Sunday links. by Fred Klonsky *The Civic Committee’s plan for Chicago. H/T Karen Lewis.* *Ed Week’s Stephen Sawchuk wonders what critics of corporate school reform will say* about the half million bucks that Bill Gates gave to the NEA Foundation to fund *collaboration*. Easy answer. It sucks. *Here is a list of some of the panelists and presenters* who will be at the Save Our Schools conference in Washington DC , August 3 through 5th. *Mitt Romney will address the NAACP* on his contributions to the fight for Civil Rights. It should be a short speech. *Wh... more »

Billionaire Intrigue, Political Deception and the Fight for the Soul of the Chicago Public Schools

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 23 hours ago
Billionaire Intrigue, Political Deception and the Fight for the Soul of the Chicago Public Schools: Billionaire Intrigue, Political Deception and the Fight for the Soul of the Chicago Public SchoolsSunday, 08 July 2012 09:24By Jackson Potter, CTU Net | Op-Ed [image: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel discusses the Goldman Sachs 10,000 small businesses program with faculty at Harold Washington College in Chicago, September 13, 2011. Emanuel has encouraged teachers to buck their own union by offering them bonuses to work longer hours. (Photo: Peter Hoffman / The New York Times)]Nearly ... more »
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