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Sacramento Press / Mayor Kevin Johnson's use of private/public partnerships raises questions about transparency
Sacramento Press / Mayor Kevin Johnson's use of private/public partnerships raises questions about transparency: Mayor Kevin Johnson's use of private/public partnerships raises questions about transparency by Jared Goyette I'm just taking out the trash Sacramento Democratic party chairwoman Kerri Asbury's call for city probe into use of office space in City Hall by nonprofits run by Mayor Kevin Johnson started a predictable row between the two, but it also raised important questions about the role these nonprofits play in public policy and the degree to which they are subject to t... more »
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Again, It's about the Money
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Again, It's about the Money: Again, It's about the Money by Melissa Westbrook Over at The Stranger Slog, Goldy reports yet another interesting story about 1240; the Bezos family is funding four PACS. They are *Children for WA PAC*, *Democrats for Ed Reform WA PAC *and *Education Voters Political Action Fund.* The newest one is *Revising the Status Quo*. Most of the money from all of them comes from the Bezos family, including Jeff Bezos' mom and dad. And, in turn, Stand for Children throws some of its money in there. (It's a long line of circ... more »
Voice and Vision « InterACT
Voice and Vision « InterACT: Voice and Vision by David B. Cohen [image: vision]Teacher voice will only take us so far without a vision to accompany it. Teacher voice is a concept that is central to my work, one that I’ve tried to immerse myself in for years, but in a webinar today I began to think we need an expanded concept: voice and vision. Bill Ferriter, The Tempered Radical, is one of my favorite people to read, listen to, and talk to about these issues. We first met in a virtual space, the Teacher Leaders Network, and then cemented a virtual camraderie by meeting in person a... more »
Remembering Justin Morrill | Taking Note
Remembering Justin Morrill | Taking Note: Remembering Justin Morrill by JOHN MERROW on 02. AUG, 2012 in 2012 BLOGS Does the name Justin Smith Morrill ring a bell? Perhaps not, although I am sure you know about theMorrill Act, which President Lincoln signed into law 150 years ago. That legislation created the nation’s land grant universities and remains one of the most significant pieces of federal education legislation in our history. (That short list also includes the G.I. Bill, the National Defense Education Act, theElementary and Secondary Education Act, and the Pell Grant leg... more »
Campbell Brown’s abusive-teachers war preceded Twitter spat | GothamSchools
Campbell Brown’s abusive-teachers war preceded Twitter spat | GothamSchools: Campbell Brown’s abusive-teachers war preceded Twitter spat by Geoff Decker Campbell Brown testified before the state's Education Reform Commission on the issue of teachers found to have abused children last week. Campbell Brown says she’s done using Twitter to provoke union leaders into a debate. After a furious 48-hour exchange with AFT president Randi Weingarten, in which the 140-character messages quickly elevated into charges of sexism and conflicted interests, Brown said she wants the next showdown to... more »
Jersey Jazzman: Students First: Astroturfers
Jersey Jazzman: Students First: Astroturfers: Students First: Astroturfers by Duke How dare anyone impugn a refomyist's motives by daring to point out what they are actually up to! Betrayed. That’s how regional StudentsFirst organizer Catherine Robinson felt when an email she sent to a small group of supporters wound up published on education blogs. The email announced a contest awarding gift cards for the best comments left on online education stories. (Two StateImpact Florida stories were among included links). Robinson says the $5 gift cards were a small tribute of thanks to ha... more »
Learning Supports: The Missing Component in School Improvement - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Learning Supports: The Missing Component in School Improvement - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Learning Supports: The Missing Component in School Improvement by Anthony Cody *Guest post by Howard Adelman and Linda Taylor* School reform over the past decade has focused on two arenas: improving curriculum and instruction, and the way our schools are governed and managed. We have new curriculum, new tests, new evaluation schemes, new schools, new technology, and new teachers. But schools still are not doing anything significant to address factors interfering with youngs... more »
Jersey Jazzman: Haliburton High Is Coming
Jersey Jazzman: Haliburton High Is Coming: Haliburton High Is Coming by Duke The reformyists are so excited that it's "their time," they aren't even pretending that their plans are about anything other than profit: Traditionally, public education has been a tough market for private firms to break into -- fraught with politics, tangled in bureaucracy and fragmented into tens of thousands of individual schools and school districts from coast to coast. Now investors are signaling optimism that a golden moment has arrived. They're pouring private equity and venture capital into scores... more »
A New Program Scours Twitter for School Bullying - Education - GOOD
A New Program Scours Twitter for School Bullying - Education - GOOD: A New Program Scours Twitter for School Bullying by Liz Dwyer One of the challenges with nipping school bullying in the bud is that students are often reluctant to let teachers and parents know what's going on. Kids think being labeled as a snitch will make their situations worse—if adults don't take bullying seriously, sometimes those fears are well founded. But there's one place students lose their inhibitions and dish all the details of what's going on: Twitter. Indeed, computer science researchers at the Unive... more »
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Hedge-fund vultures circling public ed
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Hedge-fund vultures circling public ed: Hedg- fund vultures circling public ed by Mike Klonsky *"This is a new frontier. The private equity guys and the hedge fund guys are circling public education."* -- Diane Ravitch Stephanie Simon at Reuters reveals profiteers waiting in the wings to cash in on Common Core Standards. About 100 of gathered in a meeting last week at the University Club in Manhattan, billed as a how-to on "private equity investing in for-profit education companies." *If they're as rigorous as advertised, a huge number of scho... more »
Jersey Jazzman: NJDOE Coup d'Etat Continues
Jersey Jazzman: NJDOE Coup d'Etat Continues: NJDOE Coup d'Etat Continues by Duke If you had any doubts about the autocratic tendencies of Commissioner Chris Cerf and the NJ Education Department, this news should put them to rest: ELC OBTAINS CONFIDENTIAL NJDOE SCHOOL “TURNAROUND” PLANPROPOSAL TO BROAD FOUNDATION SEEKS MILLIONS FOR CLOSURES, “RECOVERY DISTRICT” July 31, 2012 In response to a request under the NJ Open Public Records Act (OPRA), Education Law Center has obtained a confidential proposal prepared for the Broad Foundation by the NJ Department of Education (NJDOE) to “tur... more »
D.C. Fires 98 Teachers, Bringing Total to 400 Since 2009: DCist
D.C. Fires 98 Teachers, Bringing Total to 400 Since 2009: DCist: D.C. Fires 98 Teachers, Bringing Total to 400 Since 2009 [image: 2010_1209_henderson.jpg]Part of the school reform ushered in by former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee and continued by her successor Kaya Henderson revolves around rewarding good teachers and getting rid of the bad. Yesterday D.C. did the latter,letting 98 teachers go for faring poorly on annual performance evaluations. With yesterday's dismissals, some 400 teachers have been fired from DCPS since 2009 for poor ratings on the annual IMPACT assessme... more »
Chris Christie’s Plan to Privatize NJ’s Low-Performing Schools « Diane Ravitch's blog
Chris Christie’s Plan to Privatize NJ’s Low-Performing Schools « Diane Ravitch's blog: Chris Christie’s Plan to Privatize NJ’s Low-Performing Schools by dianerav The Education Law Center at Rutgers obtained a copy of a proposal that the Chris Christie administration made to the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation in Los Angeles. The plan calls for aggressive state intervention in the state’s lowest performing schools. Acting Commissioner Chris Cerf wants to set up an “achievement district” for the low-performing schools. These schools would likely be closed and handed over to private... more »
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: D.C. mass teacher firings and Randi's "new unionism"
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: D.C. mass teacher firings and Randi's "new unionism": D.C. mass teacher firings and Randi's "new unionism" by Mike Klonsky Back in 2009 in D.C., the acceptance of the IMPACT Evaluation System marked the start of what *Randi Weingarten* now refers to as "results-based" unionism. IMPACT drew national attention as one of the first attempts to link teacher pay and job security with classroom performance measured largely by student scores on high-stakes standardized tests. Weingarten's current *new unionism* approach calls for similar collaborations on m... more »
Privatizing Public Schools: Big Firms Eyeing Profits From U.S. K-12 Market
Privatizing Public Schools: Big Firms Eyeing Profits From U.S. K-12 Market: - Login with Facebook to see what your friends are reading - Enable Social Reading - i Privatizing Public Schools: Big Firms Eyeing Profits From U.S. K-12 Market *Reuters* | Posted: 08/02/2012 10:16 am Updated: 08/02/2012 12:18 pm [image: Share on Google+] [image: Privatizing Public Schools] By Stephanie Simon NEW YORK, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The investors gathered in a tony private club in Manhattan were eager to hear about the next big thing, and education consultant Rob Lytle was happy to oblige. ... more »
Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson Maintains He Was Not Forced Out | TheLedger.com
Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson Maintains He Was Not Forced Out | TheLedger.com: *Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson Maintains He Was Not Forced Out* By Merissa Green THE LEDGER Published: Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 12:47 a.m.Last Modified: Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 12:47 a.m. LAKELAND | Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson told The Ledger on Wednesday he really is resigning for family reasons. Enlarge Gerard Robinson It has nothing to do with the miscalculation on this year's school grades or the feud brewing between Polk and the state Department of Education, he ... more »
Teachers Don't Suck !: State Run Education is Great (If you Don't Mind Mind Control)
Teachers Don't Suck !: State Run Education is Great (If you Don't Mind Mind Control): State Run Education is Great (If you Don't Mind Mind Control) by Walt S. I happened to read this article on the Internet and I think it makes some interesting points about the State's takeover of education. The New Totalitarianism: How American Corporations Have Made America Like the Soviet Union By Sara Robinson, AlterNet Posted on July 15, 2012, Printed on July 16, 2012 http://www.alternet.org/story/156311/the_n...he_soviet_union Education: Testing, Not Teaching My eighth-grade civics teache... more »
Eduwonky » Campbell Brown In Her Own Words
Eduwonk » Blog Archive » Campbell Brown In Her Own Words: Campbell Brown In Her Own Words by arotherham Over the weekend journo and former NBC and CNN anchor Campbell Brown penned an op-ed in *The Wall Street Journal* taking teachers’ unions to task for not being more aggressive about dealing with sexual predators and sexually abusive adults in schools. Whether and how to reform policies dealing with such teachers is being hotly debated in California and New York right now. Brown’s op-ed set off a firestorm (Eduwonk links here and here for background and my take) and a fairly nasty ... more »
FCMAT » Cali Education Headlines Thursday, August 2, 2012
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: *Mojave Desert * Education Headlines *Thursday, August 2, 2012* Bonita Unified officials receive updates on district projectsBonita High School, in La Verne, will have its more than $4.8 million gym construction scheduled for completion on Aug. 28, officials said. San Dimas High School is having its gym rebuilt and other construction planned at more than $6.9 million, officials said. Tustin bond measure asks voters to fund new school technologyCome November, voters will be asked to decide whether to approve a bond measure funding ... more »
Male teachers are sexual predators and the union protects them. « Fred Klonsky
Male teachers are sexual predators and the union protects them. « Fred Klonsky: Male teachers are sexual predators and the union protects them. by Fred Klonsky Okay. Let’s be frank, shall we? Why would a guy be an elementary school teacher? Gay. Right? And since male teachers *must* be homosexual, they *must* be after little boys. Right? Art teacher? Uh huh. Music? Yep. PE? Aren’t they all? And the teachers union protects these sexual predators? Results-based unionism? by Fred Klonsky
Daily Kos: On Algebra and Lies We Tell Children (And Ourselves)
Daily Kos: On Algebra and Lies We Tell Children (And Ourselves): On Algebra and Lies We Tell Children (And Ourselves) byplthomasEdDFollow 4 PERMALINK3 COMMENTS Children who are native speakers of English do something extremely interesting and simultaneously frustrating for some parents who fret over whether or not their children are smart and whether or not their children speak "properly." At some point, that child will utter something like, "Mommy, he goed," and the adoring parent will respond with something like, "No, honey, he went." While this event should be an exciting and... more »
State Board of Education Members Co-Host Fundraiser for Jeb Bush’s Pro-Voucher Foundation at Voucher Advocates Home | Scathing Purple Musings
State Board of Education Members Co-Host Fundraiser for Jeb Bush’s Pro-Voucher Foundation at Voucher Advocates Home | Scathing Purple Musings: State Board of Education Members Co-Host Fundraiser for Jeb Bush’s Pro-Voucher Foundation at Voucher Advocates Home by Bob Sikes Florida Board of Education Chair Kathleen Shanahan and member Akshay M. Desai are listed as hosts of a fundraiser to benefit Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Florida’s Future. Not to be confused with Bush’s other foundation, Foundation for Excellence in Education, this one focuses on choice legislation and digital lear... more »
Shanker Blog » Investing In Children = Supporting Their Families
Shanker Blog » Investing In Children = Supporting Their Families: Investing In Children = Supporting Their Families by Esther Quintero Although some parents are better positioned than others to meet their families’ child care needs, very few parents are immune to the challenges of balancing work and family. Adding further stress to families is the fact that single-parent households are at a record high in the U.S., with more than 40 percent of births happening outside of marriage. Paid parental leave and quality early childhood education (ECE) are two important policies that can ... more »
Unionized Charter School Teachers Still Need Your Help | Edwize
Unionized Charter School Teachers Still Need Your Help | Edwize: Unionized Charter School Teachers Still Need Your Help by Rob Callaghan [image: UFT ACTS Contract Now]For those of you who expressed your support for the educators at the New York City Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries’ (AECI) last week, we thank you. We are certain our message was heard by the board member we targeted in our call-in campaign. We want to ask you to once again reach out to another board member to help demand justice for teachers at this charter school in the B... more »
Education jargon: What ‘no excuses’ and other terms really mean - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
Education jargon: What ‘no excuses’ and other terms really mean - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: Education jargon: What ‘no excuses’ and other terms really mean By Valerie Strauss This* was written by Joanne Yatvin, a veteran public school educator, author and past president of the National Council of Teachers of English. She is now teaching part-time at Portland State University*. By Joanne Yatvin Way back when I was a college student, one of my professors warned the class to avoid using jargon in our papers. By jargon he meant big words of indeterminate meaning. Ever sin... more »
Schools Matter: Is Campbell Brown Just Another Corporate Lackey Posing as a Journalist?
Schools Matter: Is Campbell Brown Just Another Corporate Lackey Posing as a Journalist?: Is Campbell Brown Just Another Corporate Lackey Posing as a Journalist? by Jim Horn From Media Matters: Former CNN anchor Campbell Brown criticized New York teachers unions in a *Wall Street Journal* op-ed over the weekend without disclosing a possible conflict of interest -- her husband, Dan Senor, is a board member of an organization that opposes teachers unions. On July 29, Brown criticized the New York teachers unions' handling of teachers accused of sexual misconduct: Under current New ... more »
Thomas: Linking teacher pay to test scores helps no one - Editorial Columns - TheState.com
Thomas: Linking teacher pay to test scores helps no one - Editorial Columns - TheState.com: Thomas: Linking teacher pay to test scores helps no one By PAUL THOMAS By PAUL THOMAS - Guest Columnist [image: Bookmark and Share] [image: email this story to a friend] E-MAIL[image: print story] PRINT REPRINT 3 COMMENTS TEXT SIZE: Starting in the early 1980s, education reform focused on increasing expectations for students by establishing state standards and graduation requirements that included high-stakes exit exams. More recently, it has shifted from student accountability to teacher a... more »
Report detailing Boston Consulting Group’s findings and recommendations released | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
Report detailing Boston Consulting Group’s findings and recommendations released | Philadelphia Public School Notebook: Report detailing Boston Consulting Group’s findings and recommendations releasedby Dale Mezzacappa on Aug 02 2012 Posted in Latest news - COMMENTS (1)PRINT - EMAIL[image: ""] Tags: - budget cuts - English language learners - District budget - privatization - special education - funding equity - transportation - Pedro Ramos - Thomas Knudsen - Renaissance Schools - Philadelphia Federation of Teachers - s... more »
Special needs child can't accept school voucher - KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana News Weather & Sports
Special needs child can't accept school voucher - KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana News Weather & Sports: Special needs child can't accept school voucher *Posted: Aug 01, 2012 3:43 PM PDT**Updated: Aug 01, 2012 3:43 PM PDT* By Brittany Pieper - bio | email - KSLA NEWS 12 HEADLINESmore>> - NAACP joins fight of former city employees against mayor Updated: Aug 02, 2012 3:09 AM PDT The NAACP is now getting involved in Port Allen politics, working on behalf of former city employees. Several of those former employees have accused Mayor Roger Bergeron of being raci... more »
More Youth Run Away Who Attend Schools in the West, Have a Lack of Parent Involvement at School, or Have Larger Class Sizes - MarketWatch
More Youth Run Away Who Attend Schools in the West, Have a Lack of Parent Involvement at School, or Have Larger Class Sizes - MarketWatch: More Youth Run Away Who Attend Schools in the West, Have a Lack of Parent Involvement at School, or Have Larger Class Sizes CHICAGO, Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- National Runaway Switchboard's New Study Finds a Connection Between School Characteristics and Adolescent Runaway Behavior Many school level characteristics are predictors of youth runaway behavior, as determined in a new study released today by the National Runaway Switchboa... more »
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-2-12 Diane Ravitch's blog
Diane Ravitch's blog: [image: Click on picture to Listen to Diane Ravitch] When Talking and Listening Are Not Enough by dianerav A reader responds to another post: *I agree we need to do all of what you say, god knows I do, but I’m worried that we may exchange the support we give to each other and ourselves for a quiet waiting, a further hunkering down. Make no mistake, teaching is a gender issue for all of us as well as anything else. We are in a classic abusive relationship with ed deform. Most of us are women, and we are being treated in a traditionally determined way because o... more »
Back-To-School: Education Cuts Favored By Americans Include Teacher Salary Freezes, Administration Cuts, Survey Says
Back-To-School: Education Cuts Favored By Americans Include Teacher Salary Freezes, Administration Cuts, Survey Says: Back-To-School: Education Cuts Favored By Americans Include Teacher Salary Freezes, Administration Cuts, Survey Says by Joy Resmovits As school districts suffer from increasing costs and not enough cash, only 11 percent of Americans are willing to pay more in taxes to fund communities' schools, according to a new report released Thursday. Instead, almost half (48 percent) said that the best approach to fixing a school-district deficit would be "dramatically changing... more »
Sal Khan responds to a critic — and the critic answers back - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
Sal Khan responds to a critic — and the critic answers back - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: Sal Khan responds to a critic — and the critic answers back By Valerie Strauss A guest post I recently published critiquing the Khan Academy received a great deal of response, including an e-mail from Salman Khan, founder of the academy. Now here’s the next part of the debate: A response from the critic. Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, in 2010. (Courtesy of Khan Academy)For those who may not know, the Khan Academy is essentially a library of more than 3,300 videos on sub... more »
NYC Educator: Bloomberg Clarifies Breast Milk Position
NYC Educator: Bloomberg Clarifies Breast Milk Position: Bloomberg Clarifies Breast Milk Position by NYC Educator In another quick turnaround, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg has set out to clear up the confusion between public perception and what he claims to be his actual position. The Mayor has taken quite a bit of flack for his restrictions on baby formula. In fact, some New Yorkers are saying this action deprives mothers of a fundamental choice, and that he has no business whatsoever getting involved in such personal decisions. "It's all a misunderstanding," said the Mayor today. "... more »
Missouri Education Watchdog: StudentsFirst, the Full Court Press (Arne Duncan would be Proud) and Olympic Videos in Missouri.
Missouri Education Watchdog: StudentsFirst, the Full Court Press (Arne Duncan would be Proud) and Olympic Videos in Missouri.: StudentsFirst, the Full Court Press (Arne Duncan would be Proud) and Olympic Videos in Missouri. by stlgretchen StudentsFirst practicing Arne Duncan's love of basketball moves. StudentsFirst's full court press has started in Missouri. We've gotten 2 new lobbyists for the organization (one is from the national office), Lea Crusey lets us know which Missouri politicians support RTTT-like mandates and we now have a video from the organization with an Olympic... more »
teacher/poet/musician glen brown: Any Assault on Public Employees’ Rights and Benefits Is an Attack on the Entire Middle Class
teacher/poet/musician glen brown: Any Assault on Public Employees’ Rights and Benefits Is an Attack on the Entire Middle Class: Any Assault on Public Employees’ Rights and Benefits Is an Attack on the Entire Middle Class How should we think about the legislative folly of the past several months? When we realize competent and ethical leadership does not exist in the Illinois General Assembly; that the majority of Illinois legislators pass bills they do not read because “doing something” is all that really needs to be done regardless of the disastrous consequences, then our belief i... more »
A Math Teacher and Dad Comments on Khan Academy (Jerry Brodkey) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
A Math Teacher and Dad Comments on Khan Academy (Jerry Brodkey) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: A Math Teacher and Dad Comments on Khan Academy (Jerry Brodkey) by larrycuban *Jerry Brodkey teaches at Menlo-Atherton High School in Menlo Park, California. He has been a public secondary school teacher since 1975, and has taught most of the subjects in Social Studies and Mathematics. He now teaches remedial algebra and Advanced Placement Calculus. His undergraduate degree was from Rice University (BA 1974), and has graduate degrees from Stanford (MA 1976, Ph.D.... more »
Lori Wheal Is Not Only a Master Teacher, But Master of Her Domain.southbronxschool.com
http://www.southbronxschool.com: Lori Wheal Is Not Only a Master Teacher, But Master of Her Domain The great teacher debate is on yet again. The New Teacher Project, which was created by Michelle Rhee, has come out with another slanted study that we are losing "great" teachers as the same rate as "bad" teachers. That being said, so what? Of course before one can whistle the Ride of the Valkyries the sycophants got their marching orders and were out in full force parroting all the ed deform talking points on how we are not keeping "great" teachers, yet keeping the "bad" ones. So bl... more »
Broad Foundation Alert | Could State-Run ‘Achievement School District’ Be Last Resort for Failing Schools?
NJ Spotlight | Could State-Run ‘Achievement School District’ Be Last Resort for Failing Schools?: Could State-Run ‘Achievement School District’ Be Last Resort for Failing Schools? Grant application to Broad Foundation sheds light on Cerf’s idea for lowest-performing schools print | email | share By John Mooney, August 2, 2012 in Education |Post a Comment Credit: Governor's Office/Tim Larsen Education Commissioner Chris Cerf is mulling an "Achievement School District" for failing schools. The Christie administration is weighing the idea of creating a separate state-run “achievement...more »
Schools Matter: Duncan Dishes $21.5 Million to College Board and Calls It Helping the Poor
Schools Matter: Duncan Dishes $21.5 Million to College Board and Calls It Helping the Poor: Duncan Dishes $21.5 Million to College Board and Calls It Helping the Poor by Jim Horn Arne Duncan has a No Excuses approach to education, and to prove it once more, he has just signed off on a plan to give every American child living in a car, motel room, or urban hovel a chance to take another test to show how hopelessly behind she is. As a side benefit for the testing-industrial complex, the College Board collects the entire sum: The U.S. Department of Education announced the award o... more »
NYC Public School Parents: Please help The Children's School expand!
NYC Public School Parents: Please help The Children's School expand!: Please help The Children's School expand! by Leonie Haimson *The following post is by Nicole Krieger, parent at The Children's School, a very special inclusion school in Brooklyn that has been asking DOE for years for more space to expand into the middle grades. Too often the folks at Portfolio Office seem eager to find space for charters over the needs of even our most successful public schools. Please lend your support to this campaign.* Parents’ Committee for The Children’s School Expansion has begun a ca... more »
School Tech Connect: A Fundraiser in August
School Tech Connect: A Fundraiser in August: A Fundraiser in August This in from Matt Farmer: Shortly after sunrise on July 10, three teenagers not only attacked, robbed and killed 62-year-old Delfino Mora in an alley near his West Rogers Park apartment, they filmed themselves doing it. Mr. Mora happened to be in the alley collecting aluminum cans to make a few extra dollars for his family. Not long after posting their violent video on Facebook, the three teens were arrested and charged with murder.**** Mr. Mora left behind a wife and 12 children. On Sunday, August 12, please j... more »
Key Florida US Representative Calls For Duncan to Investigate State’s Test-Obsessed Accountabilty System | Scathing Purple Musings
Key Florida US Representative Calls For Duncan to Investigate State’s Test-Obsessed Accountabilty System | Scathing Purple Musings: Key Florida US Representative Calls For Duncan to Investigate State’s Test-Obsessed Accountabilty System by Bob Sikes From Lauren Roth of the *Orlando Sentinel:* U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, a Tampa Democrat, has asked U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan to step in and investigate Florida’s school accountability sytem, and particularly the state FCAT tests. “We need some accountability for Florida’s accountability system,” Castor said. She said the high... more »
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