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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

UPDATE: ISBE’s Chris Koch explains it all. + Hundreds turn out to confront CPS on school closings + The in box. National call-in to Scrap the MAP. « Fred Klonsky

The in box. National call-in to Scrap the MAP. « Fred Klonsky:


ISBE’s Chris Koch explains it all.

Popout.
Every couple of years they call a meeting of the faculty to show a power point about the new thing.
This time it is the Common Core.
But don’t worry they tell you. You won’t actually have to change anything that you are doing.
That is the



The in box. National call-in to Scrap the MAP.

GET READY! THIS WEDNESDAY, January 30 is a national call/phone/fax day to tell Seattle Public Schools that you, your organization and your union stand with the teachers in the MAP test boycott. Send your message to Seattle Schools Superintendent José Banda:
Phone: (206) 252-0180
Fax: (206) 252-0209
Email: superintendent@seattleschools.org
If you send an email, share it with us here in the comments!
Next week, WEDNESDAY, February 6 will be a National Day in Solidarity with the Seattle Test Boycott. This can be an opportunity to gather petitions, pass resolutions and take solidarity photo


Raising teacher contributions to our pension is a solution that doesn’t speak to the problem.

From Ken Previti’s blog:
Pat Hermann explains the present situation clearly for all to comprehend. She is a retired teacher highly admired for her teaching skills in addition to her lengthy and superb support of the past IEA and all of Illinois’ teachers.
What we need is a union that is going to stand up for us and not solve the “pension” problem on 


Hundreds turn out to confront CPS on school closings.

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Photos: DNAinfo
First they tried to shut people up with a one hour power point presentation.
That didn’t work.
Then they tried that old trick of creating