Rahm the Raptor and the TFA Solution: No Retirement, No Retirement Problem
Since 1995, the City of Chicago has been on holiday during most of those years. On holiday, that is, from putting in the annual payments to keep the Chicago Teacher Retirement Fund solvent. The dwindling fund has been no secret to anyone for a long time, but after the CTU showed the small, vicious Mayor […]
Do teachers wonder why @michellerhee …?
Watch video #1 and then video #2. Any connections between the two? Video #1 Video #2 Follow Tim Slekar on Twitter: @slekar
Colorado Education Association President Promotes inBloom – without the Facts
Yesterday I read an opinion piece in the Denver Post by Kerrie Dallman, teacher and president of the Colorado Education Association, the state affiliate of the NEA. I am a Colorado public school teacher, a parent with a child in the public schools and finally, I am a member of the NEA. Ms. Dallman is […]
Colorado Educators Alert: TURNcoat, Kerrie Dalman, Promotes InBloom Student Data Mining and Storage
Kerrie Dalman is President of the Colorado Education Association, the state affiliate of the NEA. She is a head honcho of Southwest TURN, a branch of the metastasizing cancer eating away at the NEA and AFT. Yesterday, Kerrie had a guest commentary in the Denver Post, pumping the virtues of CorpEd’s commercial surveillance and storage of […]
All Week 7-20-13 @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER
@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: TODAYSaturday Math FactsBorn rich + no college > born poor + college = inequity Bad educational reform policies + billions of $$$ > credible education policies + no $$$ = accountability era in US educationby plthomasedd / 2h YESTERDAYCashing in on Kids Report Exposes ALECThe Center for Media and Democracy has a new report out on ALEC (Good beach reading) Desp