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Monday, July 1, 2013

Roll the video tape and the mysterious three dollar assessment. | Fred Klonsky

Roll the video tape and the mysterious three dollar assessment. | Fred Klonsky:

Roll the video tape and the mysterious three dollar assessment.

It’s twenty-four hours since I wrote a post on NEA President Dennis Van Roekel’s remarks to the NEA Retired Conference.
I reported what I heard.
DVR positioned advancing the fight for collective bargaining on one side of an equation. Quality and the Common Core on the other. He said that the NEA would be focused on quality and Common Core implementation.
I was reprimanded for quoting what DVR said instead of printing what DVR meant in a series of Twitter posts by someone named Melinda Anderson. Anderson claims she is DVR’s speechwriter.
Anderson took me to task by mentioning that DVR couldn’t have said that because of something about pre-