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Friday, September 27, 2013

9-27-13 Ed Notes Online

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STOP THE CHARTER SCHOOL INVASION THREATENING DISTRICTS 21 and 20
Rally at Seth Low (99 Ave. P in Brooklyn) Monday, Sept. 30 at 5:30 before the 6 PM meeting.They're coming. Charter and co-loco invasions are coming to every nook and cranny of the public school system, even those who thought they were exempt from the carnage. But people are fighting back.Many of us have been through this drill time and again, always with the same result. But with Bloomberg Tweedie

Leonie Haimon Goes to School and Finds Tweedie Implementation of Common Core Is a Disaster Movie
So, amongst all the inherent faults of the Common Bore, we have the totally inept Walcott-led Tweedies showing once again that they would find getting out of a paper bag a significant challenge.Heeeeere's Leonie:I toured school yesterday where majority of students are ELLs, either in dual language or transitional bilingual:- Most teachers said that they were lacking Common core texts, workbooks an



9-26-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Shame on NYC Ed Reporters for Supporting E4E in Event Closed to Anyone Who Doesn't Sign Their PledgeI saw the names of the reporters who are going to be on the panel and was sort of shocked that the "neutral" press would be on a panel for an organization that has banned people who do not agree with their pledge. In fact at one point I tried to go in with my press pass an