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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

10-2-13 Schools Matter

Schools Matter:

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Billboards That Matter
From Don Perl:Dear Colleagues:I have randomly gone through the names of those who have been strong activists in the past for our billboard campaign to inform parents of their rights to exempt their children from the fraud of high stakes standardized testing.  As most of you know, we have advertised on Colorado highways since 2005 to raise awareness of the boondoggle of CSAP (now TCAP) and eac

Options PCS Featured in Today's Charter School Crime Log
A clip from WaPo:In the court complaint, D.C. officials allege that the managers’ salaries were far out of line with what public officials make, especially given the size of the school.Montgomery’s “salary and bonuses from Options PCS during a one-year period — at least $425,000 combined — totaled more than the salary of the President of the United States and more than twice the salary of the
Arne Duncan, Extortionist
extortion |ikˈstôrSHÉ™n|nounthe practice of obtaining something, esp. money, through force or threats.In California, where corporate legislators have decided to suspend NCLB testing for one year while they implement a new generation of racist tests using the new testing delivery system, the Common Core, Arne Duncan is on the scene, threatening to withhold Title I money if California moves forward:
Options PCS Featured in Today's Charter School Crime Log
A clip from WaPo:In the court complaint, D.C. officials allege that the managers’ salaries were far out of line with what public officials make, especially given the size of the school.Montgomery’s “salary and bonuses from Options PCS during a one-year period — at least $425,000 combined — totaled more than the salary of the President of the United States and more than twice the salary of the
Arne Duncan, Extortionist
extortion |ikˈstôrSHÉ™n|nounthe practice of obtaining something, esp. money, through force or threats.In California, where corporate legislators have decided to suspend NCLB testing for one year while they implement a new generation of racist tests using the new testing delivery system, the Common Core, Arne Duncan is on the scene, threatening to withhold Title I money if California moves forward:

10-1-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: The Assault on Public Education in SC Continues: More Innovation!How much education innovation can a high-poverty state take?Apparently, according to former-general-without-a-second-of-experience-as-a-teacher Superintendent Mick Zais, just a little more.As reported by Patrick Hayes at EdFirstSC (and not reported at the Charleston Post and Courier because the P&C is all about en