Whatever Happened to the Fair Housing Act? and Why It Is Crucial to Fair Education
Below is information on an amazing piece of investigative reporting, presented this past Saturday on This American Life. Please do have a look and listen. Also, see the opportunity to participate in the an ongoing investigation on school segregation.A Year Later, Feds Inch Forward on Fair Housing by Nikole Hannah-Jones ProPublica, Nov. 22, 2013, 11:43 a.m.by Jeff Larson and Nikole Hannah-Jon
Asbury Park NJ Where is the Democracy?
Seems to be an epidemic across the country. Democracy? What's that? In the new world of test and punish from the corporate cronies, democracy is history. Of course, the Christie Administration is only looking out for the best intersts of the students, you know the guy who has done so much for NJ public schools that a court had to reinstate $500 million in aid to poor districts.This Asbury Park Pr
Tony Bennett and Mike Pence’s CECI
ByDoug Martin Since my first article where I outedthe vast amount of taxpayer money Pence is paying staff at his Center for Education and Career Innovation (CECI) to usurp supt. of public education Glenda Ritz, Mike Claytor, an accountant and Democratic candidate for state auditor, has publically called for an audit of Pence’s new dual education agency, saying the CECI violates Hoosier government
Rushing into high-tech testing
Sent to the Buffalo News, Nov. 25.Buffalo educators are concerned about whether students are tech-savvy enough to take the new computerized tests, and whether districts will have up-to-date equipment. (Pencils out, keyboards in for future exams," Nov, 25). But only a few people are asking whether we should rushing into high-tech testing. Williamsville Superintendent Martzloff points out that
Privatized Custodial Services Bring Corporate Windfalls and Dirty Schools to Memphis
Since school fragmentation consolidation went into effect in Shelby County (Memphis) Schools, the lawyers in charge of SCS have been trying to save every dime they can to pay for the $212 million dollar donut hole created to pay for corporate welfare charter reform schools for the urban poor. Part of the savings came by way of relieving staff custodians of their jobs as the County accepted an offe
11-24-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Teach Campaign Star RIFed Last Year Just Before TenureAlexandria Hollet is one of the young, female white teachers chosen by Microsoft-TFA to provide 40 second testimonials on teaching for Arne Duncan's new campaign to attract the vulnerable and uninformed into what was once a profession. With corporate ed policies in place to demean, abuse, blame, punish, and fire teachers for an