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Friday, January 24, 2014

Alert! Alert! Danger Will Robinson. Misleading Phone Survey on Common Core being made right now! | Crazy Crawfish's Blog

Alert! Alert! Danger Will Robinson. Misleading Phone Survey on Common Core being made right now! | Crazy Crawfish's Blog:











The backstory of EBR “cheating” scandal
Recently John White has been trying to stir up a lot of controversy about what he initially called a “cheating” scandal.  Here is one of the earlier reports of what is turning out to be a completely made up EBR cheating scandal.  He unloads quite a laundry list but to date has not been able to back it up and has scaled it back every time anyone asks about it.  However the damage he made to public
Alert! Alert! Danger Will Robinson. Misleading Phone Survey on Common Core being made right now!
This just in. More Common Core spin. PHONE SURVEY ****** a phone survey is being done on COMMON CORE here in Louisiana. Each and every question referred to “State Standards” and were “push poll” questions making the “State Standards” sound great. IF YOU GET THIS CALL: please answer NO or DO NOT AGREE to their misleading questions. Although they then cover reasons why “some” are opposed it is ver
Guest Blogger, PegLeg Mickey, returns with some ill tidings and tidbits
EBR Supe Pokes White in the Eye In the grogshop this week, I heard a snatch of conversation that warmed my rotten soul. There’s been a bit of story boiling up in the Advocate about the LDoE investigating East Baton Rouge Parish for cheating on tests and then it switched to graduation. Seems some counselor okayed a student graduating when the student was short one credit. Considering the number


Zack Kopplin: Louisiana Public School System's Harassment of 11-Year-Old Buddhist Student "Child Abuse" and "Potentially a Hate Crime"
Reblogged from CenLamar: Today, the American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of parents Scott and Sara Lane, filed suit against the Sabine Parish School Board, Sabine Parish Superintendent of Education Sara Ebarb (pictured at left), Negreet High School Principal Gene Wright, and Negreet High School teacher Rita Roark for religiously harassing and intimidating their young son. The case is horrify
Saturday's progressive Louisiana bloggers summit will be live streamed
Reblogged from Something Like the Truth: If you haven't signed up to attend this Saturday's progressive bloggers summit in Baton Rouge, please consider attending. The Progressive Voices, New Media: A Louisiana Social Media and Blogging Summit will take place from 12:15 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the African American Cultural Center on the LSU Baton Rouge campus. If you can't make it, there's another op