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Steady Education Privatization Advancing in California
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By Thomas Ultican 9/9/2026 This post looks at the state of public education
in California. It is important to be clear that charter schools are not
public ...
1 day ago
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Trump’s Latest: The State of New Mexico or New America?
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First came the Gulf of America. Then Lake America. Trump can alter the map
today and AI can teach it tomorrow. Trump is now floating the idea of
changing N...
2 days ago
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Five Great Questions For "Evidence-Based" Programs
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At EdWeek, Larry Ferlazzo ran a guest post by Rene Grimes that focused on
the “science of math” and the programs that are supposed to be based on it.
2 days ago
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Five Great Questions For "Evidence-Based" Programs
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At EdWeek, Larry Ferlazzo ran a guest post by Rene Grimes that focused on
the "science of math" and the programs that are supposed to be based on it.
Bet...
2 days ago
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Federal Vouchers Mean Federal Control
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Peter Greene explores the impact of federal vouchers on public and private
schools
2 days ago
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U.S. Students Above OECD Average in Science, Reading, and Computational
Problem Solving
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The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) today released the U.S.
results from the 2025 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), ...
2 days ago
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Cognitive Resonance: Why is Claude for Teachers?
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Cognitive Resonance: Why is Claude for Teachers?
*Anthropic bumbles its way into education*
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Everything about AI right now is weird.
I took...
2 days ago
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SCHOOL FUNDING IS NO FUN — BUT IS IT FAIR?
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*SCHOOL FUNDING IS NO FUN — BUT IS IT FAIR?**How "Reform" Became a Polite
Word for Pulling the Rug Out From Under Public Education*
Welcome to the gre...
2 days ago
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The REPULSICANS
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Admit it: The DUMBOCRATS is a fitting and appropriate moniker for one of
the two mainstream capitalist political parties in the US—one of the
greatest war-...
2 days ago
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Labor Day.
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Happy Birthday to Me
2 days ago
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Celebrating our power this Labor Day
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Every Labor Day, I stop to reflect on the history of our union and what
lessons we can apply to continue to build a movement that meets the
aspirations of ...
2 days ago
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Gary Rubinstein: Eva Moskowitz Sues NYSED for Inadvertently Exposing that
They Have Been Gaming the U.S. News Rankings for Years
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Eva Moskowitz, founder of Success Academy charter chain, has been
everywhere recently, promoting her brand. She has written op-Ed’s for major
newspapers, s...
2 days ago
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That Feeling of Understanding
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Years ago, a friend involved in the business of "up cycling" wound up with
a collection of junk with which even he couldn't figure out what to do, so
he...
2 days ago
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He Is Truly "Unhinged"
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Since yesterday, Donald J. Trump has been posting on social media at a
frantic pace, showing AI images of himself with President George Washington
on ...
2 days ago
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Buy Low, Rent High: The Charter School Real Estate Playbook
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Charter school facilities financing produces two distinct, well-documented,
and fixable problems: districts selling public buildings to charter
operators f...
2 days ago
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Charters As Well As Vouchers Continue to Threaten Public Education in Ohio
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School privatization poses enormous problems for Ohio’s system of
traditional public schools. In June of 2025, Ohio’s legislature failed
fully to fund a we...
2 days ago
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‘Literally a lifesaver’: SWODA driving health outcomes through rural
mobility program
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[image: rural mobility program]COMANCHE COUNTY — With critical access
hospitals at risk of closure and recent funding cuts to the federal Centers
for Med...
2 days ago
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Success Academy Sues NYSED For Inadvertently Exposing That They Have Been
Gaming The US News & World Report Rankings For Years
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No matter where you go in New York City, you are forced to ponder the
Success Academy charter network. On bus stops, in your mailbox, even as a
commercial ...
2 days ago
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Budgeting Propositions; t’ain’t no more – Prop 2, Prop 38 & Prop 44
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This last set of Propositions (follow these hyperlinks for the first four
posts on billionaires, kid-critical, housing and election reform…
The post Budg...
2 days ago
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Following Up on "The Decade of Decline in Seattle Public Schools"
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I posted a link to this article written by Sandeep Kaushik earlier but here
it is again. It is a lengthy piece but a worthy one for anyone wondering
how...
2 days ago
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Labor Day. Happy Birthday to Me.
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So—I just had a birthday. A big, round-number birthday. All my life, my
birthday has taken place in and around Labor Day weekend, and—fairly
often—happened...
3 days ago
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To the Holiday Workers on Standby
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I was fortunate enough to have Labor Day off. It was for me a relaxing day.
I spent most of it quietly at home, doing nothing particularly taxing,
which I ...
3 days ago
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Mulgrew's Para Pay Gambit in Conflict with Mamdani Who Gets Praise from the
Right: Is This War?
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*EONYC, The WIRE:*
*don’t confuse a temporary check with a raise.*
*don’t confuse a political campaign with collective bargaining.*
*Arthur Goldstein, ...
3 days ago
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Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
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Ten years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and
resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general
that ...
3 days ago
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To Stop Cheating in School, Address the Root Cause (Adam Grant)
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Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania. This article appeared in The New York Times,
August 3...
3 days ago
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Educators Resist
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*TL;DR*
*What We’ve Done*
Understanding that voting in November in numbers that cannot be ignored is
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4 days ago
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Day 1 for the New Congress
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If Dems don't do this, they will have failed us entirely.
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— unpersoned.bsky.social (@unpersoned.bsky.social) September 5, 2026 at
5:5...
4 days ago
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Recommended: Lesson Planning and Literacy Narratives
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“Today’s preservice teachers (PTs) enter a field in which content and
curriculum are increasingly standardized and controlled by voices outside
of their sc...
5 days ago
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The Disappearing Activist
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Unity wants us to be utterly dependent on them. That’s not how a union
stays strong.
5 days ago
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BREAKING: More than 1 in 10 Ohio Charter Schools suspected of “testing
anomalies”
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Add this to the fact that 1 in 5 Ohio Charter Schools have been on the
state’s lowedt-performing-schools-in-the-state list since 2018 and you can
see that ...
6 days ago
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Why Does Teacher Pay Matter?
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A recent story on America’s growing teacher shortage indicates a real
problem – nearly half a million teaching positions unfilled or filled with
temporary ...
6 days ago
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No One Was Blaming Parents
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Today I had a column published in The Orlando Sentinel. It was a response
to Nathan Hoffman’s August...
1 week ago
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Common Core and Science of Reading’s Troubling Disregard for Student
Writing and Voice
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Critics slam teachers and public schools for low reading scores. Much of
that criticism is wrong and misses the real problem. The Common Core State
Stand...
1 week ago
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SPI Celebrates 1 Million CalKIDS Accounts
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California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond
celebrates 1 million CalKIDS accounts, highlights financial literacy in
Monterey County.
1 week ago
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New Book: Manufactured Outrage: The Conservative Industrial Complex’s War
on Education and How to Fight Back
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A new book by four education professors uncovers a coordinated effort by
conservative groups to reshape Public Education.
The post New Book: Manufacture...
1 week ago
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A Child’s Citizenship Does Not Depend on a Parent’s Paperwork
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After losing its effort to restrict birthright citizenship at the Supreme
Court, the Trump Administration is seeking to restrict passports to
children and ...
1 week ago
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DOE presentation on their AI guidance
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The following slides were presented to the AI Moratorium Coalition steering
commitee on Sept. 1, 2026. The last slide has bullet points made up of
response...
1 week ago
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Hooray for the new ‘barbarians’.
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Mike Johnson’s latest red scare scam.
1 week ago
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Guest column: Republican education policies have left Indiana’s children
behind
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Guest column: Republican education policies have left Indiana’s children
behind
The post Guest column: Republican education policies have left Indiana’s ...
1 week ago
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At Substack: On Aging, Writing, and the Past: Baumgartner by Paul Auster
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On Aging, Writing, and the Past: Baumgartner by Paul Auster
1 week ago
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Weekend Quotables
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Trump’s “binky”
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The Light She Left Behind
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“Those we love don’t go away, they sit beside us every day.” — Liane
Moriarty, Big Little Lies Forgive us if we are a little sad here in
Tennessee. We lost...
1 week ago
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Bookstore Romance Day, Fat Liberation & an Unofficial Guide to the Oregon
Coast
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Nothing clears your head better than salty sea air... and like, four bowls
of clam chowder.
1 week ago
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The Great and Irreplaceable Dolly Parton
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If the state of the world has you down, here’s a reprieve, two interviews
with the great Dolly Parton. The first is my extended interview with her,
13 yea...
2 weeks ago
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Who Wants a Raise?
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And why do the people who need raises the most actually get the least?
2 weeks ago
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Who Wants a Raise?
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Everyone. And if you are a UFTer (and not a retiree), you are getting one.
But get this. A new paraprofessional is getting a raise of $803/year. Man,
do th...
2 weeks ago
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I Heart Mom Populism
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Support for public education turns out to be a surprisingly potent issue in
2026
2 weeks ago
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This year’s drop in NYC state test scores: sound and fury, signifying
nothing
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When the state test scores were released a couple of weeks ago, they showed
sharp drops in proficiency for NYC students, particularly in reading.
2 weeks ago
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This year's drop in NYC state test scores: sound and fury, signifying
nothing
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When the state test scores were released a couple of weeks ago, they showed
sharp drops in proficiency for NYC students, particularly in reading. This...
2 weeks ago
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SQ 844: How is this better?
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In plain terms, the new language gives the Legislature the authority to
establish both the amount and methodology for distributing ad valorem
reimbursement...
3 weeks ago
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A Wake-up Call for the Country
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As a nation we can do so much better for young children and families.
3 weeks ago
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Why Trump is Obsessed with the Kennedy Center
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He was shunned by NYC's cultural elite
3 weeks ago
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The end of a run.
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I have decided to end my substack column after more than 25 years of
blogging about schools, teaching, art and politics.
3 weeks ago
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Time to change our Nation’s Diaper
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It’s time to change our nation’s diaper. Our national identity now reeks
due to our inability to clean out the mess caused by the Orange Turd.
Corruption i...
4 weeks ago
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And Suddenly, There’s a Math Book (You Already Know)
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4 weeks ago
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And Suddenly, There’s a Math Book (You Already Know)
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Semiquincentennial Blues
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For Gil Scott-Heron
2 months ago
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Regarding Trump’s Utter Defeat and Surrender in the Middle East: Iran gets
to charge fees, too!
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Many analysts have explained how the recent MOU between Trump and Iran is a
humiliating and deep failure for the current regimes of both the USA and
Israel...
2 months ago
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May’s Parent Engagement Resources
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San Diego Unified Created a System to ‘Empower’ Parents. It Unraveled is
from The Voice of San Diego. Why Those Disengaged Parents in Your School
Deserve a...
3 months ago
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Donald Patton Resigns From Christina Board of Education
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The word on the street is Donald Patton resigned from the Christina School
District Board of Education less than two months before his term was set to
expi...
3 months ago
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500-Year-Old Slave Revolt of 1526 Redefines Freedom as US Turns 250
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In 1526 — long before the more renowned dates that anchor the nation’s
story of 1619 and 1776 — enslaved Africans rose up and freed themselves on
the land ...
3 months ago
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Statement on the NYS Comptroller’s audit of NYC’s Privacy and Security of
Student Data
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Statement on the NYS Comptroller’s audit of NYC’s Privacy and Security of
Student Data May 4, 2025 The audit from the State Comptroller’s office
released t...
4 months ago
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Reflections on America, the world, and life
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I acknowledge that I rarely post here anymore. Folks should remember that I
am approaching my 80th birthday in less than 9 weeks, I am still teaching
ful...
5 months ago
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U. S. President called out by UN
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How does the rest of the world see us?
5 months ago
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Peace Treaty: Why Schools Don’t Change (Even When Everyone Knows They
Should)
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People love to say “schools resist change.” It sounds like a personality
flaw—lazy, stubborn, old-fashioned. But schools aren’t hard to change
because educ...
5 months ago
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The Problem with "the Science of Reading"
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The problem with “the science of reading” is that it’s not new.
7 months ago
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Dear NJ Teachers and Their Families: You MUST Not Vote For Jack Ciattarelli
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To all NJ public school staff and their families:
*You must not vote for Jack Ciattarelli. He will do serious, lasting damage
to you personally, and the ...
10 months ago
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"Didn't do *that*," part 1: new Schofield case developments reveal crucial
10th Circuit/Ledger lie
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The record is clear. Jeremy Scott confessed at least 40 times in a 2017
hearing. He never recanted. The Ledger must retract its lie to force Judge
Kevin Ab...
1 year ago
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Il Papa è Morto
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Francis brought a distinct pastoral outlook to his papacy. A simple man, he
lived in a small apartment in the guesthouse. He sought to make the church
acce...
1 year ago
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Whose Opinions Matter in Education World?
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It's hard to identify education heroes and sheroes. And perhaps even harder
to pinpoint just whose work is slanted, paid-for and dishonest.
7 years ago
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March is nearly over and I didn't do anything for WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
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I was inspired when I saw this meme I guess it can be called of WOMEN IN
STEM and "IT'S OKAY TO BE SMART" And I began thinking about how the only
subjec...
9 years ago
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Prison Gerrymandering: Incarceration Weakens Vulnerable Voting Communities
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One person equals one vote: seems simple enough. Unfortunately, that hasn’t
worked out for many Americans throughout history, specifically women and
peop...
10 years ago
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I am Retiring
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I have some news: I am retiring from the PBS NewsHour and Learning Matters.
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11 years ago
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Four Newark Principals Get Bullied Out of School By Female Christie Clone- Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública
Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública:
Four Newark Principals Get Bullied Out of School By Female Christie Clone- But the Fight Is On for POWER Over the Schools!Councilman Ras Baraka's Mass Meeting to Stop School Closings held at Hopewell Baptist Church on Muhammad Ali Ave in Newark, New Jersey on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday 1-15-14.Things move quickly in the world of education. Allow me to recap the events of this fast breaking story…As in several cities across the country, Newark is facing daunting public school closures. Many schools are being shut completely while others have plans to be turned in to charters. Parents have been protesting these closuresfor weeks and they’re understandably upset.Four Newark School District Principals have been suspended indefinitely for speaking out against these closures at a meeting. Think they might have spoken out of turn? Watch. You can feel their passion and frustration…Unfortunately, the NSD superintendent Cami Anderson is not on their side. She was previously employed by New Leaders for New Schools, Teach for America, and trained by the Broad Academy. These are not pro-public school institutions.
“Teachers are as a class the members of a community most likely to have informed and definite opinions as to how funds allotted to the operation of the schools should be spent. Accordingly, it is essential that they be able to speak out freely on such questions without fear of retaliatory dismissal.” Pickering v Board of Education United States Supreme Court, 1968
Jersey Jazzman stated:
Cami Anderson is a public servant; she is in her position to serve the students, the parents, the citizens… and yes, the teachers and principals of Newark. They are the ones who are in the schools every day, working and striving to overcome the disgusting segregation and racism and sexism and classism that afflicts their students. They are the ones who know how hard it is for the beautiful,