CPS teachers are evaluated on how well their students support an anti-immigrant policy.
CPS CEO Barbara Byrd Bennett wants teachers evaluated on how anti-immigrant their immigrant students are. Chicago Public School 7th grade students are being given a test that asks them to evaluate two anti-immigration positions and write a defense for one of them. Their teachers are being evaluated on how well their answers are scored. No. I’m not kidding. The district temporarily yanked the co
Zuckerberg, Oprah, Beyonce and Clooney.
Late Saturday and drew a cartoon about Facebook billionaire boys club member Mark Zuckerberg and his $100 million give away to Newark, New Jersey school reformers. As of today it has received over 6,000 page views and reposts. I was amazed. No drawing of mine on this blog has received that kind of response. Ever. “It’s the post title, honey,” said my wife. “What?” “You put “Zuckerberg” and “Oprah
Springfield legislators get summers off. Nobody complains. Will Guzzardi and Michael Madigan.
One of the talking points for teacher bashing is how teachers get paid for summers off. When I try to explain how this isn’t true – that teachers contracts are a per diem – that we are contracted (in my case) for 185 days, the eyes of whomever I was explaining this to would glaze over. It’s just easier to wrap you head around the summers off talking point. And don’t even begin to explain teacher
5-26-14 Fred Klonsky | Thirty years of sit and stay?
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Thirty years of sit and stay?MAY 26, 2014.Two years ago on Memorial Day Weekend – a very hot Chicago weekend – I threw a retirement party at the Red Line Tap for a couple hundred of my closest friends.Matt Farmer and Steve Doyle played some of their great rock and roll. Three long sets, as I recallI g