Updating the ®eform lineup card: MICHELLE RHEE IS OUT, CAMPBELL BROWN IS IN … and who’s bankroll is it anyway?
Education “reform’s” new Ann Coulter: A reeling Michelle Rhee passes the lead to Campbell Brown Exclusive: As Rhee's efforts flounder, new links emerge between a group she founded and a new face, Campbell Brown by Jeff Bryant in Salon | http://bit.ly/1nmlH5s (Credit: Jacquelyn Martin) Wednesday, Jul 23, 2014 01:17 PM PST :: For years, Michelle Rhee, the former District of
Digital Divide, Lack Of Certified Librarians ‘A National Crisis’
By Jake New, Editor, @eCN_Jake – from eSchool News | http://bit.ly/1o6nlxe Educators, librarians discuss how schools and libraries can respond to the ‘second wave of the digital divide’ May 8th, 2014 - Washington, D.C. :: Barbara Stripling, president of the American Library Association, said students, teachers, and librarians are facing “a silent dilemma.” Imagine, she said, you’re one
David Boies joins Campbell Brown: CELEBRATED TRIAL LAWYER TO HEAD GROUP CHALLENGING TEACHER TENURE
By MOTOKO RICH, NY Times | http://nyti.ms/1slITWU AUG. 3, 2014 :: David Boies, the star trial lawyer who helped lead the legal charge that overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban, is becoming chairman of the Partnership for Educational Justice, a group that former CNN anchor Campbell Brown founded in part to pursue lawsuits challenging teacher tenure. Mr. Boies, the son of two public
Supes Surveyed On Suspensions
from Politico Morning Ed and AASA: The School Superintendents Association and the Children's Defense Fund asked 500 school superintendents how and why they use out-of-school suspension. Out of the 92 percent who thought the punishment leads to negative consequences, more than two-thirds of superintendents said lost class time is the biggest problem. Out of the 85 percent who felt out-of-school
The election in LAUSD Board District 1: FOR ALEX JOHNSON, ATTACKING GEORGE MCKENNA'S REPUTATION IS KEY STRATEGY IN RACE FOR L.A. UNIFIED SCHOOL BOARD
L.A. Unified school board race turns negative, focuses on reputation By Howard Blume, LA Times | http://lat.ms/1tNredA George McKenna, left, with retired Inglewood school board member Larry Aubry and county Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, right, in 2013. McKenna is running against Alex Johnson to replace Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte, who died in December. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 8-2-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT Is giving students laptops a terrible idea?: WHY ONE DISTRICT IS THROWING ALL ITS STUDENT LAPTOPS AWAY + smf’s 2¢The Hechinger Report / By Jill Barshay | http://bit.ly/1xH0mJN July 30, 2014 | Inside Hoboken’s combined junior-senior high school is a storage closet. Behind the locked door, mothballed laptop c