The Highland teachers strike. A great editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Striking teachers in Highland aren’t making a lot of friends. Kids suffer when teachers aren’t in the classroom, and parents must scramble to make arrangements for child care for younger students. The Fightin’ Highland Bulldogs, one of the top-ranked small-school football teams in Illinois, already has had to forfeit one game and may have to forfeit again Friday night. F
Principal Troy LaRaviere on Chicago school policy. The public loses out and private corporations profit.
Blaine Principal Troy LaRaviere discusses how the scandal around school custodians and Aramark is bigger than rats, roaches and clean classrooms, as if that isn’t enough. He explains how, across the board, CPS and the current administration have created a system where students and the public lose and private corporations profit.
9-17-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Hooray for cartoonists.Dykes to Watch Out For cartoonist Alison Bechdel won the MacCarthur Award this morning. Hooray for cartoonists.2 by Fred Klonsky / 1h hide // saveLeadership.3 by Fred Klonsky / 2h 9-16-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacherFred Klonsky | Daily posts