From the IEA: “On Saturday, February 26, 2011, there is a rally scheduled at the state capitol in Madison, WI at 3 pm that will last about an hour. There will be impromptu activities scheduled before and after the event. We are encouraging asking our staff to organize our members to attend this event. Those who plan to attend should carpool as parking will be an issue.”
Wisconsin public service workers have said it for weeks.
Governor Walker’s bill to outlaw collective bargaining has nothing to do with budget short falls. It’s a union busting act, pure and simple.
But now Ian Murphy, a self-described gonzo journalist for the Buffalo Beast pretended he was right-wing billionaire David Koch (pronounce it any way you like) and fooled the foolish Governor into taking his call.
Walker admits to everything.
According to the audio, Walker told him:
That statehouse GOPers were plotting to hold Democratic senators’ pay until
Michelle Rhee, with her fiancee, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, today announced a national education campaign called Save Great Teachers.
Mayor Kevin Johnson is in Washington, D.C., today with education reformer Michelle Rhee for the launch of a national campaign aimed at eliminating "last in, first out" policies that base teacher layoffs on seniority.
The announcement came at a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Johnson is the founding chair of the group's Public School Task Force.
"We have to eliminate old policies that satisfy adult needs, but have absolutely no bearing on
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With all the recent attacks on teachers’ due process rights, and on teacher unionism and organizing, continuing reports of retaliation against ethical teachers continue to disturb me. For instance, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently reported on teacher whistleblowers who have been targeted for helping expose local testing scandals there:
His bosses had no trouble dismissing Ryan Abbott’s report of cheating on standardized tests in an Atlanta school. They simply cast him in a self-fulfilling role, Abbott says: “disgruntled teacher.”
Abbott was already on probation, after four years at Benteen Elementary. His students had not posted the big increases in test scores seen in other classrooms. Yet he had the audacity to level charges against a popular colleague. After word of
