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UC Davis Chancellor does a perp walk after hiding three hours in her office. « Fred Klonsky #ows

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UC Davis Chancellor does a perp walk after hiding three hours in her office. « Fred Klonsky:UC Davis Chancellor does a perp walk after hiding three hours in her office.by Fred KlonskyFor three hours UC Davis students surrounded the Chancellor’s office. This followed 24 hours of outrage as the video of police pepper spraying students, arms locked in non-violent protest, went viral.Finally Chancellor Katehi did the equivalence of a perp walk. Students lined both sides of a walkway and watched ... more »

How education fares if debt supercommittee fails - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

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How education fares if debt supercommittee fails - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:How education fares if debt supercommittee failsfrom The Answer Sheet by Valerie StraussFailure of the congressional supercommittee tasked with reducing the federal deficit by at least $1.2 trillion could lead to across-the-board budget cuts, which would have a serious impact on already-distressed public education funding.The Congressional Budget Office has projected what could happen to public education if the trigger is pulled and across-the-board cuts kick in ... more »

Not An Onion Spoof: Newt Gingrich’s Education Plan Is To Fire Janitors And Replace Them With Kids | Mediaite #EDreform

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Not An Onion Spoof: Newt Gingrich’s Education Plan Is To Fire Janitors And Replace Them With Kids | Mediaite:Not An Onion Spoof: Newt Gingrich’s Education Plan Is To Fire Janitors And Replace Them With Kidsby Tommy ChristopherFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a crowd on Friday that the solution to income inequality is to fire school janitors, and replace them with children. I am not making this up, and it gets worse. He’s not talking about junior high or high ... more »

Oligarchy and Social Organization | Firedoglake #ows

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Oligarchy and Social Organization | Firedoglake:Oligarchy and Social Organizationby masaccioAdam Smith, Etching created by Cadell and Davies (1811)Oligarchy rests on grotesque inequality of material resources. The vast resources available to the rich are used to build social structures that protect their wealth. The US oligarchy is a shining example. Our oligarchs use their stunning wealth both to insure that civil government protects its interests and to infect the public with views supportive of its power and wealth.One easy example of ... more »

NYC Public School Parents: NYC children and teachers speak out at Occupy Wall St. rally in Foley Sq. #ows

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NYC Public School Parents: NYC children and teachers speak out at Occupy Wall St. rally in Foley Sq.:NYC children and teachers speak out at Occupy Wall St. rally in Foley Sq.by Leonie HaimsonMy video taken Sept. 17 of our part of the citywide protests as part of Occupy Wall St. and Occupy the DOE, when, among other things, Justin Wedes taught the Children's Brigade how to use the people's mike, and teachers and students spoke out in Foley Sq.Part I ... more »

Protesters force UC Davis chancellor to halt news conference - latimes.com #ows

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Protesters force UC Davis chancellor to halt news conference - latimes.com:Protesters force UC Davis chancellor to halt news conferenceThe embattled UC Davis chancellor, Linda P.B. Katehi, had to stop a news conference prematurely Saturday night after protesters angry that police had used pepper spray on Occupy demonstrators disrupted the event.Hundreds of students surrounded the building where Katehi was speaking, and police were called in. A video of a Friday incident posted on the Internet showed a police officer dousing the ... more »

Unity, division on school reform - NorthJersey.com

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Unity, division on school reform - NorthJersey.com:Unity, division on school reformSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2011 LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2011, 12:31 PMBRIDGET HARRISONCOLUMNISTTHE RECORDPAGES: 1 2 DISPLAY ON ONE PAGE | PRINT | E-MAILIT IS something that both sides finally agree on: The education system in New Jersey needs to be reformed. How the sides propose to go about doing that is another matter indeed.Last week, at its annual meeting, the New Jersey Education Association announced its broad education reform ... more »

Disruptions at Harding High are under control, CMS says | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper

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Disruptions at Harding High are under control, CMS says | CharlotteObserver.com The Charlotte Observer Newspaper:Disruptions at Harding High are under control, CMS saysBy Ann Doss Helmsahelms@charlotteobserver.comPosted: Friday, Nov. 18, 2011Harding High's disruptions were caused by a small number of students and are under control now, according to several speakers at a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools news conference Thursday."I feel comfortable and safe here," said 11th-grader Roberto Martinez, an International Baccalaureate magnet student at Harding for three years.A day that had be... more »

School Tech Connect: Thank God

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School Tech Connect: Thank God:Thank Godby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)And we're back. Every day I thank God that I haven't been brutally pepper-sprayed by police in Seattle, NYC, or at UC-Davis.In Chicago, we're approaching the deadline for CEO Brizard to announce his school closing list, which is how modern urban "portfolio" districts react to poverty. In an intensification of policies that have not worked, Brizard is going to recommend to the school board by November 21 which schools he's giving up on, ... more »

Pike’s Pique | Firedoglake #ows

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Pike’s Pique | Firedoglake:Pike’s Piqueby Glenn W. SmithPopoutWhat social or psychological dysfunctions led UC-Davis police lieutenant John Pike to brutally assault some sitting, non-threatening protestors with chemical pepper spray?Clearly unthreatened and acting with a sociopathic coldness, Pike had obviously dehumanized his targets. I just don’t think it’s possible to act in that fashion against other human beings if you regard them as sharing your humanity.But I also think a concept of authority is growing in America which wants to justify ... more »

Modern School: Human Need or Capitalist Greed #ows

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Modern School: Human Need or Capitalist Greed:Human Need or Capitalist Greedby Michael DunnIt is not only absurd, but dangerous, to believe that jobs are good just because losing a job is undesirable (See the Cry For Jobs, Ruthless Criticism). Of course it is terrible to lose ones income and material security. But simply demanding jobs generally results in compromises and sacrifices in order to get that paycheck rolling in again. Workers accept lower wages, longer working hours, more dangerous conditions, ... more »

Drum Circle headed to Bloomberg's Mansion.

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Drum Circle headed to Bloomberg's Mansion. Liberty Square to be Occupied with Voices of Immigrant Women and Elders from the Civil Rights Movement | OccupyWallSt.org:Drum Circle headed to Bloomberg's Mansion. Liberty Square to be Occupied with Voices of Immigrant Women and Elders from the Civil Rights MovementPosted 1 hour ago on Nov. 19, 2011, 7:03 p.m. EST by OccupyWallStSunday, November 20th:12:00pm: Liberty Square -"We, Spanish-speaking immigrant women of New York City, call on all women to join us ... to ... more »

#ows Davis Faculty Association » Blog Archive » DFA Board Calls for Katehi’s Resignation

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Davis Faculty Association » Blog Archive » DFA Board Calls for Katehi’s Resignation:DFA Board Calls for Katehi’s ResignationThe DFA Board calls for the immediate resignation of Chancellor Katehi. The Chancellor’s authorization of the use of police force to suppress the protests by students and community members speaking out on behalf of our university and public higher education generally represents a gross failure of leadership.Given the recent use of excessive force by police against “occupy” protestors at UC Berkeley and elsewhere, ... more »

#ows DC, Others Occupy Abandoned Buildings. Streaming Video. | OccupyWallSt.org

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DC, Others Occupy Abandoned Buildings. Streaming Video. | OccupyWallSt.org:DC, Others Occupy Abandoned Buildings. Streaming Video.by OccupyWallStOccupy K St./DC has taken over the empty city-owned Franklin School. The school was closed several years ago and was initiatially reopened as a homeless shelter. The city government later closed the shelter and -- despite widespread public opposition -- announced plans to turn the building either into condos or a hotel for the 1% lobbyists on K St.Watch live streaming video from occupykst at ... more »

#ows Oakland Commune Assembles to Retake a Space « occupy california

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Oakland Commune Assembles to Retake a Space « occupy california:Oakland Commune Assembles to Retake a Spaceby *OAKLAND, California – The Oakland Commune’s general assembly called this past week for a march to reclaim a space today. This day has also been called as a day of action against police repression by the Oakland Commune’s GA. As of around 2:30pm, around 1000 people have assembled in Oscar Grant Plaza and at the adjacent 14th and Broadway intersection, which has been shut ... more »

First Teachbad Survey: Please Help | Mr. Teachbad

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First Teachbad Survey: Please Help | Mr. Teachbad:First Teachbad Survey: Please Helpby teachbadHere’s what I would like to do. Eventually I would like to develop a survey of teacher satisfaction that will be answered by tens of thousands of teachers and former teachers and will be disseminated inter-galactically and change teaching forever, for the better. I know that I skipped some steps just there and the details are lacking. But here is what we are doing now. I am experimenting ...more »

#ows NYC Public School Parents: What's the real story behind the threatened bus strike: are the bus drivers the enemy or part of the 99%?

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NYC Public School Parents: What's the real story behind the threatened bus strike: are the bus drivers the enemy or part of the 99%?:What's the real story behind the threatened bus strike: are the bus drivers the enemy or part of the 99%?by Leonie HaimsonThe real facts behind the threatened school bus strike are difficult to untangle. As the NY Times explainedtoday, the mayor's position is a reversal of his previous one:The specter of a strike is an interesting turn ... more »

Young People – The World’s Last Chattel? | Lefty Parent

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Young People – The World’s Last Chattel? | Lefty Parent:Young People – The World’s Last Chattel?by Cooper ZaleThis latest round of high-profile revelations of at times systemic cover-ups of the sexual abuse of young people at Penn State and elsewhere has been topping the news lately. There seem to be ongoing issues with this within the Catholic denomination but that is no longer news. Still in much of the world young people are coerced into military service, marriage or as ... more »

Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Early Afternoon Posts #ows #edreform

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Interview with the guy did the “bat-man” on the Verizon building for OWS. « Fred KlonskyBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-20 minutes agoInterview with the guy did the “bat-man” on the Verizon building for OWS. « Fred Klonsky:Interview with the guy did the “bat-man” on the Verizon building for OWS.by Fred KlonskyXeni Jardin interviews Mark Read who did the bat-man projects on the Verizon building.XJ: How did you go about finding someone nearby who would allow you stage this ... more »

Blaming Is So American: Cartoons | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Blaming Is So American: Cartoons | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:

Blaming Is So American: Cartoons

by larrycuban

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Republicans and Democrats blame one another for the impasse over reducing the deficit. Tea party rank-and-file blame President Obama for the decline of the U.S. “Occupy Wall Street” protests across the country blame inequality in wealth on the financial community’s greed. And the previous post dealt with policymakers and reformers, over the past century, blaming children, their families, teachers, and schools for doing poorly

No Cops, No Bosses « occupy california #ows

No Cops, No Bosses « occupy california:

No Cops, No Bosses

by *

from BicycleBarricade:

By now much of the world has seen video and photos of Lt. John Pike of the UC Davis police department as he discharged a canister of burning chemicals into the faces of students seated in the center of the university quad. Most viewers are outraged, and justifiably so. Much of the outrage has been directed at John Pike. He deserves it. But we should remind ourselves that Friday’s police violence was only an aberration because it happened on a university campus not easily assimilable to the stereotype of “Berkeley radicals” and to students who are perceived or portrayed as mostly white and as resisting passively. Whiteness is brought up here, not to chastise those who only now denounce police violence that has been routinely applied to non-white communities and individuals—this itself is a misperception of Friday’s events: a majority of those arrested were not white—but to invite readers, new and old, to extend the critique of police violence beyond the walls of the university to the communities whose life it damages every single day.

Friday’s punitive violence, as terrible as it was, is not an example of bad policing. It is an example of policing.

Letter: UC Davis Police are “Fascist, Totalitarian, Unaccountable” - Davis, CA Patch #ows

Letter: UC Davis Police are “Fascist, Totalitarian, Unaccountable” - Davis, CA Patch:

Letter: UC Davis Police are “Fascist, Totalitarian, Unaccountable”

Letter to the Editor
By Bernie Goldsmith

At Occupy Davis, relations with the democratically elected city council and local police forces have been genial and productive. The authorities have worked continuously to harmonize the occupation’s presence with the park and surrounding businesses and ensure that all aspects of the encampment remain non-violent. Those in charge of using force are aware that they are democratically elected officials that are directly accountable to the people.

Occupy UC Davis, a mere three blocks away, is under the jurisdiction of an undemocratic, appointed regime of force over which its subjects have no meaningful democratic control. The authorities there attacked non-violent protesters with indifference, and, in some cases, a clear display of sadistic pleasure.

There could be no better illustration of the differences between a democratic, accountable public safety effort and a fascist, totalitarian, unaccountable police state. The students of UC Davis have no meaningful voice, and that is

UC Davis Chancellor does a perp walk after hiding three hours in her office. « Fred Klonsky #ows

UC Davis Chancellor does a perp walk after hiding three hours in her office. « Fred Klonsky:

UC Davis Chancellor does a perp walk after hiding three hours in her office.

by Fred Klonsky

For three hours UC Davis students surrounded the Chancellor’s office. This followed 24 hours of outrage as the video of police pepper spraying students, arms locked in non-violent protest, went viral.

Finally Chancellor Katehi did the equivalence of a perp walk. Students lined both sides of a walkway and watched in absolute silence as the Chancellor walked to her car.

It is a stunning and powerful moment.

How education fares if debt supercommittee fails - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

How education fares if debt supercommittee fails - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

How education fares if debt supercommittee fails

from The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss

Failure of the congressional supercommittee tasked with reducing the federal deficit by at least $1.2 trillion could lead to across-the-board budget cuts, which would have a serious impact on already-distressed public education funding.

The Congressional Budget Office has projected what could happen to public education if the trigger is pulled and across-the-board cuts kick in in January 2013. There are new reports that the supercommittee is getting ready to admit that its Republican and Democratic members couldn’t compromise after several months of negotiations — this after Congress itself couldn’t reach an agreement.

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