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Rally to support discontinued Bronx teacher « JD2718

Rally to support discontinued Bronx teacher « JD2718:


Rally to support discontinued Bronx teacher

Rally for a discontinued probationary teacher? Yes, tomorow at Andrews and 183rd.
Probationary teachers in New York City are discontinued every week, and they rarely generate news stories. Some of the discontinuances are justified, some are unjustified, but the ex-teachers usually just go away quietly. Not Alice McIntosh.
McIntosh, a 50-year-old Black woman with masters in public health from Columbia and another in education from Pace, is not going away quietly. Her story was featured in the Daily News. And now that her appeal has been denied (by the same superintendent who signed off on the U rating!), her family and friends from New Day Church are rallying in her support.
The fact that McIntosh had favorable evaluations, but questioned the use of out-dated, non-relevant curriculum, should make people of good conscience highly suspicious.
Sunday, May 6, 1:30 – 2:30.  P10X@PS15 (2195 Andrews Avenue near W 183rd, the Bronx)
Click for press release:  McIntosh 5.6 Media Advisory.

US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations | World news | guardian.co.uk

US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations | World news | guardian.co.uk:


US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations

UN's correspondent on indigenous peoples urges government to act to combat 'racial discrimination' felt by Native Americans
US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations
A Native American at his home on Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, which has some of the US's poorest living conditions. Photograph: Jennifer Brown/Star Ledger/Corbis
United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination.
James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, said no member of the US Congress would meet him as he investigated the part played by the government in the considerable difficulties faced by Indian tribes.
Anaya said that in nearly two weeks of visiting Indian reservations, indigenous communities in Alaska and Hawaii, and Native Americans now living in cities, he encountered people who suffered a history of 

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5280.com - This article is a finalist for the 2012 National Magazine Awards in the public interest category. It is also a finalist for a 2012 City and Regional Magazine Award in the civic journalism category....
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Usual Faux Reforms in Connecticut « Diane Ravitch's blog

dianeravitch.net - A reader asked if I am following the battle over what is misleadingly called school reform in Connecticut. Indeed I am, largely tHrough the efforts of three smart Connecticut blogger-writers: Jonat...
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Slogans That Didn't Quite Make the Cut :: Frederick M. Hess

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