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Wednesday churn: Succession plan needed

parents4democraticschools.wordpress.com - Wednesday churn: Succession plan needed | EdNewsColorado.by EdNews staffWhat’s churning: Got your succession plan in place? A report by the University of Washington’s Center on Reinventing Public E...

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Big Education Ape: The Answer Sheet

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - This was written by L. Martha Infante, a National Board Certified Social Studies teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District and veteran of 15 years. It first appeared on the Accomplished Ca...

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Big Education Ape: Schools Matter: "Clinically-Based Teacher Preparation"

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - If there is a phrase that you are likely to get as sick of hearing in the next few years as you did "scientifically-based evidence" during the last few, it is likely to be "clinically based teacher...

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Big Education Ape: UCSC students protest proposed fee hikes

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - SANTA CRUZ -- About 150 UC Santa Cruz students rallied today to protest a proposed 8 percent fee increase.The noon rally coincided with the beginning of a meeting in San Francisco, where the UC reg...

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Frederick M. Hess « Parents 4 democratic Schools

parents4democraticschools.wordpress.com - by Frederick M. Hess • Nov 17, 2010 at 9:29 amCross-posted from Education WeekI’ve gotten a number of questions and comments regardingNCATE’s big Blue Ribbon Panel report, both after my remarks a...

School board violated open meeting law - The Boston Globe

School board violated open meeting law - The Boston Globe

School board violated open meeting law

Associated Press / November 17, 2010

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A judge has ruled that the School Committee in Barrington violated the state’s Open Meetings Act by failing to properly advertise a meeting last year on a mandatory alchohol monitoring policy. Superior Court Judge Brian Stern ruled Monday that the committee failed to alert the public about the specific policies it would be discussing. He said he would hold another hearing

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University of California Regents to Take Up Fee Hikes Amid Protests « Student Activism

University of California Regents to Take Up Fee Hikes Amid Protests « Student Activism

University of California Regents to Take Up Fee Hikes

by Angus Johnston

It’s seven o’clock in the morning in California, and the November meeting of the UC regents is scheduled to get underway soon. Topping their agenda is another steep tuition increase.

When the regents met last fall at UCLA some three thousand students were on hand to protest their imposition of a 32% fee hike, but at least some student activists expect a smaller turnout this time around. Ricardo Gomez, External Affairs Vice President of the Associated Students of the University of California, told the Daily Cal this week that the meeting’s staging at UC San Francisco Mission Bay — a medical center and teaching hospital with no undergraduate student body — is likely to suppress student turnout.

NYC Public School Parents: Cathie Black's deadly Coca Cola connection

NYC Public School Parents: Cathie Black's deadly Coca Cola connection

Cathie Black's deadly Coca Cola connection

by Leonie Haimson

More questions arise as to the suitability of Cathie Black as the next schools Chancellor of NYC. As a member of Coca Cola's board, she had direct knowledge of the aggressive role of Coke company in contributing to childhood obesity in the US and abroad, and to death squads who targeted labor organizers in

More news coverage of Cathie Black controversy, in Spanish

by Leonie Haimson

See channel 41's coverage of last night's PEP meeting and the Cathie Black controversy.

Queens Teacher: "I Will Be the Next Chancellor" - Cathie Black

Queens Teacher: "I Will Be the Next Chancellor" - Cathie Black

"I Will Be the Next Chancellor" - Cathie Black

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New Public Schools Chancellor Cathie Black fends off critics, says she has the experience
BY Meredith Kolodner


Bloomberg's choice for schools chancellor brushed off her growing chorus of critics Tuesday and defended her qualifications for the job.

"The mayor's been very clear that he really wanted a strong, effective manager, and I have almost 40 years of experience at that," Cathie Black told New York 1 after meeting with high-ranking Education Department officials.

She also said efforts to block her appointment would be unsuccessful.

"I will be the next chancellor," she said.

Still, parents angry about Black's surprise appointment made their voices heard at last night's education policy board meeting.

Bloomberg's Black Eye

by Queens Teacher

Bloomberg’s Black Eye
The mayor picks another noneducator to run the city’s schools.
Sol Stern

As the news circulated around New York City last week that Joel Klein was resigning as schools chancellor and would be replaced by Hearst Magazines executive Cathleen Black, I was deluged with e-mails from friends and colleagues. All expressed surprise at Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s pick of the unknown Black: “Cathie who?” “Is Bloomberg serious?” The public reaction was best summarized by a New York Daily News front-page headline the morning after Bloomberg’s announcement: the single word HUH? in large type, followed by a subhead alluding to Black’s lack of education experience. By the end of the week, even New York Times reporters were poking fun at Bloomberg’s claim that his selection of Black was the result of a careful search for the best available candidate.

In truth, there’s no reason for anyone to be surprised by anything the mayor does on education policy, certainly not those influential New Yorkers who pressed the state legislature last year to reauthorize mayoral control of the schools entirely on Bloomberg’s terms. Backed by his allies in the media and business communities, Bloomberg laid down a take-it-or-leave-it challenge to the Albany legislators. It went something like this: With my superior understanding of business management, I am indispensable to continued progress in the schools. So forget about those outdated principles of checks and balances. They may apply to the national government, but I

New Jersey teacher underattack by the governor | NJ.com

New Jersey teacher underattack by the governor | NJ.com

New Jersey teacher underattack by the governor

Published: Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 6:25 AM

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Amanda Brown/The Star-LedgerAlissa Ploshnick, a special education teacher from Passaic, had her conversation about teacher tenure videotaped without her knowledge. Now. Gov. Chris Christie is pointing to her as a symbol of what's wrong with the NJEA.

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NJEA should support the teacher
My heart goes out to Alissa Ploshnick, who was once recognized by President Bill Clinton for throwing herself in front of an in-coming van to save children and in now vilified for quoting someone else using the n-word (“She sacrificed for students, now she’s being sacrificed for politics,” Nov. 14). One thing she did wrong, however, is she apologized. With her history, she could quit and write about this. But probably she shouldn’t because children need teachers like her.

The NJEA could do a lot to help this poor woman by organizing and giving her public support. As for the “N” word, we empower its destructive intent by making it taboo.

Instead, we could disempower the word by repealing prohibition and hijacking it, for example, creating buttons that say “I’m an n-lover (the whole word) and proud of it!”
I’d like to see every teacher in the Passaic

3-Tweet Reality Check - Ed Thoughts

3-Tweet Reality Check - Ed Thoughts

3-Tweet Reality Check - Ed Thoughts

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NJ Spotlight | "Parent Trigger" Could Restructure or Shut Down Schools

NJ Spotlight | "Parent Trigger" Could Restructure or Shut Down Schools

"Parent Trigger" Could Restructure or Shut Down Schools

New legislation now being pulled together would give a simple majority of parents the ability to effect major changes in their kids' schools

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By John Mooney, November 17 in Education |1 Comment

New Jersey parents with children in low-performing schools could see vast new powers to overhaul those schools, under legislation now being prepared by the Senate Republican leader, Sen. Joseph Kyrillos.

Kyrillos (R-Monmouth) said yesterday that he planned to file within the month a “parent trigger” bill that would allow parents by 51 percent vote or petition to demand major changes to their school, be it new leadership, a charter school operator, school vouchers or closure altogether.

Modeled after a similar measure recently enacted in California as part of its federal Race to the Top application, the bill would extend rules already in place that would permit conversion of a public school to a charter school with approval of a majority of teachers and parents.

But that has yet to happen in New Jersey, and Kyrillos said it was time to put the powers in parents’ hands.

‘There is no question there are a lot of schools that are failing, and we need to shake things up, not

It’s a strike vote. So why aren’t teachers voting? | The Education Report

It’s a strike vote. So why aren’t teachers voting? | The Education Report

It’s a strike vote. So why aren’t teachers voting?

By Katy Murphy
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 at 11:25 pm in OEA, teachers, union contract.

The vast majority of those who participated in tonight’s union election authorized a strike.

But the vast majority of Oakland teachers didn’t vote at all. The turnout was less than half of what it was in May, the first time this year OEA members authorized a strike. (This vote was to affirm the last one.) Only 341 union members cast ballots tonight, compared to 755 in May. That’s well under 15 percent of the union’s membership.

Even among those who did come to the membership meeting, said union President Betty Olson-Jones, “The sentiment for a strike at this time is very, very weak.”