Central Falls teachers’ union head to skip national conference | Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal

Central Falls teachers’ union head to skip national conference | Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal

Central Falls teachers’ union head to skip national conference

01:00 AM EST on Sunday, January 16, 2011

By Jennifer D. Jordan

Journal Staff Writer

Central Falls Teachers’ Union president Jane Sessums says she won’t attend a national conference designed to improve the relationship among teachers, school districts and school committees that is sponsored in part by her national union, the American Federation of Teachers.

In an email Friday afternoon, Sessums said her decision to decline the conference, scheduled for Feb. 15-16 in Denver, should not be interpreted as unwillingness to cooperate on her part, but rather was because of “the district’s unwillingness to establish a truly meaningfu

NBU: ‘Emanuel Pushing Anti-Teachers Union Line in Race for Chicago Mayor?’ by Warner Todd Huston , 1/16/11

NBU: ‘Emanuel Pushing Anti-Teachers Union Line in Race for Chicago Mayor?’ by Warner Todd Huston , 1/16/11

‘Emanuel Pushing Anti-Teachers Union Line in Race for Chicago Mayor?’
by Warner Todd Huston (1/16/11)

Rahm Emanuel is not the union’s favorite man. He has had union detractors since his days pushing the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) during the Clinton administration. Since then there have been other clashes between Emanuel and unions even as he served President Obama as his Chief of Staff. Now, as he takes after the Chicago teachers union, he seems to be tweaking unions yet again as he runs for the top seat in City Hall here in Chicago.

At least he’s consistent!

On January 10, while campaigning for Mayor, Emanuel laid out a few of his positions on Chicago’s failing schools. What he said is sure to upset the unions—not just that of teachers, either.

Emanuel says he supports limiting teacher’s rights to strike and said that if they won’t agree to working for longer hours, he’ll ask the state legislature

Charter Schools’ Civil Rights Record Poor | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.

Charter Schools’ Civil Rights Record Poor | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.

Charter Schools: What Would Dr. King Say?

Responding to a defense of charter schools’ record on integration, education professor and blogger James Horn argues that where there’s smoke there is indeed fire.

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Education professor and blogger James Horn responds to one writer's defense of charter schools’ record on integration (istockphoto.com).

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It is unfortunate that the charter school industry now finds itself on the wrong side of educational progress and civil rights history, even as spokesmen like Nelson Smith, writing at Miller-McCune.com last month, engage in a public relations campaign aimed to minimize awareness of thesegregated conditions that exist in the majority of American charter schools today.

Whether located in the poorest, brownest neighborhoods of theTwin Cities or in the leafiest, whitest suburbs of North Carolina, charter schools often engage in a form of intensely segregated schooling that either contains or isolates minorities in urban centers, while offering

Oregon teacher union hosts first-ever education summit with state leaders, teachers, Gov. John Kitzhaber | OregonLive.com

Oregon teacher union hosts first-ever education summit with state leaders, teachers, Gov. John Kitzhaber | OregonLive.com

Oregon teacher union hosts first-ever education summit with state leaders, teachers, Gov. John Kitzhaber

Published: Saturday, January 15, 2011, 7:00 PM Updated: Saturday, January 15, 2011, 7:38 PM

By Kimberly Melton, The Oregonian
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Oregon’s largest and most politically powerful education union held a first-ever summit on education today, inviting teachers, state legislators and Gov. John Kitzhaber to a day-long discussion on how to reform and transform public education.

The event included about 125 education officials, teachers, business, non-profit, and legislative leaders. Most agreed that Oregon’s education system is in need of substantial change and not just more money.

Gov. John Kitzhaber closed out the event, reinforcing the need for reform. He proposed providing more money to public schools in the first year of the 2011-13 budget cycle to give education

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