The Wisconsin State Journal-An all-male charter school geared toward Madison's minority population is projected to cost as much as $28,000 per student when it opens in fall 2012, more than twice as much as another charter school expected to open this fall … The high cost results from the likelihood that Madison Prep will serve more low-income, non-English speaking and special education students.
It’s going on just across the border.
In Wisconsin the governor and Republican controlled legislature are days away from outlawing public employee unions, or at least their right to bargain on behalf of their employees which is the same thing.
In Illinois there are bills before the legislature that will effectively destroy the pension system for currently working teachers.
The most powerful Speaker Madigan has hinted he could support the measure.
The response from the IEA leadership?
Eh. Shrug. Yawn.
The IEA, IFT, and other labor organizations, along with the Governor’s office,
Kindergarten art lessons in Tahrir Square during the revolution.
There is a great interactive map of Tahrir Square on the eve of the fall of Mubarak.
The finger-pointing has begun. Check out this White House spin on the front page of today’s NY Times. My prediction? Clinton gone by summer, if not sooner.
My smarter older brother: “Gee, how did the Egyptians manage to topple a dictator without Iraq-style U.S.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's budget plan would cut $100 billion from Pell Grants and other higher education programs over a decade through belt-tightening and use the savings to keep the maximum college financial aid award at $5,550, an administration official said.
Nearly $90 billion of the projected savings would be achieved through two changes, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of Monday's release of Obama's 2012 budget. The spending plan applies to the budget year that begins Oct. 1.
Congress would have to approve both changes.
The first proposal would end the "year-round Pell" policy that let students collect two grants in a calendar year, with the second grant used for summer school. The official said the costs exceeded expectations and there was little evidence that students earn their degrees any faster.
The change would save $8 billion next year and $60 billion
Interview with Miguel del Valle
The most recent poll in the Chicago mayoral contest places City Clerk Miguel del Valle at a distant third. Eddie Arruza talks to the self-proclaimed "poorest candidate" on his plans for the final 12 days of the race.
I say, this is encouraging, a breath of fresh air if ever there’s been one. Finally, a governor has taken action against the odious ruffians who always go on about wanting more money. Now that the tax burden has finally been lowered on those of us who know how to handle capital, the infernal government still needs a way to cover its expenses. It makes perfect sense to take it from the peasants, who in any case fritter it away on frivolities like food and rent.
This chap has eliminated this troublesome “collective bargaining” claptrap, and has also made sure these blasted unions cannot collect dues. Such funds will be given on a voluntary basis from the rabble that would otherwise be compelled to contribute, and this is smashing news. We won’t have those wretched unions to kick
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| California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson |
Parent Revolution Deputy Director Gabe Rose tells L.A. Weekly that at a California State Board of Education meeting in Sacramento today, Torlakson said he would be working with California State Assemblywoman Julie Brownley, chairwoman of the assembly's education committee, who's also not a fan of the Parent Trigger, to do "clean up" legislation on the state law.
"What it really means is that they want to repeal or roll back the (Parent Trigger) law," says Rose.
Brownley, who has a district office in Woodland Hills, and Torlakson are apparently ready to throw out nearly eight months of work the State Board of Education has done to create
Shirley Sherrod, hero of the Civil Rights Movement and target of the right-wing weasel, Andrew Breitbart, is taking Breitbart to court.
Breitbart is the mentor and pal of Kyle Olsen of the Education Action Group. This is the putz that is trying to get me fired from my teaching job because I’m an outspoken union guy and a blogger.
In Sherrod’s case, Breitbart concocted a phony video of Sherrod which let to her being forced out of her job at the Obama Agriculture Department.
The fun part of this story is the weasel, Breitbart, was served papers in front of a crowd at the loony zoo, the
The recent formation of Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst.org is a reminder to many educators of how many times we've heard that claim in its various forms:
