Monday, May 28, 2012

by Mike Klonsky




Mike Klonsky: Chicago, IL, United States; Educator, author, school reform activist

Pedro Noguera

"The way we are now as a country, not only aren't we living up to the Brown decision, we're not even living up the Plessy v. Ferguson of separate but equal." -- Up W/ Chris Hayes

Melissa Harris-Perry

"I live in the 7th ward of New Orleans, and I don't like what I see happening there in the KIPP schools. I am distressed by the movement away from teachers unions that can actually fight for

SOS EARLY CHILDHOOD WEBINAR

Mike Klonsky at Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog - 2 days ago

Save Our Schools Webinar Early Childhood Educators Say “No!” to Standards and Tests June 1, 2012, 9 PM Eastern Daylight Time [EDT} Please Join Us! *Nancy Carlsson-Paige* is a professor of early childhood education at Lesley University where she has taught teachers for more than 30 years. Professor Carlsson-Paige was a founder of the University’s Center for Peaceable Schools. Since the mid-1980′s, Nancy has written and spoken extensively about the impact of violence, especially in the media, on children’s lives and social development, and how children learn the skills for caring rel... more »

Another look at Rahm's Texas model

Mike Klonsky at Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog - 3 days ago

*"If you start in the Chicago Public School system in kindergarten," offered Rahm, "and your cousin lives in Houston, and you both go all the way through high school, the cousin in Houston spends three more years in the classroom." *-- Rahm Emanuel* * Romney's ed adviser and former Houston Supt. Rod PaigeChicago's mayor, in his demagogic appeal for a longer (not necessarily better) school day, is fond of holding up Houston, Texas as his model. This piece in the Texas Observer details some of the reasons why Houston schools and Texas schools in general, may work for some of their s... more »

"Hey hey. Ho ho. Rahm Emanuel has got to go!

Mike Klonsky at Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog - 4 days ago

Thousands of CTU members march up Michigan Avenue to CPS Headquarters after a rally at the Auditorium Theatre. | Scott Stewart~Chicago Sun-Times.That was the thunderous sound of 5,000 red-clad Chicago union teachers marching past CPS headquarters at Adams & Clark. Just when Rahm thought is was safe to come out of his office after last weekend's NATO Summit fiasco, he once again became the target of working class venom. Speaker after speaker denounced Rahm's ongoing war on teachers. His contract offer was denounced as an "insult." On every issue, they offered counters to his "reform"... more »

Who will stand up for Public Education in this election?

Mike Klonsky at Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog - 4 days ago

Romney lands the first punch. Will Dems strike back? If not, who will? In the run-up to the elections, neither candidate(s) has said much about education issues. As for party platforms, neither party has a real education plank. The Republicans have been playing only two notes -- bust the teacher unions and don't tax the rich. The Democrats have been playing none. They have been tight-roping between the teacher unions and the influential hedge-fund "reformers" like Democrats For Educational Reform (DFER) and have seemingly decided to play it safe and go without an education plank. Ne... more »

Thousands of CTU members, supporters will rally today

Mike Klonsky at Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog - 5 days ago

If *Rahm Emanuel* thought that Chicago teachers would roll over and play dead in the face of his war on the CTU, he's badly mistaken. Yesterday it was announced that nearly 80 percent of CTU members have voted to reject the latest teacher contract proposal in recent straw polls — more than what would be needed to authorize a real strike under the new anti-union law, SB7. At 3 this afternoon, thousands of Chicago teachers will meet in a unity rally inside the Auditorium Theater at State & Congress. At 4:30, many more will join them in a massive show of solidarity with a rally and ma... more »

The most vile attack yet on Wisconsin teachers

Mike Klonsky at Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog - 5 days ago

This is the most cowardly and treacherous attack yet on public school teachers, make that, on all public employees. That image above is of a full-page newspaper ad taken out in the Janesville Gazette, the local newspaper in Paul Ryan's district. The Gazette, to its credit, didn't print the ad, but it still managed to find its way into subscribers' mailboxes through fliers placed in the paper's home-delivery tube system. The names you can't read in this image are the names of teachers in Janesville who signed the petition to recall Scott Walker. Next to their names, is their salary.... more »

Anatomy of a big high school

Mike Klonsky at Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog - 6 days ago

Chicago's great architectural critic *Lee Bey *writes for WBEZ public radio, about his alma mater, Chicago Vocational High School ("School of architecture: A look at sprawling Chicago Vocational.") The massive, 72-year-old school, located at 2100 E. 87th St., is not only the city's second largest high school building (only Lane Tech is bigger), but is Chicago's best large-scale example of Art Moderne architecture. The 27-acre school, formerly known as Chicago Vocational High School, was built for $3.5 million, with 45 percent of the cash coming from the federal Public Works Admini... more »

Murdoch's News Corp. is an ALEC Member

Mike Klonsky at Schooling in the Ownership Society - 2 days ago

Murdoch (l) and Joel Klein.No big surprise here. Adam Peshek, who staffs ALEC's Education Task Force, told Education Week that News Corp. has been a member of both ALEC's Education Task Force and Communications and Technology Task Force since January 2012. This according to PR Watch: *When News Corp. acquired Wireless Generation, a for-profit online education, software, and testing corporation, for $360 million in cash in 2010, Rupert Murdoch called the for-profit K-12 education industry "a $500 billion sector in the US alone that is waiting desperately to be transformed." A few w... more »

Classic Eli Broad: "Never let a crisis go to waste"

Mike Klonsky at Schooling in the Ownership Society - 6 days ago

Katrina aftermath *"Never let a serious crisis go to waste." *-- White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Nov. 2008. In a recent Edweek piece by a similar title, billionaire power-philanthropist Eli Broad resurrects this quote made infamous by Chicago's now autocratic mayor. It's become an operational phrase for "getting things done" by skirting the public will and abandoning democratic decision-making. For Broad and other disaster capitalists, as Naomi Klein calls them, it's all about taking advantage of real disasters, like Hurricane Katrina. Or if a crisis doesn't exist -- manufa... more »

ALEC to Ravitch: Why pick on us?

Mike Klonsky at Schooling in the Ownership Society - 1 week ago

In an interesting response to a Diane Ravitch piece in Edweek ("What You Need To Know About ALEC"), Adam Peshek, ALEC's ed director, asks: Why pick on us? Obama agrees with ALEC, claims Peshek, who has nothing but praise for the administration. Peshek has a good point. How about a response, Mr. President or Sec. Duncan. Writes Peshek: *In reality, we are far from alone in this effort. There are dozens of organizations on both sides of the political spectrum that have spent decades promoting the policies we support. In fact, President Barack Obama has done more for charter schools ... more »

4LAKids - Save Our Schools Webinar Friday June 1: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS SAY "NO!" TO STANDARDS+ TESTS with Nancy Carlsson-Paige & Deb Meier

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Save Our Schools Webinar Friday June 1: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS SAY "NO!" TO STANDARDS+ TESTS with Nancy Carlsson-Paige & Deb Meier:

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Schools Matter: The States: More Bully Politics of Education Reform

Schools Matter: The States: More Bully Politics of Education Reform:

The States: More Bully Politics of Education Reform

by P. L. Thomas

From South Carolina to New Jersey to Wisconsin—and all across the U.S.—universal public education is under assault by the bully politics of education reform.

In my home state of South Carolina, Governor Haley and Superintendent Zais, neither of whom have experience or expertise in education, are seeking to attack unions (although SC is a non-union, right-to-work state), increase education testing through adopting Common Core State Standards, deprofessionalize teachers through new accountability and merit-pay schemes, and cripple public schools by endorsing expanded choice initiatives.

Tractenberg details a similar pattern in New Jersey:

"Gov. Chris Christie wastes no opportunity to trash Newark’s public schools. His assaults continued recently at a national school choice conference, where he and odd-couple partner Mayor Cory Booker were featured speakers. "Aside from Christie’s well-known penchant for confrontation, there are two big problems with his attacks. "First, he insists on citing “facts” that are either flat-out wrong or cherry-picked to emphasize the worst in Newark’s schools. An education expert

Billionaire Boys Club Hook up Sacramento (Mayor) King 1% Kevin Johnson @ fundraiser - Sacramento City News - The Sacramento Bee

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson expected in L.A. for fundraiser - Sacramento City News - The Sacramento Bee:

Sacramento Mayor King 1% Johnson expected in L.A. for fundraiser

By Ryan Lillis
rlillis@sacbee.com

Published: Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 2B

Last Modified: Tuesday, May. 22, 2012 - 8:29 am

~~Mayor~~ King 1% Johnson was scheduled to be in Los Angeles on Monday night for a fundraiser hosted by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa that could have an impact on Sacramento's ongoing – although faded – arena effort.

Tim Leiweke, the chief executive of arena operator AEG, was one of the co-hosts of the fundraiser at the Ritz Carlton at L.A. Live, an entertainment district developed by AEG. Leiweke's company had agreed to operate Sacramento's downtown arena, and Johnson still hopes to attract the firm to the city, despite the arena effort's collapse.

Wealthy philanthropist Eli Broad – whose education reform interests are similar to Johnson's – and former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan were also listed as co-hosts of the fundraiser.

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Ryan, I have a question for you. Yesterday, your article about this on the Bee website clearly stated: “Wealthy philanthropist Eli Broad - whose education reform interests are similar to Johnson's - and former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan are also listed as co-hosts of the Johnson fundraiser.” Another co-host listed in your article is Tim Leiweke, CEO of AEG.

I would like to know why the word “Johnson” was removed from this current article. Was this a fundraiser for Johnson, or for some other person, or some other cause? If it was for Johnson, why did you take his name out of the last sentence? This gives the appearance that the Bee is trying to cover up the fact that he was the recipient and AEG, a company which he is including in his arena attempt, is part of this fundraiser. Would you please clarify if this fundraiser was indeed for Mayor Johnson, or if he will be receiving any funds from this event, and if so, why the Bee took his name out of the last sentence of this article in both the print edition and this Bee website edition? Thanks.
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Edmond_Dantes

Interesting. There was another story on this fundraiser that was written by Lillis that strongly suggested the fundraiser is to raise money for KJ and his ambitions. This story only states KJ is expected to attend a fundraiser in L.A. Is it a fundraiser for him or only a fundraiser he is attending?
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It is very questionable reporting. Here are some questions for the Bee: Since the fundraiser was expected to happen last evening, did it take place? Were the people mentioned in this article and previous articles actually there? Was this supposed fundraiser scheduled specifically for the benefit of KJ? The Bee should have this information but doesn't report it. Strange. Is the Bee playing games again? Is the Bee worthy of being called a newspaper in the journalistic sense? I think we know the answers to some of these questions.
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Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/22/4507197/sacramento-mayor-kevin-johnson.html#storylink=cpy

FayObserver.com - Charter schools could take funding away from Cumberland County's traditional schools

FayObserver.com - Charter schools could take funding away from Cumberland County's traditional schools:

Charter schools could take funding away from Cumberland County's traditional schools

Charter Schools - Dividing Communities since 1991

The Cumberland County school system stands to lose millions of dollars in local, state and federal money if two charter schools open in the county next year.

Supporters of the charter schools counter that the competition will lead to a better education for students.

It's not yet clear how much money the two proposed charter schools - one on Fort Bragg and the other focusing on the arts in downtown Fayetteville - could siphon away from Cumberland County schools.

But county school officials say the system loses about $6,150 in state and local funding for each student attending a charter school. If the student is in a military family, the system loses federal funding.

Frank Till Jr., superintendent of Cumberland County schools, said school officials are looking at the potential effect of the charter schools.

"What we don't know is how many kids would go," he said.

Charter schools do not charge tuition and are open to anyone eligible to attend public schools. They get per-pupil f

When Charters Compete « Diane Ravitch's blog

When Charters Compete « Diane Ravitch's blog:

When Charters Compete

by dianerav

I live in New York City, where charters are aggressively expanding. Many, perhaps most, of our charters have hedge fund managers on their board of directors. They want to win. They want higher test scores than the neighborhood public school. They compete with one another and they compete with the neighborhood school.
The city government–which is to say, Mayor Michael Bloomberg–believes in charters. He pushed energetically to get the Legislature to double the number of charters in the city from 100 to 200. In a city with a student enrollment of more than 1 million, the charters enroll a very small proportion, at this point about 5%. Yet you would think by reading the tabloids that they are the only schools that matter.
The charters are very assertive on their own behalf. Whenever there is a public hearing about whether to close a

How Charters Compete

by dianerav

A while back, I read a story in the New York Times that really bothered me.
It explained that neighborhood public schools are now compelled to “market” themselves because of competition with charters. In Harlem, charters are omnipresent, and the city administration has closed many public schools to make way for charters. New York City Department of Education officials make clear their preference for charters, leaving no one to fight for or defend the public schools against their competitors. If charters want public school space, they get it, usually over the opposition of the parents and community.
But what was so striking about the story–and you have to read to the end to find this–was the contrast between the resources of the public school and the invading charter. The public school had $500 or less to market itself, with flyers, brochures, volunteers. The charter–in this case, Harlem Success Academy–spent $325,000.
Wow. How can a public school compete when the charter can expend $325,000 to persuade people to

Does Public Education Matter? « Diane Ravitch's blog

Does Public Education Matter? « Diane Ravitch's blog:

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Does Public Education Matter?

by dianerav

Yesterday I wrote a blog about a tiny rural district in Idaho where the community did everything possible to support their school but it wasn’t good enough. The tax base was so meager that the school was in deficit, and budget cuts were putting the school in peril.
A reader commented that this was an instance where the district might benefit by abandoning its public school and turning it into a charter school. This, the reader said, would make It possible to leverage funds from corporate sponsors.
Another reader responded to the first one and wrote:
“If you turn your tax supported schools over to corporate sponsors, in the process you lose your local representative government. The corporate sponsors control all aspects of your public school/s-plus they will train your children for whatever the global economy dictates. I suggest, there will be no upward mobality for your children in that area of Kansas or anywhere else in the USA. These charter schools destroy the “American

NY State Ed Dept: Lie to Students

by dianerav

As you may know, there has been growing parent dissatisfaction about the amount of testing that their children are subjected to.
initially, the tests and test prep increased because officials wanted to measure student growth on tests.
Then, the testing increased because officials want to measure teacher quality.
From the vantage of parents, the school day and year are increasingly devoted to testing, not teaching.
Just weeks ago, students sat for the annual spring testing. Now, in New York state, there will be testing in June,

Fahrenheit 451 in NYC

by dianerav

I read the other day that Occupy Wall Street and its librarians are suing the New York Police Department for destroying the OWS library of 3,600 books.
When the police destroyed the OWS encampment at Zuccotti Park last fall, they swept up the OWS library, threw the books into a Sanitation Department truck (i.e., a garbage truck), and carted them off to a Sanitation Department depot, where they remained–soiled, crushed, torn, ruined.
This was of more than passing interest to me. Of course, I was outraged to read that the police had treated books with such disdain. I love books. I like to hold books. I like the smell of books. Books are precious. When I learned about the destruction of the OWS library, I had thoughts of book burnings, a bit melodramatic, but not entirely far-fetched.
I had a personal interest in these events. A few weeks before the OWS camp was destroyed, I had received an

No Child Left Behind’s successor, smartly written, can make impact | Thoughts on Public Education

No Child Left Behind’s successor, smartly written, can make impact | Thoughts on Public Education:

No Child Left Behind’s successor, smartly written, can make impact - by Marshall (Mike) Smith

by Marshall (Mike) Smith

If you had $23 billion a year dedicated to improving low-income children’s education and addressing a wide variety of other congressionally negotiated purposes, what would you do?

This is the question Congress should be asking when its members finally sit down to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Instead, however, it’s more likely that Congress will simply tinker around the edges in hopes of “fixing” the ESEA — also known today as the No Child Left Behind Act — rather than transforming it.

The basic provisions of Title I, the ESEA’s largest program — providing more than $14 billion a year to more than 54,000 schools and 23 million students — have barely changed in almost a half-century. The program has been an untouchable symbol of the nation’s [...]

‘Qualities of mind and heart’ - by Kathryn Baron

by Kathryn Baron

For nearly two-and-a-half centuries Americans have fought and died to protect the nation’s fragile democracy. From the earliest days of the Union, the founding fathers recognized that maintaining freedom came with a cost and with a responsibility to ensure an educated citizenry. President John F. Kennedy reaffirmed that conviction on June 6, 1963, in his commencement [...]

Ignoring Poverty in the U.S. || Information Age Publishing

Ignoring Poverty in the U.S. || Information Age Publishing:

Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.

The Corporate Takeover of Public Education

In Press 2012
Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Education examines the divide between a commitment to public education and our cultural myths and more powerful commitment to consumerism and corporate America. The book addresses poverty in the context of the following: the historical and conflicting purposes in public education—how schools became positivistic/behavioral in our quest to produce workers for industry; the accountability era—how A Nation at Risk through NCLB have served corporate interest in dismantling public education and dissolving teachers unions; the media and misinformation about education; charter schools as political/corporate compromise masking poverty; demonizing schools and scapegoating teachers—from misusing the SAT to VAM evaluations of teachers; rethinking the purpose of schools—shifting from schools as social saviors to addressing poverty so that public education can fulfill its purpose of empowering everyone in a democracy; and reframing how we view people living in poverty—rejecting deficit views of people living in poverty and students struggling in school under the weight of lives in poverty.

This work is intended to confront the growing misinformation about the interplay among poverty,

NYC Educator: Sorely in Need of a Teacher

NYC Educator: Sorely in Need of a Teacher:

Sorely in Need of a Teacher

by NYC Educator

Heroic captain "Sully" Sullengberger has written a new book, in which he praises several Americans he perceives as heroes.Included in his list is former DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee. Firstly, I'm somewhat stunned that this former pilot is an authority on education. For one thing, he hasn't got as much money as most "experts," like Gates, Broad, or Rhee Herself.

I'm trying to recall the last time a teachers were queried for their opinions on landing planes. Nothing comes to mind, and for that I'm grateful, as I have no idea how to do so. I'm afraid I put as much faith in Sullenberger's notions of education as my own on aviation--which is to say none whatsoever. Things are tough for pilots nowadays. It's tough for them even to get by.

Sullenberger himself has been active in trying to improve conditions

The June Ballot: Lots of Reform, How Much Change? | California Progress Report

The June Ballot: Lots of Reform, How Much Change? | California Progress Report:

All the signs so far indicate that both super-rich individuals like Republican Charles Munger, a funder of the initiative changing the redistricting process and a backer of the Top Two primary, and special interest groups like the Chamber of Commerce and Michelle Rhee’s Students First, a pro-charter school group, are spending big bucks to influence the primaries.

The June Ballot: Lots of Reform, How Much Change?

by jeffson

By Peter Schrag
Those of us who can be bothered to go to the polls in next month’s primary, or fill out and send back our mail ballots, will probably notice that almost everything seems different: the districts, the ballots, the chance to fiddle with the state’s term limits law.
Whether you’re registered as a Democrat or a Republican or decline to state, your ballot will have all Assembly candidates on one list, all state Senate candidates on another, all congressional candidates on another, regardless of party.
You’ll find Democrat Dianne Feinstein in eighth place among U.S. Senate candidates,
just under Marsha Feinland, who defines her party preference as Peace and Freedom.
Among the 24 on the Senate ballot, there are five other Democrats, an American Independent, a Libertarian, another Peace and Freedom candidate and fourteen Republicans. One of them is lawyer-doctor Orly Taitz, the mother of all Birthers. You can vote for any one of them.
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Sunday, May 27, 2012

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Why Does Whitney Tilson Associate With A Known Convicterd Criminal?

by noreply@blogger.com (Bronx Teacher)

Every now and then we here at SBSB get an email throwing someone under the bus. Lately, we have a source that is giving away the farm on the machinations of Whitney Tilson. We here at SBSB wish to thank this brave source.

In the latest email from our source, we were told to goggle the phrase; "paragon of integrity Whitney Tilson gets laryngitis" It sure did wet our collective whistles here at SBSB to read such a cryptic phrase. However, like Curious George we just needed to find out what this was all about and where, once we found what we were directed to google, what would it mean?

So we found what it is. A blog article over at

Sacramento Press / 70 adults and children protest adult ESL budget cuts

Sacramento Press / 70 adults and children protest adult ESL budget cuts:

70 adults and children protest adult ESL budget cuts

by Kristin Thebaud, published on May 27, 2012 at 7:58 PM

Adult ESL learners and their children came out in droves to rally for Sacramento City Unified School District to reinstate funding for the ESL program at Fremont Adult School in Sacramento. Seventy people waved signs and cheered outside the school district office on 47th Avenue on Thursday. Countless cars honked and showed their support.
Student Juan Navarrete said in a letter to the school board, “I learned a lot as you see. Now I can write, read, speak. Also I completed my GED and some computer programs, but the more important thing is that I can help my kids with homework. Incredibly, their grades have gone up in school. They have dreams, hopes, they have a future.”
Teacher Marge Matoba said, “With the school slated for closure at the end of this semester, students are understandably devastated at the prospect of having nowhere to go to learn English so they can survive and thrive in Sacramento.”
To get involved, e-mail savefremont@hotmail.com.
With more than 2,000 students enrolled in its 181-day regular school year programs, Fremont School for Adults

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Decline To Sign - New Facebook Group

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Decline To Sign - New Facebook Group:

Decline To Sign - New Facebook Group

by Melissa Westbrook

Join my new Facebook group - Decline to Sign - Charter-Free Washington.

It's pretty simple - when (if) this charter initiative gets out to petitions, just Decline to Sign. Getting it on the ballot is NOT an invitation to discussion (despite what the Times' says/thinks). If they want a discussion, the time is NOW, not after it's on the ballot.

Tell your friends, neighbors, family members, co-workers and fellow PTA members, Decline to Sign.

The way the timeline works out, the coalition that is pushing this may have between 2 weeks to 10 days to get signatures.

I spoke with the Secretary of State's office to make sure I understood the timeline for the pro-charter folks to get

School Tech Connect: Notes From The Red Line Tap

School Tech Connect: Notes From The Red Line Tap:

Notes From The Red Line Tap

by noreply@blogger.com (Tim Furman)

Came home early from Fred Klonsky's retirement celebration over at the Red Line Tap in Rogers Park. I know better than to stay late at the Red Line. The last time I closed that place, which is right at the Morse CTA stop, I woke up in Hammond, which in case you forgot is in another state.

Long story.

Anyway, what a tribute. The place was packed, and it was a virtual who's who of the people who elected Obama and were to one extent or another left behind by that particular President, whose campaign for the White House

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Sacramento Mayor King 1% Johnson expected in L.A. for fundraiser

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Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.

The Corporate Takeover of Public Education

By: P. L. Thomas, Furman University.

Sunday, May 27, 2012

70 adults and children protest adult ESL budget cuts

by Kristin Thebaud, published on May 27, 2012 at 7:58 PM

By:
P. L. Thomas, Furman University.