An employee of the Lincoln Hills School in Irma, Wisconsin, was sent home without pay last week for wearing a union t-shirt on the job, according to the Waussau Daily Herald. The employee was Ron McAllister, a youth counselor, who was wearing a t-shirt and jacket with an American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) logo.
The state Department of Corrections, which oversees the school, opened an investigation into
In yesterday's State of the City, Mayor Bloomberg said he would encourage Eva Moskowitz' Success Academy charter chain and KIPP to accelerate their expansion. He may have a fight on his hands. First, see the stickers being pasted all over the glossy recruiting ads in the Williamsburg subways and bus stops for her new charter, to be co-located in MS 50. (thanks to GothamSchools for the photo to the right.)
According to many observers, Eva Moskowitz is recruiting almost exclusively in the northern, primarily white sections of Williamsburg. (This is a practice she followed with the Upper West Success charter on the Upper West side, holding recruiting sessions in the
theassailedteacher.com - I was never an Obama supporter and never will be. Towards the beginning of his term, his supporters excused the sad state of the country by blaming Bush. We are now three years in, which means that...
anne2011.teachforus.org - Okay, I think I’m going to need to preface this one. I’m about to write the TFA version of the Kubler-Ross model. Now, this analogy has to be taken with a grain of salt, because what CMs go throu...
ny1.com - Have something to tell us at The Call? Drop us a line at thecall@ny1.com and we'll post it to our blog.If Mayor Bloomberg's legacy is tied to education, he may not want to watch the 3am replay of t...
blogs.edweek.org - Guest post by Kelly Flynn.I'm intrigued by the topic of Anthony Cody's two recent blog entries, "Are Critics of Corporate Education 'Reform' Winning the Online Debate?" and "Lopsided Debate Over Ed...
suntimes.com - BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com January 12, 2012 12:48PM City Hall issued the first of at least four parade permits — for a May 19 march from the Daley Center to 23rd and...
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,Reading Stephen Cohen's essay "The Soviet Union's Afterlife" in the latest issue of The Nation gave me the chills. I've occasionally pointed to the Soviet focus on centralized five-year ...
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Like Freddy Kreuger, he's baaack! It could be time for a mic check as Jonah Edelman and his well-funded, out-of-town gang of professional union busters at Stand For Children, return to Chicago. O...
gothamschools.org - An advertising onslaught to promote a new charter school is being met by anonymous adversaries who have a guerilla marketing strategy of their own. Glossy ads featuring smiling children went up thi...
addictinginfo.org - Apparently it’s that time of year when every Republican controlled legislature introduces bills designed to force Christianity upon us. As I reported earlier on Thursday, the Indiana Senate introdu...
wsws.org - By Kristina Betinis 9 January 2012 Mary Thorson, a 32-year-old physical education teacher at Cottage Grove Upper Grade Center in Ford Heights, Illinois, took her own life on November 24, 2011. The ...
ednewscolorado.org - Denver Public Schools board member Arturo Jimenez has notified district officials that he has no intention – contrary to prior comments he has made – to repay the $1,153 by which they say he oversp...
politico.com - Meet the three billionaires who could drag out the GOP presidential primary, bloody up front-runner Mitt Romney and weaken the odds of defeating President Barack Obama: Sheldon Adelson, Foster Frie...
preaprez.wordpress.com - GOP House Leader Tom Cross, who along with Mike Madigan, Governor Quinn and Rahm Emanuel got the massive tax breaks for Sears and the CME, demanded wage freezes for state employees. The State Journ...
inthesetimes.com - Earlier this week, I got into a little Twitter battle with Matthew Yglesias after the prominent blogger tweeted out “"EXCLUSIVE: The activities of individual business executives have no relationshi...
preaprez.wordpress.com - The other day I was sitting through a school staff meeting. It was terrible. Under our current administration, each meeting seems worse than the last. Pointless. A checklist of what counts as poor ...
blog.angryasianman.com - What is up, people? Time to meet another Angry Reader of the Week, spotlighting you, the very special readers of this website. Over the years, I've been able to connect with a lot of cool folks, an...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Mother Crusader: Pants on Fire:Pants on Fireby darciecimaTikun Olam lead applicant Sharon Akman responded to a reporter yesterday for the first time in months. Walt Kane from News Channel 12 did a...
my.firedoglake.com - “Clean, safe, and too cheap to meter.” This sunny tagline from the early days of atomic energy has more recently become the quickest way to sum up how dark and dismal its prospects are today–as in,...
whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 13, 2012 PLAN WILL MAKE GOVERNMENT LEANER, SMARTER AND MORE CONSUMER-FRIENDLYWASHINGTON, DC – As a follow up to last year...
fresnobee.com - A $2.2 million grant is helping Fresno Unified's bus fleet run a little cleaner.Money from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District helped the district replace 13 diesel buses with new...
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 4:48 pm, January 13, 2012 Photo Credits: Samantha Garvey (right) with her science research teacher Rebecca Grella Not one to let her family’s homelessness keep her form reaching for he...
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 2:49 pm, January 13, 2012 Photo Credits: Animated Napoleon Dynamite Airs Sunday. Efren Ramirez, Aaron Ruell, Jon Heder Return Returning to the characters that made many of them famous,...
boston.com - ALEXANDRIA, Virginia—They called it "random dancing" but First Lady Michelle Obama broke out some moves that resembled subdued variations of "the Monkey" or "the Jerk" Friday during an appearance a...
ourfuture.org - "We could use a massive, dramatic confrontation on behalf of the more than 27 million who are unemployed or underemployed today," I wrote one year ago. "The spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. would c...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 1-12 #edreform #ows Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 3 minutes ago NYC’s Largest Parent Group Responds to Mayor’s State o...
dissenter.firedoglake.com - Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), continues to relentlessly pound away at the Obama Administration and the National Park Service for allowin...
washingtonpost.com - On Friday morning, Alan Krueger, the Princeton economist who is on leave serving as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, gave a speech at the Center for American Progress on th...
