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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Pink Slime: Anna Phillips Reflecting On Dennis M. Walcott's First Year as "Chancellor" - ParentAdvocates.org

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Pink Slime: Anna Phillips Reflecting On Dennis M. Walcott's First Year as "Chancellor" (Without A Contract) by Betsy Combier
re-posted from NYC Rubber Room Reporter: I'm going to address the ridiculous article printed by SchoolBook's Anna Phillips and the media rush the past couple of days to glorify Dennis M. Walcott - and thus praise Mayor Bloomberg - and libel the teachers who, by fighting well with evidence and truth, were not terminated at 3020-a arbitration. 
           
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Pink Slime: Anna Phillips Reflecting On Dennis M. Walcott's First Year as "Chancellor" (Without A Contract)

I'm going to address the ridiculous article printed by SchoolBook's Anna Phillips and the media rush the past couple of days to glorify Dennis M. Walcott - and thus praise Mayor Bloomberg - and libel the teachers who, by fighting well with evidence and truth, were not terminated at 3020-a arbitration, the "teacher trials" .

Anyone who has gone through the 3020-a arbitration in New York City knows it is a set up. NYSUT, UFT, and Department of Education lawyers as well as employees know that this forum is designed to (a) play up the DOE as an agency which values zero tolerance for any act of touching or speaking deemed by them as "improper", if you are a tenured teacher or
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The “Reform” of NOLA Public Schools: Headline Edition 9/14/05 to 12/21/05 | The G Bitch Spot

The “Reform” of NOLA Public Schools: Headline Edition 9/14/05 to 12/21/05 | The G Bitch Spot:


The “Reform” of NOLA Public Schools: Headline Edition 9/14/05 to 12/21/05

by G Bitch
Part I.
The point? Watch it not grow but slam into being.
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State seeks $2.4 billion from U.S. to pay teachers: N.O. schools’ plans to be revealed today, (New Orleans) Times-Picayune. 9/14/05. Print.
With about 25,700 Louisiana public school employees displaced by Hurricane Katrina and three local systems warning they will soon run out of money to pay their workers, state Education Superintendent Cecil Picard said Tuesday that he is asking Congress for $2.4 billion to help cover salaries and benefits of educators left without open schools.
The money would help Louisiana avoid permanently losing many of its displaced teachers, Picard 
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Student loan debt may be next financial crisis

Student loan debt may be next financial crisis:


Student loan debt may be next financial crisis

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Lance Iversen / The Chronicle
Connie Swain, who is still paying back her student loans, reads to her godson, Joseph Parker, 5, at her rented S.F. home.
In her 20s, Connie Swain shelled out a lot of money to a private vocational school to learn computer skills, relying on student loans for tuition and expenses.
"I was young and didn't really have a sense of how to do things," said Swain, now 44. "I should have gone to community college. I didn't realize what I was getting myself into at the time."
The debt she accumulated - she owes about $13,000, down from $23,000 - has followed her for two decades.
She's among legions of Americans who took on student debt in pursuit of a better future - only to find out that that debt itself cast a shadow over that future.
"It has made things really difficult," said Swain, a case


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