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Exercise Your Constitutional Right on October 18, 2025 - The pro-democracy group Indivisible is among those speaking out against the Trump administration’s reported targeting of progressive and liberal organiz...31 minutes ago
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Venezuelan Opposition Leader Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Despite Trump’s relentless demand to win the Nobel Peace Prize, he did not. He says he ended 6 or 8 wars in his few months in office. Just days ago, he bro...1 hour ago
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Plenary Authority: Why a LIVE TV Pregnant Pause Was the Point - When White House Advisor Stephen Miller sat across from the CNN interviewer in October 2025, his delivery was measured, his words chosen with precision. As...2 hours ago
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Christina School Board Will Vote To Remove Dr. Naveed Baqir - When Dr. Naveed Baqir, the controversial Christina Board of Education member left America for Pakistan in January of 2024 , many citizens felt he shouldn’t...2 hours ago
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TODAY'S TOP NEWS - YESTERDAY'S BEST BLOG POST October 10 2025 - *Today's Top News Stories: October 10, 2025 * U.S. News - Government Shutdown Enters Second Week: The partial federal government shutdown, now ...7 hours ago
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When It Comes To School Finance, Ciattarelli Doesn't Know Jack: Part 1 - Jack Ciattarelli is running for governor of New Jersey. You would think that, in a highly-educated blue state, a Republican would take the time to educat...14 hours ago
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‘Turning education around’: Fields, OSBE work to clear backlog in first meeting post-Walters - [image: Lindel Fields first meeting]Today’s meeting of the Oklahoma State Board of Education looked different than it had during the tenure of departed S...14 hours ago
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The Rift in American Socialism - The Rift in American Socialism: Today on TAP: Realists (Mamdani, AOC) seek immersion in mass politics; fundamentalists oppose it.15 hours ago
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Nearly Nine Months In: How The Administration Is Failing America’s Children - Nearly nine months into the second Trump Administration, the damage to children and families is already staggering.17 hours ago
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'Antifa Hunting' and the dialectics of fascism - Trump demands the jailing of Mayor Johnson and Gov. Pritzker17 hours ago
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NEPC: Celebrating and Remembering David Berliner - Celebrating and Remembering David Berliner Education scholar, leader, wit, gadfly, mentor, father, friend and NEPC Fellow David C. Berliner died September ...19 hours ago
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2024–25 California Statewide Assessment Results - 2024–25 California Statewide Assessment results show continued progress across all student groups.19 hours ago
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Seattle Schools Will Not Pilot the Police Officer at Garfield Program - * Update:* Forgot to mention - head of Legal, Greg Narver, is leaving the district. end of update Topline is my headline; *the Board voted against...20 hours ago
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The Push To End Public Schools - Despite the fact that the words "school choice" still get tossed around, most of the noisiest figures in the school choice movement have no actual interest...21 hours ago
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The Inconvenient Success of Mississippi - It's not just education reform skeptics who are giving the Mississippi Miracle the side eye22 hours ago
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Later School Start Times Linked to Better Grades, Safer Roads, and Healthier Teens - New research from *SleepJunkie.com* spotlights how *later school start times* better match adolescent biology and can improve *academic performance,...22 hours ago
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"I Wonder if That's True" - When our children were young, a group of families with similar aged children would occasionally vacation together for spring break. Usually, it was abou...1 day ago
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How NYC parents can opt out of data sharing and better protect their child’s privacy - In May 2025, the NYC Department of Education revised Chancellor’s regulations A-820, to authorize DOE and schools to disclose a category of student pe...1 day ago
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The Future of Higher Education: The Age of Sponsored Knowing, and What This Means to Higher Education - The Future of Higher Education: The Age of Sponsored Knowing, and What This Means to Higher Education It seems very likely that OpenAI will soon be placin...1 day ago
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The Genius of Our Students - Yesterday, the MacArthur Foundation named 22 people to their hallowed fellowship program, often referred to as the “Genius Grant.” The foundation awards ...1 day ago
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The Genius of Our Students - Yesterday, the MacArthur Foundation named 22 people to their hallowed fellowship program, often referred to as the “Genius Grant.” The foundation awards ...1 day ago
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New Book Documents Trump Administration’s Actions to Destroy Diversity in Higher Education - In his new book, The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, The Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education, Yale University law professor, Justin Driver ...1 day ago
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Whatever Happened to Coding in U.S. Schools? - Coding should be a requirement in every public school…. We have a huge deficit in the skills that we need today versus the skills that are there. Tim Cook,...1 day ago
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Another LAUSD Incumbent Gets An Opponent - Parent advocate J.P. Perron challenges LAUSD incumbent Kelly Gonez, bringing years of special education activism to the ballot. Read the article on *MEDI...1 day ago
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Work Hard, Burn Out, Repeat: The Culture Schools Won’t Quit - “When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less.” “Unless you love them.” ― Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus I started in the service...1 day ago
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Civil Rights Elders Speak - https://mailchi.mp/kingandbreakingsilence/january-13050963?e=133dd5ab0b2 days ago
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Public Education Shaped by 19th Century Dispute - By Thomas Ultican 10/8/2025 Horace Mann, frequently referred to as the “father of public education”, declared that public education should be nonsectarian....2 days ago
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How NYC parents can opt out of data sharing and protect their child’s privacy - Oct. 6, 2025 In May 2025, the NYC Department of Education revised Chancellor’s regulations A-820, to authorize DOE and schools to disclose a category of st...2 days ago
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Perverse Incentives in Florida’s Middle School Math Acceleration - Even ExcelinEd’s Levesque Can Smell the Accountabaloney One of Accountabaloney’s first advocacy efforts involved hand-delivering foam clown noses to state...2 days ago
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The New York Daily News has decided what is an "affront to the Jews". - In the middle of the Dodgers–Phillies game last night, my phone rang.2 days ago
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Don’t Follow Advice from Billionaires - This is by Julian Vasquez Lustig. —————- When billionaires step onto a stage, release a book, or tweet some glossy piece of wisdom, the world pays attentio...3 days ago
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Making America Hungry Again - Starving schools and food banks while claiming to care about public health3 days ago
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My AI Defense Plan - Curious about their loyalties, I asked three of them—starting with ChatGPT—the same question:4 days ago
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Success Academy rally and their history of violating laws - Sept. 23, 2025 Dear all — Last Thursday, September 18, 2025, several large charter school networks held a protest rally in Cadmen Plaza and a march across ...5 days ago
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How about a Pause on the Race to Embed AI in Schools? - I haven’t written much about AI and education, for several reasons. First, there are already many people writing compellingly and with considerable experti...6 days ago
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Don’t Blame Trump. It’s on Reagan (and us) - I will start with the fun stuff, some grist for dinner and cocktail party conversations about the cost of going to college these days. Then I will try to ...6 days ago
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Superintendent of Ohio charter school for at-risk teens ran nightclubs beset with violence - In September 2024, he was fired amid allegations of financial mismanagement and fraud. A state investigation followed, and the school abruptly closed in ...1 week ago
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Just Sent-Out Free Monthly Email Newsletter - I’ve just mailed out the September issue of my very simple free monthly email newsletter. It has over 3,000 subscribers, and you can subscribe here. Of c...1 week ago
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September’s Parent Engagement Resources - Today’s teens struggle with big feelings — and their parents struggle to have hard conversations with them. A psychologist explains how to help your kids c...1 week ago
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It's official. I'm taking Crazy Pills. - Ten years after Ohio had to return $63 million of a $71 million federal charter school grant to the first Trump Administration, Ohio gets another $105 mill...1 week ago
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It’s easy to know who not to trust – NYCE PPO (with update) - What follows is a repost of what I wrote on Substack Wednesday – with some additional info: There’s a lot of discussion of the proposed new healthcare plan...1 week ago
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Breaking Up Public Schools Dangerously Divided the Nation! - No one is born hating another person. People have to learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. ~Nelson Mandela Free publi...2 weeks ago
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James Kirylo: America’s Peculiar Love Affair - James D. Kirylo has been a friend of mine for many years and has been a guest contributor to my blog in the past. Among other books, Kirylo is the author ...2 weeks ago
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The Moral Famine: A Poem By Jesse Hagopian - People are starving in Palestine. "The Moral Famine" confronts Israel’s starvation siege on Gaza and the world’s complicity in denying it.2 weeks ago
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Here I go again, making an ask - We are a majority minority school where we emphasize positive aspects, but also recognize that we need to address the whole child. Too many of our young ...2 weeks ago
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Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...2 weeks ago
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Blogoversary #19 — Time to Move on - Times have changed. I had a nice long run here, but let’s face it, it ended a while ago. So I’ve moved. I’m not writing much any more, but when I do it wil...3 weeks ago
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Is there really a decline in pleasure reading? - The mainstream media has been full of the bad news: new study shows that reading for pleasure has declined! Fewer people are reading for fun: From 2003 to ...5 weeks ago
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The Washington Post Celebrates The 20th Anniversary Of The New Orleans ‘Miracle’ - It has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina wiped out the New Orleans schools system causing it to be replaced with all charter school. And it has been ov...5 weeks ago
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Last call for ARC readers: Addicted to Glove - "Major League" meets "Ted Lasso" with a hint of "Three Men and a Baby" in this age gap, surprise pregnancy romcom set in the Pacific Northwest.1 month ago
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Where to Find the Best Unicorn Coloring Pages Online - Unicorns continue to captivate imaginations across all age groups, from toddlers discovering their first magical creatures to adults seeking stress-relie...2 months ago
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Revisiting Deceitful Claims about School Funding and Outcomes (a thread) - I’ve had enough. This has to stop. I’ve explained on at least a few occasions that there exists a cottage industry for whom their bread and butter is telli...2 months ago
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What Will Todd Blanche Discuss with Ghislaine Maxwell? One Guess. - Todd Blanche was Donald Trump's personal lawyer in his criminal trial in New York City.2 months ago
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McGrath and Kaminsky: Key Names in the School Policy Debate - The landscape of American school policy is no longer shaped only behind closed doors. It’s debated in town halls, on social media, and through public prote...4 months ago
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"Didn't do *that*," part 1: new Schofield case developments reveal crucial 10th Circuit/Ledger lie - The record is clear. Jeremy Scott confessed at least 40 times in a 2017 hearing. He never recanted. The Ledger must retract its lie to force Judge Kevin Ab...4 months ago
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Achieve 3000 Answers Key (Updated 2023) - Are you on the hunt for the most recent Achieve 3000 answers for the year 2023? Your search is over! ... Read more5 months ago
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Il Papa è Morto - Francis brought a distinct pastoral outlook to his papacy. A simple man, he lived in a small apartment in the guesthouse. He sought to make the church acce...5 months ago
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Kemenangan Member Birutoto Main PG Soft Speed Winner - Kemenangan Member Birutoto Main PG Soft Speed Winner Birutoto – Situs Slot Gacor Terpercaya The post Kemenangan Member Birutoto Main PG Soft Speed Winner...5 months ago
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Trump plays Putin’s Playbook - Recently Aleksander Dugin was interviewed on CNN, last week, and he stated that he believes Trump is closer ideologically to President Putin than to Washin...6 months ago
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Mike Shulman the ARISE UFT Judenrat - I was surprised to learn that Mike Shulman has aligned himself with ARISE. I previously supported him, advocating that the Castle Doctrine could have bee...6 months ago
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How Do We Fight Trump? - Dear Friends, I don’t know when and why it hit me. But I suddenly realized how serious Trump is about changing the country into something that horrifies. I...6 months ago
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Can Students Expect a Relevant Education to be Delivered by Irrelevant Educators? - As a veteran teacher of forty years in the classroom, let me be clear, teachers are not completely at fault for becoming irrelevant in their profession. It...6 months ago
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The US Department of Education Should not be Eliminated. Still, it must be reformed. - If you don’t have an attention span that lasts long enough to learn what I’m teaching in this post, start with the conclusion first. Then if you want to re...8 months ago
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Site Index - Updated December 31, 2024 - BLOGGER’S NOTE: If you are new to this blog, and interested in the topic of immigration, I recommend you go right to the massive new post: “How Immigrat...9 months ago
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Malcolm & John David Washington Talk NFL, Christopher Nolan & ‘The Piano Lesson’ - 'The Washington brothers built their careers apart—until an irresistible project drew them together. In The *Piano Lesson*, they tackle a father’s thorny...10 months ago
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“I’m Done With Him; He’s A Douchebag” …And Other Tales From Distant Doors And Stoops - The Democratic Party has been joining with thousands of allied groups working feverishly to hold off TFG’s fever-dream. I’ve long… The post “I’m Done Wit...11 months ago
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AIN’T IT AWFUL - As the terrible feelings of dread and angst spread across the world the great majority of the American people feel powerless before the onslaught of those ...1 year ago
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Did Darryl Willie lie or interfere in the whistleblower investgation? Why not both? - Willie said below to Action News Jax [image: image.png] It's troubling for quite a few reasons. First he is saying the board knew about the complaint an...1 year ago
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What Country Has The Longest School Day? A Comprehensive Guide - In today’s fast-paced world, education plays a crucial role in shaping the future of individuals and nations...1 year ago
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Could This Be Gadfly’s End? Top 12 Articles From 2023 Read By Fewer Than Ever - After 9 years of pounding my head against the wall - well, it seems like the wall is winning.1 year ago
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Redesigning School Governance: Beyond Mayoral Control - From time to time the legislature passes a bill with a sunset provision, unless the law is reauthorized by a specific date the law reverts to the law it re...1 year ago
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POSTPONED: Florida’s Impact on Social Studies - POSTPONED: discussion with Florida and DC educators and advocates on the impact of Florida's new laws Continue reading2 years ago
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Vote NO on the UFT Contract. Here is Why: - The best reason to vote no on this contract is this: UFT Unity* lied* to us in 2018. They misrepresented that contract. It was predicated on deals we wer...2 years ago
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Testimony to the CPS Truancy Task Force - I prepared testimony for one of two public hearings held by the Chicago Public Schools Truancy Task Force, a body mandated by state legislation. The meetin...2 years ago
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Tennis Memories from a Time When Racism and Anti-Semitism Still Prevailed - I learned tennis at a public park in Brooklyn- Lincoln Terrace- where the teaching pro was a mailman named Phil Rubell. Almost all the kids who took lesson...3 years ago
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There Is A Teacher Shortage.Not. - THERE IS A TEACHER SHORTAGE. And just to be sure you understand, it’s not that teachers don’t want to teach. It’s not that there aren’t enough teachers cer...3 years ago
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Reason #1 to pick Dr. Grace over Mr. Walters: The future we’ve already seen - In 2014, Oklahoma voters corrected the mistake we made in 2010. In 2022, let’s not make the mistake in the first place. Elect Dr. April Grace instead. She ...3 years ago
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Want to know the condition of a Philly school building? New map to help. - [image: Two students walk by a Philadelphia school building.] Aging infrastructure has been an issue for Philadelphia schools for years. A new interactive...3 years ago
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STREET LIFE - My mom told me, “You should treat all people equally, but don’t bring a “colored” into the house.” I believed … Continue reading →3 years ago
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Schools Matter: Reflecting on Green Dot’s Disastrous Locke Takeover - *“Green Dot came and made it into more of a jail.” — Chris* My history of opposing the Green Dot Charter School Corporation back when I was an activist i...3 years ago
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Book Banning Turns to Dick and Jane - Breaking News: Dateline February 4, 2022 - Parents in Dimwitty, Alabama have asked the Dimwitty Board of Education to ban the children's primer *Fun with...3 years ago
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Have You Heard Has a New Website - TweetHave You Heard has a new website. Visit us at www.haveyouheardpodcast.com to find our latest episodes and our entire archive. And be sure to check out...3 years ago
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Follow me at Substack - I've moved. Follow me at Substack I'm now posting regularly at Substack. You can subscribe for free to my new Edu/Pol blog at michaelklonsky.substack.com ...3 years ago
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Milwaukee Bradley Foundation at Center of Attacks on U.S. Voting Rights - The Big Money Behind the Big Lie Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win...4 years ago
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Milwaukee Bradley Foundation at Center of Attacks on U.S. Voting Rights - The Big Money Behind the Big Lie Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win...4 years ago
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Aspiring Teachers Get New Help Paying For College - [image: colorful classroom pattern] *; Credit: shuoshu/Getty Images* Cory Turner | NPR New rules kick in today that will help aspiring teachers pay for c...4 years ago
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Major victory over a corporate charter school chain and their trade association - Original post at Robert’s page on Medium. On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, I got my second big win in court against a charter school corporation. It was also a ...4 years ago
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Tips Akses Situs Judi Qq Tanpa Perlu Takut Nawala - Kegiatan berjudi slot melalui situs judi qq online, sekarang sudah dilakukan oleh banyak penjudi Indonesia. Tentu, Kamu yang sedang membaca artikel ini a...4 years ago
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The Threat of Integration - I have lived in the same house in the Miracle Mile section of Los Angeles for over 30 years, where up until now I have had little or no interaction with th...4 years ago
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New Teacher Evaluation Report Released by the Network for Public Education - A new report on current teacher evaluation systems throughout the US was just released by the Network for Public Education. The report is titled, “Teachers...4 years ago
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www.job-applications.com - https://www.job-applications.com/bed-bath-and-beyond-job-application/4 years ago
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Teacher Creates National Database Tracking COVID-19 Outbreaks in Schools - Kansas educator Alisha Morris's online coronavirus news-tracker goes viral, now hosted on a new NEA website.5 years ago
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Correction for July 10th Post on School District Audit - On July 10, 2020 we published a post “School District Caught Manipulating Attendance Records to Get More Money” which incorrectly cited Valley Park School ...5 years ago
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We fight for a democracy worthy of us all! - The nation stands at a crossroads, said NEA President Lily Eskelsen GarcÃa in her final keynote address to the 2020 NEA Representative Assembly and it’s up...5 years ago
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Giving Private Schools Federal Emergency Funds Slated for Low-income Students Will Shortchange At-risk Kids - Low-income Seattle students began to pick up bagged lunches in March after their school closed. Karen Ducey/Getty Images Derek W. Black, University of Sout...5 years ago
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The Passing Of Chaz 1951-2020 Age 69 - I am the son of Chaz and like to inform you that he passed away this afternoon from the COVID virus. My father passed in peace beside his loved ones. We ar...5 years ago
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Let The Next Round Of Anti-Semitic Ads Begin - All four pro-public education candidates came in first in their LAUSD school board elections, but two will face run-offs in November.5 years ago
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The Fight For Our Children - *The number of suicides among people ages 10 to 24 nationally increased by 56 percent between 2007 and 2017, according to a new federal report showing the ...5 years ago
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Love Grow Your Own (but not without the actual growth part) - The Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, recently announced a grow-your-own type of program for teachers. According to this piece: On Monday, Governor Ral...5 years ago
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Another attempted cash grab by the corporate ed crowd in Washington State: House Bill 2788 - The League of Women Voters has opposed charter schools because they don’t have boards elected by the voters but instead the corporation running the schools...5 years ago
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Some of Our Graduates Don't Even Know How to Tighten a Nut - Are schools neglecting practical knowledge and skills? Many of our students are graduating from high school with extremely limited practical knowledge essen...5 years ago
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Read to Self: Just a Kid and a Book. - Date: Monday, January 5, 2020 Place: My classroom Student: Mrs.Mims, could we start doing Read to Self again because I got this great book for Christmas an...5 years ago
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Reminiscences - I just finished dumping the rest of my lesson plans. I guess I held on to the calculus ones for so long because I spent so much time working on them an...5 years ago
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Just Asking for some Teachers I know. - Recently Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers stated, We must … recognize that part of supporting our kids in the classroom means supporting the educators who t...5 years ago
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Charging a terrified 10-year-old girl as a criminal is a very bad look for state attorney Dennis Ward - What the hell is going on? As a parent, I feel very comfortable using this exact wording to ask this … Continue reading →6 years ago
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Cara Menang Bermain Judi Bola Online - Bermain judi bola online tentu saja memiliki kesenangannya tersendiri baik itu mendapatkan keuntungan maupun ketika menantikan hasil skor pada sebuah perta...6 years ago
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Blaming Schools for Student Absences is Like Denouncing Doctors for Disease by Steven Singer - Originally posted at: https://gadflyonthewallblog.com/2019/08/25/blaming-schools-for-student-absences-is-like-denouncing-doctors-for-disease/?fbclid=IwAR1LV...6 years ago
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Jersey journalist roughed up at session sponsored by charter school groups - The sponsors of an event that doesn’t like journalists An independent New Jersey journalist was roughed up, his video camera was seized, and he was ejected...6 years ago
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K12 Inc. Data Breach Puts thousands of students at risk - It's hard to believe school districts are still contracting with this horrible company. K12 Inc. is the largest for-profit online alternative to actual pub...6 years ago
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A Critique of Standards-Based Grading - It first happened to me about ten years ago. I was beginning my third year of teaching in a new school in Washington, DC. Social studies teachers were si...6 years ago
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My First and Last Visit to Hudson Yards - Figuring I did not need to invite any more darkness and vulgarity into my head than that provided on a daily basis from Trump’s White House, and after read...6 years ago
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Reduced time for testing? Not so fast. - NYSED and Commish Elia continue to say that the NYS Assessments are of reasonable length, I completely disagree. Here is what NYSED states are average expe...6 years ago
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A Response to NorthJersey.com's Explosive "Cashing in on Charter Schools" Series - From NorthJersey.com's Cashing in on Charter Schools series Please note: THIS is what journalism looks like. For the better part of a *DECADE* I have wa...6 years ago
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This Week in Education Organizing - February 15, 2019 - Coalition for Education Justice to Release Report on CRE Eighty-five percent of public school students in New York City are Black, Latinx, or Asian and y...6 years ago
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The World According to Michelle Rhee - The men behind the curtain fashioning the brave new world of corporate run education in America! Michelle Rhee is the founder of StudentsFirst, The New T...7 years ago
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Libraries, books and overcoming the effect of poverty - *Published in the New York Times, September 20, 2018* *To the Editor:* *Re “Why libraries still matter.” [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/opinion/sund...7 years ago
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TSJ's 17th Annual Curriculum Fair - *TSJ's 17th Annual Curriculum Fair* *** REGISTER HERE *** *From Puerto Rico to Chicago:* *Reclaiming and Reimagining Our Communities* Saturday, November 1...7 years ago
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Whose Opinions Matter in Education World? - It's hard to identify education heroes and sheroes. And perhaps even harder to pinpoint just whose work is slanted, paid-for and dishonest.7 years ago
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Blockchain: Life on the Ledger - Originally posted on Wrench in the Gears: I created this video as a follow up to the one I prepared last year on Social Impact Bonds. It is time to examine...7 years ago
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Book Review: The History of Institutional Racism in U.S. Public Schools (2018, Garn Press) by Susan DuFresne - I recently had the privilege of reading Dufresne’s powerful illustrated history of educational and institutional racism in the United States. Dufresne blen...7 years ago
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Corruption on Top of Corruption: How Rahm’s Response to Sexual Abuse of Students Reveals His Core Function - Rahm Emanuel’s response to the Chicago Tribune investigation that found CPS failed to protect hundreds of students from sexual abuse is cowardly. It is co...7 years ago
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New Local Businesses in Sacramento - Starting a new local business in Sacramento is a monumental task, but can be accomplished with footwork, perseverance and knowledge. One must learn the loc...7 years ago
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Lesson Plan: Rhyme and Rhythm in Poetry - I’ve started a recent unit on poetry with my class. I’m not a poet, and I’m not a poetry fan (I don’t hate it, but I’m a prose gal), so this makes it harde...7 years ago
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The Apotheosis of Betsy DeVos - Betsy Devos has drawn few headlines in recent months, and that is a good thing for the Secretary of Education. Her tenure began with Vice President Mike P...7 years ago
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A Teacher’s Tale in the Midst of the Terror in our Schools - Students’ active-shooter plan for teacher in wheelchair: ‘We will carry you’ Reprinted from Allison Slater Tate Feb. 21, 2018 at 4:58 PM Like teachers all ...7 years ago
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Social Emotional Data. The new Cash Cow in the Corporate Assessment Industry - Recently I was asked to allow my son to participate in a survey at school. The "opt in" survey form specifically stated, "the questions on the survey rela...7 years ago
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Education Is a Civic Question - In their final post to end Bridging Differences' decade-long run, Deborah Meier and Harry Boyte urge readers to put the energy, talents, wisdom, and hard w...8 years ago
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Site News: New Home for Education News & Commentary - Quick! Get over there! The daily education news roundup and education commentaries that you're probably looking for are now being published over at The Gra...8 years ago
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Should We Be Grateful? - In an odd turn of events, and with little explanation, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has decided to return the state’s School Reform Office back to the Dep...8 years ago
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Parents Deserve to Know Who Is Being Appointed to State Board of Ed - I spent a rather surreal day at NJ Senate's Judiciary Committee meeting yesterday. This Committee, headed by Democrat Nick Scaturi, is responsible for a...8 years ago
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An Open Letter to NC Lawmakers - An Open Letter to NC State Lawmakers and NC State Superintendent Mark Johnson: I am a NC native, voter, and public school teacher. I am addressing you all ...8 years ago
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The Secret to Fixing Schools (My Next Bestseller) - The Secret to Fixing Schools (My next bestseller) Prologue I just finished watching a fascinating documentary on Netflix entitled, “The Secret”. The film p...8 years ago
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CPS Targets Special Education Teacher Sarah Chambers - Here are the remarks from an action we did today at River Point Plaza, a new development that used over $30 million in TIF funds. CPS claims we are broke...8 years ago
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Farewell, Sleep - Today is the official last day of my spring break. I've done a scientific survey: My natural bedtime is 2 AM, and my natural wake up time is 9:41 AM. Tom...8 years ago
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March is nearly over and I didn't do anything for WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH - I was inspired when I saw this meme I guess it can be called of WOMEN IN STEM and "IT'S OKAY TO BE SMART" And I began thinking about how the only subjec...8 years ago
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REPORT: States With the Best and Worst Schools - States With the Best (and Worst)Schools By *Evan Comen, Michael B. Sauter, Samuel Stebbins and Thomas C. Frohlich* January 20, 2017- http://247wallst.com ...8 years ago
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Test Refusal = People Power - In recent months, social media has been ablaze with talk of regular folk taking action to resist the Trump agenda. Protests are a daily occurrence, and ev...8 years ago
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Attitude Determines Altitude* (*conditions apply)… and the Importance of Humane District Themes - It has been a tumultuous few years in the South Brunswick community, specifically the South Brunswick School District. All you have to do is google the dis...8 years ago
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[video]Perils or Promises: Education in the Age of Smart Machines: Presentation at the City Club of Cleveland - On December 14th, 2016, I made a presentation at the City Club of Cleveland. Watch the presentation The Club’s website or Youtube. Title: Perils or Promise...8 years ago
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What Is To Be Done? Trump, the Election, and the Student Loan Crises - President-elect Donald Trump delivering acceptance speech in New York, NY on November 9 (Photo Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Ever since now Presi...8 years ago
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Prison Gerrymandering: Incarceration Weakens Vulnerable Voting Communities - One person equals one vote: seems simple enough. Unfortunately, that hasn’t worked out for many Americans throughout history, specifically women and peop...9 years ago
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Random Musings and Observations. . . . - I’ve been gone a while from the blogging scene. Some of my more regular readers no doubt noticed but did not hassle me about it. Thank you for that. Sinc...9 years ago
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WTU Headquarters On The Auction Block: Union Prez Liz Davis Doesn't Pay Property Tax! - *June 30th is the last official day of WTU Prez Davis' constitutional term. Malcolm Barnes explores this unfortunate scandal in the article below. What r...9 years ago
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AB 934: A LEGISLATIVE FIX FOR VERGARA? - By Michael Stratford | in the Politco Morning Education Report | via email 05/24/2016 10:00 AM EDT :: Two national education groups are backing a Califor...9 years ago
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To simply say you have a growth mindset does not mean you actually have one - By definition, you cannot have a growth mindset when learning is anchored to standardized tests. Standardized tests are a one … Continue reading →9 years ago
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Diane Ravitch on education reform and misguided reformers – part 1 | Thoughts on Public Education #StateSOS #WIunion #SolidarityWI
#wiunion #wearewi Momma Politico: Our Kids Are Not "Products" - Why Public School Teachers in WI (& Everywhere) Deserve Decent Wages
Our Kids Are Not "Products" - Why Public School Teachers in WI (& Everywhere) Deserve Decent Wages
You've all heard me say it before: an educated populace is the cornerstone of our democracy. When I received a comment on my last post with the idea that education should be treated like a business, well, my comment became more than a comment, as you can well imagine. Blame it on Limbaugh, already getting m
Huffington Post: Wisconsin Dems Start Recall Initiative | www.kochwatch.org #StateSOS #WIunion #SolidarityWI
The Reality of Dan, Diana, Andy, Michael … and TED (On The Future of Teaching) | The Jose Vilson
The Reality of Dan, Diana, Andy, Michael … and TED (On The Future of Teaching)
by JOSE on MARCH 2, 2011
I thought the writing break might last longer. The bug got me. Here’s my latest at the Future of Teaching blog.
Excerpt:
A good step in that direction is the edcamps and unconferences springing across the country. However, even they can get bogged down by the ideas of structure, even when the solution is right at their
Redux Shanker Blog » The Teaching Experience
The Teaching Experience
** Also posted here on “Valerie Strauss’ Answer Sheet” in the Washington Post.
The topic of teacher experience is getting a lot of attention in education debates. In part, this makes sense, since experience (years of service) does play several important roles in education policy, including teachers’ raises and transfer/layoff policies.
Usually, experience is discussed in terms of its relationship to performance –whether more experienced teachers produce larger student test score gains than less experienced teachers. There is a pretty impressive body of research on this topic, the findings of which are sometimes used to argue for policy changes that eliminate the role of experience in salary and other employment policies. Proponents of these changes often argue that experience is only weakly related to performance, and therefore shouldn’t be used in determining salary and other conditions of work. It is not unusual to hear people say that experience doesn’t matter at all.
As is often the case when empirical research finds its way into policy debates, the “weakly related” characterization of the findings on the experience/achievement relationship borders on oversimplification, while the claim that experience doesn’t matter is flat-out wrong. The relationship is substantial but context-dependent, and blanket
What is Wrong with Federal Education Policy « Outside the Cave
What is Wrong with Federal Education Policy
Renee Moore says it 20x better than I could ever hope to myself. Please share this with anyone you know with a vote so they understand the issues.
Young vs. Old; Bad vs. Good. « My Island View
Young vs. Old; Bad vs. Good.
I am growing tired of the call for the ouster of older teachers and the elevation of the younger. I am of the older generation (some might say very older) after a career in education spanning four decades. I was also a victim of budget cuts during that career losing my job at the end of every year for my first nine years in three school districts. After 34 years, I am no longer in Public education, but I am involved with Higher Education. My assignment is to train and observe Pre-service teachers, student teachers. In that role I get to travel from school to school and observe educators on all levels.
I teach and observe student teachers for a living. I know that my students have observed over 100 hours of lessons by teachers in the field prior to their becoming student teachers. Additionally, they must show mastery in a program of courses in both philosophy and methods in Education. This is all in addition to the courses required in their content area. By the time these students have an opportunity to stand as teachers in a
Update: US teachers head: 'Something insane in Providence' - The Providence Journal #StateSOS #WIunion
By Richard C. Dujardin
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A crowd of more than 1,000 -- Providence teachers joined by teachers from Cranston, Central Falls and other communities -- is calling for Mayor Angel Taveras and the Providence School Board to rescind the firings of nearly 2,000 teachers.
The crowd cheered Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who declared that "something insane is going on in Providence."
She said that prior to last week's firings, the Providence teachers were working with school officials to continue their reform of education but then, she said, "Some secret plan was hatched" to fire the teachers.
"Why destroy a school system and undo years of reform and dehumanize every teacher in the school system?" she asked.
She called on the school officials to negotiate.
Larry Purtil, president of the National Education Association of Rhode Island, expressed
Test Time « Failing Schools
Test Time
It’s Test Time here in Colorado, and I have a confession to make.
When I was teaching, I didn’t completely hate CSAP time. A small part of me actually… kind ofliked it.
Don’t misunderstand: I hate virtually everything about CSAP. It’s high-stakes nature distorted virtually everything my school did, from the way the curriculum was structured, to how we were asked to teach, to what we taught in the weeks and months beforehand. It even distorted how we allocated the time we spent with certain types of students, and introduced the notion of “triage” into a space it doesn’t belong. It distorted our behavior, too– once-proud professionals reduce
SCUSD Community Your Input is Urgently Needed! Budget Survey!!!
SCUSD Solicits Community Input on Budget with Public Forums, Survey
SCUSD Solicits Community Input on Budget with Public Forums, Survey
If you are a student, click here.
VIDEO! Parents to Bloomberg: Stand up for Students, Not Millionaires! « EdVox #WIunion
VIDEO! Parents to Bloomberg: Stand up for Students, Not Millionaires!
Parents and education advocates called on Mayor Bloomberg today to stop making hollow threats to crowd the City’s classrooms, and instead join them in the growing coalition pushing Albany to extend the Millionaire’s Tax. The group urged the mayor at a City Hall rally to finally support the progressive tax on New York’s richest in order to protect City residents from destructive and unnecessary cuts, and to keep our education crisis from turning in to a disaster.
“Mayor Bloomberg knows the only real solution to our budget crisis is to raise revenue in a fair, smart way,” said Brooklynite Ceilia Green, a parent of 4 public school students. “Extending the Millionaires Tax is the best option on the table. It would not change the standard of living for the very small percentage of New Yorkers it would
The Washington Teacher: Veteran Teachers Need Not Apply: Henderson Recruits TFA Alums During Budget Deficit
Veteran Teachers Need Not Apply: Henderson Recruits TFA Alums During Budget Deficit

During the event, Interim Chancellor Henderson spoke about the true power of the TFA movement, the rise to high level administrative positions by many TFA'ers and forecast that maybe one day a TFA'er would land in the White House. Henderson encouraged TFA'ers to dust off their resumes if they want a chance to make history by dropping off their resumes to her and coming to work for DC Public Schools.
It is interesting to note that despite a lingering recession, budget crises and widespread teacher hiring slowdown, TFA teachers are being hired at a steady pace. The growth is often times coming at the expense of veteran teachers who are losing their jobs- in some cases to make room for TFA teachers who typically are hired at much lower salary levels. Remember the 266 mostly veteran teachers who were laid off in 2009 subsequent to the hiring of hundreds of TFA'ers? A
Wis. Citizens File Recall Petitions Against Anti-Worker Senators | AFL-CIO NOW BLOG #StateSOS #WIunion #SolidarityWI
Wis. Voters File Recall Petitions Against Anti-Worker Senatorsby James Parks, Mar 2, 2011 |
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This morning, voters from around Wisconsin took the first steps toward taking their state back by filing recall papers against eight Republican senators who have backed Gov. Scott Walker and pushed his partisan attempt to take away collective bargaining rights for thousands of teachers, nurses, librarians and other workers.
In a statement, Wisconsin workers said Walker and the Senate Republicans are not reflecting Wisconsin values. Instead, they are doing away with decades of bipartisan cooperation in government. Walker claims he wants to give our children the “tools they need,” but in reality, he has taken a baseball bat to their future. His budget is wrong for Wisconsin, the workers said.
“He is attacking education, seniors and working families by putting the budget burden on their backs. Meanwhile, he is asking for no shared sacrifice from the extremely wealthy and corporations who funded his campaign.”
Roy Vandenberg, a member of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 2-144, said:
Gov. Walker and Senate Republicans are refusing to listen to the hundreds of thousands of working families who traveled to Madison to make their voices heard. He has refused to listen to the majority of the people of this state who disagree with them. So now it is time for us to make our voices heard in their districts. If they will not listen to “we the people” then the “we the people” are going to take our government back.
Ann Louise Petreault, a nurse at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and member of SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin, adds:
Gov. Walker continues to turn a blind eye to the majority of Wisconsinites who believe his plan to end collective bargaining is wrong. He won’t take yes for an answer. He just continues his political attack to strip us of our collective bargaining rights.
Here’s Bryan Kennedy, president of AFT Wisconsin:
We have learned that today people have begun filing recall petitions in an effort to take Wisconsin back. We are now going to focus our organizing attention on these efforts, and all across the state we will immediately join these efforts and begin collecting signatures, knocking on doors, making phone calls and talking to our friends and family. Starting today, day by day, one by one, we will begin taking our state back before Gov. Walker is able to take it backward.
Gov. Walker and the Senate Republicans have failed to show leadership and work across party lines to compromise and get Wisconsin moving forward again by creating jobs, the statement said.
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thedailypage.com - I am not the enemy: A Wisconsin teacher considers Walker's budgetVikki Kratz on Monday 02/14/2011 9:20 am, (1) Comment, (26) LikesI am a second-year teacher. I work in a rural school district in Wi... coopmike48 |
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education.nationaljournal.com - Monday, February 28, 2011It's getting down to the wire in Wisconsin. Teachers' contracts might not be renewed if Gov. Scott Walker has his way and enacts legislation stripping most public employees... coopmike48 |
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