Tuesday, July 3, 2012

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National Indian Education Study Reveals Varying Progress | U.S. Department of Education

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National Indian Education Study Reveals Varying Progress | U.S. Department of Education: National Indian Education Study Reveals Varying Progress JULY 3, 2012 *Contact: * Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov Average math scores for fourth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) students attending Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools have improved since 2009 according to a national study released today, though the overall academic progress of these students has stalled since 2005. The National Indian Education Study (NIES) study, which provides data on the educ... more »

NEA Representative Assembly - California Teachers Association

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NEA Representative Assembly - California Teachers Association: NEA REPRESENTATIVE ASSEMBLY *NEA RA 2012* -* NEA: We Educate America* *Friday, June 29 - Friday, July 6, 2012 - Washington, DC* *Registration for the NEA RA is now closed* The NEA Representative Assembly is the largest democratic deliberative assembly in the world. California sends more than 1,000 delegates to the NEA RA each summer. During this annual meeting, CTA members help set policy and chart the direction of NEA business through participation on various committees, constituencies, caucuses, and leadership groups... more »

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: NEA STANDS WITH CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: NEA STANDS WITH CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION: NEA STANDS WITH CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION by Mike Klonsky With all eyes on Chicago as Rahm continues to push the teachers and their union to the wall, the NEA Regional Assembly voted overwhelmingly to support the CTU. The resolution came out of the Illinois Delegation. Here's brother Fred making the pitch. Popout Unanimous! Solidarity! Cleveland's corporate reform bill signed by Kasich by Mike Klonsky Ohio Tea-Party Gov. John Kasich and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson hug after Jackson talked about the agreement th... more »

Honor the Fourth of July-Keep Our Schools Democratic! | The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education

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Honor the Fourth of July-Keep Our Schools Democratic! | The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education: Honor the Fourth of July-Keep Our Schools Democratic! by Kate_Lenox [image: Home] Recently I posted about the requirements of the new Race to the Top grants for school districts. The federal Dept. of Education has doubled down on the emphasis on standardized tests by moving to use them not only to judge schools, but also to judge teachers and administrators. Even more disturbing is the new requirement that tests for schools boards be developed. Is this just another way to... more »

Jersey Jazzman: International House of Education Statistics

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Jersey Jazzman: International House of Education Statistics: International House of Education Statistics by Duke I'll be doing the #soschat tonight on the Twitter machine, which should be fun (if TweetDeck for Mac stops acting so quirky). Stop in if you can: 9:00 PM EDT. We needed a topic, and I'm sick of talking about Chris Christie, so I thought we'd talk about international comparisons. Why? Because they seem to be a lynchpin of the entire reformy argument: "*Our kids suck compared to the rest of the world! Even our kids who we say don't suck really suck! 'Cause their teacher... more »

D.C. wants experienced charter operators, in a hurry - D.C. Schools Insider - The Washington Post

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D.C. wants experienced charter operators, in a hurry - D.C. Schools Insider - The Washington Post: D.C. wants experienced charter operators, in a hurry by Bill Turque While I was gone, a significant announcement from the D.C. Charter School Board that slipped through without much notice. The board is proposing a streamlined approval process that would allow experienced charter operators with good track records in other cities to open their doors in the District a full year ahead of the current timetable. (Astrid Riecken - FOR THE WASHINGTON POST) The new guidelines, unveiled at th... more »

Justice was our floor strategy. « Fred Klonsky

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Justice was our floor strategy. « Fred Klonsky: Justice was our floor strategy. by Fred Klonsky PopoutA couple of folks came up today and asked me if I had a floor strategy. At an NEA RA that’s what the big boys do. When you want to control the speakers, you plant folks at different microphones who then give their time over to those prepared to speak. The Illinois caucus had already voted for the New Business Item calling for the NEA to support the AFT Chicago teacher local in their negotiations with Rahm and his hand-picked school board. It had now been assigned a number: NBI 13. A... more »

Jersey Jazzman: The Shot Against Charters Heard 'Round the World

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Jersey Jazzman: The Shot Against Charters Heard 'Round the World: The Shot Against Charters Heard 'Round the World by Duke A citizen revolution has been brewing in Newark for some time, with local citizens getting increasingly sick and tired of being left out of decisions that affect their own children. So, if this is a revolution, yesterday was the Battle of Lexington and Concord: The Newark public schools uneasy relationship with the city’s charter schools stirred more debate last night, as the district’s advisory board rejected leases to share space with the alternative ... more »

NEA President Dennis Van Roekel Urges Delegates to Stay Strong

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*NEA President Dennis Van Roekel opened the National Education Association's 91st Representative Assembly today with a challenge to members to stand up for their profession and come together in a united mission to transform America's public schools into world class institutions of learning.*

PSAT for 7-3-12: Call for equality (especially in the schools) Parents United for Responsible Education

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Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » PSAT for 7-3-12: Call for equality (especially in the schools): PSAT for 7-3-12: Call for equality (especially in the schools) by admin *For our nation’s birthday – let’s give some thought to what it really means to be a great nation.* (I’m trying to take a little work break in honor of July 4th so I’m just going to share the most recent Action of the Week from the Parents Across America June 28 newsletter.) The Supreme Court has upheld the federal healthcare reform law. My long-time friend and PURE colleague Johnny Ho;mes sa... more »

Why Elected Local School Boards Matter « Diane Ravitch's blog

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Why Elected Local School Boards Matter « Diane Ravitch's blog: Why Elected Local School Boards Matter by dianerav Lance Hill in New Orleans knows what it is like to have no democratic control of schools funded with taxpayer dollars (so do people in New York City, but that’s another topic). He writes: *Local democratic control of schools is the last remaining obstacle to the complete privatization of public education. For that reason alone, the movement to save public education needs to make this a central program tenet.**Locally elected boards are the only entity that has the miss... more »

Joe Biden To Teachers: Mitt Romney Thinks You're Selfish

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Joe Biden To Teachers: Mitt Romney Thinks You're Selfish: Joe Biden To Teachers: Mitt Romney Thinks You're Selfish by Joy Resmovits [image: Biden Education] Vice President Joe Biden thinks that teachers face a "fullblown assault" thanks to people like Mitt Romney. "I can't think of a candidate for president who's ever made such a direct assault on such an honorable profession," Biden said at the National Education Association's annual convention, in front of thousands of teachers in Washington, D.C. Tuesday morning. Romney and Republicans, Biden asserted, want to increase the in... more »

FCMAT » Cali Education Headlines Tuesday, July 3, 2012

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FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: *Mono Lake Tufa SNR* Education Headlines *Tuesday, July 3, 2012* The story behind school superintendent's dubious degreeIn July 1996, FBI agents raided a nondescript office building beside a church in Mandeville, La., a small town near New Orleans. That long-ago raid, half a nation away, came home late this spring when questions were raised at a school board meeting about the educational attainment of Columbia Union School District Superintendent John Pendley. SF Superintendent Carlos Garcia ends 37-year careerFor a city accustomed ... more »

With A Brooklyn Accent: The Battle Against Corporate School Reform Must Be Waged Locally Before It Can Succeed Natinonally

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With A Brooklyn Accent: The Battle Against Corporate School Reform Must Be Waged Locally Before It Can Succeed Natinonally: The Battle Against Corporate School Reform Must Be Waged Locally Before It Can Succeed Natinonally For the foreseeable future, the battle to save public education from uncontrolled testing and Corporate control will not be won at the national level. Both political parties are in the pockets of the Billionaire reformers, and the national leadership of teachers unions are desperately trying to save their organizations by making compromises that will leave them... more »

The Arrogance of Privilege

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The Arrogance of Privilege: The Arrogance of PrivilegeTuesday, 03 July 2012 11:39By P.L. Thomas, The Daily Censored | News Analysis - 3 - font size [image: decrease font size] [image: increase font size] - Print - Email Charles Blow has offered a recent video of a disturbing account of bullying on a bus captured on video and posted to YouTube: "The video shows Karen Klein, a 68-year-old grandmother and bus monitor in upstate New York, being relentlessly tormented by a group of young boys." "But what, if anything, does this say about society at large?" asks Blow, ... more »

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Cleveland's corporate reform bill signed by Kasich

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Cleveland's corporate reform bill signed by Kasich: Cleveland's corporate reform bill signed by Kasich by Mike Klonsky Ohio Tea-Party Gov. John Kasich and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson hug after Jackson talked about the agreement that was reached on the Cleveland reform plan. (Plain Dealer)Privatizers' dream, union goes along Two things are predictable when states pass school reform laws that only apply to one city. First, that city has a largely poor, black and brown school population and second, the reform is more about privatization, charter

Sample Policies and Implementation Plans - School Environment (CA Dept of Education)

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Sample Policies and Implementation Plans - School Environment (CA Dept of Education): Sample Policies and Implementation PlansModel policies and plans on the prevention of bullying and on conflict resolution that were developed by the California Department of Education as resources to help California schools address these vital school safety concerns. ------------------------------ To ensure that the California schools act promptly to resolve disputes, taunting, harassment, intimidation, or bullying that could result in violence, the Legislature and the Governor enacted Assembly B... more »

Stand for Children on Education Radio | Seattle Education

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Stand for Children on Education Radio | Seattle Education: Stand for Children on Education Radio by seattleducation2011 *In December of 2011, one of the programs on Education Radio focused on Stand for Children.* *With the Gates funded organizations Stand for Children (SFC) and the League of Education Voters (LEV) pushing for charter schools in our state and campaigning for state legislative candidates who are pro ed-reform, it seemed appropriate to once again take a look at this organization.* *To follow is the introduction to the radio show:* Stand for Children or Stand for Profit... more »

Missouri Education Watchdog: Career Tracking for Kindergartners. Parody or Fact?

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Missouri Education Watchdog: Career Tracking for Kindergartners. Parody or Fact?: Career Tracking for Kindergartners. Parody or Fact? by stlgretchen ACT assesses kindergartners for college/career track so they can reach full potential? Is this from The Onion or fact? *WASHINGTON -- A new digital tool to test academic and behavioral skills will target students starting in kindergarten.* *ACT, the organization that developed the ACT college-entrance exam, will start testing the tool in the fall. It will be available to schools starting in 2014.The tool tracks students' career inte... more »

NYC Educator: Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home

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NYC Educator: Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home: Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home by NYC Educator NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, pictured at left, says the arbitrator exceeded his authority when he ruled for the union. The arbitrator, according to Mayor4Life, should not have considered the union's arguments. Evidently, the city feels its opponents have no authority to make arguments, let alone have them heard, and that only the city's arguments should be considered. Listen to our side, ignore the other, and then make an informed decision. There is precedent for that, of course. The city h... more »

Lakeview Elementary Raided « occupy california

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Lakeview Elementary Raided « occupy california: Lakeview Elementary Raided by * OAKLAND, California – The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) shut the doors to 5 elementary schools in June reportedly due to budget cuts. As community members including teachers and parents first heard about the proposed shuttering of the schools over a year ago, they began organizing against the school closures. The 5 schools closed were all in areas of the city home to low-income families of color. On June 15, parents, teachers and some children established a camp outside the Lakeview Elementary ... more »

More on Memphis: Jim Horn Responds « Diane Ravitch's blog

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More on Memphis: Jim Horn Responds « Diane Ravitch's blog: [image: Click on picture to Listen to Diane Ravitch] More on Memphis: Jim Horn Responds by dianerav In my post about the Memphis-Shelby County schools yesterday, I quoted Jim Horn of Schools Matter. Horn was extremely critical of the plan to increase the proportion of students in charters from 4% to 19%, resulting in a $212 transfer of public school funding from the Memphis public schools to private hands. A comment on the web site was highly critical of Horn and said he knew nothing about the plan or its supporters. *As a... more »

Ex-Jindal aide disputes suits | News | The Advocate — Baton Rouge, LA

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School bill actions defended | News | The Advocate — Baton Rouge, LA: School bill actions defended [image: Jimmy Faircloth]Show caption *Ex-Jindal aide disputes suits* BY WILL SENTELL Capitol news bureau July 03, 2012 5 COMMENTS Gov. Bobby Jindal’s former executive counsel, who is defending Jindal’s public school overhaul measures, said in court filings that the Legislature acted properly when it approved a bill that expands Louisiana’s voucher program. Lawsuits by the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, among others, contend that the voucher measure and one that makes it harder for te... more »

Gerard Robinson Takes Another Stab At Spinning Florida’s Status Quo Test Regime | Scathing Purple Musings

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Gerard Robinson Takes Another Stab At Spinning Florida’s Status Quo Test Regime | Scathing Purple Musings: Gerard Robinson Takes Another Stab At Spinning Florida’s Status Quo Test Regime by Bob Sikes *Gradebook’s* Jeff Solochek provides the link to Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson’s letter to the state’s parents. While observers of Florida education policy will find much to challenge, it is these two paragraphs which are most critical to Robinson and his handlers: The combination of changes to Florida’s accountability system will cause a temporary drop in some scho... more »

Daily Kos: Welcome to the rest of our lives.

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Daily Kos: Welcome to the rest of our lives.: Welcome to the rest of our lives. by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken) Still don’t believe in climate change? Then you’re either deep in denial or delirious from the heat. So begins Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson in Eugene Robinson: Feeling the heat, an opinion piece in today's *Washington Post.*Like me, Robinson lives in Arlington County, right across the Potomac from the District of Columbia, and I periodically see him in a local supermarket. It has power from a generator truck, but as I write this, the rest of that ... more »

Student Loan Changes for 2012 - US News and World Report

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Student Loan Changes for 2012 - US News and World Report: Student Loan Changes for 2012Get the scoop on new rules for undergraduate and graduate students. By KATY HOPKINS July 3, 2012 RSS Feed Print [image: A Congressional decision will keep subsidized Stafford loan interest rates at 3.4 percent for one more year.] A Congressional decision will keep subsidized Stafford loan interest rates at 3.4 percent for one more year. On Sunday, July 1, several changes to federal student loanprograms took effect. If you’re a current or soon-to-be college or graduate student, read on to see if yo... more »

Well-funded charter-school initiative has nearly enough signatures to make ballot | Local News | The Seattle Times

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 7 hours ago
Well-funded charter-school initiative has nearly enough signatures to make ballot | Local News | The Seattle Times: Well-funded charter-school initiative has nearly enough signatures to make ballot Supporters of allowing charter schools in Washington state have raised nearly $2 million from a handful of high-profile donors and say they are poised to submit the needed 241,153 valid signatures by the Friday deadline. By Brian M. Rosenthal Seattle Times education reporter MOST POPULAR COMMENTS HIDE / SHOW COMMENTS Make no mistake about it, the same technology oligarchs that fund this ... more »

NEA 2012: It's All About Obama - Teacher Beat - Education Week

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NEA 2012: It's All About Obama - Teacher Beat - Education Week: NEA 2012: It's All About Obama by Liana Heitin [image: obama wall.jpeg] *This post originally appeared on* Education Week Teacher's* Teaching Now blog.* Campaign rally or Representative Assembly? At some points yesterday it was hard to tell. The 8,000 or so delegates of the nation's largest teachers' union gathered in Washington for their annual convention heard one message above all others: Vote for Obama in November. Just outside the assembly hall, attendees traded off Sharpees to write notes to the president on a mas... more »

Schools Matter: Guest Post: The Education Sector Attempts to Head Off a Common Core Trainwreck

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Schools Matter: Guest Post: The Education Sector Attempts to Head Off a Common Core Trainwreck: Guest Post: The Education Sector Attempts to Head Off a Common Core Trainwreck by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene [image: Dr. John Thompson was an award-winning historian, lobbyist, and guerilla-gardener who became an award-winning inner city teacher after crack and gangs hit his neighborhood.]By John Thompson The Education Sector's new report, *Getting to 2014 (and Beyond): The Choices and the Challenges Ahead*, could have been entitled "Whistling Past the Graveyard." The report starts wit... more »

Do We Need a 'Bar Exam' For Teachers? - Education - GOOD

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Do We Need a 'Bar Exam' For Teachers? - Education - GOOD: Do We Need a 'Bar Exam' For Teachers? by Liz Dwyer [image: exam] Teachers unions ensure teachers have the resources and support they need to educate kids, but given the perception that they primarily protect bad teachers, there’s plenty of pressure on Randi Weingarten, head of theAmerican Federation of Teachers, to come up with ideas that’ll prove her union isn’t just about maintaining the status quo. In a conversation with Walter Isaacson at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Weingarten did just that, suggesting that making all pros... more »

The Educated Reporter: From Schools to the Olympics, Women and Title IX Score New Victories

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The Educated Reporter: From Schools to the Olympics, Women and Title IX Score New Victories: From Schools to the Olympics, Women and Title IX Score New Victories by Emily Richmond Four school districts have agreed to ensure thousands of girls are given equal athletic opportunities after gender discrimination complaints were filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Title IX, the 1972 federal law banning gender discrimination in schools, applies to all campuses that receive public funding. In 2010, the National Women’s Law Center filed complaints agains... more »

From Dennis Van Roekel’s speech at the opening session of the NEA RA. « Fred Klonsky

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From Dennis Van Roekel’s speech at the opening session of the NEA RA. « Fred Klonsky: From Dennis Van Roekel’s speech at the opening session of the NEA RA. JULY 2, 2012 We all know there are plenty of people who are eager to offer advice — or worse, try to impose their ideas on our profession. Bloggers, columnists, elected officials, and self‑proclaimed reformers, they are constantly weighing in about public education. I mean, they have an opinion on everything — the who, the what, the when, the where, and the how — all of that about public education. Always opinions. The “who” th... more »

Schools Matter: Democrats for Neoliberal Education Reform's Gloria J. Romero's Parent Tricker days are numbered

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Schools Matter: Democrats for Neoliberal Education Reform's Gloria J. Romero's Parent Tricker days are numbered: Democrats for Neoliberal Education Reform's Gloria J. Romero's Parent Tricker days are numbered *I think about former Senator Gloria Romero comparing Compton educators to "batterers" and wondered whether the writers of those words ever stop to think about the consequences of their prose. — Martha Infante* [image: Gloria J. Romero, Queen of California School Privatization, head of reactionary DFER, darling of the CCSA.] Photo by Mark Warner (CC BY-SA 2.0) As the DFER vene... more »

NEA - Let’s Use Our Power to Make Public Education Stronger, Van Roekel Tells Delegates

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NEA - Let’s Use Our Power to Make Public Education Stronger, Van Roekel Tells Delegates: Let’s Use Our Power to Make Public Education Stronger, Van Roekel Tells Delegates NEA President Dennis Van Roekel opened the 2012 NEA Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly (RA) by challenging members to stand up for their profession and come together in a united mission to transform America’s public schools into world class institutions of learning. Van Roekel said NEA members realize they can’t set education policy by themselves, but they do have the power to influence it. “You do i... more »

Missouri Education Watchdog: Obamacare and Education Reform Operate Under the Same Basic Principle: The Politics of Dependency

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Missouri Education Watchdog: Obamacare and Education Reform Operate Under the Same Basic Principle: The Politics of Dependency: Obamacare and Education Reform Operate Under the Same Basic Principle: The Politics of Dependency by stlgretchen How many politicians will send their children to public school to learn under Common Core/RTTT mandates? Education reform has much in common with Obamacare: Absurdities. - Education reform: Governors and state boards of education signed onto Race to the Top and Common Core standards even before they knew what was contained in the ma... more »

solidaridad: Thoughts on Matthew Di Carlo's recent Shanker Blog piece on the 'parent tricker'

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 21 hours ago
solidaridad: Thoughts on Matthew Di Carlo's recent Shanker Blog piece on the 'parent tricker': Thoughts on Matthew Di Carlo's recent Shanker Blog piece on the 'parent tricker' by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene *Barr's parent organization gave... a grass-roots visual... And his paid staffers hit the right rhetorical notes... while identifying themselves to reporters and officials only as parents. — Howard Blume (Los Angeles Times)* [image: Shirley Ford and Mary Najara of Parent Revolution née Los Angeles Parents Union] Matthew Di Carlo recently penned a thoughtful and somewhat nuance... more »

The debating starts. « Fred Klonsky

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The debating starts. « Fred Klonsky: The debating starts. by Fred Klonsky *Speaking in support of my New Business Item to the Illinois caucus.* Yesterday morning I made some calls to people who I normally don’t have on my speed dial. IEA President Cinda Klickna. VP Kathy Griffin. Secrertary Treasurer Al Llorens. And other members of the Board of Directors and Steering Committee. “Can we talk. I’m in the lobby,” I voice mailed Klickna. And at about 11AM she came walking over to me in the lobby of the DC Renaissance. I wanted to run past her a New Business Item that would call on the ... more »

Statement from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on the Anniversary of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 | U.S. Department of Education

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Statement from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on the Anniversary of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 | U.S. Department of Education: Statement from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on the Anniversary of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 JULY 2, 2012 *Contact: * Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov "Forty-eight years ago today, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act states, 'No person in the United States shall, on the basis of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the... more »

Monica Garcia re-elected to sixth consecutive term as LAUSD board president - LA Daily News

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Monica Garcia re-elected to sixth consecutive term as LAUSD board president - LA Daily News: Monica Garcia re-elected to sixth consecutive term as LAUSD board president By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer Posted: 07/02/2012 01:49:33 PM PDT Updated: 07/02/2012 01:51:20 PM PDT East LA's Monica Garcia was re-elected Monday to an unprecedented sixth consecutive term as president of the Los Angeles Unified school board, fending off a challenge from a three-member voting bloc which said it was somebody else's turn to lead. Garcia voted for herself, and also had the support of San Ferna... more »

Diane Ravitch Gets A Corporate Spin From the Charter Queen | redefinED

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Diane Ravitch, please stop distorting the origins of the parent trigger | redefinED: Diane Ravitch, please stop distorting the origins of the parent trigger (THE PARENT TRIGGER IS DISTORTED ENOUGH) By GLORIA ROMERO On JULY 2, 2012 In* EDUCATION REPORTING, GENERAL, CHARTER EMPOWERMENT,PARENTAL DECepTION, FAKE PROGRESSIVES AND ED DEFORM, SCHOOL JACK, UNIONISM* Diane Ravitch, are you listening? This is former state Sen. Gloria Romero calling. I am the author of California’s first Parent Trigger law, the first parent trigger law in the nation. Since I first wrote that law, some 15 other ... more »

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