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Big Education Ape - (VERY LATE) Morning Wink 3-26-13 AM Posts #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2

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FCMAT » Cali Education Headlines Tuesday, March 26, 2013

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FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: California voters split on Jerry Brown school plans Education Headlines *Tuesday, March 26, 2013* Former Santa Ana principal, parents, seek new charter schoolA former Santa Ana charter school principal is seeking approval to open a new K-8 school in the city. The Santa Ana Unified School District board is scheduled to hold a public hearing on Odyssey Charter Academy's petition on Tuesday. It will vote on the proposal by May. Somis School could move because of gas pipelines on campusThe Somis Union School District may move its ele... more »

Jersey Jazzman: Major Newspapers: Wrong On Iraq; Wrong On Education

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Jersey Jazzman: Major Newspapers: Wrong On Iraq; Wrong On Education: Major Newspapers: Wrong On Iraq; Wrong On Education by Duke [image: Corporate Media = Corporate Lies] The tenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War came this week, with some, such as David Corn, taking the opportunity to reflect on the failure of the press. At the time, it was clear to any that cared to listen that the evidence in support of the invasion was weak at best and downright deceptive at worst. And yet most of the major newspapers wrote editorials in support of George W. Bush's war that credulous... more »

Shuttered: How America is Selling Out its Schools | Dissident Voice

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Shuttered: How America is Selling Out its Schools | Dissident Voice: Shuttered: How America is Selling Out its Schools by Peter Rugh Boos and hisses fill the auditorium of Brooklyn Technical High as the governing board for New York City’s public schools, the Panel on Education Policy, takes the stage. It’s March 11 and the PEP is meeting to consider a proposal from Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott to close nearly two dozen schools. Parent after parent, teacher after teacher, student after student takes the microphone and pleads for their school to remain open. Similar scenarios ar... more »

Florida School Board Association Reaffirms Opposition to Parent Trigger | Scathing Purple Musings

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Florida School Board Association Reaffirms Opposition to Parent Trigger | Scathing Purple Musings: Florida School Board Association Reaffirms Opposition to Parent Trigger by Bob Sikes Last summer, the Florida School Board Association (FSBA) took the unprecedented step of signing onto a Resolution on High Stakes Testing. More than anything other development, the action established as one which is clearly opposing the Jeb Bush dominated legislative agenda. The FSBA released their platform at the end of last year and on Friday, the FSBA reemphasized their opposition to Parent Trigge... more »

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Editorial: 'Stop the giveaway to charter schools'

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Schooling in the Ownership Society: Editorial: 'Stop the giveaway to charter schools': Editorial: 'Stop the giveaway to charter schools' by Mike Klonsky [image: Charter Schools - Dividing Communities since 1991] I'm reposting this editorial from today's Tampa Bay Times in full because it's spot on. Once again legislators are looking for ways to undermine Florida's public school system by giving more taxpayer dollars and freebies to charter schools, including those run by for-profit management companies. At a time when school district budgets remain squeezed for cash, two House bi... more »

Why we can’t threaten our way to better schools | Hechinger Report

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Why we can’t threaten our way to better schools | Hechinger Report: Why we can’t threaten our way to better schools by Eric Shieh [image: Why we can’t threaten our way to better schools] Last month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed back, for the third time, his deadline for New York City to devise a new teacher evaluation system. On the surface, it seemed a benevolent move that recognized the enormity of this undertaking—one in which many school districts across the nation are similarly taking part. The truth of the matter, however, is that Cuomo—along with U.S. Secretary of Educat... more »

The Evolution of School Health — Whole Child Education

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The Evolution of School Health — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOG [image: Sean Slade]The Evolution of School Health March 25, 2013 by Sean Slade The first tenet of a whole child approach to education is *healthy*. Each student, in each school and in each community, should enter school healthy and learn about and practice a healthy lifestyle. We know that if students aren't healthy, they can't learn; therefore, health is the most basic of the tenets of education. For the past decade, ASCD has been working on strengthening the links between health and education. These two e... more »

Student Voice

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Student Voice: Jake Frackson – The Art of the Lecture by Editor Admin Through the manipulation of a material, an artist can make ordinary material into something extraordinary. This material can be physical or otherwise. Examples of the latter include literature, music, poetry, and, I would argue, lectures. The lecture is an art form. It requires a skilled individual along with the right circumstances. Just like a great artist, a professor cannot create a truly great and effective lecture if the conditions are not exact. A major element of this is the ideas; without the content th... more »

Tom Izzo, the World's Greatest French Teacher and Cutting Costs in Education - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher

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Tom Izzo, the World's Greatest French Teacher and Cutting Costs in Education - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher: Tom Izzo, the World's Greatest French Teacher and Cutting Costs in Education by Nancy Flanagan Regular readers of *Teacher in a Strange Land* know that I loathe sports/education analogies. Equating theCommon Core to "having the same goalposts," for example, or the desirability of "box scores" for teachers--it's all Grade A ball-park baloney. Hot-ticket sports are entertainment and education is something else entirely. Both fine in their own right, but ... more »

NYC Educator: AFT Puts a Smiley Face on Junk Science

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NYC Educator: AFT Puts a Smiley Face on Junk Science: AFT Puts a Smiley Face on Junk Science by NYC Educator It's quite disappointing to contemplate the inevitable institution of an evaluation system that will judge teachers based on student test scores. For one thing, there's absolutely no research to suggest this is a reflection on teacher quality. For another, the system has never actually worked anywhere. There are examples of teachers regarded as excellentlosing jobs as a result. There are great teachers whodon't get tenure because of junk science, and who likely as not will ... more »

How Effective is Head Start? |

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How Effective is Head Start? |: How Effective is Head Start? by Irene Sege [image: Photo: Micaela Bedell for Strategies for Children] Photo: Micaela Bedell for Strategies for Children Head Start has been in the news lately, both because of the effects of sequestration on the program and because of discussion about its effectiveness in light of proposals to expand early education. W. Steven Barnett, director of the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University, sheds light on the research in arecent column on the Washington Post’s Answer Sheet blog. Barnett c... more »

I still cannot get an answer to this question… #commoncore #teachervoice – @ the chalk face

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I still cannot get an answer to this question… #commoncore #teachervoice – @ the chalk face: @educationweek gives us, via Walt Gardner, a “reality check” by Chalk Face, PhD I’ve seen this post on “protecting” children from failure tweeted a few times. I get it, but for some reason, these kinds of arguments feel icky to me. I can’t quite put my finger on it. The tone of some of them, or the assumptions buried within the arguments, seem to me like they are paternalistic or tailored for students from privileged backgrounds. I always thought it takes a lot of sand for authors like Paul... more »

Modern School: The New Network for Public Education

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Modern School: The New Network for Public Education: The New Network for Public Education by Michael Dunn Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons A new anti-reform education reform movement is taking shape: The Network for Public Education. Led by Diane Ravitch, Anthony Cody, Leonie Haimson and other lefty ed reformers, the NPE is calling for an end to privatization schemes; increased funding; assessments that are used to inform instruction, not to penalize schools, students and teachers, among other reforms; community control; teacher autonomy; and a host of other reforms.. As far as ref... more »

Shanker Blog » How Many Schools Don't Have Nurses?

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Shanker Blog » How Many Schools Don't Have Nurses?: How Many Schools Don’t Have Nurses? by Matthew Di Carlo In 2006, the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) commissioned the largest and, to my knowledge, most recent national survey on the availability of nursing services in U.S. public schools. It was administered to a sample of over 1,000 schools in all 50 states and D.C. The primary purpose was to gather basic information on the health staff in these schools, as well as a few core characteristics, such as school size and student demographics. I must confess that I was a... more »

Bruce Lesley: Renewing Our Vision for America's Children

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Bruce Lesley: Renewing Our Vision for America's Children: Renewing Our Vision for America's Children[image: Bruce Lesley]President, First Focus BruceL[at]firstfocus.net Mr. Lesley has more than 20 years of public policy experience at all levels of government and a demonstrated commitment to making children’s lives better. Lesley directs all aspects of policy development and internal operations at First Focus. The promise of this nation is that our young people will be provided an equal opportunity to fulfill their full potential. Unfortunately, over 16 million or more than 1 in 5 ... more »

The School Library Situation. | Sarah Kennedy

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The School Library Situation. | Sarah Kennedy: The School Library Situation. Today’s topic is something I’ve had a bee in my bonnet about for a very long time. This is something that I have been concerned about even before I decided to pursue a career in librarianship because it’s an issue that has affected me in my journey through the Irish education system. I want to talk about the lack of libraries in schools and, with it, the lack of digital literacy training. The School Library Association has pointed out that the situation in Ireland is “highly unsatisfactory.” As it stands... more »

Westside Parents, Teachers Facing ‘Deasy’s Revenge’ CityWatch

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CityWatch: Westside Parents, Teachers Facing ‘Deasy’s Revenge’ EDUCATION POLITICS* *- It seems that while Superintendent John Deasy gets famously mad, when crossed he gets pretty darned even as well. Evidently there was an enormous rift in the political structure of the LAUSD board at their meeting of last Tuesday, 3/19/13. Signaled by the de-throning of long-time board chair Mónica García, Steve Zimmer’s surprising reelection early this month has realigned power behind-the-scenes. Reflective of this is the citing of a pilot school in his community with absolutely zero respect for... more »

Boston Review — Diane Ravitch Responds to Rob Reich

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Boston Review — Diane Ravitch Responds to Rob Reich: Response: Funding Conventional Wisdom*Diane Ravitch* *This article is part of What Are Foundations For?, a forum on philanthropic institutions and their role in democracy.* Diane Ravitch For many decades foundations played the role that Rob Reich describes. Twenty years ago I would have agreed about their unique capacity to take chances with new ideas, tolerate the risk of failure while promoting innovation, and create pilot projects that spur the government to take action. In the area of education, where I work, they served as in... more »

Tavis Smiley: Education Under Arrest: Taking America Out of Its Comfort Zone

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Tavis Smiley: Education Under Arrest: Taking America Out of Its Comfort Zone: Education Under Arrest: Taking America Out of Its Comfort Zone We had to shut the cameras down for a moment. The testimony of the two New Orleans sisters, Kenyatta, 15, and Kennisha, 17, was too surreal, too emotional and too raw. Kenyatta was involved in a fight at school that she didn't start. Because of "zero tolerance" policies adopted at their high school and many others in America, Kenyatta was handcuffed, arrested and expelled. Kennisha, who tried to break up the fight, was also expelled. Both gir... more »

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm finds his strongest support coming from the right

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm finds his strongest support coming from the right: Rahm finds his strongest support coming from the right by Mike Klonsky The Chicago Students Organizing to Save Our Schools group marches to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office at City Hall on Monday to present a letter from Chicago Public Schools students asking him not to close their schools. | Al Podgorski~Sun-TimesOnce again, the mayor is finding his strongest support coming from right-wing, anti-tax, anti-union conservatives. The far-right National Review dotes on Rahm and his school closings and bla... more »

MORNING UPDATE LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 3-26-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

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Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: [image: Click on picture to Listen to Diane Ravitch] Just Look at Malloy Nominee for State Board of Education by dianerav Jonathan Pelto reminds us of the national publicity about a homeless woman who was arrested and fined for the crime of enrolling her child in the Norwalk public schools when she was not a resident of that city in Connecticut. Now Governor Dannell Malloy has nominated a woman to the state board of education even though she was in the same dispute with the Windsor schools a decade ago. But it is ... more »

UPDATE: A tale of two unions + The in box. Only five Democrats in the Illinois House believe in the Constitution. | Fred Klonsky

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The in box. Only five Democrats in the Illinois House believe in the Constitution. | Fred Klonsky: A tale of two unions. by Fred Klonsky [image: Al & Tammy 2] *Al Ramirez and Tammy Vinson submit CORE nominating petitions.* Yesterday representatives of the Caucus of Rank and File Educators submitted 5,000 signatures that placed the names of current CTU President Karen Lewis and her CORE colleagues on the ballot for re-election in about a month. Her opposition, currently invisible in the fight against school closings, represents the group that was ousted by CORE in the last election... more »

Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System… by Chris Hedges | Teacher Reality

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Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System… by Chris Hedges | Teacher Reality: Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System… by Chris Hedges by TeacherReality This is an amazing piece by Chris Hedges that puts all of this destructive education reform into perspective… Original post on Truthdig.com… http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_the_united_states_is_destroying_her_education_system_20110410/ Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System By Chris Hedges A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts ... more »

Daily Kos: Cuccinelli compared slavery to abortion in 2008

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Daily Kos: Cuccinelli compared slavery to abortion in 2008: Cuccinelli compared slavery to abortion in 2008 by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken) *The Washington Examiner* is a conservative DC area paper, owned by right-wing billionaire Philip Anschutz, that this coming June will stop its daily print run and be replaced by a weekly magazine. That makes this story all the more delicious. The context of the story is that Democrats in Virginia have been pushing out a video taken by a tracker at a small small gathering of religious conservatives in Williamsburg, VA, in which the Virgini... more »

Can't We Pay Our Best Teachers More? - Bridging Differences - Education Week

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Can't We Pay Our Best Teachers More? - Bridging Differences - Education Week: Can't We Pay Our Best Teachers More? by Deborah Meier *Eric Hanushek files his final blog post with Deborah Meier today.* Dear Deborah, Since we have already entered into a number of sensitive areas, we might as well go all the way and discuss salaries. I am always struck by two competing arguments—frequently made by the same people—that teachers are not motivated by money and that a major problem with American schools is that the salaries are too low to attract top people in teaching. On the surface, t... more »

Louisiana Educator: OWN Reality Show Reveals Charter Secrets

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Louisiana Educator: OWN Reality Show Reveals Charter Secrets: OWN Reality Show Reveals Charter Secrets by Michael Deshotels The Oprah Winfrey Network reality show, *Blackboard Wars*, filmed at John McDonogh Hi School in New Orleans this school year reveals some rather shocking details about how charter schools operate in Louisiana. State Board president, Chas Roemer has often bragged that charter operators have the freedom to operate their schools without the usual bothersome red tape required of traditional schools. But we were always told that charters must comply with basic ac... more »

Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core Costs $22 Million in One Alabama District

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Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core Costs $22 Million in One Alabama District: Common Core Costs $22 Million in One Alabama District by stlgretchen Pearson is really cleaning up in the Huntsville, Alabama school district. From The Report Card and*Pearson $22 Million Contract With Huntsville AL Schools Exposed:* Editor: The Report Card has published a series of articles pro and con about on the Common Core K-12 Standard now required in 46 states. Diane Ravtich, and Sandra Stotsky well known educational reformers have come out against the Common Core saying. Dr. Stotsky has ... more »

Budget cuts create unprecedented stress on community colleges | EdSource Today

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Budget cuts create unprecedented stress on community colleges | EdSource Today: Budget cuts create unprecedented stress on community colleges - by John Fensterwald by John Fensterwald A decline of 24 percent in per-student funding over five years has led to a record decline in access to community colleges and has jeopardized the services to those students who are enrolled, an extensive study by the Public Policy Institute of California concluded. [image: Between 2006-07 and 2011-12, total revenue per student (in FTES or full-time equivalent, since most students attend part-time) f... more »

Could Big Pharma be slapped down by SCOTUS? Daily Kos

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Daily Kos: An important clip from All in the Family: Could Big Pharma be slapped down by SCOTUS? by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken) Yesterday the Court heard arguments in Federal Trade Commission v. Watson Pharmaceuticals. The question before the Court is whether it is legal for the patent holder of a bran-name drug to pay competition to delay introduction of a generic equivalent. As you can read here, Supreme Court justices suggested that they will open drugmakers to suits over “pay for delay” agreements, hinting at a ruling that would rewrite the rules governing the release of ge... more »

Chinua Achebe and Finding The Language For My Experience | The Jose Vilson

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Chinua Achebe and Finding The Language For My Experience | The Jose Vilson: Chinua Achebe and Finding The Language For My Experience by Jose Vilson [image: Chinua Achebe] Chinua Achebe When Chinua Achebe passed away, my thoughts immediately took me to the fifth grade book fair. There, I found the cover of a book I found interesting. Knowing nothing about the actual book, reading level, or histories behind it, I decided to buy it for what was probably five bucks from my school’s library. Shortly after the book sale, we had African dance classes for the semester. The volunteer dance ... more »

EARLIER SCHOOL AGE ? NOT IN ILLINOIS | Teachers Fight Back

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EARLIER SCHOOL AGE ? NOT IN ILLINOIS | Teachers Fight Back: EARLIER SCHOOL AGE ? NOT IN ILLINOIS by alkleen Most states have a starting compulsory attendance age for students that is either at the age of 5 or 6. The compulsory age to start school in Illinois has always been 7 years old. Many people have been urging legislators to lower the compulsory age here in Illinois. After weeks of studying the proposal, it looks like the idea is going nowhere. Illinois doesn’t have the money to spend on what it would take to enforce the lower compulsory age. We will just have to be one of t... more »

Look what Susan Ohanian started about the #commoncore. – @ the chalk face

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Look what Susan Ohanian started about the #commoncore. – @ the chalk face: Look what Susan Ohanian started about the #commoncore. by Timothy D. Slekar Most days I try to post meaningful quotes concerning education on my Facebook page. Today I posted: The issue is trusting teachers, trusting kids, and trusting them to find the books they need. The Common Core trusts nothing but computerized programs that train teachers and kids to do what they’re told. Susan Ohanian [image: url] This what followed: *Rick*. The Common Core reduces teachers to low level techies. *Steve.* Why are some... more »

Poll finds the less you make, the more you like Brown’s school finance reform | EdSource Today

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Poll finds the less you make, the more you like Brown’s school finance reform | EdSource Today: Poll finds the less you make, the more you like Brown’s school finance reform - by John Fensterwald by John Fensterwald More Californian voters favor than oppose Gov. Jerry Brown’s sweeping plan to reform school finance, and most are against the idea of lowering the threshold for approving local school parcel taxes from two-thirds to a 55 percent majority, according to a new statewide poll. [image: Polls show mixed support for Gov. Jerry Brown's Local Control Funding Formula.] Gov. Jer... more »

Data:to use or not to use…. | Deborah Meier on Education

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Data:to use or not to use…. | Deborah Meier on Education: Data:to use or not to use…. by debmeier Did you know that: only Russia , the Ukraine and Lebanon have as much inequality of income and wealth as the USA? If you even want to give democracy a chance, this should suggest how hard the road will be to recover even a modicum of greater equality! Between CEOs and minimum wage workers the difference is 5,000 per hour vs $7.25 per hour, and every day it’s getting worse. Why do I find myself going through these exercises over ad over–to keep me angry? And maybe it’s just that I fin... more »

Action Alert: Chicago School Closings

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Action Alert: Chicago School Closings: Volume 1, Issue: #2.5March 25, 2013*In This Special Alert*Chicago School Closings*Greetings!* This is a special action alert. Please read below about the developing situation in Chicago. It is time to support the students, parents and teachers there. *Chicago School Closings Demand a Response* Dear Friends and Allies, Chicago has announced plans to close 53 schools. Philadelphia will close 23. New York City has 22 on the hit list. Atlanta is planning to close 13. Sacramento will close seven. Last year Oakland closed five. These are not the ... more »

California Office to Reform Education District Waiver Request - Letters (CA Dept of Education)

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California Office to Reform Education District Wai - Letters (CA Dept of Education): March 22, 2013 Deborah S. Delisle, Assistant Secretary Office of Elementary and Secondary Education U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20202 Dear Assistant Secretary Delisle: We received your letter dated February 28, 2013, seeking comment from the California State Board of Education (SBE) on the request for a district-level waiver of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) submitted by nine California districts, organized as a consortium called the Calif... more »

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Same-Sex Marriage and Public Education

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Seattle Schools Community Forum: Same-Sex Marriage and Public Education: Budget Updates for SPS and Washington State by Melissa Westbrook In case you didn't hear, last Wednesday the economic forecast was released for Washington State. It showed flat growth which was actually good news as it means the Legislature doesn't have to find more cuts (in theory). Here's what was stated by Duggan Harman who is the Assistant Superintendent of Business & Finance (aka the budget guy) for SPS at last week's Board meeting. He stated the following: - SPS has an $18M shortfall. Staff has fo... more »

Student Voice: How a Community School Became an Oasis in South Central Los Angeles — Whole Child Education

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Student Voice: How a Community School Became an Oasis in South Central Los Angeles — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOG [image: ASCD Whole Child Bloggers]Student Voice: How a Community School Became an Oasis in South Central Los Angeles March 25, 2013 by ASCD Whole Child Bloggers *By Martin J. Blank and Ryan Fox, Coalition for Community Schools* [image: Kevin Valiencia] Walking through the halls of John C. Fremont High School in South Central Los Angeles with senior Kevin Valiencia, one finds an unexpected inner city public school in one of the most maligned neighborhoods in... more »

Diane in the Evening 3-25-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

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Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Network for Public Education Deplores Mass Closings in Chicago by dianerav The Network for Public Education has released a statement condemning the Rahm Emanuel administration for the outrageous school closings in Chicago. Parents, teachers, administrators, and concerned citizens must speak up and act out against this horrendous and arrogant action by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Mass Protest Rally in Chicago by dianerav The Chicago Teachers Union is planning a mass protest rally on Wednesday. The schools closings in Ch... more »

UPDATE: More lies from Tribune + Who’s scarier??? Parents United for Responsible Education

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Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » Who’s scarier???: More lies from Tribune survey report by admin [image: trappedchild] Thanks to Diane Ravitch for picking up and sharing yesterday’s post about the deceitful Tribune public education survey report. Catalyst picked it up, too: *CHARTER CHEERLEADERS:* A survey commissioned by the Chicago Tribune and the Joyce Foundation finds widespread support—among parents of CPS students and other Chicagoans—formore charter schools in the city. However, Julie Woestehoff, of the group PURE, says the polling wasn’t exactly b... more »

UPDATE: Jersey Jazzman: Mayoral Control Ain't Done Squat For NYC

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Jersey Jazzman: Mayoral Control Ain't Done Squat For NYC: The Screaming Hypocrisy of Chris Christie by Duke New Jersey Governor Chris Christie really does not care if he gets caught in his contradictions or not: Gov. Christie says the state could intervene in the day-to-day affairs of the Camden school system within six to eight weeks, depending on how quickly the legal process moves. Under the state-run system, the school board will have an advisory role, and the state will choose a new schools superintendent. Christie, the father of four school-age children, expressed what he des... more »

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The continuing Vallas saga in Bridgeport

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The continuing Vallas saga in Bridgeport: The continuing Vallas saga in Bridgeport by Mike Klonsky Vallas*Kathleen Megan *writes in the Hartford Courant: *To hear some tell it, Paul Vallas is the savior of Bridgeport schools, a visionary working to turn around one of the state's lowest-performing districts. Others contend that the schools superintendent is an arrogant reformer, making too much change too quickly, with an agenda to turn education into a profit center.* I'll go with the latter. Says fellow privateer, *Andrew Rotherham*: "He's a disaste... more »

UPDATE: Answers On Hiring Substitutes for SPS Seattle Schools Community Forum: PBS Two-Parter on an American High School

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Seattle Schools Community Forum: PBS Two-Parter on an American High School: Answers On Hiring Substitutes for SPS by Melissa Westbrook There are not further details/information on the Hamilton substitute incident that occurred last week as the investigation is on-going. SPS replied to these basic questions about substitute hiring. *1) *Why did the reporter say the sub wasn't employed by the district? Is that right? We did not tell the reporter that the substitute wasn’t a district employee. We did say that because he isn’t a permanent teacher, he couldn’t be placed on leave. In... more »

The downside of superstar schools - latimes.com

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The downside of superstar schools - latimes.com: The downside of superstar schoolsIt's no surprise that parents go to great lengths to get their children into the coveted classrooms. But other campuses suffer a loss from such lopsided enthusiasm.[image: Carpenter Community Charter]Carpenter Community Charter has almost 1,000 students, a waiting list and a controversy over parents who lie about their addresses to get their children in. But a generation ago, fewer than 50 of Carpenter’s 450 students were from the neighborhood; most were bused in. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Ti... more »

LAO suggests curtailing accreditation of teacher prep programs by CTC SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources

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SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources: Print this article*LAO suggests curtailing accreditation of teacher prep programs by CTC* *By Tom Chorneau* Monday, March 25, 2013 A policy paper from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst released late last week suggests lawmakers consider curtailing the accreditation of teacher training programs by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. The proposal was one of several recommendations included in a review of the impacts of the governor’s budget on the state’s primary standards board for educator training and professional conduct. A key elem... more »

Bipartisan on Child Poverty | First Focus

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Home | First Focus: [image: The 2014 Budget Debate] Bipartisan on Child PovertyPublished: March 8, 2013 - FACEBOOK - TWITTER - GOOGLE+ - SAVE - E-MAIL - SHARE - PRINT - REPRINTS - *To the Editor:* [image: Opinion Twitter Logo.] Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow@nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow@andyrNYT. Sheila C. Bair is right (“Grand Old Parity,” Op-Ed, Feb. 27): income inequality should concern both parties. In Britain, it does, at least when it comes to children. Ms. Bair also rightly identi... more »

The complex issue of stealing public education…Just ask Malloy’s nominee for the State Board of Education - Wait, What?

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The complex issue of stealing public education…Just ask Malloy’s nominee for the State Board of Education - Wait, What?: Bridgeport Board of Education…and the vote is, once again, five to four by jonpelto Following the sudden announcement that Jacqueline Kelleher is resigning as the chair of the Bridgeport Board of Education (although she will be staying on as member of the Board), the five members of the Board of Education are expected, tonight, to elect Kenneth Moales Jr. to serve as the new Chairman of the Board. Kenneth H. Moales, Jr. has served as vice chair of the Board and ... more »

The Second Annual Dog and Pony Show of Faux Support for Parent Trigger is Tuesday | Scathing Purple Musings

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The Second Annual Dog and Pony Show of Faux Support for Parent Trigger is Tuesday | Scathing Purple Musings: The Second Annual Dog and Pony Show of Faux Support for Parent Trigger is Tuesday by Bob Sikes They tried this last year, too. But this time, Jeb Bush’s top lobbyist lieutenant Patricia Levesque will be bringing in an equally loathsome group for a sham press conference. From Florida Watchdog reporter William Patrick in*Bush’s Foundation for Florida’s Future* website: Florida Watchdog contacted *Nikki Lowery* of *Students First Florida* for comment but received a form lett... more »

FCMAT » Cali Education Headlines Monday, March 25, 2013

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FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: [image: Corporate Media = Corporate Lies]*Budget gap at Sacramento City Unified School District down to $5.6 million* *School district borrows $50 million to cover projected shortfalls from the state* Education Headlines *Monday, March 25, 2013* Teacher layoff notices see notable slowdownSeveral recent years of March sadness came to a quiet end this month for Stockton Unified and numerous other school districts in California. With the state regaining fiscal health, what had been a deluge of teacher layoffs slowed to a trickle. R... more »

Gates Foundation Sponsored: Effective Teaching BY VICKI PHILLIPS AND RANDI WEINGARTEN | New Republic

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Gates Foundation Sponsored: Effective Teaching | New Republic: SPONSORED CONTENTMARCH 25, 2013 *Six Steps to Effective Teacher Development and Evaluation*Sponsored by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and American Federation of Teachers BY VICKI PHILLIPS AND RANDI WEINGARTEN - Read Later - Listen - Font Size - Facebook - Twitter *Sponsored content by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and American Federation of Teachers.* Some see us as education’s odd couple—one, the president of a democratic teachers’ union; the other, a director at the world’s largest philanthropy... more »