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Friday, March 7, 2014

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Murphy's Law...Rahm's joke...DFER's $$$

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Murphy's Law...Rahm's joke...DFER's $$$:



Murphy's Law...Rahm's joke...DFER's $$$



A good question
Georgia parent asks Pres. Obama, "Why don’t private schools adopt your test-based school reforms?" -- Washington Post

Murphy's Law
Jim Broadway, who publishes Illinois School News Service, has a good post on Sen. Matt Murphy's (R-Palestine) bill SB 3533, that would supposedly "give public school students a choice of who will teach them - a teacher in their local schools or a "provider" in a remote location, even in another state." The bill is backed by ALEC.

Jim refers to my blog when describing ALEC. Thanks Jim.
 You've read my views about ALEC before. Here's how Mike Klonsky, one of my favorite bloggers, sees ALEC: 
"The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) represents the most reactionary, anti-people, anti-teacher, racist sector of the corporate establishment.... They are strongly anti-union and have pushed legislation nationally to dis-empower teacher unions and take away collective bargaining rights of all public employees."
[Okay, if you clicked the link on Klonsky's name you might have read the