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Thursday, August 7, 2014

8-7-14 Hemlock on the Rocks

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Schoolyard Bully? A Look at Mudslinging in the LAUSD Race | Cakewalk | SoCal Focus | KCET
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/cakewalk/lausd-race-george-mckenna-alex-johnson.html Schoolyard Bully? A Look at Mudslinging in the LAUSD Race


TEACHER JAIL, RUBBER ROOMS, RIFS , Displacements, YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBEREDEducators are ‘broken, depressed, suicidal’ | Al Jazeera America
'America Tonight | July 29, 2014Share LinkEmbed in WebsiteIris Stevenson and Greg Schiller met in purgatory. It was a room with cubicles facing blank walls, no phones or computers. Here, every weekday, the veteran teachers would sit and write lessons plans for nobody.The Los Angeles Unified School District still hasn't officially told Stevenson what allegations landed her in so-called teacher

CURMUDGUCATION: NYC Looks For Teachers on Craigslist
CURMUDGUCATION: NYC Looks For Teachers on Craigslist: The NYC Teaching Collective (formerly the NYC Teaching Residency) seems to be have hatched from a simple idea-- why pay TFA to provide us w...
Keep the Public in Public Schools
Protest against school cuts in Culver City, California.Photo/L. KurnarskyBy Steve Miller The privatizers of public education play on the fact that public schools in America are more segregated by race today than they were when the Supreme Court ruled, in 1954, that separate education is inherently not equal. This apartheid school system delivers absolutely horrid public education to central city
Sand: The One-Way Political Spending of the Teacher Unions--Your dues paid for Obama, Brown and ALEC l
http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/sand-the-one-way-political-spending-of-the-teacher-unions/#comment-605721 Sand: The One-Way Political Spending of the Teacher Unions


8-6-14 Hemlock on the Rocks
Hemlock on the Rocks: Bill of Rights Institute: Fifth Amendment: Due Process | Bill of Rights Institute: Fifth Amendment: Due ProcessThe gover...Bill of Rights Institute: Fifth Amendment: Due Process | Bill of Rights Institute: Fifth Amendment: Due ProcessThe government may not deprive citizens of “life, liberty, or property” without due process of law. This means that the government has to follow