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Bricolage Academy educators request NLRB union election | The Lens https://thelensnola.org/2021/04/20/bricolage-academy-educators-request-nlrb-union-election/

Progress on Early Retirement Incentive | JD2718 - https://wp.me/pOjh-29S on @wordpressdotcom

How The Pandemic Changed The College Admissions Selection Process This Year http://feeds.scpr.org/~r/893KpccSouthernCaliforniaNews-Education/~3/9BoD0hC7VxY/

'We Need To Be Nurtured, Too': Many Teachers Say They're Reaching A Breaking Point http://feeds.scpr.org/~r/893KpccSouthernCaliforniaNews-Education/~3/3FgXpsfb8hU/

How to Talk About Police Brutality with Children https://www.momsrising.org/blog/how-to-talk-about-police-brutality-with-children

Jersey City school district reverses in-person learning plans https://www.njspotlight.com/video/jersey-city-school-district-reverses-in-person-learning-plans/

Sanders And Top Progressives Push To Make College Free For Most Americans https://www.npr.org/2021/04/21/989176846/sanders-and-top-progressives-push-to-make-college-free-for-most-americans

How Schools Can Help Kids Heal After A Year Of 'Crisis And Uncertainty' https://www.npr.org/2021/04/21/989056927/how-schools-can-help-kids-heal-after-a-year-of-crisis-and-uncertainty

Bernie Sanders Wants To Tax Wall Street To Pay For Free College https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-tax-wall-street-free-college_n_607f8f06e4b03fc5b215fea6

OPINION: Why public school teachers need paid family and medical leave - https://hechingerreport.org/?p=78659 via @hechingerreport

Michigan Dad Pulls Biracial Child Out of School After Teacher, Other Student Cuts Her Hair https://www.theroot.com/michigan-dad-pulls-biracial-child-out-of-school-after-t-1846721152 via @TheRoot

Educators expose the teachers unions’ role in facilitating the deadly reopening of US schools https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/04/21/educ-a21.html

Dems push $25B to electrify school buses, a Biden priority https://www.ny1.com/share/nyc/brooklyn/ap-top-news/2021/04/21/dems-push-25b-to-electrify-school-buses-a-biden-priority?cid=share_twitter

Open Press Roundtable with Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and Students, Educators, and School Administrative Staff Eligible for the Dream and Promise Act | U.S. Department of Education - https://www.ed.gov/news/media-advisories/open-press-roundtable-secretary-education-miguel-cardona-and-students-educators-and-school-administrative-staff-eligible-dream-and-promise-act

How the Federal Government’s Charter School Program Went Wrong | Ed Politics - https://edpolitics.org/?p=349

Florina Rodov: Charter Schools Should Get Zero Federal Dollars | Ed Politics - https://edpolitics.org/?p=347

Pennsylvania should increase early childhood investment by $250 million, national report says https://philadelphia.chalkbeat.org/2021/4/21/22395738/pennsylvania-should-increase-early-childhood-investment-by-250-million-national-report-says

Teachers Discuss George Floyd Murder And Chauvin Verdict https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/us/teachers-students-derek-chauvin-guilty-verdict-george-floyd.html

Home-school students could participate in public school activities under proposal in Missouri House | Politics | stltoday.com - https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/home-school-students-could-participate-in-public-school-activities-under-proposal-in-missouri-house/article_7592c0d3-0c19-592d-bb9f-b51fea6a4b70.html#new_tab on @stltoday

‘Pandemic or not’: Nashville FRONT group pushes for teacher accountability in TCAP testing | WKRN News 2 - https://www.wkrn.com/?p=824780

Getting Education Data Right: The Case of High School Admissions - Columbia Journalism Review - https://www.cjr.org/?p=86181 via cjr

S.F. school board approves unusual contract terms with superintendent - https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/S-F-school-board-to-vote-on-unusual-contract-16115916.php#new_tab on @sfchronicle

A year without play: Parents and experts worry about loss of social skills during pandemic https://whyy.org/articles/a-year-without-play-parents-and-experts-worry-about-loss-of-social-skills-during-pandemic/

Vote favors measure to pay private tuition for poor pupils - https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/apr/21/vote-favors-measure-to-pay-private-tuition-for/?news-politics#new_tab on @arkansasonline

Hackers post 26,000 Broward school files online https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/education/fl-ne-broward-schools-hackers-post-files-20210419-mypt2qtlc5a7xela4x6bcg5hdy-story.html

New Indiana budget proposal increases funding for teacher pay and voucher expansion https://in.chalkbeat.org/2021/4/20/22394363/indiana-budget-school-funding-teacher-pay-voucher-expansion via @ChalkbeatIN

Arizona Governor Vetoes Strict Sex Education Legislation | KNAU Arizona Public Radio - https://www.knau.org/node/147959

Many Schools, Few Kids: St. Louis Plagued By Too Much Unused Building Space | St. Louis Public Radio - https://news.stlpublicradio.org/education/2021-04-21/many-schools-few-kids-st-louis-plagued-by-too-much-unused-building-space#new_tab on @stlpublicradio

COVID: Newark school board goes ‘nuclear,’ tells teachers to return to classrooms April 29 – East Bay Times - https://bayareane.ws/3xe3x2s on @eastbaytimes

Biden administration extends universal free school lunch through 2022 | TheHill - https://thehill.com/node/549310

Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie accused of perjury; attorney Barbara Myrick also indicted https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-ne-robert-runcie-arrested-20210421-vv6rp3c65raqzl2w6khdtmkeny-story.html

OPSB committee approves list of 20 school campuses to rename https://thelensnola.org/2021/04/21/opsb-committee-approves-list-of-20-school-campuses-to-rename/

Gary Rubinstein’s Blog: Education Reinventers | National Education Policy Center - https://nepc.colorado.edu/node/10870 on @NEPCtweet

Anchorage School Board passes anti-racism and equity policies with overwhelming support - Alaska Public Media - https://www.alaskapublic.org/?p=298602 via @aprn


Big Education Ape: No Justice, No Excellence | Teacher in a strange land - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/no-justice-no-excellence-teacher-in.html


Big Education Ape: What's ahead for teachers? | Cornell Chronicle - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/whats-ahead-for-teachers-cornell.html


Big Education Ape: Teacher Tom: I Will Not Prepare Children for The "Jobs of Tomorrow" - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/teacher-tom-i-will-not-prepare-children.html


Big Education Ape: Jeff Bryant on America’s Workforce Radio: “Charter schools are often nonprofit in name only.” | Ed Politics - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/jeff-bryant-on-americas-workforce-radio.html


Big Education Ape: Megan Prather: Back to the drawing board: SVCSB calls for new Epic settlement proposals - NONDOC - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/megan-prather-back-to-drawing-board.html


Big Education Ape: U.S. Ed Dept. Releases State Plan Template for the American Rescue Plan Emergency Relief Fund + USDA Issues Pandemic Flexibilities for Schools and Day Care Facilities | U.S. Department of Education - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/us-ed-dept-releases-state-plan-template.html


Big Education Ape: Biden Asks Congress to Double Title I on top of Stimulus Dollars: Why Is All This Money Needed? | janresseger - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/biden-asks-congress-to-double-title-i.html


Big Education Ape: Parent as Teacher during the Pandemic | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/parent-as-teacher-during-pandemic-larry.html


Big Education Ape: Thank you, Darnella Frazier. | deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/thank-you-darnella-frazier-deutsch29.html


Big Education Ape: School Finance 101: Filling our Nation’s Funding Gaps | National Education Policy Center - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/school-finance-101-filling-our-nations.html


Big Education Ape: John Thompson: More Oklahoma Charter School Scandals - Network For Public Education - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/john-thompson-more-oklahoma-charter.html


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Big Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Elected Chicago school board gets support from civil rights leaders - https://www.chicagobusiness.com/node/946981 The Limits of Listening to Wonks | Just Visiting - https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/limits-listening-wonks Texas Congressional Democrats Seek To Block Governor’s Grab Of COVID-19 Education Funds – Houston P

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No Justice, No Excellence | Teacher in a strange land

No Justice, No Excellence | Teacher in a strange land
No Justice, No Excellence



Like most of America, I’ve been glued to the Derek Chauvin trial, watching the evening highlights, nail-biting Tweets–Why is this taking so long? —and cable news analyses. Have we moved forward as a society? Are we, if not woke, at least emerging with new awareness, from centuries of abusive and racist behavior?

Yesterday, before the verdict was announced, I caught the end of an on-the-street reporter’s comments, and she said school leaders–she called them ‘assistant principals’–were on the street with their HS students, awaiting the news, and chanting ‘You can’t stop the revolution.’

The reporter seemed surprised that school administrators would be positive about a student walkout, rather than threatening to put these uprisings on students’ permanent records. Students, it seems, in MN at least, have become more specific and articulate in their demands.

At Minnetonka High School, in Minnesota:

The district has followed through…adding hate symbols to the list of items banned in school dress codes, expanding its reach in hiring to target more diverse job candidates and creating an online reporting system for incidents of harassment and discrimination.

Students see the district’s unwillingness to acknowledge the specific pain or concerns of Black students, or students in other groups, as evidence that leaders haven’t or don’t CONTINUE READING: No Justice, No Excellence | Teacher in a strange land

What's ahead for teachers? | Cornell Chronicle

What's ahead for teachers? | Cornell Chronicle
What's ahead for teachers?



One of the nation’s most influential labor leaders, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten ’80, meets Thursday with ILR Dean Alex Colvin to discuss “One Year Later, What’s Ahead for Teachers?”

Part of ILR’s eCornell series entitled “The Future of Work: Labor in America,” the event is free and open to the public.

Register here for “One Year Later, What’s Ahead for Teachers,” which will be held from 3:30 to 4:30 ET on Thursday.

The first in the ILR “Future of Work” series was “Unionization in Big Tech: Why Now?” and is accessible by completing the form in this link.

After this Thursday’s event, the next in the series will be a May 10 keynote with Colvin, Thomas Perez, labor secretary in the Obama administration and former Democratic National Committee chair, and Cathy Creighton, director of ILR’s Buffalo Co-Lab. The keynote begins at 2:30 p.m. ET.

On Thursday, Weingarten and Colvin will discuss three areas:

  • the pandemic’s impact on K-12 learning and teaching, this fall and beyond
  • how the Amazon union vote is affecting labor
  • how the Biden administration will impact teaching.

Weingarten is the president of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, a union of 1.7 million teachers; paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare CONTINUE READING: What's ahead for teachers? | Cornell Chronicle

Teacher Tom: I Will Not Prepare Children for The "Jobs of Tomorrow"

Teacher Tom: I Will Not Prepare Children for The "Jobs of Tomorrow"
I Will Not Prepare Children for The "Jobs of Tomorrow"



I've spent most of my professional career railing against the widely held belief that our schools exist for the purpose of vocational training. Those "jobs of tomorrow" our policymakers are always going on about? "Out educating the Chinese?" Getting the kids "college and career ready?" What a crock. First of all, no one knows what those jobs of tomorrow might be, no matter how authoritatively they speak of the future. The jobs that today's five-year-olds will be applying for 20 years from now are unimaginable to us. Indeed, it will be the children of today who invent the jobs of tomorrow. And this has always been true, going back at least to the Industrial Revolution when policymakers were certain that we would all move to the cities to take our place along an assembly line. My own high school career counselor got it wrong. Most of the jobs our daughter is applying for today didn't exist when she was a preschooler. As for competing with the Chinese, that's a dubious and mercenary adult concern, one that is a cruelty when inflicted on innocent children.

No, the proper "career" aspiration for a preschooler is princess. 

The role of education (not necessarily school) in a self-governing society is to produce good citizens, critical thinkers CONTINUE READING: Teacher Tom: I Will Not Prepare Children for The "Jobs of Tomorrow"

Jeff Bryant on America’s Workforce Radio: “Charter schools are often nonprofit in name only.” | Ed Politics

Jeff Bryant on America’s Workforce Radio: “Charter schools are often nonprofit in name only.” | Ed Politics
JEFF BRYANT ON AMERICA’S WORKFORCE RADIO: “CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE OFTEN NONPROFIT IN NAME ONLY.”


How charter schools profit off the backs of taxpayers


Charter school management companies can make huge profits off operating nonprofit charter schools. Here’s how they do it.

Florina Rodov: Charter Schools Should Get Zero Federal Dollars | Ed Politics - https://edpolitics.org/?p=347

How the Federal Government’s Charter School Program Went Wrong | Ed Politics - https://edpolitics.org/?p=349

Megan Prather: Back to the drawing board: SVCSB calls for new Epic settlement proposals - NONDOC

Back to the drawing board: SVCSB calls for new Epic settlement proposals
Back to the drawing board: SVCSB calls for new Epic settlement proposals



The Statewide Virtual Charter School Board held a special meeting this afternoon where members approved a motion to draft a new consent agreement to conclude charter termination proceedings with Epic One-on-One Charter School.

Epic attorney Bill Hickman and assistant Attorney General Marie Schuble will each submit new Epic settlement proposals with amendments requested by the SVCSB, such as full cooperation with the State Auditor & Inspector’s Office and the appointment of a compliance officer.

Epic’s governing board had proposed a settlement agreement at its April 14 meeting in an effort to resolve the SVCSB’s charter termination case, but the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board declined to accept their proposal today.

“I’d like to make a motion to have the parties, through their designated counsel, submit an amended consent order that includes, but is not limited to the sections that (SVCSB director) Dr. Rebecca Wilkinson will CONTINUE READING: Back to the drawing board: SVCSB calls for new Epic settlement proposals