NEA - Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly (RA) #NEARA10

NEA - Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly (RA)

2010 NEA Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly (RA)

NEA 2010: Turning Hope into Action

New Orleans, Louisiana — June 26 - July 6, 2010

RA TODAY HEADLINES

• Van Roekel: We Are the Ones Who Can Make Public Schools Great 7/3/2010
  In keynote speech, NEA President calls on delegates to lead the charge for education
• 2010 RA Kicks Off With Van Roekel Call to Action 7/3/2010
  Nearly 8,500 delegates begin to set policy, honor activists & chart future of education.
• Bob Chanin Book Signing 7/3/2010
  Hall G at 2:30 PM on July 4th.
• Becky Pringle Addresses Essence Festival 7/3/2010
  NEA Secretary-Treasurer calls on local communities to help teachers transform schools.
• Teacher Quality Forum Panelists: Educators Must Be Heard7/3/2010
  Teacher quality will be the focus of impending debate on reauthorization of the ESEA Act.
• RA Social Media Guide 7/2/2010
  Social media is playing a larger role at this year’s Representative Assembly, with Facebook, Twitter, the RA Today Blog and Flickr being updated several times a day.

NEA Members Get It Done! House Passes $10 Billion Jobs Bill

The House of Representatives voted to approve funding that will save an estimated 138,000 educator jobs. NEA members called Congress by the hundreds, adding to more than 60,000 calls made in the weeks leading up to last night's crucial vote.

Priority Schools Campaign building army of volunteers for nation’s schools

Transforming America’s lower-performing priority schools is going to take an army of committed educators and community members.

RA Tod@y Blog 2010

• RA kick off: See our pictures, share yours
  Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:50:36 +0000
  The stage was set, the hall was opened, and the gavel came down. The 2010 Representative Assembly ki...
• WEA donates 10,000 books to Gulf Coast students
  Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:00:57 +0000
  When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, it made landfall in Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana, dest...
• Bob Chanin—Certainly More Than a Lawyer
  Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:51:35 +0000
  Retired NEA General Counsel Bob Chanin is in New Orleans! He’ll be joining Michael Edwards tom...
• Honoring the Clinton 12 and other civil rights pioneers
  Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:58:58 +0000
  A piece of history walked across the stage at last evening’s NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards...
• World Cup fever grips NEA’s international guests
  Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:08:01 +0000
  “Democracy went mad” – that’s how Angelo Gavrielatos jokingly described it when his internat...

Announcements: Sunday, July 4

NEA Fund for Children & Public Education

• NEA PAC Fundraising Results

Meeting Room Changes

All meetings that were scheduled to meet in:

• room 265 will now meet in room 284
• room 266 will now meet in room 285
• room 267 will now meet in room 286
• room 268 will now meet in room 287

NEA RA: “No confidence in Race to the Top” � Fred Klonsky's blog #NEARA10

NEA RA: “No confidence in Race to the Top” � Fred Klonsky's blog

NEA RA: “No confidence in Race to the Top”

JULY 4, 2010

by preaprez

The gap just got wider between the United States Department of Education and it’s Secretary Arne Duncan on the one side and America’s teachers on the other. Never has their been such hostility between the NEA, a reliable Democratic constituency, and a Democratic Party controlled USDE.

While earlier New Business Items had addressed problems with Race to the Top in general terms, NBI 2 was most clear and direct:

“While the National Education Association Representative Assembly supports and appreciates the significant increase in federal funding for education, the NEA takes a position of no confidence in the US

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Inmate Education Provides Valuable Lessons For All - cbs3.com

Inmate Education Provides Valuable Lessons For All - cbs3.com

Inmate Education Provides Valuable Lessons For All

DAVID KARAS, The Times of Trenton
BORDENTOWN, N.J. (AP) ― Parents of some area college students are beginning to hear a declaration they may not have heard from their children before: "I'm going to prison now."

Facing budget cuts and simultaneous mandates for increased educational offerings to New Jersey's prison population, institutions such as the Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility have opened their doors to volunteer college students and professors to provide instruction to inmates.

DOC spokesman Matt Schuman said that due to staff cuts, there will be 67 fewer positions department-wide in 2011, including recreation employees, teaching assistants, nontenured teachers and vocational instructors. As a result, there's an increased need for volunteers — and officials say volunteers have responded.

"We discovered an untapped resource," said Alfred Kandell, administrator at the Bordentown facility which houses about 1,300 male inmates ranging in age from 18 to 35. "Suddenly, volunteers started coming out of the woodwork."

On any given day, students and faculty from The College of New Jersey and Princeton University, as well as members of the Princeton community, can be found at the facility teaching classes, serving as teaching assistants, and tutoring inmates one-on-one in various subjects.

Kandell said about 30 volunteers come to the facility on a regular basis, though the faces change as students get jobs, start internships or take summer vacations.

2nd BANANA Last week's highly rated post #education #neara10

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Students Produce - Using Profits to Help Educate Homeless Students Throughout the USA

2010-Jun-27

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Teachers' Letters to Obama - The Petition Site

2010-Jun-28

Teachers' Letters to Obama - The Petition Sitebrowsemy petitionsitecreate petitionhelpTeachers' Letters to ObamaTarget:President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne DuncanSponsored by: Members of Teachers Letters to ObamaDear President Obama, Secretary Duncan and Members of Congress:Several members of the Teachers' Letters to Obama (TLO) group of educators recently had the honor of sharing with you, Secretary Duncan, our concerns with the direction of federal education reform's Race to the Top initiative. Subsequently, various publications reported Department of Education assertions that teachers ...

Democrats add teacher money to war funding bill - Boston.com

2010-Jun-30

Democrats add teacher money to war funding bill - Boston.com: Democrats add teacher money to war funding billBy Andrew TaylorAssociated Press Writer / June 30, 2010E-mail|Print|Comments (4)Text size – +WASHINGTON—House Democrats who are trying to pass a long-stalled war funding bill are sweetening it with $10 billion to help local school districts avoid teacher layoffs when schools reopen.Tweet 2 people Tweeted thisYahoo! BuzzShareThisThe approximately $70 billion measure is anchored by President Barack Obama's $30 billion request for the troop surge ...

The trouble with charter schools - chicagotribune.com

2010-Jul-1

The trouble with charter schools - chicagotribune.comThe trouble with charter schoolsClarence PageBio | E-mail | Blog | Recent columnsShare this on13ShareTopicsMichelle ObamaClarence PageTeachers UnionsSee more topics »It's easier to open a new one than to close a bad oneClarence PageJune 30, 2010E-mailPrintShare Text SizeCharter schools receive a lot of well-deserved attention this time of year when they appear to be performing miracles. But what about the ones that don't?The Obama administration believes, as did the Bush administration, in taking harsh 

ASCD Inservice: The Missing Ink on the Common Core

2010-Jul-1

ASCD Inservice: The Missing Ink on the Common CoreThe Missing Ink on the Common CoreWhy isn't state adoption of the Common Core getting more press? asks Linda Perlstein, public editor of the Education Writers Association."Standards are boring," is her conclusion, though she also surmises that the standards are "too removed" or won't really effect change.Let me throw out another possibility: state departments of education aren't communicating adoption of the standards to reporters, much less the public.ASCD has just posted a ...

R2T caught in D.C. budget fight | EdNewsColorado

2010-Jul-1

R2T caught in D.C. budget fight | EdNewsColoradoR2T caught in D.C. budget fightby Todd EngdahlColorado’s $175 million Race to the Top bid could be affected by a proposal that would divert money from R2T and two other education stimulus programs into a fund to save teacher jobs.Rep. David Obey, D-Wisc., wants to use $800 million in previously budgeted reform money to help pay for a $10 billion Education Jobs Fund, which would be distributed to states to blunt the impact ...

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ISTE President Helen Padgett Points to a New Frontier in Education Technology at ISTE… — DENVER, June 28 /PRNewswire/ — #edu

2010-Jun-28

ISTE President Helen Padgett Points to a New Frontier in Education Technology at ISTE DENVER, June 28 /PRNewswire/ . ISTE President Helen Padgett Points to a New Frontier in Education Technology at ISTE 2010 DENVER, June 28 /PRNewswire/ Helen Padgett, president of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®), summoned Colorados legacy of exploration [...]

Tenn. governor: Budget OK compared to other states – Boston.com

2010-Jun-29

Tenn. governor: Budget OK compared to other states Boston.com. Tenn. governor: Budget OK compared to other states By Lucas L. Johnson IiAssociated Press Writer / June 29, 2010 E-mail Print Comments (0) Text size – + NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said Monday that the state's spending plan is in good shape compared to other states [...]

Busy, newsy end to DPS year | EdNewsColorado #edu

2010-Jul-1

Busy, newsy end to DPS year EdNewsColorado. Busy, newsy end to DPS year by Nancy Mitchell Denver Public Schools’ leaders on Wednesday wrapped up the final day of the 2009-10 year by announcing changes in key staff jobs, approving three new schools and passing a $1.2 billion budget. School board members approved the budget hours before the July [...]

Rhee hints that her job as D.C. schools chief hinges on Fenty’s reelection #edu

2010-Jul-1

Rhee hints that her job as D.C. schools chief hinges on Fenty's reelection. Rhee hints that her job as D.C. schools chief hinges on Fenty's reelection VIDEO Rhee hints to Post that job hinges on Fenty reelection Speaking with The Washington Post's Nikita Stewart, D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee hints that her tenure as [...]

EducationNews.org Bill to save teachers’ jobs would slash reform programs #edu

2010-Jul-1

EducationNews.org. Higher Education Science Foundation AZ generating wealth EducationNewsToday Changes to condom proposal promised EducationNewsToday Boston takes charter school nonprofit as a partner EducationNewsToday Moderate Democrats Push Back on Cuts to Race to the Top, TIF EducationNewsToday Ron Clark Academy success comes at a price few schools can afford EducationNewsToday [...]

NEA RA: Candidate A. Candidate B. « Fred Klonsky’s blog #edu #NEARA #education

2010-Jul-2

NEA RA: Candidate A. Candidate B. « Fred Klonsky's blog. NEA RA: Candidate A. Candidate B. JULY 2, 2010 tags: Brady, budget cuts, IEA, Jim Reed, Quinn, RA by preaprez It was a weird morning at the Illinois caucus meeting here at the Marriott on Canal in New Orleans. The first session of the NEA RA isn’t until tomorrow. I woke up [...]

Schools across US offer to help Dana students - Boston.com

Schools across US offer to help Dana students - Boston.com

Schools across US offer to help Dana students

July 3, 2010

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BLAIR, Neb.—Schools across the country continue to step up to help Dana College students left in limbo following the school's decision this week to close.

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Officials at the 126-year-old private college say there are written agreements with the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, to take in their nearly 650 students.

But more than 55 schools elsewhere in Nebraska and Iowa, as well as in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia and Washington have

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Sunday, July 4, 2010

BY DAVID M. ZIMMER

THE RECORD

STAFF WRITER

WEST MILFORD — The Board of Education has heard redistricting proposals from two consultants as it prepares for a possible school closure at the end of the 2010-11 year.
For next year, the elementary school enrollment is expected be down by almost 300 students — or the approximate enrollment of the Paradise Knoll School — since 2007-08. Since its peak in 2003-04, total enrollment is expected to drop by about 800 students.
With that decrease and the 2004 Highlands Act’s restrictions on new development in the watershed township, school officials are considering a school closing — and ensuing redistricting — to save money. But they are unsure if it is the right decision for the system.