THE ULTIMATE NOV 30th ADVOCACY: Protest Rally @ Beaudry – Come get your fair share of abuse!Nov 30 LAUSD RIF Protest Rally at Beaudry
More Nov. 30th Advocacy: Preschool California says “THE WHITE HOUSE NEEDS TO HEAR FROM YOU!”Preschool California + the National Women’s Law Center write: November 29, 2010 Dear Friend, Today, Congress returns from the Thanksgiving holiday and could decide on critical early learning funding by the end of this week. Thank you to everyone who ...
NOVEMBER 30th: AFT Legislative Action meets LAUSD RIF’ssmf: Tomorrow seems to be a Cosmic Confluence as LAUSD sends out RIF termination notices to Plant Managers and Librarians and the Lame Duck Congress potentially ends extended unemployment benefits and extends tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans. Tor ...
Just 11 states, plus the District of Columbia, earned an "A" or "B" grade on whether their laws support charter schools, according to the rankings put forward by an advocacy group.
Relatively few of the winners in the Race to the Top competition were deemed to be in the upper tier, according to grades included in the report by the Center for Education Reform, which supports charter schools and school choice.
Of the round one and round two Race to the Top awardees, only the District of Columbia earned an A. And just New York and Florida received Bs. Of course, support for charter schools was just one of the categories through which states could earn Race to the Top points. The center graded states' charter school laws and practices in four categories: whether they allow and encourage multiple authorizers of those schools; the number of schools
N.J. misses out on $14M education grant; Dems blame Christie
Monday, November 29, 2010 LAST UPDATED: MONDAY NOVEMBER 29, 2010, 4:44 PM
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TRENTON — Democratic lawmakers said Monday that New Jersey's missing out on a $14 million federal grant shows that education isn't a priority for Governor Christie's administration.
Comments from the federal reviewers indicate N.J. didn't have an adequate plan for measuring the success of charters.
Federal grants to help launch new charter schools were announced in August, but it went virtually unnoticed in New Jersey when the state was not among the recipients.
When the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Monday about implications of not getting the money, it got the attention of lawmakers. The grant would have given each new charter school in the state $150,000.
Comments from the federal reviewers indicate the state didn't have an adequate plan for measuring the success of charters, among some other flaws.
Of 17 grant applications considered, New Jersey's and four others were denied.
"This is stunning, but also sadly another indication of the lackadaisical approach this administration has toward educating children," Assembly Speaker Sheila
We all knew that Duncan's mom had a lifelong commitment to education but for years now there hasn't been that much beyond a few tempting details. Now the Tribune has a profile and some great pictures to go along with them:
"For nearly 50 years, the mother of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has run an after-school tutoring project out of church basements on the South Side. Her work helped thousands of kids from Chicago's poorest neighborhoods, and inspired Arne to pursue a career in education. Now, at 75-years-old, she still makes her way to the
Kobi Abayomi Asst. Professor ISYE-Statistics Georgia Tech
This shit is all around criminal. City schools chancellor nominee Cathie Black insists she's connected to public education via a highly touted charter school - but a close look shows she's had no contact with students, parents or teachers there. Officials at the Harlem Village Academies admit the school's National Leadership Board, which Black joined just five months ago, has never met. That board "has no operational or governing authority" over the school and exists for "support purposes only," the school said in response to Daily News questions. Black primarily advised the school's CEO, Deborah Kenny, on "management, leadership, and the development of a book" Kenny is writing, the school said.
Harlem Village parents and former employees had little knowledge of Black, who is expected to get a state waiver that will allow her to take the job despite having almost no education experience. "No, no, no, she's not with us," said the parent of a sixth-grader. "She's not on our board. We have a lot of people who give money, lots of very famous people come here. That could be what it is." A second parent added, "I've heard of Cathie Black from the papers, but she's not part of this school."
Black's link to Harlem Village appears to be her only connection to New York public schools. She went to Catholic school
Students plan third and biggest education cuts protest
The largest of this month's three protests against education cuts is expected as thousands sign up for direct action around the UK
Students on Oxford Street, London, protest last week against cuts in higher education spending and the salary of Topshop owner Sir Philip Green, now a government adviser. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian
Tens of thousands of school, college and university students are expected to protest against education cuts tomorrow, in the third day of demonstrations this month.
By this evening, over 5,500 people had signed up for a day of direct action in London alone, where the national campaign against fees and cuts has organised a march on parliament, and where last week thousands of school pupils and students were "kettled" by police for several hours.
In the ranks of the most asinine, pointless, downright goofy acts of administrative censorship ever perpetrated against students in the twenty-first century, this one has got to be right up near the top of the list.
The administration at Cal State Long Beach is refusing to allow a graduate student production of “Night of the Tribades,” a 1975 historical drama about Swedish playwright August Strindberg (1849-1912) to be advertised on campus property.
Why? Because “tribade,” an archaic term meaning “lesbian,” is also a reference to a sexual act.
Tribadism, a type of frottage, is — thank you, Wikipedia! — “a form of non-penetrative sex in which a woman rubs her vulva against her partner’s body for sexual stimulation.” Nowadays, it’s more often referred to as
State Education Commissioner David Steiner’s plan to grant an education qualifications waiver to Cathleen Black as NYC Schools Chancellor will, if effectuated, render moot the current NYS law mandating those requirements. The precedent he will be setting and the message he will be sending to school districts throughout NYS and across the country would be both revolutionary and crystal clear: the door is open for school districts and school boards to follow the corporate executive management model and hire anyone they wish to run their schools.
The battle for the hearts and minds of young people in San Diego’s public schools continues unabated as yet another year draws to a close. The shadowy group, San Diegans for Great Schools, a spin-off of the USD private think tank Center for Education Policy and Law (CEPAL) is now paying a company to gather 135,000 signatures on petitions around the city to place an initiative on the ballot (exactly when has yet to be determined) that will “reform” our local schools.
The uncertainty about the “when” of this ballot measure is due to reports that Gov.-elect Jerry Brown is already planning on calling a special election aimed at giving California voters a say in negotiations regarding the state’s on-going and ever-worsening budget woes. The Great Schools strategy involves getting their measure on the ballot for a low-turnout election, where voters
So the streets have been quite active and abuzz with news regarding the waiver for CathieBlack, which would be necessary under New York State law in order for Mayor Bloomberg to appoint Black as the next chancellor of the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE). David Steiner, NY State’s Education Commissioner, is expected to announce a waiver as early as Monday (11/29/10) for Black, a media executive who has no experience or credentials in public
State Education Commissioner Expected To Grant Waiver For Cathie Black
By:NY1 News
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's pick for schools chancellor could get final approval as early as today, in a controversial deal that some parents and teachers are railing about.
Under the deal, the state education commissioner would grant a waiver to Cathie Black that would allow the media mogul to lead the school system with a deputy chancellor serving as her second in command.
Just like current Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, Black needs the waiver to serve as chancellor because she does not have a background in education.
Shael Polakow-Suransky, 38, currently the city's deputy chancellor for accountability and
nydailynews.com - Handschuh/News Parents and school officials at the Harlem Village Academies School say they've had little contact with schools chancellor nominee Cathie Black. City schools chancellor nominee Cathi...
newsweek.com - Bill Gates is raising his arm, bent at the elbow, in the direction of the ceiling. The point he’s making is so important that he wants me and the pair of Gates Foundation staffers sitting in the ho...
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Nov 28 2010 Larry Ferlazzo In Newsweek this week, Bill Gates once again joins other “school reformers” in their arrogant attitude that if you don’t agree with them, then you’re for the “status quo”...
voices.washingtonpost.com - This was written byLarry Cuban, a former high school social studies teacher (14 years, including seven at Cardozo and Roosevelt high schools in the District), district superintendent (seven years i...
miller-mccune.com - Education November 28, 2010 Miller-McCune interviews two education experts about the promise and betrayal of diversity in the charter school movement.By Melinda Burns Studies show charter schools h...
We all knew that Duncan's mom had a lifelong commitment to education but for years now there hasn't been that much beyond a few tempting details. Now the Tribune has a profile and some great pictures to go along with them:
