Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Join the Volunteer Team

Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Join the Volunteer Team

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del Valle Wants Parking Meter Deal Renegotiated

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Mayoral candidate Miguel del Valle thinks city leaders gave its citizens a raw deal when it agreed to privatize the city's parking meters, and he's not going to block efforts to overturn it.

"We are stuck right now with a bad deal, a bad deal for the residents of the city of Chicago, a bad deal for tourists, a bad deal for families who come and visit the city of Chicago. It's a bad deal all the way around," he said during a Friday morning press event.

Mayoral Candidate Del Valle Pushes Voter Registration

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Sun-Times | “It’s totally inexcusable that the leaders of the Cook County Democratic Party have not talked about voter registration,” said del Valle, who is the first candidate to start said.

“We see this as a chance for a record turnout to rival the Obama election,” said campaign field director Maceo Brown. “With this drive, we want to energize the communities and the people of Chicago.”

One on One with Miguel del Valle on WGN TV

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Del Valle and Bikes By Mary Wisniewski

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Sun-Times

Earlier this month, the Ride had a story about how the Active Transportation Alliance is hoping the next mayor will further Mayor Daley's work to make Chicago welcoming to bicycles and pedestrians.

At least one mayoral candidate has come forward on this issue -- City Clerk Miguel del Valle. On his campaign-focused Facebook page, Del Valle said he wanted to make Chicago "one of the most bicycle friendly cities in the world."

Teachbad Sings: I Hate Children | Mr. Teachbad's Blog of Teacher Disgruntlement

Teachbad Sings: I Hate Children | Mr. Teachbad's Blog of Teacher Disgruntlement

Teachbad Sings: I Hate Children

by mrteachbad

Hello, Everybody!

Here’s something new. It’s a song I wrote about my first day as a teacher. I started as a frightened sub in a sixth grade class; hoping to do it for just one day, or maybe the week. I got my ass chewed up pretty bad. That was in 2003. And now here we are. Anyway, the song is called “I Hate Children”. It’s the only song I’ve ever written and I have learned just enough guitar to play it not so well. Plus, I don’t really sing. So this should be good.

In the video I am wearing a disguise because my identity must remain shrouded of total secrecy. A friend of mine at the FBI field office here hooked me up with some pretty cool undercover equipment. It is specifically calibrated to my biometric profile so that I can blend in almost anywhere and draw no attention to myself. Super cool.

I shouldn’t say anything about the construction of the disguise itself. But the one thing I will reveal is that the hat

North Portland: University of Portland's green transportation programs breaking records | OregonLive.com

North Portland: University of Portland's green transportation programs breaking records | OregonLive.com

North Portland: University of Portland's green transportation programs breaking records

Published: Sunday, January 02, 2011, 12:00 PM

By Larry Bingham, The Oregonian
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Doug Beghtel, The OregonianA University of Portland shuttle that carries students and faculty to the nearest MAX line has seen record numbers since the school launched several greener transportation options.

After years of offering faculty and students alternative transportation methods to get to the University of Portland, the school has seen record use of its greener options in 2010.

"Now that those options have been around a few years, I think they really have taken root," said university spokesman Joe Kuffner.

Among the successes:

* Nearly 5,000 passengers set a record when they took trips on a shuttle service in the four-month period ending in November. The shuttle, subsidized by TriMet and the university, carries students, faculty and staff to the nearest MAX line a few miles away and into St. Johns on weekends.

* Seventy TriMet bus passes sold to students and faculty at a 40 percent discount sell out monthly.

* More than 50 faculty and students participate in a carpool program which gives students a

Schools Matter: Succs For All: From One Form of Scripted Bullshit to Another

Schools Matter: Succs For All: From One Form of Scripted Bullshit to Another

Succs For All: From One Form of Scripted Bullshit to Another

by Jim Horn

During the heyday of the Paige/Spellings federal disaster-in-motion-at-ED, Reid Lyon, Doug Carnine, Roland Good, and other disciples of Engelmann's Direct Instruction held sway, with Robert Slavin's brand of parrot reading shut out of the Reading First dollar bonanza.

It is predictable to see Slavin re-emerging to claim his millions in delayed expertise, with another version of the same teacher-proofed crap passed off as reading instruction. The only literacy approach that ever passed in all four categories of reading literacy was Reading Recovery, which is too expensive to encourage when you have billions to give away to the Oligarchs' sidekicks in the charter biz and the testing industry. From an old post:

Six years ago when Margaret LaMontagne (Spellings), Reid Lyon, and Doug Carnine loaded the Reading First review panels with their direct instruction stooges and cronies, they set back reading instruction by decades, who knows how many. As ED's own Inspector General's reports have

Gapers Block Mechanics - Is it Time to End Mayoral Control of the Schools? - Chicago Politics

Gapers Block Mechanics - Is it Time to End Mayoral Control of the Schools? - Chicago Politics

Is it Time to End Mayoral Control of the Schools?

Find a profile of Mayor Richard M. Daley. In it, you'll find a sentence about how the Mayor wrested control of the schools from special interests to institute reforms that special interests had been resisting for years. For "education reformers" fixated on introducing market pressure into public schools, "mayoral control" is a dream, a way to accelerate all the subsequent reforms they so badly want.

By introducing mayoral control first, it becomes much easier to institute the various "reforms" beloved of groups like Broad-Gates and Stand for Children. Despite claims

Why Cathleen Black Was the Wrong Choice to Head New York City's Schools

Why Cathleen Black Was the Wrong Choice to Head New York City's Schools

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As usual, the press and the complaining hordes are focusing on the wrong issues. Everyone assumes that Cathleen Black, who starts her job next week as New York City Schools Chancellor, is a fine choice from a management perspective, but what's lacking from her resume are any educational credentials.

I challenge that. What the New York City school system needs is bold and imaginative thinking that breaks out of the calcified structures that have imprisoned it and its students for decades. Say what you will about Joel Klein, who has held the job since 2002, but the fact is that 40 percent of all kids in Harlem now start their education at a charter school. This is a stunning statistic. It could never, ever have happened under a Black-led regime, It required an audacious, rule-breaking spirit to accomplish, not

On Tuesday wear red for public ed. « Fred Klonsky's blog

On Tuesday wear red for public ed. « Fred Klonsky's blog

On Tuesday wear red for public ed.

by Fred Klonsky

2011 is going to be tough going for public schools, public school teachers and teacher unions.

From New Jersey to Illinois, Florida to California teachers will tell you it has never been this bad.

The coming week in Springfield will kick off the Superbowl of teacher bashing when something bad, and we don’t

Get Involved- Read Education News « Parents 4 democratic Schools

Get Involved- Read Education News « Parents 4 democratic Schools

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Ethnic Studies in Arizona: The Story You Might Have Missed on New Year’s Day — The Jose Vilson

Ethnic Studies in Arizona: The Story You Might Have Missed on New Year’s Day — The Jose Vilson

Ethnic Studies in Arizona: The Story You Might Have Missed on New Year’s Day

by Jose

On January 1st, 2011, Arizona instituted a set of directives against certain segments of educational curricula in the state. This bill follows the already tenuous relationship between underrepresented people in their state and their government, with officials like Governor Jan Brewer in the forefront. People reporting on the bill have called it a “ban on ethnic studies,” a misleading title if I ever read one. While it serves well to draw attention to this story, the ramifications of this obfuscating bill reach far greater than the small district in Tuscon this bill was meant for.

Reading this bill, I noticed this section here (Subsection A):

A. A SCHOOL DISTRICT OR CHARTER SCHOOL IN THIS STATE SHALL NOT INCLUDE IN ITS PROGRAM OF INSTRUCTION ANY COURSES OR CLASSES THAT INCLUDE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

Wear Red For Public Ed

Wear Red For Public Ed

Wear Red For Public Ed

Time	Tuesday, January 4 · 12:00pm - 11:30pm
Location	Everywhere
Created By	Chris Janotta
More Info	First, I put a start time of 12:00 pm because I think early start times cause people to automatically decline sometimes:) but, this is an ALL DAY EVENT. We are asking that anyone who supports public education wears red on Tuesday, January 4, 2011. That's all. Just wear something red (a T-Shirt, dress shirt, tie, pants, hat, all of the above...). How much easier does it get to show you care about public education and the children who attend public schools on a daily basis? If you'd like to learn more about how and why to support this event, please visitwww.sosmtm.com. Be sure to click on the Mission Statement page and see what the SOS Million Teacher March wants for public education. Hopefully, you will agree. Questions? Post them here or send them to me, Chris Janotta, at sosmtm2010@gmail.com or call me at (708) 949-6060. To borrow from a famous quote, this is one small step for you, but, if enough people participate and continue to be involved, it could turn into one giant leap for public education.