Detroit Federation of Teachers: They steal elections don’t they? | Dailycensored.com

Detroit Federation of Teachers: They steal elections don’t they? | Dailycensored.com

Detroit Federation of Teachers: They steal elections don’t they?

Written by Danny WeilEducationJan 17, 2011

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Irregularities in the Detroit Federation of Teachers presidential election have come to the surface. As Keith Johnson, Eli Broad and Robert Bobb ally, claims victory. The following is from the Steve Conn for DFT presidential campaign.

Urgent notice to all DFT Members:

The investigation of irregularities in the recent DFT election has begun. It appears that many DFT members’ votes were NOT counted. A recount is scheduled for this Wednesday, January 19, beginning 9:30 am. All DFT members have the right to observe. But there is also the issue of voter disenfranchisement — the refusal to

Last Stand for Children First: Congressman Jack Kimble on Martin Luther King and Education Reform

Last Stand for Children First: Congressman Jack Kimble on Martin Luther King and Education Reform

Congressman Jack Kimble on Martin Luther King and Education Reform

by Last Stand for Children

The details of Martin Luther King's assassination are lost to history. The where, when, and how may never be known, but that's not really important to the legacy of Dr. King. What's sad about his assassination is that by silencing his voice much to young, his assassin deprived future generations of hearing Martin Luther King's voice on the issues that are important to our generations.

It's hard to think back, but in the time of Martin Luther King racism was a serious problem in the Untied States. As a Republican who believed in equality for all, this was something that Dr. King could not abide. King spent his life on a crusade against the horrors of racism. The question remains though, in our world where racism has long been eradicated what would Martin Luther King focus his attentions on now.

We have to wonder how Martin Luther King would have reacted if faced with the public workers who serviced his Birmingham, Alabama home were protecting ineffective employees or calling a strike that stopped vital public

Modern School: Teachers Strike Over Job Cuts

Modern School: Teachers Strike Over Job Cuts

Teachers Strike Over Job Cuts

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In England, teachers have gone on strike at Rawmarsh Community School in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, over proposed job cuts. The school plans to cut 34 staff, including up to 20 teachers, in order to reduce a £1.3 million deficit. This would slash one-fourth of the teaching staff, as there are currently 80 teachers at the school.

Teacher strikes are rare n the U.S. Here, it is typical for teachers unions to take the simplistic and wimpy attitude that they should only fight over contractual issues. They will resist violations of their contracts, bad faith by admin during negotiations and, most of all, threats by admin to cut pay and benefits guaranteed by their contracts. But when admin starts handing out pink slips due to budget shortfalls, unions typically acquiesce, arguing to their members that it is admin’s right to do so under Ed Code (so long as seniority rights are protected).

This approach treats newer teachers like fodder, throwing them in front of the train as a buffer against job cuts for more senior teachers. However, it also undermines working conditions for

Zoe Weil: The World Becomes What You Teach (VIDEO) | Democratic, Community-Based Education

Zoe Weil: The World Becomes What You Teach (VIDEO) | Democratic, Community-Based Education

Zoe Weil: The World Becomes What You Teach (VIDEO)

by Democratic Education

The following talk was filmed at the TEDxDirigo, Maine’s first TEDx event. Zoe Weil is the president of theInstitute for Humane Education (IHE), which offers a distance-learning M.Ed. degree in humane education through an affiliation with Cambridge College. IHE also offers a Humane Education Certificate Program, workshops throughout the U.S. and Canada, and online courses. Zoe is the author of The Power and Promise of Humane Education, Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life, Above All, Be Kind, and Claude and Medea, the Moonbeam gold medal award winner for juvenile fiction, about kids

NYC Public School Parents: Mr. Kristof, Please Stop Idolizing China's Education System!

NYC Public School Parents: Mr. Kristof, Please Stop Idolizing China's Education System!

Mr. Kristof, Please Stop Idolizing China's Education System!

by Steve Koss

A week ago, Nicholas Kristof published a NY Times column in which he equated China's recent success in chess, embodied by a freakishly talented sixteen-year-old female named Hou Yifan, to success in its national education system. As if Bobby Fischer might have been a model for America's education system; Fischer's devolution into hermit-like irrationality and irrelevance is likely an analogue of the decline of American education in Mr. Kristof's rather confused world view. The notion that a three-sigma chess champion discovered (by her parents, not the education system) in a country of 1.3 billion people represents anything other than the laws of chance never seems to have occurred to our intrepid journalist, nor the fact that in China, the State immediately extracts three-sigma talents in any field from their standard educational system and shunts them into highly restricted, one-dimensional, "talent development" schools.

In his column published in this Sunday's New York Times, Nick Kristof seemed finally to have redeemed

Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"

Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. against the "triple evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism." Audio.

This speech was released by Black Forum records, a subsidiary of Motown, and went on to win a Grammy in 1970 for the Best Spoken Word Recording.

Excerpts of a Sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967.

Text of entire speech:
http://husseini.org/2007/01/martin-lu...

Real Audio file of entire speech:
http://www.africanbynature.com/Resour...

Martin Luther King. “…a far deeper malady within the American spirit.” « Fred Klonsky's blog

Martin Luther King. “…a far deeper malady within the American spirit.” « Fred Klonsky's blog

Martin Luther King. “…a far deeper malady within the American spirit.”

by Fred Klonsky

The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality, and if we ignore this sobering reality, we will find ourselves organizing “clergy and laymen concerned” committees for the next generation. They will be concerned about Guatemala and Peru. They will be concerned about Thailand

On MLK Day, Some Thoughts on Segregated Schools, Arne Duncan, and President Obama - Dana Goldstein

On MLK Day, Some Thoughts on Segregated Schools, Arne Duncan, and President Obama - Dana Goldstein

On MLK Day, Some Thoughts on Segregated Schools, Arne Duncan, and President Obama

American schools are more segregated by race and class today than they were on the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, 43 years ago. The average white child in America attends a school that is 77 percent white, and where just 32 percent of the student body lives in poverty. The average black child attends a school that is 59 percent poor but only 29 percent white. The typical Latino kid is similarly segregated; his school is 57 percent poor and 27 percent white.

Overall, a third of all black and Latino children sit every day in classrooms that are 90 to 100 percent black and Latino.

This is a sad state of affairs in a pluralistic society, and it is borne of two factors: 1) residential segregation and 2) purposeful drawing of school district boundaries to isolate middle class and white families from poor families of color. So it is absolutely a good thing that last Thursday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan wrote a letter chiding the Wake County, North Carolina school

New Posts on Parents 4 democratic Schools 1-17-11 Get Involved- Read Education News

New Posts on Parents 4 democratic Schools
Get Involved- Read Education News

Parents 4 democratic Schools

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Don’t Give Up on Public Schools – Lean On Me – No to Vouchers « Continuing Change

Don’t Give Up on Public Schools – Lean On Me – No to Vouchers « Continuing Change

Don’t Give Up on Public Schools – Lean On Me – No to Vouchers

January 17, 2011 by gatorbonbc

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Keep Our Public Schools Public

Please won’t you swallow your pride

tomhayden.com - Peace Exchange Bulletin - The Hidden Menace of Arizona

tomhayden.com - Peace Exchange Bulletin - The Hidden Menace of Arizona

The Hidden Menace of Arizona

TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2011 AT 2:47PM

Astronaut Mike Kelly holds the hand of his wife, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.An NBC reporter came to my home Monday night asking my opinion on the Arizona shootings crisis. Actually he wanted my response to conservative commentator Larry Elder who was blaming people on the Left, including myself, for the tragedy. Rush Limbaugh has added his considered view that the assassin, Jared Lee Loughner, has the full-support of the Democratic Party in his legal defense.

How unfortunate it is that right-wing media pundits are on the same page in deflecting all blame from themselves or their icons like Sarah Palin.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media tends to emphasize the theme that the shooter is a profoundly-disturbed individual with no connections to the Far Right. This perspective leads to an emphasis on proposed remedies such as toning down political speech and securing the Congress until gun control and better mental health services can kick in.

The most sophisticated conservative argument is by David Brooks in the New York Times. He blames the early commentary for literally suppressing evidence of mental illness in a

At what point do we stop ‘dreaming’ and start doing? « EducationCEO's Blog

At what point do we stop ‘dreaming’ and start doing? « EducationCEO's Blog

At what point do we stop ‘dreaming’ and start doing? Leave a comment

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.” 2 Timothy 1:7

As I was laying in bed listening to the Tom Joyner Morning Show’s tribute to Dr. King, I got that feeling again. I have always wondered what it would have been like to live during the Civil Rights Movement. Sometimes I even joke that I did and was reincarnated as the me I am today. I have always been a

little outspoken
smart-ass or loud-mouthed Yankee, as I was ‘affectionately’ called by some southerners when I first moved to Georgia. I would just smile and giggle on the inside because I knew they were jealous of my fearless and opinionated nature. They were not raised to have the same level of self-confidence and strong moral compass as I, but I did not blame them for that. So anywho, I got to thinking last night as I scrolled through my Twitter timeline. Several

Without aid, DPS may close half of its schools | detnews.com | The Detroit News

Without aid, DPS may close half of its schools | detnews.com | The Detroit News

Without aid, DPS may close half of its schools

Class sizes also would swell under proposal filed with the state

Jennifer Chambers / The Detroit News

Detroit — Detroit Public Schools would close nearly half of its schools in the next two years, and increase high school class sizes to 62 by the following year, under a deficit-reduction plan filed with the state.

The plan, part of a monthly update Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb gives the Department of Education, was filed late Monday to provide insight into Bobb's progress in his attempt to slash a $327 million deficit in the district to zero over the next several years. Under it, the district would slim down from 142 schools now to 72 during 2012-13.

Bobb has said school closures, bigger classes and other measures would be needed if he cannot get help from lawmakers to restructure finances in the state's largest school district.

DPS considered but declined to file for bankruptcy in 2009. In the past year, debt in the district has increased by more than $100 million, brought on by a mix of revenue declines in property taxes, reduced state aid,

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110112/SCHOOLS/101120356/Without-aid--DPS-may-close-half-of-its-schools#ixzz1BJ6uld00

Remembering King’s Reality « Outside the Cave

Remembering King’s Reality « Outside the Cave

Remembering King’s Reality

by Stephen Lazar

MLK Memorial in San Francisco by Troy Holden

When I was 19 or 20, I traveled to San Francisco for the first time, and happened to stumble upon the memorial there to Dr. King in the Yerba Buena Gardens. Built around the imagery of “justice run[ning] down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream,” I was most startled by its use of quotes revealing a much more radical side of King than the one all too often frozen in time on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial. The San Francisco memorial challenges and problematizes the sanitized version of Dr. King that will be repeated and