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Wis. judge halts implementation of bargaining law

sfgate.com - Michael P. King / AP Wisconsin Secretary of State Doug La Follette listens to Assistant Attorney General Maria Lazar make her opening arguments at a hearing in front of Dane County Circuit Judge Ma...

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Judge bars further implementation of collective bargaining law, threatens sanctions

defendwisconsin.org - If it wasn’t clear last time, Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi made it clear on Tuesday: Any further implementation of Gov. Scott Walker’s law limiting public employee unions is barred, and a...

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Janesville Turns out to protest Gov. Walker event with no opposition.

democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - From Rock Netroots, out of Janesville, comes this great coverage showing middle class workers protesting Scott Walker's Holiday Inn Dinner Party and Union Roast.John Nichols from The Nation/CapTime...

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Republican lawmakers break ranks on Walker budget | Wausau Daily Herald

wausaudailyherald.com - MADISON— Republicans broke from their party allegiance to Gov. Scott Walker in the first briefing on his budget plan Tuesday, joining Democrats in questioning the governor’s decisions to cut money ...

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Wisconsin Union Law Fight Heads To Court

huffingtonpost.com - MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's administration insists a new law eliminating most collective bargaining rights for state employees has gone into effect. Other state and municipal lead...

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Sen. Fitzgerald leaned on bureau staffers to publish law, testimony suggests

defendwisconsin.org - Three visibly uncomfortable staffers of the Legislative Reference Bureau, including the bureau director, testified Tuesday about what appears to be a pivotal, early morning meeting with Senate Majo...

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With friends of the court like these, who needs enemies?

uppitywis.org - There's a huge lump of dumb in the Wisconsin Department of Justice's appeal of Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi's restraint order against publication of the Walker administration's union-bust...

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Big Education Ape: 3-29-11 Special PM #wiunion Edition #notmywi #p2 #p2b #topprog

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Dane County Judge Sumi Might Have Asked “Can You Hear Me Now?” « CAFFEINATED POLITICS

dekerivers.wordpress.com - There really could be no doubt in anyone’s mind, even those brave people in Governor Walker’s administration that would only communicate to the press via telephone, that the collective bargaining l...

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T-Shirt Protests: Wisconsin Capitol protestors target sign and location rules

defendwisconsin.org - Hundreds of protesters came out to show support — the biggest rally inside in perhaps a week. Many of them held signs and wore white T-shirts, themselves protest signs, that read on the back, “Rise...

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You be the judge of PolitiFact

uppitywis.org - PolitiFacy says Greater Wisconsin ad on David Prosser and the pedophile priest is barely true. I daresay that anyone who reads the PolitiFact narrative and analysis will reach a different conclusio...

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Chief of peace: During protests at Capitol, Charles Tubbs emerged as force for calm

defendwisconsin.org - Tubbs’ calm, even paternal presence proved crucial to protecting people’s safety at the Capitol, Wray said. “With Chief Tubbs, what you see is what you get,” he added. “He is not flipping a switch ...

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Judge Sumi warns Administration they Risk Sanctions, Jeopardize Finacial Stability of State.

democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - Despite the desperate measures undertaken by the Walker administration and angry Jeff Fitzgerald to rollback collective bargaining, a conservative judge is having to resort to legal threats of san...

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Today's Teamster News 03.30.11

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Wisconsin Judge Halts Further Implementation Of Union Law Associated Press ...it remained unclear when or even whether the measure would take effect...Layoff notices to Teamsters rescinded Mani...

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Scott Fitzgerald’s rabid plea for campaign money to fight… “raging mobs of union protesters…worked into a frenzy!!!”

democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - Anyone who’s been to the month long protests, or attended a rally anywhere in the state, knows how bizarre the right wingnut claims of thuggery and vandalism are about the citizens movement to prot...

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Wisconsin Officials Implementing Anti-Union Law, Ignoring Court Order

news.firedoglake.com - It’s been really incredible to watch the situation in Wisconsin over the past few days, because it’s taking on the cast of a banana republic. The Secretary of State has authority over publication o...

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‘Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.’

ieanea.org - Jim Broadway is a 30-year veteran of the Illinois Statehouse and a reporter, lobbyist and, most recently, as publisher of the education policy newsletter State School News Service (SSNS). The newsl...

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Indiana Dep. Prosecutor Suggests Fake Shooting to Discredit Unions

modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/03/indiana-dep-prosecutor-suggests-fake.html"; Indiana Deputy Prosecutor Carlos F. Lam suggested to Wisconsin Gov. Rick Scott that he use provocat...

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The Kochs Are Coming « Larry Miller's Blog

millermps.wordpress.com - by: Jim Hightower, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed Thursday 03 February 2011 Rancho Mirage, California – The multibillionaire Koch brothers are used to running their nefarious network of political front gr...

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Walker: self-annointed bold one | Uppity Wisconsin

uppitywis.org - The New York Times recently declined to run an Op Ed column submitted by Scott Walker, so instead he's posted it on the official governor's web site (and the URL is below, in case you want to wade ...

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Appeals Court to Attorney General Van Hollen: NO

bluecheddar.wordpress.com - by bluecheddar Every moment when one of Walker’s crew is told “no” is a happy one for me. Today State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen was told, to my understanding: - the Wisconsin Court of Appeal...

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Recall Momentum | Defend Wisconsin

defendwisconsin.org - Inspiring ad about the recall campaign efforts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQlQWgnMSD0

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GOP should debate Cronon on merits of his arguments

defendwisconsin.org - If Stephan Thompson and the Wisconsin GOP disagree with any of Cronon’s articles or writings, I propose that they publicly engage with him on the merits of the case. If they believe his history, da...

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Republican lawmakers break ranks on Walker budget

defendwisconsin.org - Republicans broke from their party allegiance to Gov. Scott Walker in the first briefing on his budget plan Tuesday, joining Democrats in questioning the governor’s decisions to cut money for recyc...

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The Conservative Chaos Party? It's only been a few months...how much worse can it get?

democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - This is what Big Government Republican Rule looks like…god help us all.Just how chaotic is our state in right now, and how big a mess have the Republican legislature and governor made attacking mid...

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Judge Halts Implementation Of Collective Bargaining Law - Politics News Story

wisn.com - POSTED: 9:23 am CDT March 29, 2011UPDATED: 5:35 pm CDT March 29, 2011MADISON, Wis. -- A Wisconsin judge has ruled that there should be no further implementation of a law taking away nearly all coll...

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Wisconsin Judge AGAIN Blocks Anti-Union Law | FDL News Desk #wearewi #wiunion

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Wisconsin Judge AGAIN Blocks Anti-Union Law | FDL News DeskWisconsin Judge AGAIN Blocks Anti-Union LawBy: David Dayen Tuesday March 29, 2011 3:46 pmTweet Share We all know how this turned out the ...

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Ravitch: Why merit pay for teachers doesn’t work- The Washington Post

The Answer Sheet - A School Survival Guide for parents (and everyone else). - The Washington Post

Ravitch: Why merit pay for teachers doesn’t work

By Valerie Strauss

This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Deborah Meier on the Education Week website. Ravitch and Meier exchange letters about what matters most in education. Ravitch, a research professor at New York University, is the author of the bestselling “The Death and Life of the Great American School System,” an important critique of the flaws in the modern school reform movement.

Dear Deborah,

Teacher merit pay is one of the hot “new” ideas of the moment. It has the wholehearted support of the Obama administration, which made it

The Best Posts & Articles To Learn About “Fundamental Attribution Error” & Schools | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

The Best Posts & Articles To Learn About “Fundamental Attribution Error” & Schools I had vaguely heard of the concept “fundamental attribution error” in relation to schools in the past, but then my valued Accomplished California Teachers colleague David B. Cohen wrote about it yesterday (by the way, if you are not subscribing to ...

“Fakebook” Fakebook is the newest tool over at the excellent ClassTools site (Russel Tarr is the creative genius behind the site). Teachers and students can use it to: *- chart the career of a historical character - create a timeline of important events - ...

The Best (& Easiest) Ways To Record Online Video Interviews I’ve been thinking about doing online video interviews — for this blog, and also in the classroom. For either one, it would be important to be able to record them. Obviously, Skype (learn about Skype In The Classroom here) is an obvious choice. ...

The Best Online Virtual “Corkboards” (or “Bulletin Boards”) Wallwisher was the first online application that let you easily place virtual post-it notes on a virtual corkboard or bulletin board, and allow you to post text, images, and/or videos on them. This kinds of apps have many uses. I particularly like ...

Today’s Collection Of Useful School Reform Posts & Articles Here is a “round-up” of the latest useful school reform posts and articles: Choice schools not outperforming MPS is the headline of a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning Why School Vouchers Are A Bad ...

Formative Assessment Resources Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources For Learning About Formative Assessment: How to Look at Multiple-Choice Assessments Formatively by Heather Wolpert-Gawron at Edutopia. One Test to Rule Them All is by Jason Buell.

Three Good Questions For Teachers To Ask Themselves (& Answer Them Here If You Feel Like It) We ninth-grade English teachers had another great day of professional development with our school’s instructional consultant, Kelly Young at Pebble Creek Labs. He started off the day asking us three questions: *What have you gotten better at this ...

Memidex Is A Great Dictionary…And More! Memidex is a very impressive dictionary, and a lot more. Jim Burke just shared it on Twitter. It tells you just about anything you want about a word. I particularly like its word origins. I don’t think it’s particularly useful for English Language ...

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Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) claims he is struggling with $174K salary WATCH ON BLIPTV:

The Examiner: Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) claims he is struggling with $174K salary *March 29, 2011- *United States Representative Sean Duffy (R-WI) told a constituent that he was struggling to get by on his $174,000 salary while in Congress, but still claimed that all public employees, including himself, take a pay cut. Duffy made ...

Minneapolis Star Tribune: Rich are getting richer? Exactly right There's a noisy band of American inequality deniers who are trying to convince us otherwise. *March 29, 2011-* Steven Cunningham ("The rich are getting richer -- right?" March 25) tells us that the rich in America aren't getting richer. To ...

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Judge again blocks GOP collective-bargaining plan But Van Hollen assistant says law is in effect *March 29, 2011-* For the second time in less than two weeks, a Dane County judge Tuesday issued an order blocking the implementation of Gov. Scott Walker's plan to curb collective bargaining for public ...

Washington Post: Wisconsin judge halts state from moving forward on law stripping collective bargaining rights *March 29, 2011-* The showdown over Wisconsin’s explosive union bargaining law shifted from the Statehouse back to the courthouse on Tuesday, but it remained unclear when or even whether the measure would take effect. Republican lawmakers pushed ...

Rachel Maddow: GOP Brings Unpopular Anti-Labor Ideas to Federal Level WATCH ON MSNBC:

AlterNet: Koch-Backed Right-Wing Group Goes After More Professors, Asking for Emails on Unions and ... Rachel Maddow? *March 29, 2011-* Union busters have long relied on scare tactics to boost anti-worker legislation -- fear, threats and intimidation are standard fare for politicians trying to weaken labor laws, and can be effective if they're holding, say, your ...

The Nation: Fitzwalkerstan's Attorney General Decides the Law Does Not Apply to Republicans *March 29, 2011-* Never let it be said that Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, the most rigid partisan ever to hold the state’s top law-enforcement position, does not take care of his own. Van Hollen is the latest official to reject the rule ...

AlterNet: The GOP's Absurd Plan for the Economy: Lowering YOUR Wages *The GOP is embracing some very dangerous voodoo economics.* *March 28, 2011-* Earlier this month, House Republicans laid out a perverse plan to lower working Americans' wages, supposedly in a bid to get employers to hire more of them (PDF). One ...

LaCrosse Tribune: Our view: Fitzgerald shows why openness matters *March 29, 2011-* “It’s my opinion it’s published, it’s on the legislative website, it’s law.” — Scott Fitzgerald, Republic majority leader, Wisconsin Senate There you have it. Wisconsin is no longer ruled as a state of laws but as a state of ...

Think Progress: EXCLUSIVE: DeMint Tells ThinkProgress He Wants To Strip All Federal Employees Of Collective Bargaining Rights*ThinkProgress filed this report from the Conservative Principles Conference in Des Moines, IA.* *March 28, 2011-* The defining political story three months into 2011 is the spread of anti-union legislation in the states. Now, a leading senator on ...

Cenk Uygur: UK Faces Its Own Budget Battle WATCH ON MSNBC:

Florida Sun Sentinel: Gov. Scott's drug testing order makes little fiscal or policy sense *March 28, 2011-* It never bodes well when a new boss comes in and immediately institutes a sweeping, potentially costly initiative that at its heart speaks of an underlying distrust of the employees he is now leading. Such is the case with Gov. Rick ...

Twin Cities Daily Planet: No jobs bill, but more than 50 anti-worker bills introduced by GOP in Minnesota state legislature *March 29, 2011-* As the Labor Review went to press, the Minnesota state legislature faced a March 25 deadline for action on major appropriation and finance bills. Members of the new Republican majorities in the Minnesota House and Senate ran in the ...

The Young Turks: Massive Education Cuts In Pennsylvania WATCH ON YOUTUBE:

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Poor schools take biggest budget hit *March 27, 2011-* Under other circumstances, officials of the Clairton City School District would be joyful over being ranked fourth out of 500 school districts in the state. But the recent list that gave the district that designation is one that ...

Washington Independent: FreedomWorks heads to Pennsylvania where groups hopes to quash unions *March 28, 2011-* Breaking away from their fiscal policy roots, tea party groups lately have been sinking their hooks into all matters of American policy, from collective bargaining rights to education. On Tuesday, a number of tea party organizations ...

Ed Schultz: Robert Greenwald Discusses Film Koch Brothers Exposed WATCH ON YOUTUBE:

California schools move closer to doomsday | Thoughts on Public Education

California schools move closer to doomsday
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Uncertainty looms as talks end on tax extension

Posted on 3/30/11 • Categorized as Uncategorized

By Kathryn Baron

On Tuesday Gov. Jerry Brown called off negotiations with Republican lawmakers that were aimed at putting the tax extension up for a statewide vote in June. This move pretty much crushes any chances of sparing public schools from even deeper cuts for the next school year.

“Each and every Republican legislator I’ve spoken to believes that voters should not have this right to vote unless I agree to an ever changing list of collateral demands,” Brown said in astatement posted on his website. Those demands were included in a nearly five-page listpresented to Brown by Republican leaders and published by the Los Angeles Times. Brown

School Tech Connect: Caterpillar and Corporate Greed

Caterpillar and Corporate Greed

by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)

Can we just draft this Mike Jacobs (D-Moline) for governor? I like the way this guy just tells it like it is in this Statehouse News piece:

"We've spent hundreds of millions of dollars, federal dollars, to put brand new roads into Peoria," Jacobs said. "And the emphasis behind a lot of those roads was to make sure that Caterpillar could get their equipment in and out. And now that we've spent that money, Caterpillar is saying 'Yeah, we're making record profits, but we want more."

If you're one of my international visitors (ahem..), you may not know that one of our large, flush-with-cash

NYC Educator: Bronx Cobra Tells All

Bronx Cobra Tells All

by NYC Educator

Look, don't believe all this nonsense about me on Twitter. Really, have you ever heard of a snake who could tweet? It's absurd. I yam what I yam, like Popeye, and you won't see me writing cutesy nonsense on some iPhone gadget.

The truth is the Mayor came by, and who would've thought he was aParselmouth? But there it was, and once he explained his problems, I could see he'd been misled. I mean, here's this guy trying to fire teachers who make too much money so he could have the newbies take their place, and he's saying it's a budget thing, that if he gets so much he has to fire so many, yadda yadda yadda, and other such unbelievable nonsense.

Education’s Dirty Little Secret « My Island View

Education’s Dirty Little Secret

by tomwhitby

Let’s talk about prejudice in education. I am not talking about race, religion, or sexual preference prejudice. I am going to discuss a prejudice that I believe is prevalent throughout our educational system. Of course it will be denied by most educators, but that is a tell-tale symptom of prejudice. Most people will not admit to it. They may recognize it in others, but they will never admit their own engagement in this biased philosophy. I have no idea where this prejudice starts, or how it is driven, but its existence is undeniable. No, not every educator is prejudiced in this regard, but many, too many, are.

The prejudice to which I refer is that of grade level. Many educators look to other levels of education attributing expectations or disappointments based on nothing more than unfounded misconceptions and believing it to be truth. Let’s at least state the myths, and misconceptions to get them out in the open. Elementary teachers tell

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