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NEA Standing Strong #NEARA11

NEA Standing Strong #NEARA11

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NEA - Day of Learning

nea.org - Pre-Conference Learning Opportunities at the 2011 NEA Annual Meeting July 1, 2011 – Chicago, Illinois McCormick Place Convention Center Registration (NEA Members Only) RA Delegates and other NEA M...

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NEA - Travel, Transportation and Lodging

nea.org - Airline Discounts Take an additional 2%–7% percent off restricted airline fares to Chicago, Il by using the airline codes listed below, when you purchase your airline ticket at least 30 days prior ...

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Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly (RA)

nea.org - NEA Standing Strong:for our Students, our Schools, and America Chicago, Illinois — June 30 - July 5, 2011Key Events NEA Film Series (July 30, 2011, 10:00 am - 5:30 pm) Offers delegates the opportun...

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Fun Facts About Chicago | Explore Chicago

explorechicago.org - Chicago is the third largest city in the United States, with a population of nearly three million people. Its scenic lakeside location, world-class cultural offerings and unique architecture are ...

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NJEA.org - ‘Nothing short of unconscionable’

njea.org - As controversial pension and benefit legislation heads for final passage in the New Jersey Legislature, retirees face crippling cuts to their pensions in their remaining years, according to an NJEA...

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Education Votes

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educationvotes.nea.org - Posted in: Polls by treed [editor] | June 19, 2011 | Discuss 0 Tags: education, educators, higher education, poll, summer, vacation The school year is wrapping up across the country, and now we’d l...

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      The Selling of the World: Privatization Schemes Proliferate | FDL News Desk

      The Selling of the World: Privatization Schemes Proliferate | FDL News Desk

      The Selling of the World: Privatization Schemes Proliferate

      by David Dayen

      Selling the family silver (photo: Jenica26)

      One of the more revealing elements of the Greek bailout discussions is not that the IMF and European finance ministers want another round of austerity from Greece before providing funding, and not even that banks are being urged to take haircuts or engage in restructuring to accommodate the Greeks. It’s that other element – privatization of state assets – that is the tell here. This is the real extraction from the Greeks, the real shock doctrine scheme at work here. Greece essentially must sell the family silver – their ports, their state-run water supply systems, their utility company, their telephone company – to get out of the mess created largely by the financial crisis and the Great Recession. This deal was already done back in May, and clearly was the most important piece of the puzzle for Greek creditors.

      Prime Minister George Papandreou announced an immediate sale of state assets on Monday evening, including its shares in the telecom operator OTE and the ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki.

      Following a cabinet meeting, Papandreou announced 1.6 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in savings along

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      SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Highlights from the Rebuild the Dream Launch - June 23 in NYC

      SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Highlights from the Rebuild the Dream Launch - June 23 in NYC

      Highlights from the Rebuild the Dream Launch - June 23 in NYC

      POSTED BY DUANE CAMPBELL AT 3:41 PM
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      Yo Dude: Regarding your vote today

      Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
      Dear Legislator:

      The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) recognizes that taxpayer funded cyber charter schools and bricks and mortar charter schools in Pennsylvania are here to stay.  However, at the outset, charter schools were meant to be temporary laboratories for the development of best approaches for the interest of our children in our public schools.

      Today the legislature will take up legislation with amendments expanding charter schools and creating vouchers. The PFT hopes the General Assembly will not allow a last minute slam dunk of taxpayer funded vouchers, cyber charter and charter school legislation on such critical issues. This massive piece of legislation must be allowed the public committee hearing process so that it can be fully analyzed and reviewed by parents, teachers and the public.

      The issues involved are far too significant to our children's future to rush through a piece of legislation that jeopardizes a foundation of our democracy at one of its core issues . . . that is the right of all of our children to a public education. Allowing billions of dollars of taxpayer money to be directed into the hands of a handful charter schools and their essentially unregulated vendors, at the expense of our most vulnerable, we believe to be unconscionable.

      In any proposed legislation, the PFT does support local school districts having the exclusive right to grant and renew charters and to assure that per pupil school district reimbursements to charter schools and cyber charter schools is based solely upon the actual cost of charter or cyber charter school education or the actual school district per pupil expenditure, or whichever is less. It supports charter school operator and vendor transparency, accountability, and relationship based limitations on contracting with charter schools by elected officials, charter school employees, charter school and other public school board members and their immediate families.

      The PFT opposes further taxpayer funded charter and cyber charter school expansion and/or liberalization of charter issuance standards and oversight of taxpayer financed charter and cyber charter schools and charter school operators and vendors. It opposes state issuance of local taxpayer funded charter approvals and associated unfunded local taxpayer mandates without local school district and local taxpayer oversight and authorization. And, it opposes state mandated diversion of local taxpayer funds from schools, school districts and our children to local taxpayer funded charter and cyber charter schools and the charter vendors who consistently put their desire for profit at the expense of local taxpayers ahead of the needs of the affected students and the other public schools.

      We look forward to working with the General Assembly to provide a reasonable solution and course for all children in Pennsylvania . . . one that protects and fosters a quality education and opportunity for a future for all and assures that the state does not impose its will or that of a small handful of charter school profiteers, on the taxpayers living and working in your district.

      Please vote no on final passage of any bill amended during the budget with voucher or charter school language.

      Sincerely,
      Jerry Jordan, President
      Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
      About the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
      The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) offers its 16,000 members professional development and training to promote the use of research-based programs proven to raise student achievement.  The PFT is committed to providing Philadelphia's children with the highest quality education possible.  We are leading the fight to reduce class sizes, expand early childhood education, use proven education programs, make schools safer and offer resources and support for teachers, staff and students.  The PFT wants what parents want and children need.


      Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
      1816 Chestnut Street
      Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
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      4LAKids Educated Guess: FEW STATE RULES FOR TRANSITION K + MESS WITH PROP 98, DO NOT PASS GO

      4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Educated Guess: FEW STATE RULES FOR TRANSITION K + MESS WITH PROP 98, DO NOT PASS GO

      Educated Guess: FEW STATE RULES FOR TRANSITION K + MESS WITH PROP 98, DO NOT PASS GO

      by smf
      FEW STATE RULES FOR TRANSITION K: Light touch from Sacramento on new program By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess | http://bit.ly/lNCCKF 6/24/11 • School districts that have complained for years that Sacramento attaches too many strings to new state programs should be pleased with transitional kindergarten, the new program for “old” 4-year-olds that districts must offer, starting the fall of
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      Do We Respect Seattle Teachers? | Seattle Education

      Do We Respect Seattle Teachers? | Seattle Education

      Do We Respect Seattle Teachers?

      by Kristin

      Seattle’s public schools sure have been through a lot in the 2010-2011 school year. On top of the multimillion dollar scandals and the firing of superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson, we saw funding cuts from the legislature that has decimated our classroom teachers and classroom supports and caused serious overcrowding at Garfield High School and other schools, which meant that some students had to go without teachers or classrooms for part of the year. At Lowell, overcrowding has brought a need for more classrooms, and I have heard that the district plans to take away space developmental preschool and toileting facilities.

      But something else is happening that many parents may not realize: above and beyond funding problems, teachers are being hit hard with a loss of respect. One culprit is the movie Waiting for Superman, which in highlighting “bad teachers” has brought widespread disrespect to all teachers, in every school, regardless of quality.

      This hit home hard to me recently at a party. I was deep in conversation with a middle school teacher who has been working 60-80 hour work weeks all year. Somebody came into the room, heard the word “teaching,” and launched into a discussion about the movie Waiting for Superman and this problem of “bad teachers.” I stuck up

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      Not Going To ISTE? - Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas

      Not Going To ISTE? - Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas

      Not Going To ISTE?

      by Peter Pappas

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      Feeling left out (like me) that you're not going to ISTE 2011?
      Tell us how you will fill the void.

      Tweet out your grief at #isteless You are not alone ...

      image flickr/mohammadali

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      Is this as scary as it looks? DR: Senate passes bill allowing corporate sponsorship of charter schools in exchange for student slots, board seats

      Senate passes bill allowing corporate sponsorship of charter schools in exchange for student slots, board seats | NOLA.com

      Senate passes bill allowing corporate sponsorship of charter schools in exchange for student slots, board seats

      Published: Monday, June 20, 2011, 12:30 PM Updated: Monday, June 20, 2011, 12:53 PM
      Bill Barrow, The Times-Picayune By Bill Barrow, The Times-Picayune

      BATON ROUGE -- Over the objections of some public school advocates, the Louisiana Senate voted22-16 Monday to allow corporations to sponsor charter schools in exchange for controlling up to half of the enrollment slots and half of the governing board seats.

      Rep. Steve Carter.jpgFile photoRep. Steve Carter

      House Bill 421 by Rep. Steve Carter, R-Baton Rouge, must return to the House, where the lower chamber is expected to approve only minor changes and send the bill on to Gov. Bobby Jindal, who announced his support for the measure in January. The House approved the bill 72-23earlier in the session.

      Chambers of commerce and other business lobbies pitched the bill as another incentive for business to come to Louisiana.

      "This new business-charter school partnership legislation will help feed the pipeline of qualified workers for Louisiana businesses while creating important career opportunities for students," the governor said in a speech to business leaders earlier this year.

      During floor debate, Sen. Julie Quinn, R-Metairie, called the bill "another tool in the toolbox" both for economic development and expanding educational opportunities,

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