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Billionaire Education Policy (Guest Post)

eduoptimists.blogspot.com - The following is a guest posting by my colleague and friend Robin Rogers, associate professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). She i...

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Some New York City Scores Drop in U.S. Student Tests

nytimes.com - New York City students scored slightly lower on federal math tests this year compared with 2009, according to scores released Wednesday morning, even as scores of their counterparts in other big ci...

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School Tech Connect: Chicago's Miracle Workers

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Pre-Occupy Wall Street « Cooperative Catalyst

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TENTATIVE LAUSD/UTLA AGREEMENT IS A DISASTER Part 2TENTATIVA LAUSD / UTLA acuerdo es una DESASTRE Parte 2 - Perdaily.com

TENTATIVE LAUSD/UTLA AGREEMENT IS A DISASTER Part 2TENTATIVA LAUSD / UTLA acuerdo es una DESASTRE Parte 2 - Perdaily.com:

TENTATIVE LAUSD/UTLA AGREEMENT IS A DISASTER Part 2TENTATIVA LAUSD / UTLA acuerdo es una DESASTRE Parte 2

by Leonard Isenberg
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(Mensaje se repite en Español) (For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)

Probably the greatest irony of purposefully failed public education at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) - with the active longstanding complicity of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) leadership - is the complete lack of imagination exhibited by these two entities in carrying on self-serving business as usual to the ongoing determent of predominantly Latino and Black students who have been and continue to be sold short on the public education that is their right. A testament to just how long this pernicious system has been in place is that most educators - whatever their ethnicity - have no real expectation that minority children can learn.

In an old television police show, the intro would always say, "The names have been changed to protect the innocent." At LAUSD, the names of their latest "education reform" scam are always
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Principals union chief lambastes city’s school closure strategy | GothamSchools

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Principals union chief lambastes city’s school closure strategy

by , at 5:08 pm

Among the press releases that went flying after the city announced its first set of school closures earlier today, the one from principals union president Ernest Logan stood out for its stridency.

In a statement the length of a short essay, Logan decried school closures as “a losing strategy” that traumatizes needy students, shuts out educators, and prevents scrutiny of the city’s reform efforts. Adding eight months to mayoral control’s age, he said twice that the Bloomberg administration has had a decade to fix all schools but has not.

Nine of the 15 schools whose closures or truncations were announced today have opened since Mayor Bloomberg took control of the schools; one replaced a failing elementary school just three years ago. Logan

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Parents Gather from Across NYC to Protest Rapid, Unregulated Expansion of Politically Connected Success Charter Network « EdVox

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Parents Gather from Across NYC to Protest Rapid, Unregulated Expansion of Politically Connected Success Charter Network

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Karen Sprowal, speaks about how her child with special-needs child was pushed out of HSA

Communities, education advocates, including AQE, charge DOE looking out for well-connected CEO, not students; cite excessive public resources going to Network schools, charter group’s record of excluding special needs and English Language Learners

Parents and education advocates from across New York City protested today outside the Success Charter Network headquarters in West Harlem. They protested and spoke out against what they say is the rapid, unregulated expansion of the politically connected Success Charter Network into traditional public school buildings—a growth far out-pacing other charter school organizations that has led to contentious school sitings

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Investing in Great Teachers - A Union Leads the Way | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights

Investing in Great Teachers - A Union Leads the Way | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights:

Investing in Great Teachers - A Union Leads the Way

by Cheryl S. Williams

Today the largest teachers’ union in the US, the National Education Association (NEA), announced an action plan to strengthen the teaching profession and invest in the development of teacher leaders whose advocacy for and support of effective classroom practitioners will result in improved student learning and stronger public schools. The recommendations made today are based on the work of an independent Commission on Effective Teachers and Teachingmade up of accomplished teachers and educational leaders that looked at best practices from effective teachers across the

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Illinois tax breaks for giant corporations. What happened to “Illinois is broke?” Tell ‘em no. « Fred Klonsky

Illinois tax breaks for giant corporations. What happened to “Illinois is broke?” Tell ‘em no. « Fred Klonsky:

Illinois tax breaks for giant corporations. What happened to “Illinois is broke?” Tell ‘em no.

by Fred Klonsky

Grassroots opposition is building to the Emanuel-Madigan plan to give tax breaks to the Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Sears.

A vote in the House is expected Monday.

The SEIU website, Progress Illinois reports:

The growing protests against corporate tax break legislation in Springfield are clearly taking place in the context of a larger issue: a national movement against

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Support PURE! » Former principal steps up to the plate

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Former principal steps up to the plate

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My PSAT homage to principals this week was not misplaced. Retired Simeon Principal Ned McCray sent me a couple of excellent essays which, with his permission, I’m proud to share here. The one today concerns the unfair resource gap between charter schools and the rest of the system.
I recognized Mr. McCray’s name from his letters to the editor – this one was actually published this past May in the Tribune.
Wouldn’t it be great if other retired principals joined him in speaking out?
CHARTER SCHOOLS-- THE UNTOLD STORY
by Ned L. McCray, retired principal, Simeon High School, Chicago
The proliferation of charter schools and other selective enrollment schools in urban areas of the country has created a dilemma for society. On the one hand, they provide for the aspirations of the middle class and those who aspire to the middle class, for exclusiveness, selectivity and privilege, and on the other hand create a brain-drain on the schools that remain.
Public school systems throughout the country are being eroded and decimated by this development. The very system that produced past generations of Americans who made this great country prosperous, is being deprived of scarce



Charter best practices – this is new?

by admin
In yesterday’s coverage of the next Gates-funded must-have program, here’s the example that was given of a “best practice” of a charter school that should be shared with neighborhood schools:
“CPS officials… are taking a look at the Noble Street Charter School‘s leadership development program that identifies, recruits and trains homegrown talent for principal posts within the network.”
Wow. What a ground-breaking idea.
Except that when LSCs do that – when, for example, they select their current assistant principal to step up to the principalship – they have been criticized.
For example, a 2008 report funded by (oh, yes) the Gates Foundation says this about LSC hiring from within:
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Sac City trustee: Take West Campus High's swap off the table -| Sacramento Bee

Sac City trustee: Take West Campus High's swap off the table - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee:

Sac City trustee: Take West Campus High's swap off the table

By Melody Gutierrez
mgutierrez@sacbee.com
Published: Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011 - 12:18 pm

A controversial proposal to co-locate West Campus High School at Sacramento Charter High or swap their campuses could be scrapped at tonight's school board meeting.

Patrick Kennedy, vice president of the Sacramento City Unified School District school board, said it has become clear that the proposal is not what the community wants or needs.

Kennedy said he still wants to have talks with the charter school's operator, St. HOPE, about how to best utilized the Sacramento High facility.

"But, clearly, West Campus isn't apart of that solution," Kennedy said this morning.



Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/08/4109567/sac-city-trustee-take-west-campus.html#ixzz1fyse7rEt
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In Post-Rhee DC, Achievement Gaps Remain Staggeringly Wide | The Nation

In Post-Rhee DC, Achievement Gaps Remain Staggeringly Wide | The Nation:

In Post-Rhee DC, Achievement Gaps Remain Staggeringly Wide

Dana Goldstein on December 8, 2011 - 1:29pm ET

On Sunday, the New York Times published an op-ed critical of school choice policies in Washington, D.C. As Matt Yglesias very fairly pointed out, the author, Natalie Hopkinson, failed to cite student achievement data to back her claim that residential segregation and the expansion of the charter school sector have left many D.C. families with only "mediocre" public school options. Thankfully, on Wednesday the federal government dumped a mass of new NAEP test score data from the nation's largest cities, including D.C. NAEP, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, is the gold-standard in education research: the only exam overseen by the federal government and adminstered to a random selection of schoolchildren annually, with no rewards or punishments attached to corrupt the scores.

I spent this morning diving into the new NAEP numbers in an effort to paint a more complete picture of student achievement in D.C. over the past decade, which included the three tumultous years of Michelle Rhee's chancellorship. While white, black, and Hispanic children all made modest test score gains in D.C. since 2003, the Rhee agenda has not significantly narrowed achievement gaps between the various demographic groups, nor has it brought disadvantaged D.C. youth up to the national average scores for

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