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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Shame on NPR – Never Underestimate The Power of Parents – National Resolution on High Stakes Testing « Continuing Change

Shame on NPR – Never Underestimate The Power of Parents – National Resolution on High Stakes Testing « Continuing Change:


Shame on NPR – Never Underestimate The Power of Parents – National Resolution on High Stakes Testing

by gatorbonbc


Response to article entitled, “Five Reasons the Anti-FCAT Resolutions Won’t Work” printed in NPR publication :
In my opinion, the premise of the writer’s opinion is flawed. The National Resolution on High Stakes Testing, written by parent organizations and endorsed by hundreds of counties across the nation, is not an anti FCAT resolution. It is a proactive resolution on the entire high stakes testing culture. It is proactive as it encourages parents to make their opinions known. Parents standing resolved 
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Warren: ‘No, Mitt, corporations are not people. Learn the difference.’ | The Raw Story

Warren: ‘No, Mitt, corporations are not people. Learn the difference.’ | The Raw Story:


Warren: ‘No, Mitt, corporations are not people. Learn the difference.’

By David Ferguson
Saturday, June 9, 2012 12:19 EDT
Elizabeth Warren addresses labor leaders
 
In her keynote address on Friday to the Netroots Nation 2012 conference in Providence, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Democratic candidate for Senate Elizabeth Warren enlarged upon her themes of economic fairness and took aim not just at the Republican she’s running against, Senator Scott Brown (R-MA), but the Republican candidate for president, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R).
“No, Mitt, corporations are not people,” she said. “People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they love, they cry, they dance, they live and they die. Learn the difference.”
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Stand for Children, Chicago Public Schools and the teachers union | Seattle Education

Stand for Children, Chicago Public Schools and the teachers union | Seattle Education:


Stand for Children, Chicago Public Schools and the teachers union

by seattleducation2011


More and more people are beginning to see the correlation between the agenda of Stand for Children and the push for the privatization of our public school systems as is taking place in the state of Washington.
To follow is an article A Long Time Comin’: Chicago Teachers Strike Authorization Vote Begins Today posted in Gapers Block that brings it together:
By Ramsin Canon
Beginning today, over 20,000 Chicago teachers will vote on whether or not to authorize their bargaining committee to call for a strike should negotiations with the Board of Education over new contract terms fail. For authorization, 75% of non-retiree union members would need to approve. The voting takes place over three days. This high threshold is the result of legislation passed last year. As state public employees, teachers’ collective 
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Woodward and Bernstein: 40 years after Watergate, Nixon was far worse than we thought - The Washington Post

Woodward and Bernstein: 40 years after Watergate, Nixon was far worse than we thought - The Washington Post:


Woodward and Bernstein: 40 years after Watergate, Nixon was far worse than we thought

View Photo Gallery — A look back at Watergate: The Watergate scandal in pictures, from the break-in to the congressional investigation to President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation.

By Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, Published: June 8

As Sen. Sam Ervin completed his 20-year Senate career in 1974 and issued his final report as chairman of the Senate Watergate committee, he posed the question: “What wasWatergate?”
Countless answers have been offered in the 40 years since June 17, 1972, when a team of burglars wearing business suits and rubber gloves was arrested at 2:30 a.m. at the headquarters of the Democratic Party in the Watergate office building in Washington. Four days afterward, the Nixon White House offered its answer: “Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it was,” press secretary Ronald Ziegler scoffed, dismissing the incident as a “third-rate burglary.”
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On Jeffries and Charter Schools: One Foot in, One Foot out - Bed-Stuy, NY Patch

On Jeffries and Charter Schools: One Foot in, One Foot out - Bed-Stuy, NY Patch:


On Jeffries and Charter Schools: One Foot in, One Foot out

Will his decision to turn away charter school-backed money impact the direction of your vote?
Earlier this week, campaign handlers for Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries announced that Jeffries would not be accepting fundraised money from StudentsFirstNY, an "independent expenditures" campaign – or in other words, a political action committee (PAC) – in support of the assemblyman’s run for U.S. Congress, stating that "unregulated money has no place in the political discourse."
Although this is not the first time a candidate for a political office has turned away PAC money, it does raise a few eyebrows for those watching the race. Because StudentsFirstNY backs the charter schools movement, and Jeffries also supports the growth of charter schools.
“The aspirations of parents such as yourself, who just want to find a vehicle to provide young children with the opportunity to get the best possible education … is one that I will always support, notwithstanding the consequences from those who may want to defend the status quo,” Jeffr
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Rainier Beach High School to receive funds from the OfficeMax Give Back program | Seattle Education

Rainier Beach High School to receive funds from the OfficeMax Give Back program | Seattle Education:


Rainier Beach High School to receive funds from the OfficeMax Give Back program

by seattleducation2011


We don’t need our schools to be privatized, we need for schools to be supported by our communities any way that they can through these financially challenging times.
To follow is a press release from the PTA at Rainier Beach High School:
OfficeMax’s philanthropic focus is to alleviate “teacher funded” classrooms. Their intent at Rainier Beach High School is to make a direct impact on teachers and transform the school as a whole.
Through a partnership with Communities In Schools of Seattle, OfficeMax selected Rainier Beach high School (RBHS) as the next school for their giveaway and volunteer program.
OfficeMax has a large undisclosed sum of money they would like to donate for the project. In addition to a check 
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The entire California Adult School System faces extinction: Mobilize to stop it the closures June 12th | Dailycensored.com

The entire California Adult School System faces extinction: Mobilize to stop it the closures June 12th | Dailycensored.com:


The entire California Adult School System faces extinction: Mobilize to stop it the closures June 12th

by Danny Weil



The ugly face of privatization and financialization are not turned solely at our nation’s youth.  The loaded guns also have their sites set on doing away with adult public education.
Going back to school to sharpen your skills, take the class you always wanted, develop your potential, become a better citizen by sharpening your critical thinking skills, this is all on the chopping block which is also the ‘auction block’ in privatization circles.
You can help!  Get involved.  If you know an adult who is going back to school or thinking about it, tell him or her to attend the June 12th meeting to fight privatization and the decimation of education for adults.
W.E.B. Dubois said it best: “The role of education is not just make carpenters out of men, but to make men out of carpenters”.
I am sure now with women struggling for recognition and human rights, Dubois would have mentioned them in 

San Mateo Adult School San Mateo Union High School District
789 E. Poplar Avenue, San Mateo, CA  94401
    Office (650) 558-2101 ● Fax (650) 762-0232
Lawrence Teshara, Director
  Tim Doyle, Asst. Director/Admin. Services
  Fred Thompson, Asst. Director/Instr. Services

Adult Schools Face Extinction
Press Conference To Be Held
What: Press conference by      adult educators
When: Tuesday June 12, 10:30      AM
Where: San Mateo Adult School    
Why: Adult schools have received devastating cuts and face total elimination if Governor Brown’s Weighted Student Formula is adopted as is. Adult schools must be taken out  of this formula and given their own funding
Who: Adult educators and      students from Los Angeles, Oakland, Berkeley, Campbell, San Mateo, and      more

Contact Information
Informational questions:    Tim Doyle, assistant director 
 650-280-7924      tdoyle@smace.org
  Press conference organization:         Bruce Neuburger, press conference organizer, teacher
 415 -235-6918   
                                                                     
               
School website:                                        www.smace.org

Address:       789 E. Poplar Ave.  
San Mateo, CA 94401                              
                                                 
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NYC Educator: Another Lesson for Bill Maher

NYC Educator: Another Lesson for Bill Maher:


Another Lesson for Bill Maher

by NYC Educator
Last night on Real Time, Bill Maher said it's impossible to fire a teacher. That's patently untrue, and it's irresponsible of him to be propagating such nonsense on the air. I'm reposting this column for him, which originally ran March 30, 2009, just in case he has any passing interest in reality. It's particularly galling to hear boilerplate anti-union crap from someone who makes films about religion as mythology.


It's always illuminating to hear things from people who have not the remotest notion what they're talking about, and as a teacher, I get to hear things from all sorts of people. For example, you get folks like Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and the Walmart family, who toss money about to make sure unionized employees are marginalized, all under the guise of "protecting the children. "

Never mind that when the children grow up they'll have to 
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CTU Has Enough Votes for Strike: Sources | NBC Chicago

CTU Has Enough Votes for Strike: Sources | NBC Chicago:


CTU Has Enough Votes for Strike: Sources


More than 90 percent of teachers give OK to work stoppage, multiples sources tell NBC Chicago

Chicago teachers have shown their solidarity in massive numbers. More than 90 percent of teachers have given the OK for a work stoppage, multiple sources told NBC Chicago.
That number is well above the 75 percent needed, by law, to authorize a strike.
Chicago Teachers Union spokesman Stephanie Gadlin declined to provide an official number but said that some schools have seen 100 percent of teachers approve a strike.
"We're pleased," she said, but added: "We know there will be challenges by [Chicago Public


Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/chicago-teachers-union-ctu-strike-authorization-vote-158260415.html#ixzz1xJKpLene
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How a Fair Starting Salary Attracts the Best and Brightest to Teaching | NEA Today

How a Fair Starting Salary Attracts the Best and Brightest to Teaching | NEA Today:


How a Fair Starting Salary Attracts the Best and Brightest to Teaching

June 8, 2012 by twalker  
Filed under Featured News, Salary, Top Stories
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By John Rosales
When Matt Goldstein graduated in 2005 from Pennsauken High School in New Jersey, his dream was to finish college and return to the school as a teacher. In 2011, after serving as a substitute teacher for several years, Goldstein, 24, became a fulltime teacher at Pennsauken at a starting salary of $53,000.
While the starting salary was not Goldstein’s primary reason for accepting a teaching position in his hometown, he says the salary provides incentive to remain there.
“When you are able to live comfortably, without having to work a second job, it makes teaching a whole lot easier because you can focus on your job, without financial problems or distractions,” he says. “I think there are many parents who understand how hard we work. The community often has ways to show their 
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