The Amazing Students of the Newark Student Union - These Kids Rock! #OccupyNPS #OurNewark

The Amazing Students of the Newark Student Union - These Kids Rock!

Newark Students' Protest Gets Them Meeting with Superintendent | NJTV News | Public Media New Jersey

Newark Students' Protest Gets Them Meeting with Superintendent | NJTV News | Public Media New Jersey: Newark Students’ Protest Gets Them Meeting with Superintendent By Brenda FlanaganCorrespondentYessenia Vera checked in with her daughter via Skype this morning after 15-year-old Gabrielle finished breakfast in the Newark School superintendent’s office, along with seven other teens from the Newark Students Union, who locked themselves in there Tuesday night. The students live-streamed all their occupation activities, like arguing about food with administrators.The administrators delivered it, a

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Newark student protestors to end four-day sit-in against superintendent | #OccupyNPS #OurNewark

Newark student protestors to end four-day sit-in against superintendent | NJ.com: Newark student protestors to end four-day sit-in against superintendentNewark Students Union Update:URGENT UPDATE!!! NEWARKERS PLEASE COME TO 2 CEDAR STREET AT 5:30 TODAY TO CELEBRATE!After nearly four days occupying the offices of Cami Anderson, Newark students are claiming victory. Students and community organizers

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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE MEETING WITH CAMI ANDERSON? #OccupyNPS #OurNewark

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE MEETING WITH CAMI ANDERSON? Here's the statement from the Newark Students Union:"After 65 hours of occupation, we, the Newark Students Union, met with the state-appointed Superintendent of the Newark Public Schools, Cami Anderson, in regards to her lack of communication with the students, parents, and the broader community of Newark, NJ. Due to her continued inabil

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Newark Students Wage War with Anderson #OccupyNPS #OurNewark

Newark Students Wage War with Anderson: Newark Students Wage War with AndersonThe rising tide against March's debut of the statewide PARCC test may have helped fuel the Newark Students Union Feb. 18 sit-in here at the Newark Public Schools' Central Office.Up to 12 NSU students, parents and NJ Communities United college students-activists have been sitting in State District Superintendent Cami Ande

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#OccupyNPS #OurNewark Newark superintendent meets with protesting students on fourth day of sit-in, district says | NJ.com

Newark superintendent meets with protesting students on fourth day of sit-in, district says | NJ.com: Newark superintendent meets with protesting students on fourth day of sit-in, district saysNEWARK — Newark Public Schools Superintendent Cami Anderson has met with the small group of students who are in their fourth day of a sit-in at her office to demand her resignation, district officials said t

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Newark mayor backs students occupying superintendent's office | #OccupyNPS #OurNewark

Newark mayor backs students occupying superintendent's office | Fox News: Newark mayor backs students occupying superintendent's office Students holed up since Tuesday in the office of the Newark, N.J., school superintendent in an effort to force her to meet with them or resign gained a powerful ally Thursday -- the city's mayor."They're obviously frustrated about not being able to have a voi

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These Newark Students Have Been Camping Out At Their School District Headquarters For Days #‎OccupyNPS‬ ‪#‎OurNewark‬

These Newark Students Have Been Camping Out At Their School District Headquarters For Days: These Newark Students Have Been Camping Out At Their School District Headquarters For DaysCami Anderson, superintendent of Newark Public Schools, speaks during an interview in New York in 2014. A group of students occupied Anderson's office in February 2015 to protest her policies. (Photographer: Chris Good

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NJ students refuse to end sit-in protest at superintendent's office | Al Jazeera America #‎OccupyNPS‬ ‪#‎OurNewark‬

Newark Student Union Stages Sit-in | Al Jazeera America: EDUCATIONJULIO CORTEX / AP PHOTONJ students refuse to end sit-in protest at superintendent's officeThe young activists want Newark's schools chief to meet with them or resign over a program they say is racially biasedFebruary 19, 2015 6:30PM ETby Wilson Dizard   @willdizardAs their sit-in at the office of their schools superintendent went in

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When Kids Teach Adults – Lessons from the Newark Student Union Sit-in | #‎OccupyNPS‬ ‪#‎OurNewark‬

When Kids Teach Adults – Lessons from the Newark Student Union Sit-in | gadflyonthewallblog: When Kids Teach Adults – Lessons from the Newark Student Union Sit-inFebruary 20, 2015 stevenmsingerIf ISIS extremists flew in from the Middle East and took over our public schools, we wouldn’t stand for it.But if those extremists are from our own state or federal government, we just yawn and change the ch

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CURMUDGUCATION: Newark Students Occupy District Offices #OccupyNPS http://bit.ly/1JwGiVT

Newark students seize Cami Anderson’s office | Bob Braun's Ledger #OccupyNPS #OurNewark http://bit.ly/1vI2aSC

BREAKING! Newark Student Union Call to Action! | Poetic Justice http://bit.ly/1G4VtQJ

CALLING ALL NEWARKERS!!! EMERGENCY RALLY TONIGHT AT 5PM AT 2 CEDAR STREET!!! #OccupyNPS #OurNewark http://bit.ly/1AlUEkt

Newark Students Union - We are HUNGRY and the District is holding the food http://bit.ly/1A6xmjy

Students take over Newark Public Schools HQ calling for superintendent’s resignation http://bit.ly/1AldJDn

LIVE: Newark student activists 'occupy' district offices | NJ.com http://bit.ly/1vE0yZY

For too long, the policies that have been put into effect or are in being proposed have or plan to do nothing to fully address the needs and issues that students in Newark go through on a daily basis. For too long we as students are just being told to let the system solve its problems but at the same time, the same problems they try to solve are the same ones we're being forced to endure for the sake of a better education. If we as students are supposed to reach our highest potential, then we as students should have the right to have a form of representation so we can truly achieve our fullest potential and be the next leaders of the world, and that is why we are staring the Newark Students Union. The revolution starts now!!!
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The Network For Public Education | Tell Congress: Vote NO on H.R. 5 – The Student Success Act:

Tell Congress: Vote NO on H.R. 5 – The Student Success Act

February 21, 2015 Action Alerts, Charter Schools, NCLB, NPE Tool Kit, Reauthorization of NCLB, Testing / Opting Out, Uncategorized, Vouchers, Washington D.C.

Tell Congress: Vote NO on H.R. 5 - The Student Success Act

It has been reported that the US House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 5, the "Student Success Act," on Friday, February 27th. The bill, which is the House's version of the long overdue reauthorization of No Child Left Behind, was rushed through the House Education and the Workforce Committee with no public hearings. The bill is deeply flawed, and raises many concerns for public education allies.

There are four crucial issues:

• Requires that states test all children in grades 3-8 and once in high school, even though no high performing nation tests all children every year 
• Makes Title I funds portable, which will decrease funding to the schools in greatest need, and opens the door for vouchers
• Limits Title II funding to 10% for class size reduction
• Increases funding for charter schools and encourages the growth and expansion of Charter Management Organizations (CMOs), which will advance the privatization movement

The time is now to send a clear message that we demand better for our children and our schools. Please join NPE and write your Representative today to let him/her know you oppose the passage of this bill.

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At 6 Louisiana schools, cheating or potential cheating detected on standardized tests | NOLA.com

At 6 Louisiana schools, cheating or potential cheating detected on standardized tests | NOLA.com:

At 6 Louisiana schools, cheating or potential cheating detected on standardized tests

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON Feb. 10, 2000 Louisiana Department of Education's LEAP test, Science and Social Studies answer sheet. At six Louisiana schools in the 2013-14 school year, school system investigations uncovered cheating or potential cheating on the LEAP and on other state tests. (Ted Jackson)

A student from Glasgow Middle School in Baton Rouge peeked at a classmate's standardized test last year, then changed his own answers. Another student from Woodlawn Leadership Academy in Shreveport snuck a phone into the testing room, took a picture of a geometry examination then posted it to Instagram for classmates. A teacher reportedly gave students a leg up on an iLEAP test at Lafargue Elementary in Marksville; the teacher resigned soon after.

These incidents and others are highlighted in 65 reported test security lapses at Louisiana public schools during the 2013-14 academic year. They were reported by 25 school systems or institutions to the state Education Department.

Six follow-up investigations concluded that students or administrators cheated on or compromised tests. Other inquiries determined that the irregularities were simple mistakes, which necessitated more test security training. But detailed information on the investigations was not available for about 20 cases, in which school systems simply requested that tests be thrown out or submitted copies of their test security protocol to the Education Department.

The documents, released by the state to NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, offer new insight into a January report on tossed-out tests. They also show several previously undisclosed testing problems that might have led to tests being invalidated.

The tests included the LEAP, iLEAP and similar exams for elementary school students who struggle with English and who have disabilities. For high schoolers, they include the Graduation Exit Examination, end-of-course exams and the ACT series.

The exams are significant. Students may be held back a grade, educators may lose their jobs and entire schools may be shut down or seized by the state if children don't perform well enough. The pressure, experts contend, could lead to test cheating.

Information on last year's testing irregularities comes as Louisiana schools prep for the next round of standardized tests, and for the security that those tests require. For some high schoolers, ACT series tests begin March 9. Common Core-aligned tests for elementary school students start the following week.

Which schools had problems?

The state's January report on invalidated tests included irregularities at 230 of Louisiana's more than 1,500 public or private schools that accept vouchers that were cited in 2013-14. The new documents released by Education Department show how the schools investigated the irregularities, but they don't cover all these schools even At 6 Louisiana schools, cheating or potential cheating detected on standardized tests | NOLA.com:

LATEST TEST SCORE NEWS

• At 6 Louisiana schools, cheating or potential cheating detected on standardized tests
• Black male high school graduation rate in Louisiana lags whites' by 16 points, report says
• ACT scores in Jefferson Parish public schools improve slightly, but trail state average
• ACT scores rise in New Orleans public schools, but divide persists between local, state systems
• ACT scores up slightly in Louisiana in 2014, still trail nation

Netflix CEO donates $2 million to local charter schools - The Technology Chronicles

Netflix CEO donates $2 million to local charter schools - The Technology Chronicles:

Netflix CEO donates $2 million to local charter schools

By Kristen V. Brown on February 20, 2015 3:32 PM

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Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings announced on Friday that he will donate $2 million to Rocketship Education, a Palo Alto-based network of charter schools.

The $2 million will jumpstart a $17 million fundraising campaign that Rocketship is launching in order to open new schools over the next three years to serve thousands more “Rocketeers,” as the non-profit refers to its students. Since launching its first school, Mateo Sheedy Elementary in San Jose, in 2007, the non-profit has already expanded to open eleven Rocketship schools in three regions across the United States. Rocketship said the new round of fundraising will also help to “fuel innovation” at its existing schools.

The schools have gained national attention for their focus on blended learning and high-tech teaching that have produced impressive test scores from many low-income and immigrant students. But recently Rocketship also scaled back its ambitions of rapidly enrolling 1 million students in 50 cities.

“I admire organizations that take on great challenges and dream big,” said Hastings in a statement. “Rocketship focuses on a collaborative and inventive approach that rethinks every element of the student experience in the early years of public education. I am excited to support their trajectory.”Netflix CEO donates $2 million to local charter schools - The Technology Chronicles:

LAUSD Superintendent Just Another "ONE Hit Wonder"

LAUSD superintendent warns of layoffs as teachers union prepares to strike:

LAUSD superintendent warns of layoffs as teachers union prepares to strike

By Thomas Himes, Los Angeles Daily News

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As the teachers union ramps up strike preparations, Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Ramon Cortines on Friday discussed union demands, the district’s budget deficit and layoffs.

With a projected deficit of nearly $160 million and no money in the reserve fund, Cortines wants every department to make cuts ranging from 7 percent to 10 percent in hopes of balancing the budget by the July 1 start of the 2015-16 Fiscal Year.

“I’m not sure I can do it,” Cortines said.

Despite his doubts, Cortines will try to zero out the deficit by eliminating some positions. The first round of pink slips — notifying teachers and other staff they have 60 days left on the job – will be mailed Mar. 15.

Cortines called the meeting one day after UTLA made its first official move toward a strike, calling an “impasse” Thursday after 18 rounds and seven months of negotiations.

The two sides remain divided around three key issues: pay raises, staffing levels and teacher evaluations. LAUSD officials estimate that meeting the union’s demands for an 8.5 percent pay raise, more teachers, counselors, nurses and librarians will cost $800 million more than the current offer.

Cortines said he doesn’t believe “we can afford any more than we’re doing right now.”

“They have not given the negotiating team where we would find that money,” Cortines said. “And I don’t think you can ask if you don’t know where you’re going to get the money.”

United Teachers Los Angeles President Alex Caputo-Pearl said Cortines is creating hypothetical budget problems, as the state continues to increase the district’s funding. It’s intended to “paint a bleak picture to scare people,” he said.

“We’re tired of hearing the district say they can’t afford things,” Caputo-Pearl said. “There’s a few different points on that; if the district feels it can’t afford our proposal on class size reductions or proposal on getting nurses and librarians in schools, then they should give us a counter proposal, but they haven’t done that.”

After regional rallies that drew several thousand teachers last year and picket lines at campuses across LAUSD earlier this month, the union will assemble “tens of thousands” of teachers at Grand Park on Feb. 26. The demonstration was planned just ahead of the Mar. 3 school board election.

A strike, Cortines said, would exacerbate the district’s budget deficit by causing it to lose even more students to charter schools. LAUSD’s primary source of funding is based on student enrollment.

“I think what has bothered me about the whole negotiation is the constant talk about a work stoppage,” he said.

Caputo-Pearl said a strike is a last resort, but the union needs to prepare. LAUSD, meanwhile, should focus its efforts on “reaching a settlement, not issuing threats about how much damage teachers will do to the district if we go on strike,” he said.

“What has damaged the district and driven students to charter schools is class sizes of over 45 students and schools without libraries and schools that aren’t cleaned,” Caputo-Pearl said. “That’s what we should be concerned about.”

Cortines also called on the teachers union to help create an evaluation system that works. At the very minimum, Cortines said, such an evaluation system would need three different types of ratings to LAUSD superintendent warns of layoffs as teachers union prepares to strike:

The End of Public-Employee Unions?- The Atlantic

Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association - The Atlantic:

The End of Public-Employee Unions?

The Supreme Court has been asked to take a case that could deal a crippling blow to the labor movement.

Constitutional scholars sometimes like to commend courts for what they call“the passive virtues”—a reluctance to become involved in constitutional dispute, a reticence to announce new rules, a preference for standing by earlier decisions (“stare decisis”).

Judges, too, like to cite what they call “the canon of constitutional avoidance,” a set of rules designed to avoid unnecessary constitutional decisions. In Federalist 78, Alexander Hamilton promised that the new union’s courts would have “have neither force nor will, but merely judgment.”

The truth is that since at least Marbury v. Madison,Courts and Justices have hinted, signaled, begged, and reached out to litigants to bring them issues where one or more justice thinks the law needs to change. On the current Court, few of the Justices have signaled quite as vigorously as Justice Samuel Alito. Alito, a man of firm likes and dislikes, has twice questioned the constitutionality of public-employee contracts. Neither case, however, presented the chance to invalidate them.

Now his moment may have come. In response to Alito’s hints, the issue has landed squarely in the Court’s inbox in the form of a petition for review in a suit against the California Teachers Association. If Alito gets his desired result, it will deal a long-lasting blow to union power—and, perhaps by coincidence, the Democratic Party.

Here’s the issue: Even in union states, public employees cannot be required to join a union. Such a requirement, the Court has said, would violate their First Amendment rights, because that would be the government requiring them to speak and associate against their will. However, state governments can sign agreements with unions designating the union as the official bargaining agent for all employees, members or not. The union then must represent both members and non-members—and representation costs money, in the form of lawyers, economists, researchers, and so forth. Non-members are thus potentially “free riders” who get a service paid for by their fellow workers.

In response, a compromise developed called the “agency-fee” or “fair-share” payment. Requiring objectors to pay for political activities or lobbying would be “compelled political speech,” and violate the First Amendment. However, under the “fair share” system, non-members are charged a fee that excludes these political activities and is designated to cover only the chargeable costs of actual representation—negotiating contracts, administering benefit programs, and helping employees with grievances.

The “fair share” fee is Alito’s current target. In a 1977 case called Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, the Burger Court said the fees do not violate the First Amendment: “Public employees are not basically different from private employees,” the Court said. “[O]n the whole, they have the same sort of skills, the same needs, and seek the same advantages.” The subjects of collective bargaining are the same in either case. Wages and working conditions in the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association - The Atlantic:

No Child Left Behind reauthorization: Restore local control of education - LINDSEY M. BURKE - Newsday

No Child Left Behind reauthorization: Restore local control of education - LINDSEY M. BURKE - Newsday:

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No Child Left Behind reauthorization: Restore state and local control of education

Who should be in charge of your child's education? You? Or a government bureaucrat? We may not be hearing that question being asked enough as Congress considers reauthorizing No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the largest federal law governing K-12 education policy. But we should be.

Yet the proposed changes to the law offered so far fail to adequately reduce federal intervention in education. They represent a missed opportunity to advance reforms that restore state and local control of education and put parents in the driver's seat when it comes to directing their children's education.

Consider this: For roughly 10 percent of all funding spent on K-12 education, the U.S. Department of Education determines policy for almost everything - from teacher certification and school assessment schedules to the types of programs funding is spent on, and how much states must spend in order to access federal funds.

When the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (the precursor to No Child Left Behind) was signed into law by President Johnson in 1965, it included five titles, 32 pages, and roughly $1 billion in federal funding ($7 billion today).

By the time the law was reauthorized for the seventh time in 2001 (as NCLB), new mandates had been imposed on states and local school districts, and many more programs had been added. Today NCLB exceeds 600 pages, authorizes some 80 programs, and spends $24 billion annually.

Dissatisfaction with NCLB has grown too. Indeed, the Obama administration has offered waivers to states chafing under the law's provisions. But there's a price. The White House is conditioning these waivers on the adoption of its preferred education agenda, which includes common standards and tests, outside the normal legislative process.

To restore state, local and parental control of education, any reauthorization should do five things:

1) It should allow states to opt out of the programs that fall under NCLB, through language included in the Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success (A-PLUS) Act. The A-PLUS Act enables states to lead on education reform by directing how their education dollars are spent. Such an opt-out is No Child Left Behind reauthorization: Restore local control of education - LINDSEY M. BURKE - Newsday:

Tell Congress: Vote NO on H.R. 5 – The Student Success Act http://bit.ly/1JwDIz3

LAUSD decision ushers in new source of funding for arts education | 89.3 KPCC

LAUSD decision ushers in new source of funding for arts education | 89.3 KPCC:



LAUSD decision ushers in new source of funding for arts education

 

Los Angeles Unified School District officials have cleared the way for principals to tap into a major source of funding for arts programs targeting low-income students starting this fall.

Although state and federal officials previously said national Title I dollars, allocated to help disadvantaged students improve in academics, could be used for the arts instruction, some district officials had been reluctant to move ahead. The latest decision reverses the district's long-standing practice and opens the door for Title I-funded arts instruction that helps students improve their academic performance. 

"This has been a long time coming and this really is a day of rejoicing, quite frankly, in LAUSD," said Rory Pullens, the district's executive director of arts education. 

RELATED: For Pasadena school, arts plus math is really adding up

A two-page memo issued Thursday from Pullens, Deputy Superintendent Ruth Perez and Karen Ryback, executive director of Federal and State Education Programs, confirms the arts as a core subject and allows schools with high percentages of low-income students to use Title I funds for the arts.

Those schools "may utilize arts as an integration strategy to improve academic achievement," the directive reads. However, Title I funds are not allowed "to fund programs whose primary objective is arts education," according to the memo. As an example, the funds could be tapped to help students learn a character's point of view in a lesson that requires acting out a skit. 

Title I funding, developed in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, has been used historically to increase students success in reading and math. The funds have paid for efforts like reading coaches or math tutors, supplemental software programs and professional development for teachers to improve low-performing students' test scores.

At $14 billion a year, the Title I funds make up the federal government's largest expenditure for grades K-12. The majority of LAUSD schools receive Title I dollars.

Arts advocates have long sought to get the second-largest district in the country to shift its stance on Title I arts funding, arguing that the arts have been shown in research to boost student academic performance. 

LAUSD joins just a handful of districts around the state that have committed to a district-wide Title I plan including the arts. San Diego Unified, Sacramento City Unified and Chula Vista Elementary School District are among them, according to Joe Landon, executive director of the California Alliance for Arts Education. 

Landon says beyond these districts, the decision to use Title I for the arts is largely playing out on a school-by-school basis. Some principals are using Title I funds for the arts, but they're doing so largely under the radar, some fearing that state monitors will say the funds were used incorrectly. 

"At each level, there are people that are afraid," Landon said. The reason: schools are accountable for how Title I dollars are spent and misuse could cause schools to lose a valuable funding source. Despite the state and federal directives on Title I allowing arts instruction in academics, school officials have been hesitant to make LAUSD decision ushers in new source of funding for arts education | 89.3 KPCC:

The Shock Doctrine- Alive and Well in Michigan | EduBloggers

The Shock Doctrine- Alive and Well in Michigan | EduBloggers:

The Shock Doctrine- Alive and Well in Michigan

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The Shock Doctrine- Alive and Well in Michigan

Symptomatic of what is occurring in education across the nation, Detroit Public Schools are deep in debt.

Detroit, though, is somewhat unique in that they have in place an autocratic and unilateral leader appointed by the Governor of Michigan.  They have an Emergency Manager, a person appointed at the governor’s behest to alleviate a financial situation that has been deemed by such governor to be an “emergency.”

In Detroit Public Schools, this has led to the marginalization of a perfectly capable and democratically elected school board.  It has promoted the market fundamentalists’ premier value of economic efficiency over democracy, and it has done so at the expense of the economic health of the district, the academics of the students affected, and the community’s agency as expressed via the accountability of a democratically elected school board. It is no small thing to again point out the irony of the fact that Emergency Management has been installed at the expense of  the district’s financial viability.  (For more on this sordid history, please read Bill Wylie-Kellerman’s excellent account.)

So what is the governor going to do now with this mess he has exacerbated?According to The Detroit News, “Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration is exploring ways to link a change in governance of public education in Detroit with ‘financial relief’ for the debt-ridden and cash-strapped Detroit Public Schools.”

Hmm..little mention of here of the structural conditions that led to such a situation.

No mention of the damning, incomplete, and false narrative of “failing schools.”

Although there are some hints if you read between the lines.

Since DPS is managed by its fourth emergency manager in six years, the issue of giving the district some financial breathing room looms large as the Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren tries to craft a new school reform plan for Snyder to pursue in the Legislature.

See, it seems that there is a glimmer of understanding that an Emergency Manager- the fourth in six years- has simply The Shock Doctrine- Alive and Well in Michigan | EduBloggers:

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