Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Who's Bashing Teachers and Schools And What Can We Do About It?

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By Stan Karp The short answer to this question is that far too many people are bashing teachers and public schools, and we need to give t...
Monday, April 04, 2011

National Teach In at Sac State

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On Tuesday, April 5, over 185  universities,  schools and community groups will participate in a teach-in on debt, austerity and how peo...
Saturday, April 02, 2011

Rhee the Reformer-Erase to the top!

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Friday, April 01, 2011

Sacramento Teach In- National Teach In- on the economic crisis

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On Tuesday, April 5, over 100  universities,  schools and community groups will participate in a teach-in on debt, austerity and how pe...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The legacy of Cesar Chavez and the economic crisis of 2011

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Cesar Chavez and Duane Campbell,1972   César Chávez: By  Duane E. Campbell On March 31, 2011, California and ten  other states will cel...

18,000 teachers given lay-off notices in California

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FISCAL EMERGENCY INFORMATION REQUEST I am writing today to ask for your help with compiling information about the number of pink slips an...

What Obama said about testing

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/28/remarks-president-univision-town-hall Q My name is Lisa and I'm going to attend ...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Is the goal school achievement or teacher bashing ?

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Re: the prior posts about Michele Rhee and Kevin Johnson. What can we learn from Ontario? Here is some sound research to indicate that wor...

The Myth of the Korean Super Teacher

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Myth of the Korean Super Teacher and the 3 Bird Tragedy    Recently, teachers at my elementary school were subjected to a poke in the ey...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

London Protest of budget cuts grows to 400,000

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Anti-Cuts March Swells to 400,000   London hosts largest protest since Iraq war as     workers and public demonstrate against     governmen...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Budget cuts in Portugal and California

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The Austerity Delusion By PAUL KRUGMAN ; NYT. Portugal’s government has just fallen in a dispute over austerity proposals. Irish bond yields...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Gates spends millions to promote his view of school change

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Gates spends millions to sway public ( and you) on ed reform By Valerie Strauss - Washington Post  The Bill and  Melinda Gates Foundation i...

Mayor Johnson active in school criticism

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Feb.28,2011. SACRAMENTO, CA  – Today Mayor Kevin Johnson and STAND UP held the first ‘State of Schools’ meeting in Sacramento at the Guil...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Michele Rhee ( of Sacramento) continues her assaults on teachers

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Though all modern presidents like to think of themselves as leading the national education debate, they rarely are; most important decisions...

Local School Districts face financial trouble

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We are told this morning that each of the major school districts in the county are in financial trouble. Last year, when Natomas was in tro...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Organizing for Equity

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Organizing for Equity. Can Parents Fill the Void? By Michael B. Fabricant At least since the civil rights movement, Americans have documen...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Budget Cuts = Jobs Cut

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We can afford to re-hire teachers

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  If the U.S. can spend millions to bomb Libya (see below) then the government can spend millions to re-hire the thousands of teachers that ...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Libya- Eisenhower " every gun that is fired"

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are no...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Teacher Unions Matter

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By Tom Alves, SJTA Executive Director Unions matter to this country. And teacher unions matter to public education. The panic that is pilin...