In Tuesday’s aldermanic election in Pilsen, teachers endorse Cuahutemoc “Temoc” Morfin. Rahm and the neighborhood polluters support the incumbent, Daniel Solis.
The journalist Michael Kinsley once said “a gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.” Anthony Cody on Obama’s real testing views.
If you want to know which money bags are behind the group that is behind state anti-collective bargaining legislation, Hector Solon has it for you.
In 1987 Alfie Kohn interviewed the great lawyer Leonard Weinglass. Weinglass passed away last week. In his conversation with Kohn, Weinglass talks of, “the threat of the right (wing) to this country and the absolute need to stand up and fight back.”
Collective bargaining: We fought for the right. “I am a veteran of World War II. It made my blood boil when I saw what was going on in Wisconsin. We went to war to fight for freedom.”
Over the past year, I have traveled the nation speaking to nearly 100,000 educators, parents, and school-board members. No matter the city, state, or region, those who know schools best are frightened for the future of public education. They see no one in a position of leadership who understands the damage being done to their schools by federal policies.
They feel keenly betrayed by President Obama. Most voted for him, hoping he would reverse the ruinous No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation of George W. Bush. But Obama has not sought to turn back NCLB. His own approach, called Race to the Top, is even more punitive than NCLB. And though over the past week the president has repeatedly called on Congress to amend the law, his proposed reforms are largely cosmetic and would leave the worst aspects of NCLB intact. Diane Ravitch
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