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August 18, 2012
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Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Mike Klonsky’s Small Talk- The real Civil Rights MovementHeroics in OKHardest thing to watch was the news coming out of OK this morning. Total devastation of two elementary schools with terrified children, some of whom died. What caught my attention were stories of teachers covering students with their own bodies. At least one gave up her own life doing so. Other acts of selfless humanism by regular people before […]
- The real Civil Rights Movement
- Glen Brown: Teacher/poet/musician
- What do we believe about Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s exclusion of Illinois judges from his pension reform bill?“Leaving the judges out of pension reform: ‘I would call this buying off the judges. It’s a very sad situation…’” (Ann Lousin, a professor at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago who helped draft the Illinois Constitution in 1970, from Judges left out of Illinois pension reform plan).Are we to believe, as Madigan and other liars and thieves do, that Illin […]
- What do we believe about Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s exclusion of Illinois judges from his pension reform bill?
- John Dillon’s Pension Education
- Let's Make A Deal: SB2404Let’s Make Deal: SB2404Quite honestly, I was at first befuddled when it came to choices as a retiree looking at SB2404. I’m not good at choices. I lose at Blackjack without fail.Could be worse. I could be an active teacher looking at SB2404. Thank goodness I’m not an active anymore. The spreadsheet on the IEA Fact Sheet reads like a graduate level test […]
- Let's Make A Deal: SB2404
- NYC Educator
- Chancellor Walcott Addresses BullyingHi. I'm New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, and I think it's about time we addressed bullying. Personally I've had it with bullying. That's why I'm making 80 thousand teachers give lessons on it. After all, I've made them come back for full school days on June 24th and 25th, after they've given grades and their […]
- Chancellor Walcott Addresses Bullying
- CPS Chatter
- I Feel Like I’m Living in a Dystopian Movie2012 – Rahm Emanuel shuts down the mental health clinics 2013 – Rahm Emanuel closes the schools 2015 – Newly reelected Mayor Emanuel announces that he will be removing all public services from the South and West sides of the city in a cost cutting move 2016 – After bands of teens raid downtown shops […]
- I Feel Like I’m Living in a Dystopian Movie
- Jersey Jazzman
- Nobody Like Public School DestroyersMaybe he thought they were going to lay palms at his feet? No one booed. But the graduates of Millersville University didn't exactly cheer Gov. Tom Corbett either Saturday. In introducing Corbett as the class of 2013's commencement speaker, Michael Warfel, chairman of the Council of Trustees, explained the difficult fiscal conditions the governor […]
- Nobody Like Public School Destroyers
- TuttleSVC
- Comments Which Don't Inspire ResponsesMe, commenting on Grant Wiggins On close reading, part 2:The CC standards do not call generically for close reading as it is broadly defined in the discipline. They *could have* and other standards have done so, but they chose not to. Standard one only calls for students to “Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferenc […]
- Comments Which Don't Inspire Responses
- Ken Previti’s Reclaim Reform
- John “002″ Cullerton: Part-Time President of the SenateJohn “002″ Cullerton is the Part-Time President of the Illinois Senate at $67,836. What does he do as his full-time job? “Cullerton serves part-time as an Illinois state senator. Fagel Haber merged with Thompson Cobern LLP in 2007, and Cullerton … Continue reading →
- John “002″ Cullerton: Part-Time President of the Senate
- Roger Sanders
- https://www.facebook.com/GrassrootsIllinois?ref=ts&fref=tshttps://www.facebook.com/GrassrootsIllinois?ref=ts&fref=ts
- https://www.facebook.com/GrassrootsIllinois?ref=ts&fref=ts
- IEA LOCAL 28
- jd2718
- Chapter Leader’s Notes: Mayoral forum at the Bronx UFTNotes by Donald March, chapter leader of Christopher Columbus HS Bronx Mayoral Forum. May 8, 2013. Christine Quinn, Bill DeBlasio, Bill Thompson, John Liu As has been the case at these forums or late, Christine Quinn arrives ahead of the pack and is allowed to speak and take questions first. She is a rather forceful […]
- Chapter Leader’s Notes: Mayoral forum at the Bronx UFT
- Diane Ravitch
- Come to the Skinny Awards in NYC on June 18If you are within driving distance of New York City, please come to the Skinny Awards. I will be there, along with many other friends of public education. The Skinny Awards are the opposite of the Broad Awards, which are given to urban districts and charter schools that raise test scores. The Skinny Awards recognize […]
- Come to the Skinny Awards in NYC on June 18
