Posts tagged ‘Politics’
Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Mike Klonsky’s Small Talk- 'I thought these days were behind us' -- Rev. Tyson From North Carolina to the streets of Chicago -- they are not behind usThey Canceled Class Today — All The Teachers Got Arrested While Protesting For Voting RightsFrom the Sun-Times:A group of parents — backed by the Chicago Teachers Union — wants Judge John Z. Lee to delay the closures for a year while they carry on their fight in court. They say in two cla […]
- 'I thought these days were behind us' -- Rev. Tyson
- Glen Brown: Teacher/poet/musician
- State budget, pension woes tied to big gambling giveaways by Phil CicioraCHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Budget and pension woes in Illinois are inextricably linked to giveaways to “Big Gambling,” a University of Illinois expert in legal policy says. If the state had taxed gambling at rates comparable to other states over the past 20-plus years, Illinois would have had an additional $35 billion to $56 billion in tax revenue in its coffers – an […]
- State budget, pension woes tied to big gambling giveaways by Phil Ciciora
- John Dillon’s Pension Education
- Local Districts - Part One: Caught Holding the BagLocal Districts - Pt. OneCaught Holding the BagIdiom: The phrase Holding the Bag is an idiom describing the person caught or penalized while others get away free. If a group of brigands held up a person, and the authorities were soon to arrive, veteran criminals would give the witless outlaw the swag to hold physically. This not only distracted the less th […]
- Local Districts - Part One: Caught Holding the Bag
- NYC Educator
- Scapegoating 101It's odd to live in a country where billionaire Bill Gates can single-handedly control the education of our public schoolchildren. Gates, of course, sends his own kids to private school, so they won't be subject to the untested, unproven nonsense for which our children serve as guinea pigs. After all, his children are precious, and he wants the bes […]
- Scapegoating 101
- CPS Chatter
- A Time of HeroesThe Tribune editorial called on us to be heroes like Newton and Moore where heroes stood up to death for the students. We could be heroes by stepping down and leaving our students to poverty, both literal and intellectual. We could be heroes by isolating the parts of our city most in need. We could […]
- A Time of Heroes
- Jersey Jazzman
- NJ Ed Commissioner Cerf is Literally In Charge of Dog S#!^Folks, there are days when I just can't believe what I have to report: The state education commissioner has overturned the termination of Haddon Township High School’s athletic director, who in May 2012 was caught on camera placing dog feces on his ex-wife’s car in the school parking lot. Just months before, Alan Carr also lied to school administrators […]
- NJ Ed Commissioner Cerf is Literally In Charge of Dog S#!^
- TuttleSVC
- Students on the FringeJean Ann W. Guliano:With 83% of the state’s special needs students and 90% of the state’s limited English students scoring substantially below proficient on the last NECAP math test,* even with remediation many of those students will likely not graduate in 2014. Even more troubling is that the gap between these students and ‘average’ students has actually in […]
- Students on the Fringe
- Ken Previti’s Reclaim Reform
- None of the AboveJim Keating wrote a few facts of life for retirees in the DuPage Illinois Teachers Association newsletter. Excerpt: Without the COLA we will have 55% of today’s buying power in twenty years… Fred Klonsky posted his full letter. Read it … Continue reading →
- None of the Above
- Roger Sanders
- Expert: State budget, pension woes tied to big gambling giveaways | News Bureau | University of IllinoisExpert: State budget, pension woes tied to big gambling giveaways | News Bureau | University of...
- Expert: State budget, pension woes tied to big gambling giveaways | News Bureau | University of Illinois
- 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
- Ranking the Nation’s Most Expensive High SchoolsAmericans love to rank, rate, and grade everything. A reader suggested this ranking of America’s private schools. It doesn’t consider how many students took AP courses, how many got a certain score on the SAT, or how many graduated. Very likely, none of these schools would release that data. Instead, they are ranked from 1-50 […]
- Ranking the Nation’s Most Expensive High Schools
- Rogers Park Neighbors For Public Schools
- The New Sane..Evidence that crazy is the new sane.Principal Sarah Abedelal credited under-utilized Brennemann's high test scores to its low class sizes. Then she insisted the school could do as well with twice as many students."Size does matter, but when you look at effective teaching, effective teaching strategies, you can teach students double that size," […]
- The New Sane..
