Ten minute drawing. Boehner’s words of wisdom.
January 2, 2013
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Mike Klonsky’s Small Talk- Rahm caves to Rauner threats. CPS will give high-stakes PARCC exam to unprepared schools March 3, 2015“I continue to personally and professionally believe that to administer PARCC this year is absolutely not in the best interest of our students." -- Byrd-BennettRahm Emanuel looked befuddled as he hemmed and hawed last Thursday when Phil Ponce asked him straight-up -- Should CPS administer the PARCC test? I knew then that despite Byrd-Bennett's prot […]
- Rahm caves to Rauner threats. CPS will give high-stakes PARCC exam to unprepared schools March 3, 2015
- S.O.R.E.
- Retired delegates elected to IEA RA.- Fred Klonsky, SORE President The Illinois Education Association was founded in 1853. It became an affiliate of the National Education Association in 1857. In 1966 the NEA and the African American American Teachers Association merged. We also merged in Illinois. The NEA essentially removed administrators from leadership and became a union in 1970. Over the […]
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- John Dillon’s Pension Education
- Rep. Elaine Nekritz: The Audacity of…(well, ...the audacity)Rep. Elaine Nekritz: The Audacity of…(well, …the audacity)Falling snow, polar vortices, unending darkness, and listening to Representative Elaine Nekritz on the radio defending the indefensible…this truly is the winter of my discontent.On the other hand, legal teams representing the public sector workers are providing opening arguments before the Illinois Su […]
- Rep. Elaine Nekritz: The Audacity of…(well, ...the audacity)
- Ken Previti’s Reclaim Reform
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- REFUSE to surrender our children’s rights. OPT-OUT. How?
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- My PARCC Prediction
- Peoria Story
- Three candidate forums next week, more laterPEORIA, IL -- Three candidate forums sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria are are scheduled for next week, for candidates in the April 7 municipal elections. The first is on March 7, for candidates for the...
- Three candidate forums next week, more later
- NYC Educator
- UntitledI'm pleased to announce here on NYC Educator the recipient of the first "Lirtzy" award for "Most Dubious Education-Related Newspaper Headline of the Month."It is common knowledge that education reformistas, which now includes a particularly virulent strain known as "Cuomistas," engage in a black art known as "FUD. […]
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- Jersey Jazzman
- @NJSBA and PARCC: Going Along to Get Along?The resistance to the PARCC -- the new, standardized, computerized tests being administered in New Jersey beginning this month -- continues to grow. Parents, teachers, and students are rightly concerned that these tests are taking too much time, are unnecessarily complex and confusing, disadvantage students with less access to technology, and narrow the curr […]
- @NJSBA and PARCC: Going Along to Get Along?
- The Jose Vilson
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- jd2718
- 2015-2016 Sabbatical Applications on-line – due 3/17Did you know the New York City Department of Education still grants study sabbaticals? Well, they do. I took one last year. I know two people on them this year. And the application for next year has been posted, and is due in just a few weeks. Here’s the DoE’s sabbatical page (very little explanation): […]
- 2015-2016 Sabbatical Applications on-line – due 3/17
- Diane Ravitch
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- Texas: Senate Leaders Lay Out Plan to Destroy Public Education
- Ed Shyster
- Waiting for a Super ManWho will be the next superintendent of the Boston Public Schools (and who really gets to decide???) It’s a bird. No–it’s a plane. No–it’s actually snow. Why it’s snowing men, reader! Four men to be precise, each of whom longs to lead the Boston Public Schools. But first these *he’s* must make their way through […]
- Waiting for a Super Man
- Schooling in the Ownership Society
- Bogus 'Parent Trigger' petition rejected by Anaheim boardLast month I wrote about an attempt in Anaheim, CA to privatize the management of another public school, using the so-called Parent Trigger law.The law, which turns parent against parent in a community, gives a temporary majority, who are willing (often cajoled) to sign a petition, the power to hand their public school over to a private company. That company […]
- Bogus 'Parent Trigger' petition rejected by Anaheim board
We know that a group of lions is called a pride. A group of cattle is called a herd. Know what a group of baboons is called? A congress. A congress of baboons. How fitting.