Ken Derstine from Philadelphia sent this to his email list.
People should be aware that Michelle Rhee's Town Hall in Philadelphia on September 16th
(the day before Diane Ravitch's author event at the Free Library) will
be a full scale assault on rank and file teachers in the midst of the
crisis in the District.
According to this Politico report "Michelle Rhee invites teachers union reps to new town halls":
"Rhee
will have company on her cross-country tour, which includes stops in
Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Birmingham, Ala.,Steve Perry, who founded
and runs the Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Connecticut and former
Washington Teachers’ Union President George Parker will both join her
at each event.
Also invited — but not yet confirmed: the
brass from teachers unions city or state chapters, as well as their
rank-and-file membership. An invitation from Parker was sent to those
union leaders
on Wednesday."
Some background on former Washington DC union president George Parker. I went into his history in my
February 24th article "Who is Eli Broad and why is he trying to destroy public education?"
http://www.defendpubliceducation.net/
In the section "The Broad Foundation and the unions" I said:
"On
June 3, 2010, at their union leader’s urging, the Washington D.C.
Teachers Union ratified a contract with the Washington D.C. School
District, headed by Chancellor Michelle Rhee, which included performance
pay linked to test score growth, and a weakening of seniority and
tenure. Union President George Parker called the ratification of the
contract “a great day for teachers and students.” On November 10, 2010,
Parker was voted out of office by the union rank-and-file. On May 20,
2011, Michelle Rhee announced that Parker was joining her corporate
reform organization StudentsFirst. Rhee had resigned as Chancellor of
Washington D.C. schools on October 13, 2010, and started StudentsFirst
soon after. Rhee’s Deputy Chancellor and chief negotiator of the 2010
teachers’ contract, Kaya Henderson, replaced her. Henderson recently
announced the proposed closing of 20 schools due to “under enrollment”."
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On Friday, August 23 Randi tweeted this about Diane's author event:
@ParentsUnitedPA @DianeRavitch -i will be there introducing Diane.
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These are the Philadelphia School District "contract proposals" to the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
The contract proposals link which were the initial SRC contract proposals in February, was taken down recently when it began circulating on the internet. It can be found at another link here.
ReplyDeletehttp://thenotebook.org/sites/default/files/teacher%20contract%20summary.pdf
For an article about this "proposal" see:
District seeking to slash, restructure teacher compensation
http://thenotebook.org/blog/135690/union-official-war-has-begun