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Sunday, July 21, 2013

Newark Schools for Sale: Cami Anderson, Cerf Keep Turnaround Board Member Campbell Brown Under the Sheets

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Turnaround has refused to provide information about its failed foray into Orange schools. Now, Turnaround For Children is interviewing sch...
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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Reposted: Kerrie Dalman, president of Colorado teachers association writes pro-inBloom oped as metastasizing cancer keeps eating away at the NEA and AFT

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Kerrie Dalman is President of the Colorado Education Association, the state affiliate of the NEA.  She’s also head honcho of Southwest TUR...

Call for Waiver from teacher evaluations in NY

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This came in an email as a suggestion for MORE to take up the cause and I think it should. But I wonder if the UFT which supports and veheme...
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Gotham Schools Funders: You Get What You Pay For

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Yesterday I posted hits from my fellow bloggers to Gotham Schools' increasingly pro ed deform agenda ( NYC Teacher Bloggers on the Loos...
Friday, July 19, 2013

NYC Teacher Bloggers on the Loose: Slam Gotham Schools Coverage And TFA

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Another blogger slams Gotham Schools, more and more a wholly owned subsidiary of the charter school movement. I spend much more time readi...

EIA: Louisiana has the rare combination of high spending and low unionization rates

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I’m not sure if anyone is examining the public education environment there from that angle.... EIA Interesting nugget from Mike Antonucci...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

You Get What You Pay For - from a NYC Parent

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A debate on the NYCEd listserve resulted in a teacher of all people joining the ed deform chant of "throwing money at things is not the...

How Do They Loathe Us? - Fred Smith's Sonnet to Tisch, Duncan et al.

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Fred wrote a sonnet dedicated to Arne Duncan, New York State Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and Mayor Michael Bloomberg and  their respec...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Edushyster Blows Up Democracy Prep 100% Grad Rate and New Yorker Shill Piece

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I was going to do a piece on the New Yorker article on the publicity seeking Democracy Prep but was so spitting mad I couldn't think str...

Bruce Baker: Charters are Parasites

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Here is the Ravitch post with the link to Bruce's piece: Bruce Baker has studied Newark charters repeatedly. As he shows in this p...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Gary Gives Advice to an upcoming TFAer

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And to TFA:  Shame on you for disrespecting this woman by not providing her adequate training.  And shame on you for having no concern for...

Newark Confidential - Turnaround Children Inc. Transparency Grade: F

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[Cami] Anderson refuses to respond to open requests for information, and Turnaround officials are equally evasive... Attempts to contact Ne...

Weiner owes bump in the polls to black voters, Spitzer Soars Over Stringer, Does Lhota Have a Chance? Moskowitz in Future

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I'm ordering pins for the UFT leadership to wear: December 31, 2029. Weiner owes his bump in the polls to black voters, 31 percent of...
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Video – MORE Summer 2013: High Stakes Testing and the Schools Our Children Deserve

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MORE kicked off the summer series by taking a look at the effects of high stakes testing in our schools. Parents from Change the Stakes jo...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Critics of Tim Wise for Support for Teach For America

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Posted to MORE Listserves Dear New Orleans activists, Some of you may remember Tim Wise , who was an anti-apartheid activist at Tulane...

Stop and Frisk: My Articles in The Wave

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Over the past few weeks I wrote a few pieces for The Wave on S and F and race issues. Published July 5, 2013 Confronting Myself on ...