Who was the teacher in this FSA photograph? Hard to say. But if she didn’t have a union to support her (and few did during the Great Depression) I can tell you what she didn’t have the right to be: pregnant. If she were pregnant the local school [...]
A new study by Western Michigan University researchers is the second study I’ve written about this school year that has found the KIPP network of charter schools enrolls a smaller proportion of English-language learners and special education students than the school districts they draw from.
During the 2007-08 school year, [...]
I was waiting for my son’s transition IEP (Individual Education Program) meeting in the office of his new school (he will be leaving a pre-school special ed program next week and entering a general ed kindergarten class in August) when I saw hanging from the wall the Norman Rockwell illustration of a [...]
I was going to write a post that imagined what would happen if Secretary of Education Arne Duncan took over the nation’s wildfire fighting efforts, how he’d fire all of the fighters because they didn’t bring the Station Fire under control faster, replace them with firefighting charters that would only fight [...]
Have been taking a breather from my feed reader, too depressed to “mark as read.” The LAUSD School Board’s decision to allow for the privatization of 250 schools, about a fourth of all of the schools in the district, sent me directly to the DOE to see which/how many schools are candidates for charter takeover. [...]
Read today in the LAT’s coverage of charter Locke High School that the special ed classes aren’t so hot. Good thing next year Locke operator Green Dot will be taking them over too. I’m sure the school will use state special ed funds wisely. Don’t want to have the same problems [...]
At the risk of blogging this Edweek article by Leslie A. Maxwell into the ground…
A national study released today casts [...]
Education Week is a bit too soft on charters for me, but this article does give a good overview of how labor is trying to stake a claim in the new education frontier. Good luck to you if you want to read the whole thing: Edweek charges 70 bucks a year for premium [...]
Okay, just trying to figure out why the LA Times needs to bash public schools. Here’s what Muckety comes up with (click on the boxes):
Helen, wife of Sam Zell, LA Times owner, is what we call a Chicago venture philanthropist. According to Mike Klonsky:
This collection of [...]
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