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Dear Loyal Supporters of Gov. Scott Walker, Though the Chicago Public Schools do not have money to give teachers’ a raise this school year, the powers-that-be found it necessary to purchase a $50,000 program to screen teacher applicants that many say isn’t working. Besides the teacher’s union being critical of the software approach to assisting the screening of teachers online, principal complain that applicants they wanted to hire are now not [...] From AP: CHICAGO (AP) — The nation’s largest education union has endorsed President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. Members of the National Education Association voted to support Obama on Monday at their annual convention in Chicago. In a statement, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel says Obama and the union share a vision and members wanted early and strong support to help his election. The endorsement comes a [...] NEW YORK — New York City lawmakers reached a budget deal Friday that will avert the layoffs of about 4,000 teachers partly through union concessions, but the city won’t pay to replace thousands more public school instructors who quit or retire this year, officials said. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn gathered with city lawmakers and the head of the teachers’ union Friday [...] IN 1783 Noah Webster, a schoolteacher, published the first edition of his American spelling book. It would become a standard text in classrooms around the country, selling 60m copies over the course of the next century. Webster’s view was that the new country deserved its own approach to English, more accessible than the version it had inherited. For Webster and his followers, literacy was a [...] Test Results Thrown Out in 3 DC Classrooms Because of Alleged Cheating
WASHINGTON – There is more fallout from the standardized test score scandal rocking D.C. Public Schools. Three elementary school teachers are now accused or suspected of cheating.
At issue is the 2010 DC Comprehensive Assessment System or CAS Test.
Three classrooms (out of 3,800 across the city) just had test [...] By Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times There are some serious issues here…… Good luck. Reporting from Milwaukee — Last year, Milwaukee’s struggling public school system fired the woman named Wisconsin’s outstanding first-year teacher because of union rules that protect senior teachers and require newer ones to be laid off first. As it cuts 560 more teaching jobs this year, the district faces a bill more than double [...] By Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times There are some serious issues here…… Good luck. Reporting from Milwaukee — Last year, Milwaukee’s struggling public school system fired the woman named Wisconsin’s outstanding first-year teacher because of union rules that protect senior teachers and require newer ones to be laid off first. As it cuts 560 more teaching jobs this year, the district faces a bill more than double [...] New Jersey’s Gov. Chris Christie took another shot at his state’s teachers today by describing their union leaders as “political thugs.” In an interview with ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer, Christie offered no apology for his often tough talk that has left some teachers feeling bruised. He also talked about the presidential possibilities of both himself and his “friend” Donald Trump, and criticism by Jersey rock icon Bruce Springsteen. ABC [...] The teachers union is one of the biggest lobbying forces. However their focus is not on education but on teacher compensation. The schools are not focused on what to teach kids nor what they need to learn. They are given guidelines by the state education system that are out of touch with reality. They are told to teach kids from other countries who can’t even speak a word of english [...] |
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Top New York Labor Leader Moves To Long Island, Saves $30,000 in City Income Taxes
One of America’s most powerful labor leaders, teachers union president Randi Weingarten, has quietly moved out of New York City, a decision that saved her from paying more than $30,000 in city income taxes that she would have owed if she had stayed.
Discussion of people fleeing New York City in part because of high income tax rates has mostly focused on high-powered conservative commentators and billionaire hedge-fund managers. Glenn Beck [...]