Monday, November 17, 2008

Vi copio incollo mail appena arrivata!!

WE WON'T PAY FOR THEIR CRISIS

WHY WE NEED TO TAKE A PAGE FROM THE EUROPEAN ACTIVISTS

from flickr:
"Italian students, researchers, workers and Dutch activists will meet up on Friday 14 in front of the Italian Consulate in Amsterdam to support the General Strike that takes place in Italy on the same day. On Friday the whole nation will be blocked by demonstrations against the approval of "Legge Gelmini", a law that seriously cuts down on public funding of education.

"We won't pay for your crisis": is the slogan shouted by protesters against Berlusconi governement's choices to destroy public education system. Not only in Italy. In Bruxelles, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Granada, Copenhagen students are demonstrating against the neoliberal agenda for the financial crisis diverting money from the public sector to private banks.

A tactical action will take place on Friday to reach also Dutch people, keeping them updated on what's going on in Italy and in Europe in these days.

We call students, researchers, teachers, activists and sensitive people in Amsterdam to join us to protect knowledge as a common good.

Friday 14 th, 2008
H 10.00
Italian Consolate, Vijzelstraat 79, Amsterdam

European Anomalous Wave, Amsterdam"

Sunday, November 09, 2008

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the first family in gorgeous socialist colors!! (only kidding!!! they look awesome!!! :)))

Flickr

This is a test post from flickr, a fancy photo sharing thing.
WHAT I SENT TO THE NATION

The “Corporate Mentality” BloomKlein Effect on Public Education

A budgetary formula that has paved the way for the abuse and harassment of senior, experienced teachers

-1400 ATR’s – experienced, satisfactory teachers who have been “excessed” and then denied open positions by principals – getting paid to cover classes and make copies – while principals fill their positions with other less senior and lower-paid teachers- and Klein continues to recruit and hire “his own” new teachers at base salary

-Teaching Fellows who are being denied tenure en masse and threatened with loss of jobs while new teachers are being recruited every day

-Teachers in one high school (“small learning community”) in Manhattan who reached their third probationary, “tenure” year and were forced to a 4th probationary year en masse by a retaliatory assistant principal

-700 teachers languishing in “rubber rooms” awaiting the knowledge of why they were placed there for years by principals who have been allowed by BloomKlein to arbitrarily remove teachers from classrooms at will

-The abolition of a seniority transfer system which now makes it impossible for a senior teacher to change schools


A budgetary formula and emphasis on testing that is destroying public education, resulting in

-students being denied “non-core” subjects mandated by the State, e.g. the arts

-principals who force teachers to teach in non-certified areas in order to “cover” these subject areas

-the destruction of special education as students “mainstreamed” into general education are losing or being denied mandated services

-principals and assistant principals playing around with the “numbers” in order to appear to be fulfilling mandates in special education, ESL, and graduation requirements, e.g. Regents passing rates, non-core subjects, and “electives”

-students being given online programs in lieu of actual classroom teacher
instruction in order to “fast track” them out of high school with “credits” and “diplomas” and create more false and misleading data

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Friday, October 31, 2008



let's all keep our fingers and toes crossed on this one!!

Saturday, February 09, 2008

Should teachers be paid more to work in tough schools?
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