Correcting The Record On Education Reform
This post originally appeared here. There is no easy answer when it comes to what should happen with our schools — on the contrary, it is one of the most complex, multi-layered and now grotesquely politicized crises we have faced in a very long time. Within the educational context, it is likely the greatest challenge […] More
As Retort has documented over and over, UTLA is the tip of the spear for outlandish and opportunistic COVID-related demands. Making the rounds today is this visual outlining UTLA’s demands for schools re-opening: Alarmed that their crisis capitalization would go viral and make them look bad, UTLA leadership scrambled to push out a response via […] More
This post originally appeared on Project Forever Free. This week, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and subsequent outcry over police brutality, the National Education Association and the American Federation Teachers took the unprecedented step of calling on Congress to take legislative action to significantly reform practices and policies in policing. They […] More
This post originally appeared here. Police in Stillwater, Oklahoma, arrested Alberto Morejon on a charge of “lewd proposals to a minor.” Morejon is an 8th grade teacher at Stillwater Junior High and was one of the organizers of the statewide teacher walkout in 2018. In a press release with few details, police say they were […] More
Like most districts across the country, Milwaukee Public Schools has shuttered school doors due to the Coronavirus. Still, Crystal Manuel of Milwaukee is mystified that her son had yet to hear from his teachers while friends and family outside the city have hit the ground running with online instruction. In fact, until late last week, […] More
United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) sees an open window in the COVID-19 national crisis. Led by Teach For America alumnus Alex Caputo-Pearl, UTLA sent a letter to LAUSD Superintendent Beutner and board members calling for a halt on all new charter co-locations for the 2020-21 school year. That’s not all. UTLA also demands a moratorium […] More
Not ones to miss an opportunity to capitalize on a crisis, several teacher unions across the country are leveraging anxiety about schools and COVID-19 to threaten lawmakers and attack charter schools. In Southern California just yesterday, UTLA seeks to halt new charter co-locations for next school year by citing established misinformation. In Oregon, the Department […] More
Reposted from Good School Hunting by Erika Sanzi. The teachers’ unions in Rhode Island are masters of manipulation and sometimes their default is to cite student safety as their top priority. The school committee in East Greenwich is contemplating a policy that would “enable parents to enter the classroom to make formal observations of their child in […] More
A few years ago, the St. Paul Federation of Educators was boasting about how it was “bargaining for the common good” by using contract negotiations to advocate for policies that benefitted not only teachers, but parents and community stakeholders. As then-SPFE president (and current Minnesota Commissioner of Education) Mary Cathryn Ricker explained in a piece […] More
The Council of the District of Columbia will consider legislation that could lead to the dismantling of IMPACT, the teacher evaluation system that has been used by D.C. Public Schools for the past decade. The bill, which was drafted by the Washington Teachers Union and introduced by Councilman Trayon White last week, would make evaluations […] More
Tens of thousands of teachers in Los Angeles returned to their classrooms yesterday following a six-day strike that disrupted the lives of over 467,000 students and cost the L.A. Unified School District over $151 million in lost revenue. Tuesday morning, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, flanked by LAUSD Supt. Austin Beutner and United Teachers of Los […] More
A group of supposedly “progressive” organizations in California, including the California Teachers Association and the union-funded Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, are backing a voter initiative this November that would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a 23-year old state law that sets strict limits on local rent control laws. It’s the centerpiece of an effort […] More
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