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Teachers Need A Louder Voice In Setting Education Policies

Teachers Need A Louder Voice In Setting Education Policies: The Common Core – a set of K-12 national education standards – were conceived of by governors, designed by consultants, and have the support of teachers across the country. Yet Republicans are standing in the way in states like Michigan and Indiana. Michigan’s State Senate passed a budget measure preventing the Michigan Department of Education [...]/p

Chicago Closes 50 Public Schools, Spends $100 Million in Taxpayer Funds on Private College Stadium

The School Year Is Officially Canceled In One Michigan Town

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The Southern State Fast Becoming Ayn Rand's Vision of Paradise | Alternet

The Southern State Fast Becoming Ayn Rand's Vision of Paradise | Alternet
"As you would expect, this translates into hard times for its public school systems, which rank 48th in school revenues per student and 45th in teacher salaries. The failure to invest in education also corresponds with poverty: the state has the 40th worst poverty rate (15%) and the 13th highest state percentage of poor children (26%). 

Employment opportunities also are extremely poor for the poor. Only 25% have full-time jobs, 45% are employed part-time, and a whopping 30% have no jobs at all. So what do you do with all those low-income folks who don't have decent jobs? You put a good number of them in jail. In fact, only Louisiana, Georgia and New Mexico have  higher jail incarceration rates."

5 Reasons Why You Should Be Willing to Risk Arrest to Protect Public Education | Alternet

5 Reasons Why You Should Be Willing to Risk Arrest to Protect Public Education | Alternet
"Last Wednesday, thousands of Chicagoans turned out to demonstrate against school closures — 127 were detained and ticketed."

Arrests at Chicago schools protest | Common Dreams

Arrests at Chicago schools protest | Common Dreams
"More than 100 demonstrators taking part in mass civil disobedience were arrested inChicago on Wednesday as several thousand people marched against the largest proposed round of school closings in recent memory."

Chicago Is Ground Zero for Disastrous "Free Market" Reforms of Education | Common Dreams

Chicago Is Ground Zero for Disastrous "Free Market" Reforms of Education | Common Dreams
"If you want a glimpse of what slash-and-burn free market education reform does in cities throughout the US, look no further than Chicago."

Chicago Teachers: We Will 'Put Our Bodies on the Line' to Fight School Closures | Common Dreams

Chicago Teachers: We Will 'Put Our Bodies on the Line' to Fight School Closures | Common Dreams
"he mass closings of more than 50 schools in Chicago is being met with outrage by the city's teachers, parents and students and an analysis shows that the 'uncompromising' move by Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the office of Mayor Rahm Emanuel will cost the city as much—if not more—than the plan purports to save."

An Open Challenge to Michelle Rhee and the Corporate Education Zombies | Common Dreams

An Open Challenge to Michelle Rhee and the Corporate Education Zombies | Common Dreams
"Rhee, the prominent corporate education reform advocate, former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor, and CEO of the ironically-named “Students First” organization, now has Seattle in her crosshairs. In her March 5thop-ed for the Seattle Times, Rhee berated teachers at Garfield and other Seattle schools for their boycott of the district required MAP test."

Teachers Prepare 'Civil Disobedience' Tactics to Fight School Closings | Common Dreams

Teachers Prepare 'Civil Disobedience' Tactics to Fight School Closings | Common Dreams
"An announcement from Chicago this week reveals that teachers are preparing to ramp up their fight to save the shuttering of as many as 129 schools across the city, putting their bodies on the line in order to fight back on behalf of their students and the communities where they teach."

Sequestration Cuts To Education Programs Threaten To Widen Education Gap Between Rich And Poor

Sequestration Cuts To Education Programs Threaten To Widen Education Gap Between Rich And Poor: The achievement gap between school districts in high-income neighborhoods and those in low-income ones is already more canyon than crack, and if $1.7 trillion in automatic sequestration cuts are allowed to go into effect on March 1, that gap could grow even wider. Dozens of education programs would face reduced funding, but three crucial programs [...]/p

Corporations Advise School Closings, While Private Charters Suck Schools Away | Alternet

Corporations Advise School Closings, While Private Charters Suck Schools Away | Alternet
"There is nothing democratic about how this happened to the City of Brotherly Love. Though officials gave lip service to the idea of “parental empowerment” through “ school choice,” in the end, parents had no role in deciding what policies would be enforced. Everything was outsourced."

Seattle Teachers Spark Rebuke of School Standardization and Privatization | Common Dreams

Seattle Teachers Spark Rebuke of School Standardization and Privatization | Common Dreams
"Teachers, parents, students and other supporters cross-country declared "enough is enough" Wednesday as they joined in the National Day of Action and the growing tide of support for the Seattle teachers' standardized test boycott."