Educational Justice

The Economic Crisis and School budgets

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:08:18 PST

The nation including California is suffering a severe recession. Twenty Six million are unemployed and under employed. This crisis was created by finance capital...

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Race to the Top: consultant employment project ?

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:22:34 PST

On Wed. Dec.2,2009, the California Assembly held a hearing on Race to the Top, chaired by Julia Brownley, Chair of the Assembly Education Committee. In her testimony, Jennifer Kuhn of...

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The Right to a great public education; California

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:28:56 PST

We've got to stop cutting public education. To ease the budget crisis, one state after another is taking an ax to higher education. This is cruel and shortsighted. Cruel because it denies students...

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Sacramento Multicultural Education Conference : Free

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:27:53 PST

Social justice educator Brian D. Schultz is the keynote speaker for the 16th annual Multicultural Education Conference, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 14, in Sacramento State’s University...

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Some Californians promote a constitutional convention

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:55:10 PDT

That California government is in a financial crisis is not news – but it is in crisis. And, that only 13% of Californians think that the legislature – both Republican and Democrats are doing a good...

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California Assembly Committee on Race to the Top

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:25:53 PDT

Hearing today at the Capitol . The 5th. Extraordinary Session. Assembly Committee on Education considering the Race to the Top Funds of the Obama Administration. Note; These funds are a part of...

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Teachers Unions criticize Obama school reform plans

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:39:33 PDT

Unions Criticize Obama's School Proposals as 'Bush III' By Nick Anderson Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 25, 2009 To the surprise of many educators who campaigned last year for...

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Response to Time on Duncan

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:35:50 PDT

Time Magazine published a feature on Arne Duncan. Here is one teacher's response. Dear Editor, Gilbert Cruz's feature on Arne Duncan and the Race To The Top program entirely missed the boat,...

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California Senate testimony on Race to the Top

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:58:01 PDT

Testimony before the California State Senate on California’s response to the demands of the Duncan Administration Race to the Top. The Senators asked excellent questions. They probed the real...

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NEA Slams Obama's School Reform Plan

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:47:03 PDT

From Class Struggle: by Jay Mahews. Here's a dispatch from my colleague Nick Anderson on the national education beat: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/class-struggle/?hpid=news-col-blog The...

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Race to the top- A failure in Education

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:22:42 PDT

The Honorable Arne Duncan U.S. Secretary of Education Washington, DC Dear Secretary Duncan, The $4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund presents you with a unique opportunity. By using this program to...

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Listen to the Teachers, not the corporate shills

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:09:32 PDT

I was giving a speech on the political control of public schooling to a forum here in Sacramento. A teacher in the conference asked, “ I understand your points on NCLB, on multicultural education,...

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California excluded from school reform funds?

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:28:24 PDT

A $4 Billion Push for Better Schools Obama Hopes Funding Will Be Powerful Incentive in 'Race to the Top' By Michael D. Shear and Nick Anderson Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, July 24, 2009...

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Arne Duncan and Chicago Schools

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:31:02 PDT

*CHICAGO PUBLIC-SCHOOL REFORM FLOPS, BIZ-BACKED REPORT SAYS* Crain's Chicago Business -- June 30, 2009 By Gregory Hinz Chicago Public School reform largely has failed, with the vast bulk of...

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The Scapegoating of teachers

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:04:06 PDT

Jonathan Alter Joins the Teacher-Scapegoating Chorus: I'm Calling BS Dan Brown. The Huffington Post It is convenient to blame teachers for America's education woes because it lets everyone else off...

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Education funding is the issue

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:00:04 PDT

Education Funding is the issue: Jonathan Alter: Newsweek. "Education is the dullest of subjects," Jacques Barzun wrote in the very first sentence of his astonishingly fresh 1945 classic, Teacher in...

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An open letter to Arne Duncan

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:06:38 PDT

Rethinking Schools, Summer 2009 From Herbert Kohl Dear Arne Duncan, In a recent interview with NEA Today you said of my book 36 Children, "I read [it] in high school … [and] … wrote about his book...

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California and the schools budget problem: Prop.13

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:53:43 PDT

Harold Meyerson: Prop. 13 opened state's road to insolvency By Harold Meyerson Published: Friday, May. 29, 2009 - 12:00 am | Page 15A To understand why the woes of California's economy threaten the...

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School budget cuts

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:56:05 PDT

I may have too simply of a response here, but if so, I am confident readers will explain it to me. We know that we have a major state budget crisis and a major school funding crisis. That is...

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CSU Fee increases; $378 - $6,300

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:48:05 PDT

CSU Trustees Increase Student Fees for 2009-10 as State Funding Declines Fees increase $306 per year for undergraduates. Up to $6,300 for some MBA grad students (May 13, 2009) – Facing serious...

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Economic Crisis and schools

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:17:07 PDT

Last year California had a serious budget crisis, over 34 billion in missing revenue. The legislature and the governor passed some temporary tax increases and made harsh budget cuts to get us...

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NCLB : listening tour

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:37:31 PDT

White House seeks input on education law By LIBBY QUAID The Associated Press Tuesday, May 5, 2009; 12:57 PM BUNKER HILL, W.Va. -- Embarking on a "listening tour," Education Secretary Arne Duncan...

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May Day : International Unions Statement

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:45:35 PDT

Check out the excellent statement on May Day, and a post on the California initiatives at http://www.choosingdemocracy.blogspot.com

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Does NCLB work?

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:56:34 PDT

New Study by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project: NCLB Ignores What We Know about School Change and Is Motivated by Politics A new report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, a non-partisan...

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Proposition 1 A

noreply@blogger.com (Duane Campbell) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:58:29 PDT

Prop. 1A -- Frog Soup, Anyone? You know the story of the frog who is thrown into a pot of water. If the water is too hot at the beginning, the frog jumps right out. But if the water is comfortable...

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