My friend, Dr. Mark Naison, wrote a beautiful piece a while ago about his vision for education, which he graciously allowed me to reprint. I loved his idea of schools as community centers. I wanted to talk to about that for a minute: I’ve worked in schools that began using their personnel and resources to […]
The struggle to save LAUSD’s adult education program
January 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Update: The Save Adult Education Website has petition blanks, phone numbers to contact individual Board Members, contacts for letter writing campaigns, and so much more! In the case that you can’t sign a paper petition (which are preferable), there’s also an online petition. SaveAdultEd.org also has a facebook page and a twitter feed. Whatever support […]
Cutting Libraries in a Recession…
October 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
99% Educator Sarah Knopp interviewed at OccupyLAUSD
October 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
#Marching in #WI
February 18, 2011 By 3 Comments
What to Cut in Schools During the Depression, and It Ain’t Libraries
July 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Rather than accepting the cheap RTTT bribes inspired by Gates and Broad to bust up public education even further, states need to gird their loins, make some tough decisions, and hunker down. From Joanne Yatvin in Oregon.com: By Joanne Yatvin The job of destroying America’s public schools, left unfinished by No Child Left Behind, has […]
Cuts Coming to Portland (OR) Schools
June 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
From Carole Smith, Superintendent of the Portland Public Schools (OR): Central support and operations: $3.1 millionPPS central services and operations — including administration, finance and payroll, transportation, building maintenance and more — will cut spending on materials and services, as well as reduce staff by the equivalent of 25 full-time positions (or FTE). Special education […]
Higher ed connections
June 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
There’s wind of some rules concerning for-profit colleges from the DOE. Under consideration are the eradication of paying recruiters per student and adjusting the debt to income ratio. All good things. Inasmuch as reform is coming to the K-12 level, it looks like the universities are getting their share as well. Now, what is interesting […]
Zero Tolerance for Peaceful Protest at Southwestern College
October 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
From Inside Higher Ed: On Thursday, several hundred students at Southwestern College, a community college outside of San Diego, held a peaceful protest over budget cuts that are leading to the cancellation of more than 400 additional course sections next semester. On Friday, the students got a sign that someone was paying attention to the […]
Cutting Education
If you thought the recession’s impact on schools was swift and immediate, think again. Sure – revenues dipped, but stimulus funds made things less worse than they would have been otherwise. Now that those funds are nearly entirely gone… From the Center on Budget and Policy and Priorities: The cumulative effect of four consecutive years […]