I encourage you to read this excellent Op Ed piece, “Class Matters. Why Won’t We Admit It?” from the New York Times (11 December 2011): www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/opinion/the-unaddressed-link-between-poverty-and-education.html. Witten by Helen Ladd, Duke University professor of public policy and economics, and Edward Fiske, former education editor at the NY Times,the Op Ed piece summarizes a longer report [...]
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I wrote this as part of my Masters in Educational Leadership, through San Jose State University School of Education. Here’s SJSU Prof Gary Stebbins when she came to Santa Clara University and spoke; he’s holding my copy of Ravitch’s book, which he got signed for me. (I would have attended myself but had a schedule [...]
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On Friday the 13th (of March), I received a pink slip, along with ~250 other teachers in PVUSD and nearly 27,000 across California. In May, when the District rescinded over 100 of those pink slips, mine was not one of those rescinded. The $14M of cuts they’ve made to PVUSD schools are “to the bone,” [...]
Yep, it’s a doozy of a Friday the 13th. I am one of approximately 26,000 teachers in California that received a pink slip today. PVUSD has made $13.8M in budget cuts for the end of 08-09 and 09-10, and those budget cuts include the elimination of my position. The budget deal reached last month in [...]