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Posts under ‘Policy’
She So Gets It
There is a very smart new Member of Congress from California who gets it. Congresswoman Judy Chu is tired of jumping on rickety legislative bandwagons of blame and shame and name the bad guys and all will be magically right with all of our schools. She’s an educator. So she knows it’s complicated. So she [...]
National Teachers’ Day vs Pink Slip Week
this is the week that perhaps up to 250,000 teachers and vital support staff will be receiving pink slips telling them that due to the financial crisis, there is no money to pay them next year.
Keep our Educators Working!
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) proposed the “Keep our Educators Working Act of 2010” bill that would provide $23 billion to extend the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
State of the Hopeful Union
My friend said to me, “I missed the President’s speech. What’d he say? Give me hope.” Ok. He talked a lot about jobs. She said, “Jobs? Give me hope about schools!” I reminded her that he gave us a down-payment on his promise to make education a priority by not only including jobs protection in [...]
