Posts Tagged ‘Joel Klein’
Public Schooling Revolt Begins; Will Last for Years
By Linda Dobson PART 1 Recently, a reader wrote to compliment and ask how I see school/education trends coming. My answer, likely, was disappointing in its simplicity. Collect schooling news for a brief period of time; voila, the trend reveals itself. The current trend reveals hard times and heartache for families whose children [...]
CA Teachers Union Calls for Newspaper Boycott as NYC Parents Demand Answers
By Linda Dobson After the Los Angeles Times ran an article they termed an "analysis of teacher effectiveness," David Sanchez, president of the California Teachers Association, said, "Publishing the database … is irresponsible and disrespectful to the hard-working teachers of Los Angeles." He has called for teachers to boycott the [...]
School Layoff Announcements Keep Rolling In: VA, NYC, NJ, IN
Let me start by saying I dislike being the bearer of bad news, but I also don’t subscribe to the ostrich theory of burying one’s head in the sand when one doesn’t like what’s going on. Like my fellow human beings, I like to be right. But being right about this snowball growing ever larger as it builds up steam is about as unpleasant as [...]
