Monthly Archives: December 2008

published at 12:00 pm Sunday, December 21, 2008

Teachers demand turnaround moratorium (via Chi-Town Daily News)

Groups representing teachers and parents of Chicago Public Schools students appeared yesterday at a Board of Education meeting to protest the district's approach to turning around troubled schools. Read more: Teachers demand turnaround moratorium | Chicago News, Events and Culture | Chi-Town Daily News.

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published at 11:59 am Sunday, December 21, 2008

Charter schools Obama praised ripped at board meeting (via Chicago Sun-Times

A parade of teachers, parents and students complained Wednesday about the new breed of Chicago schools President-elect Barack Obama touted the day before when he tapped Chicago’s school chief to be his U.S. secretary of education. Read more: Charter schools Obama praised ripped at board meeting.

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published at 12:00 pm Thursday, December 18, 2008

Obama’s Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling (via truthout.org)

President-elect Barack Obama with his nominee for secretary of education, Arne Duncan. (Photo: Reuters) Since the 1980s, but particularly under the Bush administration, certain elements of the religious right, corporate culture and Republican right wing have argued that free public education represents either a massive fraud or a contemptuous failure. Far from a genuine call [...]

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