The Koch-funded 'The EDvantage' group is using extracted clips from popular film and TV as examples for its libertarian and right-wing lesson plans. This has been written up at the Center for Public … [Read more...]
Suit Aims To Block Charter
The Globe today reports on the suit to stop the charter in Gloucester. http://tinyurl.com/28j8psz Updated article from the Gloucester Daily times with more details. http://tinyurl.com/2689f4w … [Read more...]
Gloucester Parents Group Sues over Charter
From the Gloucester Daily Times: http://tiny.cc/a0fxh A group of Gloucester public school students' parents today filed a lawsuit aimed at overturning what they allege was an illegal approval of a local charter school that will harm the … [Read more...]
Sharon Guzik: A Much Needed Progressive Runs for Medford School Committee
This year Medford finally has an opportunity to elect a progressive candidate to its school committee. Since July, Sharon Guzik and her supporters have been walking the breadth of Medford to listen to residents' thoughts on the state … [Read more...]
Shutting down the school to prison pipeline – what can we do?
Here is the bibliography:http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/05/28/problem_students_in_pipeline_to_prison/ School to prison pipeline: http://www.naacpldf.org/conten... NAACP Legal Defense … [Read more...]
Secret Ballot
Also new is a proposal not to have classes on three Tuesdays when city voters will go to polls - September 25, November 6 and March 4.Kaiser said that principals requested the change as some schools host polling sites and the presence of … [Read more...]