Month: July 2018

D.C.: Teacher Fired by Rhee Wins Arbitration After 9 Years of Delays, Will Receive Lost Compensation and His Job Back – What Impact Might This Have in North Carolina?

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First, I will ask you to read the article the Dr. Ravitch has on her post. It is below. Secondly, I  will ask you to read a post from January of 2017 from my blog about when BESTNC brought in Michelle Rhee to talk to legislators about education in a closed door session without press and without teachers. Needless to say that Rhee might have been touting PROJECT IMPACT (An Open Letter to BEST NC Concerning Meeting With Michelle Rhee -Every Public School Teacher Needs To Be Aware Of This).

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Michelle Rhee always boasted about how many teachers she fired. She was sure that “bad teachers” were the root of the low academic performance in D.C. She loved her IMPACT program, which weeded out teachers, and many good teachers were fired and went elsewhere, where they were not ineffective.

Here is one teacher who fought back and won. It took nine long years, but he won. Michelle Rhee ruined his life.

For nine years, Jeff Canady lived in a cash-strapped limbo. The D.C. Public Schools teacher was fired in 2009 after 18 years in city classrooms, the school system deeming him ineffective.

Canady, 53, contested his dismissal, arguing that he was wrongly fired and that the city was punishing him for being a union activist and for publicly criticizing the school system.

For nearly a decade, Canady, jobless and penniless, waited for a decision in his case — until now.

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The Contradiction of Educational Reform and the Paradox of Great Teachers

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Contradiction versus paradox. They are not that different, but in actuality they are. Merriam Webster defines a “contradiction” as, : the act of saying something that is opposite or very different in meaning to something else : a difference or disagreement between two things which means that both cannot be true Here are some examples: “Do what … Continue reading The Contradiction of Educational Reform and the Paradox of Great Teachers

About That ReOrg at DPI And What The Hell Is a Deputy Superintendent of Innovation?

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As reported yesterday by many outlets, Mark Johnson announced a reorganization at the Department of Public Instruction, one of the many results of a recent court case that took over a year to settle and an audit that cost over a million dollars which said that DPI was underfunded. Alex Granados of EdNC.org published the … Continue reading About That ReOrg at DPI And What The Hell Is a Deputy Superintendent of Innovation?

The Fragilepidermalitis of Phil Berger – A 50K Diagnosis of One Tweet

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The North Carolina General Assembly convened a special session within 24 hours to be able to provide a certain spin to how constitutional amendments are worded on a ballot that will allow a group to seize more power of the state government. The reason for such a swift call to a special session that costs … Continue reading The Fragilepidermalitis of Phil Berger – A 50K Diagnosis of One Tweet

Dear Berger and Moore, If You Are Going to Call Another Special Session, Then Maybe…

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...they should consider this one tweet from Kris Nordstrom. Special sessions under the Berger / Moore regime have been nothing more than power grabs - HB2, HB17, etc. But considering that there is fear on the part of Berger and Moore, maybe their special session concerning the six amendments and their wording could also be used … Continue reading Dear Berger and Moore, If You Are Going to Call Another Special Session, Then Maybe…

According To This Gentleman, Teachers Are Going to Strike In October And They Don’t Know It Yet! Part 2 – A Response to the Response

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Mr. Goetze, I am in receipt of your response to my response to your issuance of an op-ed claiming that Red4Ed was calling for a week-long strike of teachers in October. You posted it to my blog’s Facebook timeline on Saturday. You started, “I admit I do appreciate you calling me out in a forum … Continue reading According To This Gentleman, Teachers Are Going to Strike In October And They Don’t Know It Yet! Part 2 – A Response to the Response

According To This Gentleman, Teachers Are Going to Strike In October And They Don’t Know It Yet! Concerning Conspiracy Theories and Slippery Slopes.

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Apparently, there is to be a HUGE teacher strike in October. News of the covert actions to bring such an event together started here: Yes. It is real. And then because everything that gets published on the internet is true, it grew into this from a gentleman who was on the Facebook thread of the … Continue reading According To This Gentleman, Teachers Are Going to Strike In October And They Don’t Know It Yet! Concerning Conspiracy Theories and Slippery Slopes.

Civics Class in Action – More Young People in NC Registered to Vote

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Recently Targetsmart, a data collection firm, released a report on voter registration entitled "ANALYSIS: AFTER PARKLAND SHOOTING, YOUTH VOTER REGISTRATION SURGES." In every one of the 39 states targeted except four, voter registration in the age group of 18-29 has risen. In NC, it has risen by %5.5. Joe Killian of NC Policy Watch highlighted … Continue reading Civics Class in Action – More Young People in NC Registered to Vote

“At” The Table or “On” the Table – The Need for Teacher Input in Educational “Reform”

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You can be either “at” the table or “on” the table. For teachers in North Carolina, there are many other prepositions that could identify the relationship between the legislation process and teacher input such as “under” the table, “without” a place at the table, or “behind” the table. As a veteran public school teacher, when … Continue reading “At” The Table or “On” the Table – The Need for Teacher Input in Educational “Reform”

Remember Longevity Pay? NC Teachers and School Based Administrators Are the Only State Employees Who Do Not Receive It. There’s a Devious Reason.

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In the long session of 2014, the NC General Assembly raised salaries for teachers in certain experience brackets that allowed them to say that an “average” salary for teachers was increased by over 7%. They called it a “historic raise.” However, if you divided the amount of money used in these “historic” raises by the … Continue reading Remember Longevity Pay? NC Teachers and School Based Administrators Are the Only State Employees Who Do Not Receive It. There’s a Devious Reason.