Why Lindsay Wagner's article today on Trinity Christian School should make us rethink the Opportunity Grants. We need this kind of journalistic integrity more now than ever. http://ajf.org/ncs-largest-voucher-school-embroiled-embezzlement-scandal-submits-incomplete-financial-statements-state/ "NC’s largest voucher school, embroiled in embezzlement scandal, files incomplete financial statements with state"
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Food Insecurity Affects Learning – Why Bureaucrats Need to Be Schooled on Schooling
Last week in the unveiling of Trump's budget, Mick Mulvaney proved once again that an administration which includes Betsy DeVos as secretary of education and others who have never had to face a lack of something in their lives really do not understand what factors truly act on students in need who rely on public … Continue reading Food Insecurity Affects Learning – Why Bureaucrats Need to Be Schooled on Schooling
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Tests Can’t Measure the Character of Students And Other Reasons Your Kids Aren’t Numbers
Invariably, in many social situations, I am asked that same ubiquitous question many people face: “So, what do you do for a living?” And when I answer that I am a teacher the reactions are varied. “Wow, that must be exciting!” “Do you guys still use red ink?” “How do you handle those kids?” “I … Continue reading Tests Can’t Measure the Character of Students And Other Reasons Your Kids Aren’t Numbers
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About Betsy DeVos’s Op-Ed in USA Today
Not only does she speak incoherently in confirmation hearings. Not only does she tweet her own platitudes. She now writes op-eds full of glittering claims without any data with a hint of some outlier data with simply no analysis bookended with enough bullshit to leave a stench in your nose to make you blame it … Continue reading About Betsy DeVos’s Op-Ed in USA Today
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Growth Vs. Proficiency, School Performance Grades, & A Dissenting Vote
Simply put, North Carolina should allow student growth to weigh more in the formula that measures school performance grades. (Honestly, we should get rid of it). This past week a bill passed the General Assembly House K-12 Education Committee that according to an EdNC.org report from Alex Granados “would change the calculation of the grades … Continue reading Growth Vs. Proficiency, School Performance Grades, & A Dissenting Vote
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The NC General Assembly Should Cap Class Sizes and Fund For Arts and PE – Jesus and Churchill Would. It’s About Investing In Our Kids, Not Using Them As Pawns.
Arika Herron’s recent Winston-Salem Journal column this past Sunday entitled “Too big to learn? Schools seeking waivers for exceeding class-size limits” brought to mind the ongoing disconnect that legislative leaders in our state have with reality when it comes to curbing class sizes in public schools. As reported last fall in a variety of media … Continue reading The NC General Assembly Should Cap Class Sizes and Fund For Arts and PE – Jesus and Churchill Would. It’s About Investing In Our Kids, Not Using Them As Pawns.
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If You Ever Wanted to Know About the Unwise Use of the Opportunity Grants Then Read This Report on NC School Vouchers by The Children’s Law Center at Duke Law School Of Law
The always vital voice of Lindsay Wagner of the Fletcher Foundation tweeted about this earlier today by posting the following table found in the Children's Law Center's recent March 2017 report called SCHOOL VOUCHERS IN NORTH CAROLINA : THE FIRST THREE YEARS. Let those blank spaces sink in for a minute. The lack of oversight by … Continue reading If You Ever Wanted to Know About the Unwise Use of the Opportunity Grants Then Read This Report on NC School Vouchers by The Children’s Law Center at Duke Law School Of Law
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Betsy DeVos, Free Lunches, and the HUA Complex
“I’m Betsy DeVos. You may have heard some of the ‘wonderful’ things the mainstream media has called me lately. I, however, pride myself on being called a mother, a grandmother, a life partner, and perhaps the first person to tell Bernie Sanders to his face that there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” In … Continue reading Betsy DeVos, Free Lunches, and the HUA Complex
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As I Lay Dying (Taking This Standardized Test) – A Faulknerian, Stream-of-Unconsciousness Summary of Five Sections of the ACT
Darl Jewel and I come down the hall and although I am a few feet head of him, anyone watching us from the end of the hall can see Jewel’s frayed trucker hat a full head above my own. Cora So I got out fresh batteries and checked my TI-84 calculator today. We depend a … Continue reading As I Lay Dying (Taking This Standardized Test) – A Faulknerian, Stream-of-Unconsciousness Summary of Five Sections of the ACT
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Open Letter to the Person Who Started the Twitter Threat to My School (Or Any School)
When you teach for a number of years in large public schools, you will invariably come across the situation in which a bomb threat or other threat is made against your school, and with the age of social media, even the tiniest rumor or spark or hint of something can become viral in a matter … Continue reading Open Letter to the Person Who Started the Twitter Threat to My School (Or Any School)
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