Citizens must demand that their respective Congressmen review the delegation of authority to the Judicial Branch under the U.S. Judicial Conference Act to not only conduct secret meetings with the Executive Branch, as in an upcoming Judicial Boondoggle, but more importantly to use court rules to deprive citizens of substantive rights.  This is because, "[t}here is no crueler tyranny than that which is exerc ...

Back in July of 2010, I reported on the New Jersey Teacher's Village taht would combine zoning for three charter schools and corporate labor houses  for corporate teachers. Well, the plan came to fruition and the big sponsors, along with Chris Cristie, who you would expect to pass the begging bowl to corporations is Mayor of Newark, NJ, Corey Booker.  Booker, like Rubio has become the darling of the reactio ...

From Larry Miller’s blog: Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students! May 21, 2012 Milwaukee’s Education Privatization Explained: What’s the Difference Between Public Schools, Voucher Schools and Charter Schools? What’s the Difference? Voucher schools, Charter schools, Milwaukee Public Schools Published in May 2012 by the non-partisan Democracy and Education Research Group. Email: democracy.education.milwauk ...

Thursday May 24, 2012 at 11:15 AM there will be a General Assembly for the League of Student Workers at Santa Monica College.  I’ve been told the meeting is going to be pretty informal; the group is meeting to create a contact point for the Student Workers, introduce the committee members and present the annual report.  Student-workers are going to vote on whether or not they want to submit the report to th ...

Published on May 15, 2012 by     iamcompucomp In order to stay competitive with the Chinese, who are now using I.V. drips of amino acids to raise test scores, Arnie Duncan has launched the "Drip to the Top" for junior I.V. Leaguers. It's a wild ride in America on "goof balls" but with the population under the screws of the pharmaceutical industry and drugs, both legal and illegal, being doled out and taken ...

Rick Hess's Straight Up blog at Education Week proves often to be valuable not for his intended messages, but for what he reveals about education reformers committed to choice and competition as paradigms for that reform. In his "Sanctimonious Scolding Isn't a Great Strategy for Promoting School Choice" posting, Hess makes an important statement at the end: "Rather than obey the moral instruction of do-good ...

You can find it at: http://castudentunion.wordpress.com/ It became apparent at the May 12, 2012 SF meeting of students, faculty, citizens, and workers from the 112 Community Colleges in California in attendance that the need for a state-wide Student Union was a necessity now that the material conditions of capitalism have gone beyond neo-liberalism to actual the merger of corporate and state.  This now tran ...

  If you are not familiar with the proposal coming out of the state government regarding privatizing and fianancializing community colleges in California please go to the website http://nosstf.blogspot.com and familiarize yourself with the issue.  One of the best fact sheets and analysis of the Orwellian named “Students Success Task Force” has been done by No SSTF at: http://nosstf.blogspot.com.  In a ...

I was reading the latest May 2012 issue of Harper’s Magazine, when I noticed on the infamous last page of the magazine under, “Findings”, the following finding: “Rich people are likelier to steal candy from children” (Harpers, May, 2012, Findings, pp.80). I thought about it for awhile and it made sense.  In fact, childhood itself has been stolen.  The rich who run corporate America and indeed the corporate ...

Just days ago, I completed my twenty-eighth year as a teacher—eighteen as a high school teacher of English followed by ten years as a professor of education. And I am excited about the coming semesters because, as I have felt every year of my teaching life, I know I failed in some ways this past academic year and I am confident I will be better in my next opportunities to teach. As a teacher, I am far from ...