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Zero Tolerance for Peaceful Protest at Southwestern College
From Inside Higher Ed: On Thursday, several hundred students at Southwestern College, a community college outside of San Diego, held a peaceful protest over budget cuts that are leading to the...
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Higher ed connections
There’s wind of some rules concerning for-profit colleges from the DOE. Under consideration are the eradication of paying recruiters per student and adjusting the debt to income ratio. All good things....
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Cuts Coming to Portland (OR) Schools
From Carole Smith, Superintendent of the Portland Public Schools (OR): Central support and operations: $3.1 millionPPS central services and operations — including administration, finance and payroll,...
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What to Cut in Schools During the Depression, and It Ain’t Libraries
Rather than accepting the cheap RTTT bribes inspired by Gates and Broad to bust up public education even further, states need to gird their loins, make some tough decisions, and hunker down. From...
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#Marching in #WI
A lot of crazy stuff happening in Wisconsin. Some people are calling it Cairo in the US, something like that. I don’t know if I agree with that, kind of belittles what is happening in the Middle East....
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Cutting Education
If you thought the recession’s impact on schools was swift and immediate, think again. Sure – revenues dipped, but stimulus funds made things less worse than they would have been otherwise. Now that...
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99% Educator Sarah Knopp interviewed at OccupyLAUSD
Teachers and students and parents are part of the 99% and that we’re really one of the groups that has taken the brunt of the economic crises… In reality public employees and our unions are being...
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Cutting Libraries in a Recession…
“Cutting Libraries in a Recession is like Cutting Hospitals in a Plague.” — Eleanor Crumblehulme HT/4LAKids Tagged: budget cuts, John Deasy, lausd, neoliberalism, poverty, privatization, school libraries
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The struggle to save LAUSD’s adult education program
Update: The Save Adult Education Website has petition blanks, phone numbers to contact individual Board Members, contacts for letter writing campaigns, and so much more! In the case that you can’t sign...
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On adult education’s critical role in social justice
Photo by Yoon Jung Lee This essay first appeared March 13, 2012 on the National Coalition for Literacy site as part of their discussion series on “Cut the Excuses, Not Education! How SaveAdultEd.org Is...
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Schools as Community Centers
My friend, Dr. Mark Naison, wrote a beautiful piece a while ago about his vision for education, which he graciously allowed me to reprint. I loved his idea of schools as community centers. I wanted...
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Save LAUSD’s SRLDP Preschools for English Language Learners
First published on solidaridad on June 15, 2013 Because we know that language learning doesn’t occur in one year or even in a few months, it’s over time.—Becky Palacios, Ph.D. The School Readiness...
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Dana Woldow: Denying Children Food is Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
Dana Woldow: Denying Children Food is Penny Wise, Pound Foolish Tagged: budget cuts, class, education, neoliberalism, nutrition, poverty, privatization, racism, rdsathene
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