Jim Himes knows how to appreciate teachers
This is why I'm a Democrat: I thought those 20 summers as nature counselor I spent slogging in swamps, dripping through woods, organizing worm races and netting that same trout counted toward my Social...
View ArticleBP Gulf Response Plan - cut and pasted
It looks like our crystal meth snorting, porn viewing distracted and overworked Minerals Management Service employees let this slippery devil slip past them.According to Public Employees for...
View ArticleU.S. spends $1 billion a year on each Al-Qaeda in Afganistan
The U.S. has committed nearly 100,000 troops to the mission in Afghanistan.Think Progress did some thinking, and Empty Wheel did more thinking and linking.Think Progress links to this ~ EXCLUSIVE...
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Teacher's union didn't invite Obama to convention
It wasn't lost in the mail:The National Education Association's convention began Saturday. No one from the Obama administration is set to speak.But in a sign of the Obama administration’s strained...
View ArticleNational school standards - administration buys into a right wing lie
Did your state FAIL???? Probably - it has a 76% probability.This from the NYTimes:Many States Adopt National Standards for Their Schools By TAMAR LEWINLess than two months after the nation’s...
View ArticleAfter saving lives, trucker fired
What is this all about?? A trucking company has fired the tractor-trailer driver who was praised by firefighters for her split-second decision to steer her rig into some parked fire engines and away...
View ArticleWalker's bill creates hand-picked loyalists
Via Uppity Wisconsion -another reason to dislike Walker:It's gotten no attention because of the bigger issues involved, but Gov. Scott Walker's so-called budget repair bill, among other things, would...
View ArticleDo you think your child might need special education? Forget about it!
Under a new mandate, states now use a 3 level tier system to assist and/or identify students who are struggling.Unfortunately, schools are now in mass confusion/denial about who deserves...
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The 1934 Milwaukee Electric Co. strike
My grandfather, Lewis C. French of the Milwaukee Journal wrote about the 1934 Electric Co. strike.Too bad Gov. Walker dropped out of college, because if he had studied his state's history he'd know not...
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CT collective bargaining rights in danger
This email is being read now by Connecticut teachers ~In the next several days, the Education Committee will consider whether or not to amend collective bargaining rights as contained in the Teacher...
View ArticleCNN ambushed my public school today
The term "ambush journalism" describes their visit.I warned my co's - I mentioned 'political agenda'; I told them that I Googled CNN's main educational researcher, Steve Perry, who is ~"understandably...
View ArticleRepublicans responsible for whistleblower 'secret hold'
The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (Bill S.372) flew through the Senate with apparently unanimous bipartisan support, but just as it reached the finish line it skidded to a halt, shot down by...
View ArticleWeiner's Twitter friends were invented
Although helped along by his own issues, there was a coordinated group of unknown (?) and unidentified people who created fake Twitter accounts to help push Weiner down the garden path ~Remember Nikki...
View ArticlePaul Ryan orders 2 $350 bottles of wine at a bistro
I know, I know, this really isn't diary worthy - so take it for what it's worth.Anyway, at TPM, one of Josh's readers was out for a birthday dinner in Washington, and spots Ryan schmoozing with two...
View ArticleReid & McConnell want to create a new Congress
A tea partier's dream come true?WASHINGTON -- Debt ceiling negotiators think they've hit on a solution to address the debt ceiling impasse and the public's unwillingness to let go of benefits such as...
View ArticleBillionaire attempts takeover of Bridgeport, CT Ed Board
Thanks to the excellent reporting of Linda Conner Lambeck of the CT Post, this was blasted all over the front page ~Outside interests were working behind the scenes to reconstitute school boardA...
View ArticleKansas City bishop indicted
It's about time ~Bishop Robert Finn on Friday became the highest-ranking Catholic official in the nation to face criminal prosecution in the decades-old child sexual abuse scandal — an action that...
View ArticleMissouri Repub using my CT city in attack ad against McCaskill
Doesn't this Missouri Republican who wants Claire McCaskill's seat have something better to do than attack my city of Bridgeport, CT?An attack ad by the campaign of Republican John Brunner, a candidate...
View Articlefreep this CT poll on tenure NOW
The PollThe Million Dollar Question ~Malloy's new plan would provide tenure to teachers after two-and-a-half years only if they earn exemplary grades on two teacher evaluations, based largely on...
View Article$25,000 offered to first who whistleblows on election influencing CEO
First saw this mentioned in the LA Times Group offers $25,000 reward for exposing secret corporate givingA Coalition of Public Interest, Consumer, Labor, and Progressive Groups Announce Major Campaign...
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