Clik here to view.
Rhode Island "Reformers" Out to Axe Teacher Pay and Benefits
From the Providence Journal: . . . . Under the proposal –– nestled in Governor Carcieri’s budget plan for the coming year –– charter schools would not be bound by prevailing wage, tenure and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rothstein Educates Pay Per Score Advocates
From Ideas in Action:Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face Tagged: pay-per-score, teacher pay, teacher performance pay
View ArticleClik here to view.
KIPP Baltimore Teachers Get 2.5 Percent Raise
What remains of that corporate rag the Baltimore Sun reported this week that the KIPP teachers in Baltimore will now get 20.5% added to their salaries instead of the 18% previously paid them, even...
View ArticleClik here to view.
And the Winners Are . . . The Test Scores
With the first round of bribes being announced today in Duncan’s Race to the Trough, it is now apparent that destroying the teaching profession is even more important to the Business Roundtable than...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Top Ten of the Bottom Paying College Degrees
Yep, that’s right–elementary school teachers, the ones that absorb the most abuse of the Wall Street ed reformers, they’re #1. Let’s make them earn that $33,000 a year. From Payscale.com,starting and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Saving 300,000 Teaching Jobs Equal to 2 Months of War Expenses in Iraq and...
(Slide from National Priorities Project) Click to enlarge. When the Wall Street bankster scheme was finally discovered in late 2008, the Feds under Bush rushed in $700 billion to rescue the the same...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why to Fight SB 191, and How to Get Even With the Prostisuits Who Support It
Great primer here by Angela Engel on how to get smart, get angry, and get even against corporate prosti-suits of the Colorado legislature and teacher unions: Don’t just get mad, Get Even – Senate Bill...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Astounding Hypocrisy of Chris "Mad Dog" Christie
One of the most humane social programs that New Jersey offers its citizens is the supplemental prescription drug coverage for those retirees trying to make it on Social Security. The new governor now...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I appreciate it, but…
The House was recalled from recess today to vote on a jobs bill that will apparently save the jobs of over 160,000 teachers, and perhaps more for police and other public services. That’s nice. That’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gates, Duncan, Friedman: Connecting the Dopes
Kevin Lamarque/Reuters (I would call it “Invisible Strings”) As the corporate education deform ship tacks following the grounding of the Oligarchs in DC, it is clear already that their new lay line is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Teachers as Widgets
The conversation on teacher pay continues. I can’t remember if I’ve referenced this before, but I read a great book a few years ago called Motherteacher by this curmudgeon named Redding Sugg. Well, he...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I think all the #edpolicy #wonks are overpaid
Check it out here. Please comment.Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face Tagged: education policy, education reform, overpaid, teacher pay, teacher salaries, wonk
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bloomberg Wants to Double Teacher Salaries–By Doubling Class Size
In the early 19th Century, an efficiency zealot before his time named Joseph Lancaster came up with a monitorial system for schooling the urban poor, wherein a single teacher served as overseer for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
#Walker in #Wisconsin could slash teacher pay by 30% with new rule change
Need we any more evidence that WI governor Scott Walker is an unimaginable bastard? Sorry for my language. Even if he is recalled, his legislative agenda has laid waste to a viable public sector. It...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tennesseans Respond to Chief Kevin’s Latest Assault on Teaching
The other news that got buried by Huffman’s new brain disorder to rob teachers of future step increases in pay has to do with the accompanying plan to cut the professional license from 10 to 6 years...
View Article
