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Re: Economist Uses Charter School To Argue For School Calendar Change
Priscilla:
We can redistribute the wealth. Move all our accounts to small banks
and credit unions, support local Moms ' Pops businesses, and refuse to
participate in activities that demean human dignity like war and
testing.
Quan
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 1, 2010, at 12:20 PM, PRISCILLA GUTIERREZ <pgutpgut@msn.com>
wrote:
The economy is about to rebound and change in a big way? Oh
really? I see more of the same old same old - the rich getting rich
and the poor getting poorer. As I write this, let's not forget
that Goldman Sacks et al on Wall Street are raking in billions in
bonuses for trashing the economy while Detroit Public School
teachers are now required to fork over $10,000 of their salaries, to
the tune of $500 per month, to shore up the floundering district
(brought to you by the corporate/mayoral folks who were brought in
to fix the district). And lengthening the school day or creating
year-round schools are just what we need to get those little brown
kids up to speed with the white kids so they too can become part of
that elite Wall Street circle. I'm sure that spreading the wealth
is just what Bruce Katz has in mind...
Priscilla Gutierrez
...change is inevitable, growth is optional...
words of advice from Michael Fullan
From: Bussardre@aol.com
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 11:48:39 -0500
Subject: [arn-l] Economist Uses Charter School To Argue For School
Calendar Change
To: arn-l@interversity.org
CC: susano@gmavt.net
FYI:
Well, once again, education and the economy provide the argument
for a move
to a year-round calendar, using charter school experiences as
evidence the
change is beneficial bopth to the economy and education in general.
An Ohio economist is predicting his state will see great pressure
next year
to switch to longer days and a year-round school calendar based on
the
"success" stories of charter schools.
Anyone know anything about Ned Hill of Cleveland State University?
The same article has some interesting comments from a Brookings
Institution
analyst.
Happy New Year, folks. If you thought the last decade was hell for
education, it was just a dress rehearsal for the coming decade of
education
warfare.
---Billee Bussard
_http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/12/post_178.html_
(http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/12/post_178.html)
Welcome to the decade of the Super Region: Cleveland's future
entwined with
Youngstown's
By _Amanda Garrett, The Plain Dealer_
(http://connect.cleveland.com/user/amgarrett/index.html)
December 31, 2009, 10:56PM
Public schools will be pressured into year-round school and longer
days
after the success of good charter schools, Hill said, adding that
the public
school teachers shouldn't expect a raise. [Economist Ned Hill, dean
of the
urban affairs college at Cleveland State University, travels the
country as
part of his job.]
To survive, Northeast Ohio must set audacious education goals, Katz
said.
Blacks and Hispanics will soon be 40 percent of the work force and
they're
lagging most behind. Providing better education "is not just a nice
thing
to do, it's a competitive thing to do," he said. ["The bottom line
is the
U.S. just got the biggest wake-up call it received in the past 50
years,"
Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution said of the recession. We
have been
growing in the wrong way, he said, and must change to survive. "The
American
economy is about to rebalance and restructure in a dramatic way,"
Katz
said.]
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