Re: [Fwd: California Report]

[tednellen <tnellen@IRIS.HOST4U.NET>]

huge battle between parents of the five schools and levy. vote by mar 28
or 29.

not sure how this will all pan out esp with mayor and levy on the side of
edison and parents fighting the good fight. dont know where uft union is
on this one.

tednellen

 On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Susan Harman wrote:

> Who are the NYC folks fighting Edison there? Anybody else care to help
> Jim out with this project? San Fran is on the verge of revoking Edisons charter.
> Susan
>
> Jmlecuyer@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 3/19/01 10:11:57 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> > langlois-rine@worldnet.att.net writes:
> >
> > << ca-resisters@serv1.ncte.org >>
> > Thanks Marilyn.  Someone at school heard me too.  I'm glad that Susan is so
> > out there, and I regret that I've just joined the fight, because there's
> > nothing better than a good, hard won fight to brisk you up a bit.  Roger Tom,
> > Liason Officer of the SFUSD Board of Education, wants to talk to me about
> > Edison, but I'll try to broaden his understanding of the issues into the
> > overall takeover of Public Schools by Bush and Gerstner and Donald Fisher and
> > the Fundamentalist Right, as I see it.  Any suggestions?  I think this is the
> > fight of this century, and that we can win it, and if we don't, the whole
> > world will suffer much more dreadfully than it is going to suffer now.  Also,
> > that if the Bushes have their thieving way, the public school system will be
> > gutted and cooked.  At any rate, before Wed AM, send me any ideas you have.
> > I've been devouring www.fairtest.org and Failing Our Kids booklet.  There's
> > another timely book, an anthology of progressive essays titled Not for Sale
> > edited by Anatole Anton of SF STate, and in particular an essay by Nel
> > Noddings (ISBN 0 8133 6618 6) that is very good on the attack on public
> > schools.  If anyone has an idea what should be said about Edison and how to
> > relate it to the broader attack, let me know.  Jim LeCuyer.
>
> --
> Susan Harman, Ed.D.
> California Coalition for Authentic
> Reform in Education (CalCARE)
>
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