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==Education Budget Cuts, Collective Bargaining, Curriculum==
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===May 05, 2011===
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&bull; [http://rochester.patch.com/articles/mcmillin-we-made-tough-choice-to-bring-excellence-back-to-classrooms McMillin : &ldquo;We Made Tough Choice to Bring Excellence Back to Classrooms&rdquo;]
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====Comment 1====
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Anyone with a working long-term memory knows where this agenda to Starve Public Schools Out Of Existence is coming from.
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Good thing there's web search for the rest of us —
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# http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-fTAhc4QC4
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# http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/04/972949/-Blackwater-In-Law-DeVos-outlines-stealth-plot-against-Public-Education
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# http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/3/12515/58655/Front_Page/Strategy_for_Privatizing_Public_Schools_Spelled_out_by_Dick_DeVos_in_2002_Heritage_Foundation_Speech
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====Comment 2====
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If you are on Facebook, there are several groups who are tracking the corporate feudalism agenda of the ALEC, DeVos, Koch, Heritage Foundation, Mackinac Center axis. Here are just a few that come to mind:
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# http://www.facebook.com/KochBrothers
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# http://www.facebook.com/wearredforpubliced
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# http://www.facebook.com/democracy.watchdog.action.network
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# http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-Bill-Cronon/163419837045434
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===May 23, 2011===
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&bull; [http://rochester.patch.com/articles/school-leaders-hoping-for-updates-feedback-and-solutions-during-budget-forum-tonight School Leaders Hoping for Update, Feedback During Forum Tonight]
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===May 24, 2011===
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&bull; [http://rochester.patch.com/articles/marleau-mcmillin-and-mull-speak-about-funding-cuts-to-rochester-community-schools Marleau, McMillin Update School Audience on State Budget Cuts]
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===May 31, 2011===
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&bull; [http://rochester.patch.com/articles/mcmillin-mentioned-in-cnn-blog-about-school-funding McMillin Mentioned in CNN Blog About School Funding]
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===June 07, 2011===
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&bull; [http://rochester.patch.com/articles/rochester-teachers-to-demonstrate-after-school-today Rochester Teachers to Demonstrate After School Today]
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&bull; [http://rochester.patch.com/articles/teachers-across-rochester-protest-state-budget-cuts Teachers Across Rochester Protest State Budget Cuts]
    
==May 23, 2011 &mdash; School Leaders Hoping For Update==
 
==May 23, 2011 &mdash; School Leaders Hoping For Update==
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Comment 24
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I am most gratified to see that my perspective-broadening influence on this Kaffeeklatsch Patch has led more and more of us Rochester Hillbillies and Hobbits to pay attention to what goes on in the wider world beyond the Shire. I myself spent a couple weeks last month tracking the revolting developments a little closer to home, to wit, the Emerging Corporate Raid on the Detroit Public Schools, and all the revelations about fraud, graft, and misappropriation of funds that occurred under the previous Emergency Magnifier. For those who had trouble telling one Robert Baron from another without a program, here's a bit of the blow by blow as it blew by.
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Rick Snyder to announce sweeping DPS reforms Monday (June 19, 2011)
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• http://www.freep.com/article/20110619/NEWS01/110619015/Rick-Snyder-announce-sweeping-DPS-reforms-Monday
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Governor Rick Snyder to announce sweeping DPS reforms today (June 20, 2011)
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• http://www.freep.com/article/20110620/NEWS06/106200359/Gov-Rick-Snyder-announce-sweeping-DPS-reforms-today
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Sweeping reform plan empowers principals, teachers in low-performing Michigan schools (June 20, 2011)
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• http://www.freep.com/article/20110620/NEWS01/110620027/Sweeping-reform-plan-empowers-principals-teachers-low-performing-Michigan-schools
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How new Michigan school district for low-performing schools would work (June 20, 2011)
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• http://www.freep.com/article/20110620/NEWS01/110620033/How-new-Michigan-school-district-low-performing-schools-would-work
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Emergency Magnification (cont.)
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Snyder had idea for changing DPS even before he was governor (June 21, 2011)
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• http://www.freep.com/article/20110621/NEWS01/106210388/Snyder-had-idea-changing-DPS-even-before-he-governor
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DPS's scholarship promise is short on details and resources (June 21, 2011)
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• http://www.freep.com/article/20110621/NEWS06/106210390/DPS-s-scholarship-promise-short-details-resources
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New start for Detroit's worst schools (June 21, 2011)
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• http://www.freep.com/article/20110621/NEWS01/106210383/New-start-Detroit-s-worst-schools
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Editorial • Stronger medicine for sick schools (June 21, 2011)
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• http://www.freep.com/article/20110621/OPINION01/106210320/Editorial-Stronger-medicine-sick-schools
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Eastern Michigan faculty side with teachers' unions, refuse to work in Detroit schools (June 22, 2011)
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• http://www.freep.com/article/20110622/NEWS01/106220413/Eastern-Michigan-faculty-side-teachers-unions-refuse-work-Detroit-schools
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Art dealer's trial to begin in DPS corruption case (June 22, 2011)
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• http://www.freep.com/article/20110622/NEWS01/106220383/Art-dealer-s-trial-begin-DPS-corruption-case
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Roy Roberts to cut non-teaching jobs, cancel supplier contracts in effort to transform DPS (June 22, 2011)
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• http://www.freep.com/article/20110622/NEWS01/110622024/Roy-Roberts-cut-non-teaching-jobs-cancel-supplier-contracts-effort-transform-DPS
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Comment 26
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Emergency Magnification (cont.)
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Eastern Michigan faculty side with teachers' unions, says they weren't consulted about plan (June 22, 2011)
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• http://www.freep.com/article/20110622/NEWS01/106220413/Eastern-Michigan-faculty-side-teachers-unions-says-they-weren-t-consulted-about-plan
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DPS spent $1.6M on travel, gave raises to consultants (June 24, 2011)
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• http://www.freep.com/article/20110624/NEWS01/106240431/DPS-spent-1-6M-consultants-travel
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Under Bobb, consultants got raises, perks (June 24, 2011)
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• http://www.freep.com/article/20110624/NEWS01/106240443/Under-Bobb-consultants-got-raises-perks
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Michigan Senate OKs teacher tenure changes (July 1, 2011)
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• http://www.freep.com/article/20110701/NEWS05/107010436/Michigan-Senate-OKs-teacher-tenure-changes
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Comment 27
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Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
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Bob Sikes • “The Atlanta Cheating Scandal, the Broad Foundation, NCLB, and the Peril of Attaching Cash to Student Test Scores”
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• http://bobsidlethoughtsandmusings.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/the-atlanta-cheating-scandal-the-broad-foundation-nclb-and-the-peril-of-attaching-cash-to-student-test-scores/
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Ann Kane and M. Catharine Evans • “Who's Responsible for the Government Schools Cheating Scandals?”
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• http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/07/whos_responsible_for_the_government_schools_cheating_sandals.html
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Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
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Bob Sikes • “Detroit Charter Schools Not Getting it Done Either”
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• http://bobsidlethoughtsandmusings.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/detroit-charter-schools-not-getting-it-done-either/
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Mark Gruenberg • “Probe shows union-busting Michelle Rhee wrote Michigan anti-teacher law”
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• http://www.peoplesworld.org/probe-shows-union-busting-michelle-rhee-wrote-michigan-anti-teacher-law/
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==Jul 08, 2011 &mdash; Lansing Visit Offers Time To Reflect And Ponder==
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* [http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder 08 Jul 2011 &bull; 5:30 am]
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===Comment 1 (Reply to Mike Reno)===
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* [http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1013715 08 Jul 2011 &bull; 9:50 am]
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Welcome to the Reno Casino, where SuperStar Teachers™ who prove themselves Ready 4 Prime Time™ will crush their competitors before cheering hordes of fans in the EduMart SuperBowl™, win Rheebok Shoe™ endorsements, and make a bundle in the Privately Owned States Of America™ Edumachination Industry™.
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===Comment 2 (Reply)===
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* [http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1015253 08 Jul 2011 &bull; 1:30 pm]
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Mr. Reno, Ms. T,
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If you knew many good teachers, and were actually capable of hearing what they have to say about the realities of teaching, they could tell you how many things are wrong with the things you keep saying. They would know a little — and some would know a lot — about the history of education, especially in the U.S. over the last hundred years, a little from their personal experience of school politics and teaching practice and a little more from their academic courses and professional reading.
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But of course you don't know any good teachers who could teach you those things — they quit being good teachers just as soon as they tell you what you don't know. And that is precisely why the history of education in the U.S. over the last hundred years has taught those who are capable of learning from it the critical importance of academic freedom, peer review, seniority, and the tenure system.
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===Comment 3 (Reply)===
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* [http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1015930 08 Jul 2011 &bull; 3:06 pm]
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Now, Mr. Reno, you know what he's saying. It is known in logic as “Argumentum ad Squirrelum”.  The public begins to smell a Big Greedy Rat stealing their cheese — so our corporate owned politicians and corporate owned media yell “Squirrel !!!” at the top of their well-funded lungs and point their bony fingers at poor public service workers just getting by on peanuts.
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===Comment 4 (Reply)===
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* [http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1016056 08 Jul 2011 &bull; 3:20 pm]
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To my way of thinking, communication is a two-way street. I'm just not seeing any evidence from his statements that Mr. Reno has absorbed anything more than cookies from his tenure on Sesame Street.
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===Comment 5 (Reply)===
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* [http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1016102 08 Jul 2011 &bull; 3:35 pm]
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Re: “If they don't represent us, then who are they representing?”
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Hint. Go Ask ALEC.
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===Comment 6 (Reply)===
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* [http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1016353 08 Jul 2011 &bull; 4:24 pm]
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Mr. Reno,
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Mr. Raymond wrote: “I understand the frustrations you are having with legislators not being responsive to their constituents. I've found the same problem in our own school district.”
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Mr. Raymond was astute enough to recognize a similar dynamics operating at two levels of government — a top-down, 1-way street, my-way-or-the-highway form of dictation, intended to communicate a pre-fabricated agenda downward to the constituents, as opposed to communicating the concerns and interests of the constituents up the line to those elected to legislate and act. I think many people have been noticing the same pattern pretty much all over the place lately.
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I do not think the similarities are purely coincidental.
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===Comment 7===
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* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1016565
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This just in …
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Timothy D. Slekar • “Cheating or Protecting? Depends”
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* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-d-slekar/cheating-or-protecting-de_b_892067.html
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Sorry, Ms. T, I couldn't find the Wobblie Spin on this, so this Little Libbie Ragtime will have to do for now.
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===Comment 8===
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* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1016780
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John Kuhn • “Stop Labeling Teachers, Label The Lawmakers”
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• http://mineralwellsindex.com/opinion/x1281108295/Letters-to-the-Editor-April-10-2011/
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Did you know that over the next five years, Texas lawmakers will send half a billion dollars to London, to line the pockets of Pearson’s stakeholders. That’s 15,000 teacher salaries, sacrificed at the altar of standardized testing. $500,000,000 for a test! I’m sure it’s a nice test, but it’s just a test. I’ve never seen a test change a kid’s life or dry a kid’s tear. Tests don’t show up at family funerals or junior high basketball games. They don’t chip in to buy a poor girl a prom dress. Only teachers do those things.
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Them Darn Texican Commies …
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===Comment 9===
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* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1016893
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I've been following these developments just long enough to observe that the same patterns of behavior are coming to light across the spectrum of charter and public “Reform Schools”, from Washington, DC, to Baltimore, MD, to Atlanta, GA. I think we can expect to see a lot more.
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I think that a violence was committed on our educational system when the Bush Administration infected a core function of our democratic society with an alien market dynamics. What we are seeing today is a consequence of that violation.
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But it's Fajita & Margarita Time — so Adios for now !!!
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===Comment 10===
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* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1017932
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For those of you who just joined the program, it appears that the inmates of Stalag 13 did not take Colonel Klink's dictates very seriously.
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* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1017992
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Susan Ohanian maintains a useful site for following the controversies arising out of NCLB and RT³ —
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* http://susanohanian.org/
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* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1019984
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The point of my little parody is that something has gone seriously wrong with the introduction of market dynamics into the usual routines of evaluation in education.
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Education is a public resource, a core component of a democratic society, not a private commodity to be merchandised by private interest corporations.
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It is obvious from their own position statements that a number of obscenely well-funded forces are striving to inject market psychology into people's hearts and minds for the express purpose of doing away with universal free public education. Other people may be drawn into the game from a lack of information about its ultimate purpose. As with any astroturf pyramid scheme, it is always hard to draw a hard and fast line between the shills and the marks, but I do not believe the great majority of people would be happy with the consequences if they could see where the con is headed.
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* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1021635
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Schools Matter • “Jonah Edelman Spills the Oligarchs' Blueprint for Crushing the Teaching Profession”
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* http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2011/07/jonah-edelman-spills-oligarchs.html
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As Lisa Guisbond said, “this is an amazing video from the Aspen Ideas Festival in which Stand For Children’s Jonah Edelman explains how he, with the support of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Arne Duncan’s senior advisor Jo Anderson (former Executive Director of the IEA) out foxed the CTU, the IFT and the IEA’s Ken Swanson and Audrey Soglin into agreeing to Senate Bill 7.”
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We do know some of what goes on at the Aspen Ideas Festival besides getting a chance to smell and touch sewer rats like Rupert Murdoch.  Here is a great example of massive ego mixed with manipulative glee that was posted and quickly pulled from the Aspen site, but not before Fred Klonsky captured a copy for the world to see and hear.
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In this Machiavellian masterpiece, we see Jonah Edelman of Stand for Children infamy describe in great detail how great wads of hedge-fund and other corporate cash came to bear on the last legislative election in Illinois, how all the best lobbyists were bought up by Deform (including minority ones), how unions were outspent and how politicians followed the money, how teacher unions were lured to the table and how they were totally manhandled by the best lawyers and negotiators that money can buy, how union leaders became complicit, scared, weak, groveling.
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* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1029600
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Updated Info On ALEC —
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Many of the Boilerplate Bills that are coming out of our Nation's Statehouses these days are being written as fill-in-the-blank form-laws by a crypto-lobby known as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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Several sites are now tracking the ALEC program of ghostwriting bills for the people we elect to represent our concerns and interests, and not the Will of ALEC.
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Democracy Watchdog Action Network
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* http://www.facebook.com/democracy.watchdog.action.network
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Wear Red For Public Ed
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* https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wear-Red-for-Ed/221599601212557
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Support Bill Cronon
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* http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-Bill-Cronon/163419837045434
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Bill Cronon is a distinguished history professor who came under attack when he wrote an article about ALEC and the Mackinac Center, so the people who came to his defense began collecting data about these issues.
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Related Tags at the Daily Kos —
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* http://www.dailykos.com/news/ALEC
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* http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Exposing%20ALEC
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Current updates at the Daily Kos —
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* http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/09/983573/-Exposing-ALECJune-Update-on-ALEC-Activities,-Articles-and-Links
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* http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/15/985433/-EXPOSING-ALEC2nd-Update-with-important-news-and-links
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* http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/20/986970/-Exposing-ALECupdate-3-+-Petition-for-your-State-Lawmakers
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* http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/01/989671/-EXPOSING-ALECALEC-Relationships-and-Update-4
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* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1029691
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Finally, a refreshing bit of honesty —
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ThinkProgress • “Pro-Voucher Tea Party Group Admits It Wants To ‘Shut Down Public Schools And Have Private Schools Only’”
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* http://thinkprogress.org/education/2011/07/11/265663/voucher-tea-party-go-away/
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==Nov 05, 2012 &mdash; McMillin, VanRaaphorst : Candidate Questionnaire Form==
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* [http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/mcmillin-vanraaphorst-candidate-questionnaire-form 04 Nov 2012 &bull; 8:14 pm]
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===Comment 1===
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* [http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/mcmillin-vanraaphorst-candidate-questionnaire-form#comment_5350630 05 Nov 2012 &bull; 1:10 pm]
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Since I can't imagine many people will be changing their minds between today and tomorrow, I find my own mind turning toward the day after tomorrow and the challenges ahead for the future of Michigan and the Nation.
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Whatever mix of executives, judges, and legislators we elect to each branch and level of government, they will all be charged to represent the People's Will in making one critical choice — the choice between democratic government and corporate government.  That is a choice that affects every other — from education, the environment, equality of opportunity and protection under the law, to public safety, public service, and whether we even continue to have a meaningful public sector in the future.
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As far as education goes, it is clear that all of us and all of our elected officials need to become better informed about the consequences of the paths we choose — the very viability of our democracy is at stake.
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The necessary conversation is not a new one, but it seems necessary to renew it from time to time, and this is certainly one of those times.  One of the places the needed conversation is occurring with rather more light than heat these days would have to be on the following site.
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* http://dianeravitch.net/
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I recommend it to you all.  If we don't become better educated about education, I fear we are doomed.
Jon Awbrey
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