38 Studios and the ‘Job Creator’ Logic
The news is not good for the $75 million dollar gamble that Governor Carcieri talked the state of RI into taking. It looks like 38 Studios is already looking for a bailout. From Bob Plain at the RIFUTURE blog: 38 Studios and the ‘Job Creator’ Logic.
Vince Marsala: Politicians are Wrecking Our Schools - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Reblogged from : As election season nears, grandstanding Democratic and Republican politicians will discuss the importance of educators and not teaching to a test. Then, with their empty rhetoric still in the air, they will enact laws that base evaluations on test scores, weaken due process, and inject competition. Meanwhile, many news organizations, who have [...]
Mainstream Media Picks up Oswald Krell Post on Tax Inequality in Rhode Island
If you listen to most politicians in Rhode Island, they will try to tell you that we can’t tax the rich because “they might leave us!” Well, if we had national legislation to tax the rich such as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is proposing, they wouldn’t have anywhere to go. And furthermore, it’s just not true [...]
Sign the Petition to Support Teachers in Providence
Go here to sign a petition demanding that the new Mayor of Providence, Angel Taveras, stop the unfair labor practice of terminating all Providence teachers. The petition states: We demand a reversal of the dismissal of Providence teachers. Students deserve stable schools where teachers are not punished for a fiscal crisis they didn’t create. Teachers [...]
Do Providence Teachers Have to Apply to Be Rehired or Not?
It’s understandable that teachers are feeling anxious and afraid in Providence. But let Mayor Taveras reassure you — he is not out to bust the unions, so that solves that question. Whew, glad the Mayor is still the moral, union-supporting person that I thought he was. Still, a lot of other unanswered questions linger about [...]
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