Do We Value Experience in Teaching? and Other Big, Hairy Questions
I try not to think too much about the Providence teacher terminations (my inner therapist says I should be exercising instead) but I can’t help but ask a couple of questions. Here’s my first big, hairy question about the teacher terminations: if Providence gets away with it, how long will it be before they try [...]
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 [...]
Bob Walsh Responds to Mayor Taveras on Teacher Terminations
Mayor Taveras asked on Facebook for people to respond to his decision to send out the termination notices to Providence teachers, and NEA Executive Director Bob Walsh replied: Since you asked: I think the terminating rather than laying off teachers is not only a violation of the law, it is a violation of the trust [...]
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 [...]
Kmareka Predictions 3 for 3
Well, my far more prescient and wise co-blogger Nancy was responsible for the first two correct predictions, and I can make claim to the third — predicting that Central Falls would be laying off some teachers in the New Year. I’m not sure I should be given any fortune-teller points for this, though. Some things [...]
Mayor Taveras Inauguration
I am typing this with frozen fingers, because for inexplicable reasons we do these things in January. But it was a beautiful sunny day and hundreds were there for the civic occasion. Some local color– there was a man with a beautiful white bulldog wearing a tuxedo (the dog, not the man). The two ministers [...]
Meeting About Mashapaug Commons (Former Gorham Toxic Site)
The federal government has done a study of the health impacts of the Gorham site in South Providence, which was rehabilitated into Mashapaug Commons, which now stands mostly vacant, next to a newly built high school, Alvarez High School, which has a system for pumping potential toxic underground fumes away from the school. From Amelia [...]
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