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Thursday, May 29, 2014

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Teachers File Lawsuit in Memphis to Keep Jobs and Stop TFA Takeover

KIPP Offers Fast Track: Apply Before Midnight, or Whenever
An "invitational" is defined as a competition open only to those invited.  In this odd case below, KIPP, Inc. is exclusively inviting any warm body to apply at their Bay Area franchise, where 40-60 percent of students never make it from 5th to 8th grade and where the average teacher lasts 1-2 years. If you are looking for a teaching job next year, you may see this on the Web or ads like


Legislators File Open Records Request for Huffman Decision Trail to Delay State Test Results

On the day that TCAP scores were to be released in Tennessee, Kevin Huffman's team of TFA lawyers in Nashville called a quick "put down your pencils" timeout just before reporters were ready to write about this year's state test results.  In a scurry to make sure that "post-test equating" had been done "properly," local systems were left holding the bag, since TCAP is


5-28-14 Schools Matter - Nevada Dad Asked to Pay $10,194 to See Common Core Data on His Children
Schools Matter: Nevada Dad Asked to Pay $10,194 to See Common Core Data on His ChildrenBill Gates is a master at using his calculated generosity to make the world dependent upon the technologies that his drones are engineering and his worker bees are mass producing.  Common Core’s move to online testing and the federal extortion efforts to require massive data collection systems on students and te