According to the NYTimes, Obama’s been reading the same NYer article I wrote about last week:
President Obama recently summoned aides to the Oval Office to discuss a magazine article investigating why the border town of McAllen, Tex., was the country’s most expensive place for health care. The article became required reading in the White House, [...]
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Health Care & Education, Part 2
Mar Vista Moms
Here’s another grassroots campaign that came to my attention. A group of moms in Mar Vista have banded together to create video to promote the changes taking place at Webster Middle School. Mar Vista Moms @ Webster Middle School
What a great way to let people visit a school!
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Cuts Hurt Kids!
Yesterday Cuts Hurt Kids emailed asking for support. Here’s what they said about themselves:
The concept behind CutsHurtKids.org is a simple one: help bring unity among the grassroots resisters to budget cuts.
1. See what’s happening at other schools, and
2. if people know of an action to be added, they can submit links of online info/videos/pictures & [...]
Pink Slips
Yesterday was Pink Slip Friday in LAUSD. Friends and colleagues started texting at 6:30 in the morning reminding each other to wear pink, though preferably not pink slips or lingerie of any public sort, to work. It was festive and light-hearted, perhaps because it (and we) were still bleary-eyed about it all.
Then we went to [...]
Buy-bye Brewer?
All week LA’s newsmedia have been buzzing excitedly about the possibility that flailing David Brewer might be forced out or bought out or somehow thrown overboard the leaky ship that is LAUSD. The LA Times (which, not so by the way, has rolled its education blog, The Homeroom, into a new blog that covers not [...]
Oh I Wish I Were in Washington D.C.!
What a difference a day makes!
Today’s New York Times online included a story on Michelle Rhee, the controversial year-long superintendent for the troubled D.C. school system. She’s one of the many Ivy Leaguers who used a few years of teaching in urban schools via Teach For America to springboard into the forefront of educational policy [...]
