tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470115786787140224.post8127886468019011342..comments2023-05-24T04:41:24.313-04:00Comments on heard, half-heard, in the stillness: Don't know the answer but I know who to blamesarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04796940410833284009noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470115786787140224.post-53125088492649265282012-05-16T21:58:47.537-04:002012-05-16T21:58:47.537-04:00Re: School District of Philadelphia
There is a pa...Re: School District of Philadelphia<br /><br />There is a paper called The Notebook (www.thenotebook.org) that is committed to informing the public of issues regarding education in Philly--you'll get a little more up-to-the-minute information that way.<br /><br />Also, we were told at a PD, before Knudsen made his announcement, that the goal of this "school reform" is actually to have 80% of children in the city enrolled in charters by 2017. <br /><br />Politically speaking, this plan serves two purposes. On the local level, if the SRC/City Council/Mayor Nutter can push this through, they will have broken the teachers' union, and if they do that, they can break any union in the city (we're the biggest union). At the state level, they're looking to privatize so that Philly teachers will no longer be eligible to receive state pensions. As long as they charge $1 per student per year, the school is considered private and the teachers are out of PSERS. Those are powerful motivators, and I suspect this SRC is more than willing to invoke Act 46 to override the union contracts.BeautyThroughPainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10542414947613621400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1470115786787140224.post-58096228259135496422012-05-16T20:26:45.084-04:002012-05-16T20:26:45.084-04:00I appreciate the article about state-by-state marr...I appreciate the article about state-by-state marriage. I have heard Obama's announcement called "tepid" elsewhere, and I just don't see how that's the case. If you take him seriously as a person of faith, then his account of his personal struggle with the issue is anything but. If you view the issue politically, there is no conceivable motivation for him to make this announcement: he had no trouble garnering the gay vote in 2008 when he was still "evolving" and as the N.C. vote shows, the Republicans aren't about to triangulate left on this (or pretty much any issue.)rharwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01774697628772784998noreply@blogger.com