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Beware of Tech Titans Bearing Gifts

May 6, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

Chicago is getting $14 million through the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) that will be used for personalized learning, placing children online for their schooling. They are advertising their gift as “Supporting Chicago’s Teachers in Personalized Learning.” The Chan-Zuckerberg website motto is “We believe in a future for everyone.” Here’s my question. Do they believe in a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chicago, class size matters, Personalized Learning, teachers, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)

Public Schools Belong to the People—Not Just Mayors, CEOs, or the President

April 22, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

In Chicago, Troy LaRaviere has been fired from his principal position at Blaine Elementary School, partly because he sided with parents against high-stakes testing. Those who fondly regarded the outspoken administrator were stunned to learn of his ousting by mail. LaRaviere has been critical of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and others in the school system. I’d […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Barbara Byrd-Bennett, Bernie Sanders, Chicago, Chicago Principals and Administrators Assocition, Common Core, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), principals, privatization, PTA, Rahm Emanuel, teachers, Troy LaRaviere

Public v. Private Charter Schools and Bernie Sanders

March 14, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 10 Comments

Sen. Bernie Sanders is praising public education and teachers. Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), a neoliberal group that supports the privatization of public schools, is unfairly making Sanders out to be a flip-flopper on charter schools. When asked about whether he supports charter schools, Sanders says he “supports public charter schools.” He says the same […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Asean Johnson, Chicago, History, private schools, public schools, Ray Budde, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Teach for America

Destroying Special Education through Common Core Testing and Funding Cuts

August 25, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

How are things going with these special education cuts after time has gone by? I’m looking at what’s happening currently. Let me know of any program cuts in your school district and I will write about them. This was originally posted August 25, 2015. ___________________________________________ Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chicago, College and Career, Common Core, Florida, Funding Cuts, Hawaii, high-stakes testing, Individualization, Kansas, Minneapolis, New Hampshire, PARCC, Smarter Balanced Assessment, special education, Special Education Funding Cuts, states, Tennessee, Vermont

Denied Special Education Services: Parents Push Back for Students

July 11, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 41 Comments

The outrage concerning diminishing services in special education has recently surfaced in in three different places—Chicago, Fairfield, CT, and the State of Alabama. There are interesting similarities, and these places are certainly not alone when it comes to special education cuts. NOTE: If you would like to share what is happening to special education where […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alabama, Chicago, Fairfield CT, Special Education Cuts

Does the Tea Party Love Teach for America?

November 29, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

I read an interesting blog post by Plunderbund all about Teach for America in Ohio. Cleveland pays $9,000 (for two years) in addition to regular salaries and benefits to hire TFA. In other places, like Memphis and Pittsburg, Bill Gates foots the initial bill to TFA, usually about $5,000 per teacher, and then the school […]

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The Science of Scarcity and Sleep that Education Reformers (Want to) Ignore https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/03/20/the-science-of-scarcity-and-sleep-that-education-reformers-want-to-ignore/ via @plthomasEdD

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Things to ponder about the current discussions around SOR. From ChatGPT @ChatwithGPT
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I asked ChatGPT "Is the 'science of reading' settled science that determines how reading should be taught?" Here's the response. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/03/19/what-does-chatgpt-say-about-the-science-of-reading-it-may-surprise-you/

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"The privatization movement has been strategically designed...by billionaires and their fellow investors for specific purposes: to lower their own tax burden, and ideologically to dismantle public education." @NPEaction @NancyEBailey1 @TheAndySpears
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"Let’s honor our students by providing them free quality democratic public schools that reject no one." @NancyEBailey1 https://bit.ly/3FE0KFA

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