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Tennessee Legislators Cry, “Thank God for Memphis!”

April 5, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Many voucher plans are popping up in state legislatures across the country. Here’s what’s happening in Tennessee. By Jim Gifford No matter what, many Tennessee legislators know a good deal when they see it. If a proposed new bill or untested program concerning public education is considered too risky or is unpopular with the constituents […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Achievement School District (ASD), Betsy DeVos, Memphis, Public School Privatization, Tennessee, Tennessee Legislature, TN Rep. Harry Brooks, TN Sen. Brian Kelsey, Voucher Plans, vouchers

More on Memphis School Cuts and the Broad and Gates Foundations

April 14, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

The Blues City is earning its name when it comes to public schools. Both the Broad and Gates Foundations have seen to it. The other day I posted about cuts to Memphis (Shelby County Schools). I was quickly reminded, rightly so, that these were proposed cuts—like maybe there would be some kind of rollback in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Achievement School District, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Broad Foundation, charter schools, iZone Schools, Memphis, Relay Graduate School of Education, Rocketship, School Privatization, Shelby County Schools, special education, Teach for America, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Preparation, teachers

Drastic Public School Cuts in Memphis—The New America

April 7, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 13 Comments

Shelby County Schools in Memphis are cutting programs like special education and teachers and staff and other important positions and resources that help a good school function. They need to make $50 million or maybe even $86 million in cuts to public schools. The biggest hit to a single department under academics is in special […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Academic Enrichment Programs, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Business Operations, Classroom Supplies, Education Secretary John King, Every Student Succeeds Act, Inservice, iZone Schools, Memphis, Middle School Athletics, New York, Reading Teachers, Reduced Benefits, School Budget Cuts, School Counselors, School Maintenance, Shelby County Schools, special education, Textbooks, Transportation

Memorial Day Tribute to Staff Sgt. Morgan Deshawn Kennon (1980-2003)

May 24, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

Like many, I hate war. I don’t understand why we haven’t evolved to a better civilization after all this time. As an educator, I am saddened especially by all the young lives that have been lost throughout the years. Whether you agree with the circumstances surrounding a war, or not, the sacrifices soldiers make should […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Memorial Day, Memphis, Staff Sgt. Morgan D. Kennon, war

A Little School Privatization History About Memphis

October 30, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

If you think it is just the poor schools that will be turned to charters, think again.  Sooner or later they will want to turn your middle class school into one, and my guess is you will pay for it, and you will have no say into how it is run. In the fall of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Achievement School District, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, i-Zone Schools, Memphis, privatization, The Broad Foundation

Goodbye to More Real Public Schools in Memphis—Will Yours be Next?

January 17, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 15 Comments

There are few things sadder to me than to see small children standing in front of a microphone begging to keep their schools open. But that’s Memphis. It’s also Chicago, Philadelphia and New York and on and on. If you don’t yet have charter schools taking over your public schools don’t blink. They’re coming. They […]

Filed Under: Teaching Tagged With: Memphis, public school closures

Hey! Who’s that With the Baby Grand on their Back?

December 5, 2013 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

Memphis and the surrounding suburbs have been through quite a lot of “churning” with the school merger of the city schools with the county schools. Most everyone spots the corporate fingerprints. They’re all over the place. Chain charters, Teach for America, The New Teacher Project, Common Core, etc. are, with the help of Stand for […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: chaos, churning, Corporations, equipment, inventory, Memphis, musical instruments, privatization, public schools, Shelby County, theft, transformation

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@ChristinaNosek @sarahlouwou Does a program serve as a tool of teacher autonomy or replace teacher autonomy?

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Dear @nytimes @DanaGoldstein

This is a *market* response to misguided state-level legislation banning reading program; this is *not* proof media misinformation about reading is true

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/22/us/reading-teaching-curriculum-phonics.html

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Thanks to @POTUS & the FTC, we are working to strengthen privacy protections for our children and students. This work ensures that companies cannot exploit our children to make money.

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Vote4HammondMike Hammond@Vote4Hammond·
20 May

The education “report” released yesterday is a brochure produced by a non-VA company who’s entire goal is to remove money and students from public education.

We need to invest more into our public schools now, not less, to provide a quality education for every student in VA.

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20 May

Breaking: A massive data breach has exposed four years’ worth of records of almost 500,000 Chicago Public Schools students and nearly 60,000 employees, district officials told principals today. w/ @bylaurenfitz https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2022/5/20/23132983/cps-public-schools-data-breach-students-employees-records-battelle-kids

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