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Why Teachers Might Still Not Believe It’s Safe to Return to In-Person School

February 28, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

Anger about schools not reopening is directed at teachers and their unions. Sometimes it’s made to sound like they’re the problem and not Covid-19! Many public schools have opened their buildings, and teachers never quit working during the pandemic. Teachers aren’t epidemiologists, they aren’t statisticians. They want to rely on information and recommendations concerning Covid-19. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Colorado, Covid-19 and schools, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York

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

U.S. DOE Continues to Force Test Failure on Children with Special Needs and ELL Students

July 1, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 22 Comments

According to information given to me by Deborah Abramson Brooks Wsm, the U.S. Dept. of Education is insisting that the New York Board of Education continue to force all students with disabilities, except for those with the severest disabilities, to take the tests matching their chronological age, not their developmental age, ignoring their cognitive disabilities. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arne Duncan, dyslexia, New York, special education, testing, U.S. Department of Education

Tricky Business in New York Special Ed. and Maybe Where You Live

November 9, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

By Monica Kennedy Kounter I am a parent of a special needs child, a certified lay advocate, and I have a Master’s of Science in Early Childhood Education. I have been fighting Common Core on the behalf of students with disabilities in New York State for a year now. I am a relative newcomer to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Classification, Common Core, disabilities, IDEA, Identification, New York, special education, Teacher Evaluations, testing

The Lawsuits Students Really Deserve in New York City and the Rest of the Country!

March 15, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Aren’t there some fine lawyers who would, preferably with pro-bono work, support families who have children with disabilities, all kinds of disabilities, or children who have second language hurdles, or the really really poor children, to sue the charter operators and their rich donors for denying these students a slot in their elite charter schools? […]

Filed Under: Special Education Tagged With: ACLU, Board of Directors, Brown v. Board of Education, Chancellor Carmen Fariña, Charter School Operators, charter schools, Eva Moskowitz, Joe Scarborough, Lawsuits, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Mika Brzezinski, New York, Pro-Bono, PS 811 Mickey Mantle School, public schools, Really Really Poor Students, Second Language Students, Severe Disabilities, special education, Success Academy, The Hunger Games

Are they “Special Interests” or Voices of a Democracy?

October 14, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

The blogger buzz this past weekend concerned an angry audience voicing concerns about Common Core Standards (CCS). It took place at a Poughkeepsie, New York town hall meeting with the state’s Ed. Commissioner Dr. John King. Indignant parents and teachers listened to King for 1 hour and 40 minutes then, with their meager left-over 23 […]

Filed Under: Common Core Tagged With: "Special Interests", Common Core Standards, Democracy, Democratic Public Schools, John King, New York, parents

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