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Attack On Teachers: California Special Election Prop 74 Analysis
PROPOSITION 74 PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS. WAITING PERIOD FOR PERMANENT STATUS; DISMISSAL, INITIATIVE LAWSUIT...
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2005 3:38pm PDT
New Orleans: school staff face massive cuts in jobs, benefits
The New Orleans Public School (NOPS) board is moving to break up the city’s public school system and force though massive cuts to the jobs, pay and benefits of its workforce in the wake of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 7:00am PDT
Union and NDP leaders conspire to close down British Columbia teachers strike
Hundreds of thousands of workers in British Columbia are poised to join walkouts in the coming days in support of the province’s 40,000 public school teachers and the challenge that they are mounting to a battery of antiunion laws and the BC Liberal government’s agenda of slashing public and social services....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 6:58am PDT
Navigating the Multi-Dimensional Matrix
This is the first chapter of my forth coming ebook with a partial listing of its contents. Those interested are welcome to contact me....
Posted: Tue, Oct 18, 2005 8:35pm PDT
School Labor Dispute: SFUSD and SEIU Local 790
The results of Governor Schwarzenegger’s financial scheming combined with the long-term reverberations of Proposition 13 continue to manifest themselves. The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), like school districts throughout California, has been operating with less than an optimal amount of funding. Support from the community through bond measures and other efforts has made a difference in terms of being able to repair certain buildings and supplement areas such as libraries, art...
Posted: Mon, Oct 17, 2005 6:42am PDT
Central Valley Youth Call on State to fund Education and Alternatives to Incarceration
Youth, parents and community leaders from across the Central Valley will gather at the ESPINO, “Breaking the Schools to Jails Pipeline, Making the Schools to Colleges Pipeline” Summit to discuss and strategize on how to provide quality education, implement alternatives to incarceration and promote access and opportunity to higher education...
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2005 3:38pm PDT
A State Mandated underclass
Bay Area high school students, parents and advocates rally in support of alternative bills to the High School Exit Exam but the Govenator vetoes them anyway...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 11:21am PDT
CSULB Students Ripped off by Marketing Company
"Brailsford & Dunlavey is not a polling company, interested in providing an unbiased sampling. They are a facility planning company that profits from providing “market and financial analyses, architectural programming, business planning, referendum management, and other pre-implementation services” for moving the construction process to fruition. On their website, www.facilityplanners.com, Brailsford & Dunlavey states, “B&D equips clients with the data and tools needed to navigate confid...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 2:08pm PDT
Richmond High School students organize Press Conference to fight statewide exit exam.
Richmond High School students of La Fuerza Unida and Youth Together urge Governor Schwarzenegger to sign bills AB 1531 and SB 385....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 12:21pm PDT
Schwarzenegger Signs AB 405: Bill Protects Kids from Exposure to Experimental Pesticides
KIDS & TEACHERS ARE NOT LAB RATS!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 2:44am PDT
Time Change: Richmond students organize Press Conference to fight statewide exit exam.
RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOL students need your support to bring down the Governor and his dysfunctional educational policies! Support students in their fight against the racist, classist exit exam......
Posted: Mon, Oct 3, 2005 4:57pm PDT
10/8 - SF,CA: Unlock the Box conference to shut down Prison Control Unit's
Who: United Front to Abolish the Security Housing
Units (SHU)
What: Unlock the Box: An Organizing Conference to
Shut Down Prison Control Units
When: Saturday October 8, 2005, 9:30am- 6:00pm
Where: Cell Space, 2050 Bryant Street (near 18th
street), San Francisco, CA...
Posted: Mon, Oct 3, 2005 5:44am PDT
10/6: Richmond High School students organize Press Conference to fight statewide exit exam
What: PRESS CONFERENCE supporting AB 1531 and SB 385
Where: Richmond High School, 1250 23rd Street. Richmond, CA 94804
When: Thursday October 6, 2005 at 12:15pm (Lunch time)...
Posted: Mon, Oct 3, 2005 12:01am PDT
Schwarzenegger's Dilemma:
Sign A Bill Banning The Use Of Experimental Pesticides In Schools
Or Cave In To Chemical Industry Lobbyists...
Posted: Sun, Oct 2, 2005 12:36pm PDT
San Francisco Teachers Deserve More
Why are our schools facing potentially disastrous labor conflict? Take a moment to look beyond drama surrounding the Board of Education and the Superintendent and get to know what is going on with all the other people who actually do the work in the schools. Beginning teachers in San Francisco earn $40,310 per year. The median household income in San Francisco in 2002 was $58,621. Housing prices can start at fifteen times a teacher’s salary and a one bedroom apartment rental averages $1200....
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 7:13am PDT
How STUPID are the Americans?
How stupid are the Americans? Why are they fooled by their government's energy policy?
Many Links to renewable energy web sites....
Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2005 7:23pm PDT
Has the Government Abandoned New Orleans' Top Black Colleges?
Two historically black colleges in New Orleans remain closed after Hurricane Katrina's devastation. Reopening the colleges requires money, which may prove a challenge. We speak with the President of Xavier University about this....
Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2005 6:39am PDT
UC Santa Barbara Disorientation Guide
The UCSB DisGuide is a radical resource to connect students and activists on and off campus....
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2005 7:06am PDT
The Marxists in the World Youth Festival
Bolivarian Revolution...
Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2005 7:17am PDT