{"id":2093,"date":"2009-12-16T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2009-12-15T20:01:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T04:01:07","slug":"rouge-forum-update-class-war-comics-and-docs-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2009\/12\/rouge-forum-update-class-war-comics-and-docs-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Update: Class War Comics and Docs Too!"},"content":{"rendered":"

See the full Rouge Forum Update here<\/a>. Excerpts below:<\/p>\n

\u201cThough we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.\u201d Sun Tzu, the Art of War.<\/p>\n

Dear Friends,<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an action packed and thought-filled week as we head into what were the holidays, once. Check out the links below to see the brewing wars in education, on the battlefield, and in the economy\u2014and the rising resistance as well.<\/p>\n

But first\u2014Fun: Obvious-Man vs Capitalist Democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the Education Agenda is a War Agenda Front:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Detroit, hysteria fostered by the Broad Foundation, the Michigan Governor, the Mayor of Detroit, and the Detroit Federation of Teachers\u2019 bosses has the public demanding teachers be jailed for the kids\u2019 NEAP test scores<\/a><\/p>\n

At the same time, rank and filers prepare for yet another Detroit schools wildcat strike<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Review for yourself the pressure the DFT dishonestly applies on members and the sellout contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Michigan, Low Test Scores Fuel Attack on Educators and Kids with NEA and AFT backing<\/a> while Detroit News Urges Mayor to Follow Michelle Rhee and the D.C AFT<\/a> where Randi Weingarten joins Darling-Hammond, The Wretched Caroline Kennedy, and Broad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DFT President, in Tandem With Broad Foundation and Skillmans, uses NAEP Results to Try to Ram Through Give-back Contract (Merit Pay, Peer Review, wage and benefit concessions, etc.)<\/a>. \u201cThe results, Johnson stressed, should not be a comment on the commitment of teachers. And a tentative agreement between the district and teachers calls for reforms like peer review and teacher evaluations that help instructors build in their strengths.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, In DC where Michelle Rhee hired 900 teachers over the summer, then fired more than 250 senior teachers in October, WTU members claim that the union\u2019s lawyers failed in their duty to represent them when they managed to lose the case. Members demand an appeal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reactionary Post Columnist Jay Matthews Touts AFT\u2019s President Weingarten for the next Czar in DC schools. Makes all the sense in the world.<\/p>\n

Protestors Attack UC Hack\u2014at Home<\/a>: \u201c Eight people were under arrest Saturday after protesters broke windows, lights and planters outside the home of the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. University spokesman Dan Mogulof said 40 to 70 protesters also threw incendiary devices at police cars and the home of Chancellor Robert Birgeneau about 11 p.m. Friday. There were no fires or injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

26 More Students Arrested in California<\/a>: Campus and city police entered the business administration building and ended the occupation at 3:15 a.m., university spokeswoman Ellen Griffin said. But Berkeley\u2019s Wheeler Hall Remains a Freedom School.<\/p>\n

LA\u2019s \u201cPilot Schools\u201d: Strategic Hamlets?<\/a> Charters operate independent of direct district control and are free from some rules that govern traditional schools, including adherence to L.A. Unified\u2019s union contracts\u2026.Local school officials and the teachers union have reached a tentative deal that would help groups of teachers bid for control of 30 campuses under a recently adopted school-reform plan\u2026.The agreement, announced today, would allow the number of \u201cpilot schools\u201d in the Los Angeles Unified School District to increase from 10 to 30. Pilots are small schools where teachers, administrators and community members have broad latitude to establish the rules under which the school operates. Unlike charter schools, the pilots remain closely affiliated with the district, and employees retain their representation by district unions.\u201d <\/p>\n

See the full Rouge Forum Update here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See the full Rouge Forum Update here. Excerpts below: \u201cThough we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.\u201d Sun Tzu, the Art of War. Dear Friends, It\u2019s an action packed and thought-filled week as we head into what were the holidays, once. Check out the links […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2155],"tags":[1572072],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rouge-forum-update","tag-rouge-forum-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}