iReady is an economically successful software product used in public schools, by homeschoolers, and in private schools. It utilizes the blended learning practices endorsed by the recently updated federal education law known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). iReady employs competency-based education (CBE) theory which is also advocated by ESSA. The outcome is iReady drains money from classrooms, applies federally supported failed learning theories and undermines good teaching. Children hate it. [Read more…]
Declaration of Independence, a Transcription
Time for a review of those self-evident truths that Trump and his administration have run roughshod over. Perhaps less well known is the List of Grievances that shows all the ways that King George III failed to respect the rights of the colonists. Do any of them sound familiar?
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Whistleblower: EPA’s Pruitt Kept Secret Calendar to Hide Meetings | Video Worth Watching
From the CNN YouTube website:
An EPA whistleblower tells CNN’s Drew Griffin that Scott Pruitt directed staff to scrub his official calendar to hide meetings.
Hmm, isn’t that illegal? [Read more…]
Cory Booker Warns of POTUS Conflict of Interest in Selecting Supreme Court Justice | Video Worth Watching
Cory Booker must have been picking up on our Anna Daniels’ brain waves in the Zeitgeist. Here’s Cory’s depiction of the issues involved in the scenario of a possibly complicit president.
I’ve heard some pushback to this demand for “no nominations until the conclusion of the investigation”, along the lines of not “punishing” someone who must be presumed “innocent until proven guilty”, but I don’t consider this demand to be a punishment. I view it more along the lines of judiciously putting someone suspected of embezzling, on administrative leave until the issue is resolved. If the person is adjudicated as innocent, no harm done, but if the person is determined to have indeed been acting as was believed, any harm done that might have gone unchecked has been prevented.
Mitch McConnell and his allies will, of course, never accept this line of reasoning, so it’s up to us, the people, to make them see the light. [Read more…]
San Diego Needs a Citizen Commission on Refugee and Immigrant Affairs
By Rebecca Paida
The saying goes, if you are not at the table, you are on the menu! This statement suggests that advocacy by supporters is essential but that lived experiences also matter. If people with first-hand experiences of a particular phenomenon are not part of decision making processes, then they will likely get left out. For many underrepresented and under-served populations, including refugees and immigrants in the San Diego region, this is a reality that they must confront. While some residents actively participate in civic discourse at the community level, that is the extent of their contributions. This is in part because they have little or no opportunities to affect policies at the City level and beyond, due to a lack of inclusion.
Lost in Pursuit of the American Dream | Dear Ohio, Part 7
It would be simple if we could think of Ohio – or any of our 50 states – as composed of only two sets of citizens: those who know the truth and those who don’t. But we Americans are all more alike than different. And we cannot sever our fortunes from each other.
Nevertheless, our ignorance of each other is killing us. Lost in our illusion of perfect “American Independence” – that fictional state in which we thrive without help from anyone else – we have one mantra: Every man for himself. (Or every woman.) We have neither the inclination nor the time to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes before we judge them unworthy and leave them behind altogether.
Rich or poor, white or not, religious or non-religious, voters or non-voters, whatever our differences, we are we and they are they. They made their bed; they can lie in it. Of course, if they are rich or famous, we want to know what kind of sheets they have, the types of food they are served in bed, the fabric of their night clothes, and with whom they sleep. If they are poor, sick, elderly, refugees, homeless, hungry or struggling in any way that requires the help of someone else to survive, we advise them to take personal responsibility for their predicament.
We cannot be our brother’s keeper while we are lost in our own pursuit of the rapidly disappearing American Dream. [Read more…]
After Tax Cuts for Richest, House GOP Unveils $5.4 Trillion Attack on Nation’s Safety Net
With the nation’s attention rightly fixated on President Donald Trump’s horrific treatment of immigrant children, House Republicans on Tuesday quietly unveiled their 2019 budget proposal that calls for $537 billion in cuts to Medicare, $1.5 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, and four billion in cuts to Social Security over the next decade in an effort to pay for their deficit-exploding tax cuts for the wealthy.
“It’s morally bankrupt, patently absurd, and grossly un-American,” the advocacy group Patriotic Millionaires said of the GOP’s budget proposal, which calls for $5.4 trillion in spending cuts from major domestic programs.
Robert Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), argued in a statement that the Republican proposal demonstrates clearly shows the “House majority’s fiscal priorities haven’t changed.” [Read more…]
McClellan-Palomar Airport Expansion: An Independent Analysis?
Brother: Can you spare a name?
I worked for the government for thirty years. I’ve read thousands of staff reports. They are strange creatures. All about Mary Poppins and cheeriness; seldom about doom and gloom. Darth Vader is a galaxy away. Why is that? How does the government make an informed decision without a balanced report in front of it?
And, what happens when you ask to see an independent analysis – not just the rosy predictions of handsomely paid consultants hired to do the bidding of politicians enlightened by lobbyists desiring predetermined results, possibly shuffling campaign cash among the politicians? [Read more…]
Number 7 | 1968
By Douglas Rawlings
NUMBER 7
I was a
Good Humor Man.
I lost my job
I got drafted.
I can never
go back again.
I lost my
Good Humor.
I lost $80.00 a week
I can never
have it again
You gain goodwill
being a Good Humor man.
You establish a route.
You make friends.
I lost them all:
my bike my cart
my bell
are all gone now.
My smile too.
All my friends
cried
on the Last Day. [Read more…]
Elijah Cummings Rips Republicans For Allowing Trump’s Child Internment Camps | Video Worth Watching
During a joint hearing of the House Oversight Committee and the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, investigating the investigation into Hilary Clinton’s emails, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) in his opening remarks called out the unwillingness of the Republicans to exercise any oversight of the Trump administration, including the new policy of separating children from their […]
Leaving the Induction Center | 1968
By Douglas Rawlings
LEAVING THE INDUCTION CENTER
We were now
all riders
on those olive drab
government buses
trying to make some sense
out of this thing
they called military justice.
Still a bunch
of minors
digging about
in our own little ruins [Read more…]
Do Not Ever Question the Fuhrer’s Orders
Complacency is our enemy. Anyone that does not embrace the @realDonaldTrump agenda of making America great again will be making a mistake. – Ronna McDaniel, Republican Chair, June 13, 2018
Beachtung ! BEACHTUNG ! BEACHTUNG JEDER !
Manner in der schlange hier druben …..!
(and be marched to the slave-laborer’s barracks)
Frauen und kinder schlange hier ….!
(and proceed directly to the crematoria) … [Read more…]
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