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As signature collection for the SB5 repeal effort gets under way today , it comes as no surprise that the Kasich administration has begun to use its position to propagandize state employeesPlunderbund has a copy of the letter, and debunks some of the false claims it makes.Apr 21 2011 DAS Dir Blair Re SB5
On one front, the governor ordered Department of Administrative Services Director Robert Blair to issue a letter to the state's 57,520 employees that highlights "key facts" of Senate Bill 5 and included an endorsement from Blair of the switch to a merit-based pay system.
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- ► 2013
- ► May
- • More Sen. Peggy Lehner Please
- • Adequately funding my school
- • What if Finland’s great teachers taught in U.S. schools?
- • 3rd grade reading guarantee changes again
- • Backlash to Education Mandates Grows, Spreads
- • Money and politics
- • Ohio Teachers endorse Common Core Standards
- • Public schools neglected in favor of private choice expansion
- • ALEC's Report Card Receives Failing Marks
- • How "top charters" screen students
- • Exposing ALEC’s agenda
- • May 2013 School Levy Results
- • What do teachers want for National Teacher Day
- • Wall Street ♥ charter schools
- • Tea Party guide to legislative supporters
- • Turmoil swirling around Common Core education standards
- • Walmart gives $8 million to StudentsFirst
- • The Three Biggest TFA Lies
- • Republican lawmakers looking to attack working people again
- ► April
- • Michelle Rhee and the unproven teacher evaluation
- • The Foolish Endeavor of Rating Ed Schools by Graduates’ Value-Added
- • Advertorials in standardized tests?
- • Voucher demand falls
- • Teacher of year not a fan of corporate ed reform
- • Voucher opposition is expanding
- • Graph of the week
- • Lawsuit filed over unfair teacher evaluations
- • Substitute HB59 (budget bill) Analysis
- • Why are we investing more in a failed experiment?
- • Fordham hides from facts
- • Bill Gates Dances Around the Teacher Evaluation Disaster He Sponsored
- • On Teacher Evaluations, Between Myth And Fact Lies Truth
- • Ohio Teacher Evaluation System: Dishonest, Unrealistic, and Not Fully Supported by Academic Research
- • School levies on the May 2013 Ballot
- • Teachers stay strong in Strongsville
- • Exposing the real "Right to Work" supporters agenda
- • School funding disaster in the making
- ► March
- • Teachers Love Their Lives, but Struggle in the Workplace
- • How Do High-Performing Nations Evaluate Teachers?
- • Is Ohio ready for computer testing?
- • 10 reasons why VAM is harmful to students
- • Real consequences of ‘school choice’
- • Why are Ohio's charter schools so poor?
- • Charter school performance crisis
- • Stongsville Strike Primer
- • Surprise! Charters want even more money.
- • The Network for Public Education launches
- • SB21 - Brings changes to 3rd grade reading law
- ► February
- • HB59 (budget bill) Initial Analysis
- • Survey shows disturbing patterns
- • What Administrators Are Really Saying About Kasich’s School Plan
- • Stop Saying That
- • A minority budget
- • Improving the Budget Bill Part II
- • Improving the Budget Bill Part I
- • Deep Red Opposition to Kasich Funding Plan
- • Budget Bill: HB 59 As Introduced
- • Budget brings 2 dead policies back to life
- • Teachers and Policy Makers: Troubling Disconnect
- • On Teacher Quality
- • Governor's school funding bamboozle
- • Kasich education team is out of control
- • Correlation? What correlation?
- • Close failing charters quickly
- • Ohio Media Ignore Financial Link Between Failing Charter School Operators And New Charter-Friendly Education Plan
- • Budget announcement analysis
- ► January
- • A pre-budget baseline
- • ODE publishes propaganda
- • On the Issue of Value-add
- • The Terhar debacle roundup
- • HB555 FAQ for teacher evaluations
- • Working together for effective reform in America's public schools
- • 10 Education Reform Tactics That Hurt Students and Don’t Improve Education
- • Debe Terhar breaks Godwin's law
- • The Science of Value-Added Evaluation
- • Now is the time to do something about gun violence
- • $50 million. 3 years. No clue.
- • Gates Foundation Wastes More Money Pushing VAM
- • Poll: Educators Support Stronger Laws to Prevent Gun Violence
- • How charter operators evade Ohio’s automatic closure law
- • Begone Ghosts of Reform Past!
- • Michelle Rhee's Failing Report Card
- • Ohio Third Graders Face Retention Ultimatum
- • The Higher the StudentsFirst grade, the lower the academic performance
- • StudentsFirst is an anti-tax group
- • Right To Work Is A Lie — It's No Rights At Work
- • Why No Rights At Work Is Wrong
- • Major evaluation change slipped into HB555
- ► May
- ► 2012
- ► December
- ► November
- • Stop blaming teachers
- • How Do Value-Added Indicators Compare to Other Measures of Teacher Effectiveness?
- • Do Different Value-Added Models Tell Us the Same Things?
- • How Stable are Value-Added Estimates
- • Do Value-Added Methods Level the Playing Field for Teachers?
- • How Should Educators Interpret Value-Added Scores?
- • What I’ve learned so far
- • How Recent Education Reforms Undermine Local School Governance
- • Fordham losses its bearings
- • Strong Schools - Strong Communities
- • Partisan purges
- • Teacher Turnover Affects All Students' Achievement
- • Support kids not cuts
- • A decade-long crisis of democracy
- • Teaching as team sport
- • Are you an entertainer?
- • Corporate Ed Reform a big election loser
- • Ohio House Dems won popular vote
- • November 2012 School Levy Results
- • State Board of Ed 2012 Results
- • Campaign 2012 Election Live Blog
- • Final Campaign 2012 recap
- • New Research Uncovers Fresh Trouble for VAM Evaluations
- • Power, Ideology, and the Use of Evidence
- • Where the polls stand - the last look
- • Donna O'Connor
- • State Board of Education
- • Teachers to the legislative rescue
- • Ann Romney - "Get rid of public education"
- • Obama's 2nd term plan for education
- • Mitt Romney's 10 best education ideas
- ► October
- • Mixed messages from legislature
- • Where the polls stand - 1 week to go
- • Ohio Voters’ Checklist
- • Kasich cuts bite deep locally
- • 2 new studies question value add measures
- • Dispatch must apologize
- • Where the polls stand - 2 weeks to go
- • What's in your portfolio?
- • Charters and their supporters failing our kids
- • All of this is nonsense
- • Education Profiteering: Wall Street's Next Big Thing?
- • Why the ‘market theory’ of education reform doesn’t work
- • Where the polls stand - 22 days to go
- • What of test integrity?
- • After the evaluations binge, the hangover
- • The Educational Path of Our Nation
- • How long one teacher took to become great
- • Romney’s plan would cut education, drastically
- • The (real) looming teacher crisis
- • Where the polls stand - Post Debate
- • Assessing Ourselves To Death
- • UPDATED: Auditors Interim Attendance Report Released
- • November 2012 School levies and issues
- • Vote Yes on Issue 2 - Had Enough Early Vote Tour
- • The Big e-school rip off
- • Where the polls stand - as voting begins
- ► September
- • Some Choice
- • An Open Letter to Ohio Women
- • Where the polls stand - 6 weeks out
- • Lessons from the teachers strike
- • Research-Based Options for Education Policy Making
- • No one trusts Gov Kasich with ed policy
- • New study - Charters cut costs to make money
- • Value-Added and Teacher Branding
- • Where the polls stand - 50 days to go
- • Are you prey to a "choice" stealth campaign
- • A narrative path forward for teachers
- • Infographic: Obama v. Romney: K-12 Education
- • 5 Romney Education Flip-Flops
- • Two Visions
- • Invest in Public Education
- • Many costs to attendance investigation
- • Where the polls stand - Post convention
- • DNC Convention Day 3 - The President Speaks
- • DNC Day 2 - Clinton schools on policy
- • Losing Sway
- • DNC Convention Day 1 - Democrats Strike Back
- • Where the polls stand - Week 1
- • New School Year - New Cuts in Funding
- ► August
- • RNC Convention Final Day - Upstaged!
- • RNC Convention Day 2 - chock full of misstatements
- • Choice, but for who
- • Erasure scandal now a farce
- • RNC Convention Day 1 - Ugly
- • Voters First - Issue 2 - ballot language
- • Kasich pushes public ed to precipice
- • Double down on failure
- • Rube Goldberg Evaluation system
- • Poll: Americans feel good about teachers
- • Ryan budget wrecks public education
- • Erasures demonstrate huge sensitivity in ratings
- • It’s not about the children
- • August 7th 2012 school levy results
- • 10 most inaccurate ed reform axioms
- • The Long-Run Impact of the Reduction in Classroom teachers
- • Kasich failed leadership test
- • Education jargon: What ‘no excuses’ and other terms really mean
- • Is firing bad instructors the only way to improve schools?
- • Stan Heffner's Double Standards
- • Stan Heffner's Double Standards
- • Stan Heffner involved in major ethics violantions
- ► July
- • High stakes failure
- • ODE shifting rhetoric in wake of scandal
- • Romney education claims: are exaggerations, inaccuracies a pattern?
- • Major scandal brewing
- • Students for sale
- • Kasich manufacturing a funding crisis
- • Shady group secretly plots against voters
- • Catastrophic failure of teacher evaluations in TN
- • Maureen Reedy, Ohio teacher running for office
- • Investment loser
- • Republicans oppose critical thinking
- • Leading reform
- • Politicians Ignore Research, Say Smaller Class Size Makes No Difference
- • We Educate America
- • Mirroring Microsofts failing system
- ► June
- • Out of Touch and Turning Back the Clock: Romney on Education
- • The New Ohio Teacher Evaluation System
- • 555
- • School levies on the August 2012 ballot
- • Dispatch dodge disappoints
- • Shaming teachers
- • Local educators counter Romney
- • SB316 analysis Part II
- • Public education - a middle class bargain
- • SB316 analysis
- • People Not Politicians
- • The Casino shell game
- • Romney - too many teachers
- • Like shoving a pig through a snake
- • The Disaster Capitalism Curriculum
- • Romney education policy aligns with ALEC agenda
- • Beyond Rhetoric
- ► May
- • ALEC and the Invisible Schools with Invisible Success
- • Top reasons to take power out of the hands of the politicians
- • Mitt Romney - Mr. Corporate Ed
- • Hard to measure love
- • A pictorial–how billions of dollars from “education” funders don’t go into the classrooms
- • 4 reasons educators must get in the game and fight ALEC
- • Gross miscalculation
- • To Sir: Where are you?
- • High Stakes Testing Backlash
- • Studies show unionized charters are desperately needed
- • Charter teachers receive "psychic salary"
- • Testing Profits
- • Tea partiers threaten public education
- • Voucher expansion pressure
- • The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men
- • Opportunity Knocks
- • Radical legislation being planned
- • 5 ways teacher unions advocate for students, educators
- • Teachers And Their Unions
- • Survey finds parent-teacher relationships strong--Teachers given grade of "A"
- • No Education Reform Without Tackling Poverty, Experts Say
- • It's raining in Cleveland
- • The people's choice amendement
- ► April
- • Politics and Education Don't Mix
- • College Readiness
- • The Toxic Trifecta in Current Legislative Models for Teacher Evaluation
- • OSBA SB316 testimony and policy position
- • No laughing matter
- • A different kind of investment
- • Teach the Books, Touch the Heart
- • Experience Counts
- • Accountability for vouchers
- • Choosing blindly
- • Blind eyes and cruel intentions
- • Value-Added Versus Observations
- • Studies Give Nuanced Look at Teacher Effectiveness
- • Parents *STILL* choose public schools
- • I Don't Understand Michelle Rhee
- • Voucher welfare for big business
- • Has the Tide Turned Against ALEC?
- • Done deal in Cleveland?
- • Crisis and recovery in Chardon
- • 3rd grade retention plan could cost $500 million
- • The Crisis in American Education Is a Myth
- • Swing state education survey
- • The real story in Cleveland
- • Charters spend more on admin, less on class
- • Merit pay and the candle problem
- • How corporate tax loopholes defund the American Dream
- • How to Buy and Sell School Reform
- • Flunking the Test
- • Analysis of Education MBR bill SB316
- ► March
- • PolitiFact is mostly made up
- • Misconceptions and Realities about Teacher Evaluations
- • Poor schools can’t win
- • The real Cleveland crisis
- • Suspicious test scores
- • Cleveland teachers advance the way forward
- • Cleveland Plan Press Conference
- • Parents Agree – Better Assessments, Less High-Stakes Testing
- • Three big issues to be decided by voters
- • VIDEO: Merit Pay, Teacher Pay, and Value Added Measures
- • What 10,000 teachers think
- • Education By the Numbers
- • Recruiting the best?
- • Teachers Around the World No Longer “Asking For Permission”
- • A Democratic Crisis in Cleveland
- • Superintendents say proposed school grading system gets F
- • An Unfair Editorial
- • The "Cleveland Plan" - Draft Legislation
- • Who are the businesses making threats to children?
- • Science Fact
- • Simple thinking, bad reporting
- • Cleveland School Plan Needs Work
- • Survey: Teacher Job Satisfaction Drops to New Low
- • Data proves voters increasingly supporting schools
- • The Missing Link In Genuine School Reform
- • Union member election results
- • March 2012 Ohio School Levy Results
- • John Kasich is not a normal Governor
- • Value-Added Evaluation Hurts Teaching
- • Your vote today
- • Santorum spread thin in Ohio
- • Following the Dollars
- • Union members spotlight - State Senate
- • Union members spotlight - day 5
- • Union members spotlight - day 4
- ► February
- • U.S. School Shootings data, 1979-2011
- • Shame, errors and demoralizing
- • Union members spotlight - day 3
- • Union members spotlight - day 2
- • Union members spotlight - day 1
- • Popular modes of evaluating teachers are fraught with inaccuracies
- • Incompetent Teachers or Dysfunctional Systems?
- • Parents want small class sizes
- • Rick Santorum Needs A History Lesson
- • What Teachers Want
- • Meet The Billionaires Who Are Trying To Privatize Our Schools
- • Desperate Times in Cleveland
- • As teacher merit pay spreads, one noted voice cries, ‘It doesn’t work’
- • Ohio's Draft Waiver for NCLB
- • Frank Jackson's plan circa 1970
- • Making The Mandate Work For Both Teachers And Students
- • “Teaching Isn’t Really a Profession”
- • Virtual schools, virtually useless
- • Read Across America, partners with OSU
- • Do Politicians Know Anything About Schools and Education? Anything?
- • Mutual trust and respect
- • A Democrat's bold plan to force GOP to re-legislate SB5
- • How Bad Education Policies Demoralize Teachers
- • Frank Jackson's factory of sadness
- • Why Levy requests are down
- • The Teacher Evaluation Juggernaut
- • Overpaid? Hardly
- • Failing students, falling stock prices, and investor law suits
- ► January
- • School levies on the March ballot
- • The Michelle Rhee Connection
- • School Principals Swamped by Teacher Evaluations
- • 1,560,379
- • Unworkable "solutions"
- • Natural disaster based ed reform
- • Kids ride filthy, broken privatized buses
- • Charter schools "fast facts"
- • Teacher evaluations years away from completion
- • Massive budget cuts having massive effect
- • Czar leaves as "work calls"
- • Ohio funding formula - hearings scheduled
- • The State Constitution - Article VI
- • Packed Virtual Classrooms
- • Lesson Learned?
- • Straight Talk on Teaching Quality
- • Rhee cloaks her partisan agenda
- • Mayor Jackson has a secret Ed plan
- • UPDATED: Oops, You're fired!
- • New criteria for dropout schools proposed
- • What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
- • New Gates Study on teacher evaluations
- • Money Matters
- • NCLB’s 10th Anniversary No Cause For Celebration
- • A bridge too far
- • Stop Tying Pay to Performance
- • Where the GOP Presidential candidates stand on education
- • Teacher Retention: Estimating and Understanding the Effects of Financial Incentives
- ► 2011
- ► December
- • Top 10 posts of 2011
- • More cheating exposed
- • The #1 Education Story of the Year
- • Top 5 Ed stories of 2011
- • TDS talks RttT
- • Time to occupy the education reform
- • Test Scores Often Misused In Policy Decisions
- • The Evidence on Charter Schools and Test Scores
- • A doomsday bill for public ed
- • Teach for America ‘research’ questioned
- • What teachers didn't tell the governor
- • HB136 is dead, but will return
- • School privatization bill under intense pressure
- • A difficult year
- • 280 Days
- • The real fight over SB5 is still ahead
- • Bloomberg's brain dead brainwave
- • What Value-Added Research Does And Does Not Show
- • School rankings raise serious concerns
- • Two steps back
- ► November
- • Guest Post: Proposed education reforms misguided
- • Collaboration in reform is missing
- • 'Value-Added' Formulas Strain Collaboration
- • Common Core, costly
- • Is Our Students Learning? Yes.
- • Fordham Exposed Part II
- • Fordham Exposed Part I
- • Rethinking Teacher Evaluation in Chicago
- • Research doesn’t back up key ed reforms
- • Would you blame the architect if you accidentally burned your house down
- • Subtraction by Distraction
- • Performance Index Ranking for Districts and Schools – A Preview
- • Five School Reform Sound Bites That Hurt Teacher Buy-In
- • The diminished power of the press
- • November 2011 School Levy Results
- • SB5 repeal was a clear message
- • SB5 Social media by the numbers
- • Schedule Conflicts
- • False choices in charter schools
- • Scapegoats
- • SB5 heading for humiliating defeat
- • More crazy teacher evaluation ideas
- • Nation's Report Card' Distracts From Real Concerns For Public Schools
- • Despite lay offs TFA circling in Cincinnati
- • When the money runs out
- • Clippy as the model for Bill Gates involvement in schools
- ► October
- • Corporate money vs the people
- • Like an untested drug?
- • Experienced educators are critical
- • A primer on corporate school reform
- • Are we serious about evaluations?
- • Teacher attrition and education policy
- • Evaluations gone wild
- • Are Ohio's Republicans threatening to pass SB5 again if it is defeated?
- • When Governors Talk Education, It's About the Economy, Stupid
- • Teacher evaluations are becoming big business for private companies
- • Do Teacher Quality Initiatives Impact the Wrong Teachers?
- • SB5 Opposition beginning to crush extreme law
- • Delivering lower costs, higher quality
- • Michele Rhee's own contract betrays her rhetoric
- • The Myth of Security
- • Challenging Corporate School Reform and 10 Hopeful Signs of Resistance
- • NEW POLL: SB5 Headed for defeat
- • A teacher schools the Dispatch
- • Public Employees saved $1billion for tax payers
- • EdChoice Program Designated Public Schools list
- • Can Education Be ‘Moneyball’-ed?
- • Starving America’s Public Schools
- • Making (Up) The Grade In Ohio
- • SB5 is very harmful to new teachers
- • Cashing In on Education
- • UPDATE: Gahanna city council in the hot seat
- • The State of Charter Schools
- • Teacher Quality Is Not A Policy
- • GrannyGate
- • Gahanna city council in the hot seat
- • State budget decisions severely harming communities
- • The attack on collective bargaining
- • Turgid mandates
- • Here’s What’s So Bad About School Choice
- • Ohio charters are solving the wrong problem
- • What We Lose When Teachers Retire
- • Ohio E-Schools are catastrophically failing
- • Teacher Evaluation Reform - Report from NBPTS
- • Bad charter sponsors, bad policy
- • Checking in on Ohio’s E-schools, Part 1: Enrollment
- • For Many Teachers, Reform Means Higher Risk, Lower Rewards
- • Ohio can't wait to start misusing value add
- • Teachers
- • The People's Road Trip
- • SB5 Venn diagram analysis
- • A Nationally Board Certified Teacher on Merit Pay and SB 5
- ► September
- • No one is watching Better Ohio ads
- • A Model for Teacher Effects From Longitudinal Data
- • ODE subject matter contact info
- • Why Pay for Performance Should Get the Sack
- • Issue 2 Early Vote Rally
- • The Stability Of Ohio’s School Value-Added Ratings
- • Innovation Ohio highlight Issue 2 Pay, Perks and Hypocrisy
- • Pictures & Canvassing 101
- • The League of Women Voters of Ohio oppose HB136
- • Worthington School Board passes resolution opposing HB 136
- • The Flipped Classroom Infographic
- • Repeal of SB5 favored by double digits
- • Teacher Town Hall Recap
- • Poll finds large opposition to voucher plan
- • ESEA Flexibility- more details from the Dept of Ed.
- • YouTube for Teachers
- • NEA and AFT reaction to NCLB Waiver proposals
- • What's the matter with teachers today?
- • NCLB waiver news
- • Nationally televised "Teacher Town Hall"
- • Harder to deal than to teach
- • Bad Score
- • We're not saying it is hypocritical, but
- • When endorsements go wrong
- • HB136 The Privatize Public Education Bill
- • The Debate over Teacher Merit Pay
- • Van Roekel: The NEA Plan for Teacher Accountability
- • How unemployed parents might affect your job
- • Moving Beyond ‘Blame the Teacher’
- • Vote No on Issue 2 to repeal SB5
- • Governor blasted for "lies"
- • Canvassing 101: Myths vs Realities
- • The weakest "linkage"
- • The bait and switch of school "reform"
- • What teachers are telling the Governor: Day 5
- • Are radical school funding changes ahead?
- • Top Ten Signs Your School is Too Focused on the State Test
- • THE AMERICAN JOBS ACT: IMPACT FOR OHIO
- • What teachers are telling the Governor: Day 4
- • A decade of stalled teacher pay
- • How money buys education "research"
- • Simple facts about Issue 2 (SB 5)
- • What teachers are telling the Governor: Day 3
- • HB 153 Teacher Retesting Provision Facts
- • Due process protects you
- • November 2011 School levies and issues
- • THE AMERICAN JOBS ACT
- • What teachers are telling the Governor: Day 2
- • Teachers comments hit with bullets
- • What teachers are telling the Governor: Day 1
- • In Ohio, Charter School Expansion By Income, Not Performance
- • Why educators oppose SB5 and vote no on issue 2
- • Linking Student Data to Teachers a Complex Task, Experts Say
- • Eduction cuts hurt Ohio
- • Trust the Evidence, Not Your Instincts
- • Charters omitted from evaluation
- • State Board struggles to develop plan
- • It all comes down to purpose!
- ► August
- • Teacher Pay: U.S. Ranks 22nd Out Of 27 Countries
- • In the news: retesting teachers
- • Confessions of a bad teacher
- • Ohio education budget and policy briefing
- • A process with little credibility
- • The First SB5 debate
- • Analysis shows charters underperform in Ohio's big 8
- • State Charter Law Punishes Ohio’s Largest Districts
- • Teacher testing law is disgraceful and must be repealed
- • Let's Say You're a Teacher
- • A charter teacher answers our honest question
- • A Honest question, answered
- • Note to teachers: Thanks for loving our kids
- • Certainty And Good Policymaking Don’t Mix
- • SB5 arguments language
- • The Missing Link in School Reform
- • What's a teacher's time worth?
- • Proving SB5 unnecessary, public schools show significant gains
- • The reform movement is already failing
- • What Does a Teacher Do?
- • A simple honest question for SB5 supporters
- • Only right wing partisans endorse SB5
- • Why won’t Ms. Rhee talk to USA Today?
- • Merit Pay: The End Of Innocence?
- • Big changes come to Wisconsin
- • Grading teachers
- • Gov Kasich "I'm done talk, talk, talking
- • SB5 still double digits ahead, but work to do
- • Ohio's teacher evaluation - Flawed from the start?
- • The White flag as seen from around Ohio
- • On SB5, full repeal or no deal
- • New Poll:What Americans believe about public education
- • Parents choose public education
- • Educators Offer Solutions For NCLB Rewrite
- • Common Standards to Play Pivotal Role in NCLB Waivers?
- • Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto NAEP Scales
- • Private schools getting more public dollars
- • Common Core Cooperation?
- • A litmus test tomorrow in Wisconsin
- • Don't mess with Matt Damon
- • The concerns of a first-year teacher
- • Brennan ordered to show where the dollars go
- • Vote NO on Issue 2
- • A Teacher's Open Letter to John Kasich
- • PROFILE OF TEACHERS IN THE U.S.
- • August 2nd, 2011 complete levy results
- • Is election tampering of SB5 coming to Ohio
- • Gates: "Poverty is an excuse"
- • School related election issues today
- • Ohio School Funding
- ► July
- • Vouchers have no clear positive impact on student achievement
- • FAQ: Evaluations, merit pay and seniority
- • The Truth About Teachers
- • Did Bill Gates Advocate privatizing public education?
- • Education based on fictional movies
- • Repealing SB5 isn't partisan, it's personal
- • Racing to the bottom by firing experience
- • Time for Governor Kasich to listen
- • New Poll: SB5 is a referendum on Kasich
- • National Research Council Gives High-Stakes Testing an F
- • NYCS abandons merit pay failure
- • Infographic: Anatomy of a Teacher
- • Our Broken Escalator
- • In a short time, a big mess
- • Union-Management Collaboration Can Help Public Schools
- • Teacher Attitudes about Compensation Reform
- • Freedom School children march against budget cuts
- • Guest Post: A Comprehensive Union
- • The Ohio voucher boondoggle
- • What Studies Say About Teacher Effectiveness
- • Civic Investment and the 'Skyboxing' of Education
- • Data shows massive and widespread opposition to SB5
- • No, Seriously: No Excuses
- • Could collective bargaining prevent cheating?
- • SB5 could turn Gov. Kasich into a lame duck
- • Teacher Grades: Pass or Be Fired
- • High stakes testing leads to cheating
- • New Guidelines on Teacher Evaluation and Accountability Approved at 2011 RA
- • SB5 repeal, the difficult second act
- • Final Budget Analysis
- • Infographic: A Teacher’s Worth Around the World
- • Teachers Work the Same Number of Hours as Average U.S. Worker
- ► June
- • Shock Doctrine Summer
- • Dispense with the Pretense to Listen
- • The People Deliver
- • Pictures: The People's Parade to Repeal SB5
- • Final Ohio Budget Comparison Document
- • Teacher Evaluation Budget Language
- • A Radical Assault on Public Education
- • What happens to merit pay without the pay?
- • Guest Post: Thoughts about teacher evaluation
- • Michelle Rhee, Inc.
- • Leaked docs show Rhee propping up Gov Kasich agenda
- • Video: Budget Uncertainties
- • Is Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson trying to have it both ways
- • How Blueberries changed a corporate reformer
- • How Socrates would fare on new teacher evaluation plan
- • BASA and OASBA urge legislators to reinstate merit pay
- • The Gates Foundation Exposed. Part III
- • The Gates Foundation Exposed. Part II
- • Michele Rhee, stranger to the truth
- • Super Who?
- • Relying on Magic: The Foundations of Would-be Education Reformers
- • The answer Is in the room not in witch hunts
- • The Gates Foundation Exposed. Part I
- • Illinois' New Teacher Law: Model for Other States, or Outlier?
- • Collaborations Between Union and District Leadership in Four School Systems
- • Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea?
- • The Dispatch should read its own paper
- • Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- • The famous 5 SB5 Senators who can be targeted in 2012
- • Measuring Teacher Effectiveness: Are We Creating an Education Nightmare?
- • An Open Letter to Gov. John Kasich
- • It's too late Rheeby
- • Substitute House Bill 153 COMPARISON DOCUMENT As Reported by Senate Finance
- • Teachers sacrifice and prove SB5 is not needed
- • Big business attacking teachers, advocating for SB5
- • Citizens can lobby too!
- • The Buckeye Institutes doesn't understand simple things
- • Punishing Experience
- • Destroying what works for what doesn't
- • When It Comes To How We Use Evidence, Is Education Reform The New Welfare Reform?
- • 10 GOOD things about SB5
- • SB5 solves exactly zero problems, creates many more
- • The Ethics Of Testing Children Solely To Evaluate Adults
- • Administration destroying jobs to create phantom ones
- • Budget merit pay - gone but not forgotten
- • Teach For America: From Service Group to Industry
- • Bringing Out the Me in Team
- • This week in education cuts
- ► May
- • Ohio Senate Budget Comparison
- • SB5 Supporters go live with their astroturf campaign
- • Time is running out to act on the budget
- • DAS misled about having SB5 documents
- • Test-Based Incentive Programs Have Not Consistently Raised Student Achievement
- • The tax loophole test system
- • Teaching Experience Matters
- • Teacher responds to Kasich request for input
- • SB5 Polling Trends Favor Repeal
- • Will friends of David Brennan please stand up
- • Michele Rhee architected parts of SB5
- • UPDATED: SB5 Help Wanted
- • The good, the bad and the uncertainty
- • Testing experts warn about use of VAM
- • This week in education cuts
- • BREAKING: 214,399 Signatures so far
- • The Exaggerations of TFA
- • A balanced approach to the budget
- • There's nothing Super about charters
- • Waiting for a Governor who gets it
- • SB5, Issue campaigns and Polls
- • Cincinnati Public Schools is first in Ohio to test merit pay
- • Ohioans overwhelmingly support SB5 repeal
- • A Columbus Teacher Testifies against HB153
- • A Worthington teacher testifies against HB153
- • Class Bias, Class Size and Online Learning
- • To Understand The Impact Of Teacher-Focused Reforms, Pay Attention To Teachers
- • Charter schools funneling vast sums of money to Turkey
- • E-School Catastrophe in Ohio
- • Blockbuster revelations coming on charter schools
- • SB5 Rally with Ted Strickland
- • Sen. Peggy Lehner (R) responds to JTF
- • School 'reforms' are doomed to failure
- • This week in education cuts
- • HB153 Whodunnit
- • Sen. Mark Wagoner (R) responds to JTF
- • Gutting education for a cup of cheap coffee
- • The cost of Charters
- • Dublin city schools town hall report
- • Stretching the Truth, Not Dollars
- • Charter school amendments likely to be stripped
- • Sen. Tim Schaffer (R) responds to JTF
- • How deceptive is Rhee’s organization?
- • Un-Accountable Charters
- • This week in education cuts
- • Lots of SB5 news from around the state
- • Dublin SB5 Referendum Petition Signing
- • Top 3 Today
- • Bad news from Worthington school district
- • Who profits with more testing?
- • We send letters
- • Merit Pay Mess
- • The Columbus parent trigger profit motive
- • Can Teachers be Evaluated by their Students Test Scores?
- • Back to School for the Billionaires
- • Full list of May 3rd school levy results
- • Primary election results quick snapshot
- • Top 3 Today
- • Events Reminder
- • Some Hows and Whys of Value Add Modelling
- • Value add high stakes use cautioned
- • White Hat Management Political Contributions
- • It's National Teacher Day!
- • The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries
- • Teaching isn't as simple as it appears
- • 20 years after DeRolph case school funding in Ohio isn't fixed
- • OSBA Refutes Education Matters Report
- • This week in education cuts
- ► April
- • GOP school privatization plan under scrutiny
- • $3.1 billion in education cuts will force levies, larger classes
- • Top 3 Today
- • SB5 vs The Budget
- • Top 3 Today
- • Congrats to Kenton Ridge High School Marching Band!
- • Canary in the community
- • Time to get serious Governor
- • Kasich looks funny on a horse
- • How to fix our schools
- • Top 3 Today
- • Value add limitations debated in HB153
- • The Limits of School Reform
- • Top 3 Today
- • SB5 Legislates the Onion
- • Outrage over school cuts rises
- • New Poll shows high support for SB5 opponents
- • SB5 signature collection continues apace
- • SB5 Merit Pay - teachers weigh in
- • The Nation: Teachers Are Not The Enemy
- • This week in education cuts
- • The Truth about Ohio Senate Bill 5 - Fair Teacher Evaluations
- • Kasich makes false claims to state workers
- • Ohio Education Matters Report
- • Anger over reckless budget runs red
- • What's John Kasich hiding?
- • Top 3 Today
- • New Study: reckless budget costing 29,000 K-12 jobs
- • School district field-tests 52 (yes, 52) new tests on kids
- • Does Class Size Really Matter?
- • SB5 Roundup
- • Education Czar ok with expanding charter failure
- • SB5 would set us back
- • The Intent to Leave: Impact of Eroding Teacher Salaries
- • Rhee's partisan political agenda
- • Hilliard Schools Budget
- • Teachers again prove SB5 is a sham budget tool
- • Olentangy Schools Budget
- • Governor Kasich offers shabby solutions
- • Voucher expansion news report
- • Petition training pics and update
- • Top 3 Today
- • This week in education cuts
- • A $715 million experiment
- • Voucher expanding Bills
- • A pernicious argument
- • Students are not widgets
- • Charter Schools and Our Tax Dollars
- • Petition training at JTF world HQ
- • Referendum is Go for Launch
- • OHIO SENATE BILL 5, AND WHY WE NEED COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
- • Notes from Colorado
- • Public school battles city over charter
- • Two Sides of the School Staffing Coin
- • Top 3 Today
- • SB5 language In budget to get the axe?
- • Budget priorities
- • Search School District State Funding Projections
- • SB5 Myths vs Facts
- • GOP Pollster puts SB5 repeal way ahead
- • The "Jobs Budget" Calculator
- • Teachers literally pay $6,000,000 out-of-pocket annually for Jobs Budget
- • Everyday Heroes
- • Top 3 Today
- • “I Couldn’t Believe It Happened to Me”
- • What's on your ballot?
- • Voucher Poll
- • Teach for America not education's cure-all
- • Top 3 Today
- • 99 Reasons Teachers Rocks
- • Sommers sweats gifted student question
- • Administration - cut ESP's first
- • Next Season on Survivor
- • The Week in Review
- • We Are Ohio Pictures
- • Top 3 Today
- • OEA Petition Training Schedule
- • Reach Out and Read Success
- • SOS Husted directive to Franklin County BoE RE: SB5 petition
- • What passing the buck looks like
- • Top 3 Today
- • Wisconsin election bodes ill for anti worker forces
- • Budget bill mirrors SB5 attacks on teachers
- • Chillicothe educator named Foreign Language Teacher of the Year
- • Top 3 Today
- • Outsourcing the Future
- • Chamber of Commerce risks massive backlash
- • Education cuts should be a wake up call
- • Teachers union poll - teachers still popular
- • Teachers ready to fight Senate Bill 5
- • Top 3 Today
- • An election to watch tomorrow
- • LSC Analysis of Education Budget
- • ODE Budget Testimony
- • Parents don't want to pull the trigger
- • Pulling the Trigger
- • Your Voice is Being Heard Now
- • Governor’s Executive Budget Proposal Analysis
- • Senate Bill 5 Analysis
- • We're gonna need a bigger boat
- • I’m Sorry I’m a Teacher
- • New Poll - Workers More Popular
- • The Arc of Truth bends towards Justice!
- • SB 5 - Your Next Steps
- ► March
- • Words vs Deeds #Updated
- • When Criticism of Teachers Becomes Offensive
- • Budget News for March 31st, 2011
- • S.B.5 Passes - Reports from around the web
- • Senate Bill 5 House Hearing Pictures
- • News for March 30th, 2011
- • WHAT ARE THE COMPONENTS OF A GOOD SCHOOL?
- • SB5 forging an undemocratic path
- • The Reckless Budget, story after story
- • News for March 29th, 2011
- • Attack PAC - "Stop Public Unions Now" Spotted!
- • S.B.5 Rally in Newark
- • News for March 21th, 2011
- • News for March 16th, 2011
- • Ohio budget documents released
- • Great Testimony on ill effects of SB 5
- • News for March 15th, 2011
- • Rallys around the State on Tuesday
- • News for March 14th, 2011
- • Behind the Right-Wing Attacks on Collective Bargaining
- • CEA member Karen Andermills speaks against S.B. 5
- • News for March 11th, 2011
- • SB 5 - The Citizen Veto Basics
- • March 5th Middle Class Rally
- • News for March 10th, 2011
- • Fighting for the future, today
- • News for March 9th,2011
- • News for March 8th, 2011
- ► December
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