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Showing posts with label privatization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privatization. Show all posts
Thursday, June 26, 2014

4 Reasons Why You Will Mostly See New Custodians in the Ann Arbor Schools Next Year

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With the rapid privatization and outsourcing of custodial services in the Ann Arbor schools to GCA (assuming that goes through), you can exp...
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Why Play Nice, Play Fair? No Need In Right-to-Work (For Less) Michigan

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Last week, a lot of bad stuff happened at the Ann Arbor school board meeting. The two most disturbing actions? 1. The school board voted...
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Friday, January 25, 2013

So How Are Those Emergency Manager School Districts Doing?!

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I took this from the Save Michigan's Public Schools facebook page (a good page to join if you are interested), and it kind of boggles t...
Sunday, December 9, 2012

Despair. Hope. Chanukah.

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It has been a rough week in the political arena. The push for privatization of public education. . . the ramming through of the freedom to f...
Sunday, December 2, 2012

Opposition Rising and More

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Let's start out with some good news. These terrible education bills have not passed (yet), so let us keep the pressure on! One friend wr...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Calling All (Education Committee) Legislators

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A Favorite Quote "It is not up to you to complete the task, but neither are you free to desist from it." (Rabbi Tarfon, Sayings...
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Monday, June 4, 2012

High-Stakes Testing; Wisconsin; Muskegon Heights

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(Update: I changed the headline to something that actually describes what is in this blog post, rather than "things you might want to r...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Transportation Lessons: 2010-2012

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Preface In ninth grade, I had an algebra teacher who always wore cowboy boots (I grew up in New York! That was not usual). About mistakes,...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Thank Goodness?

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No, don't thank goodness. Instead, thank the bargainers on both sides of the table. And also thank the parents and taxpayers who repeat...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Around the County

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Manchester has a school board election May 4th...so does Chelsea , which is also working on budget cuts... Superintendent Robert Glass is ...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Tails, You Lose: Custodians and Maintenance Workers

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I was happy when I left the Transportation breakout meeting last night. On the other hand, I was very unhappy when I left the AAPS Budget Me...
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Heads, You Win: Transportation and Consolidation

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Last night, at the AAPS budget meeting, I went to a transportation breakout session. According to what I heard, the administration set a bud...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Privatization History

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In the course of looking up information about the 1985 reorganization, I came across some information about the history of privatization, al...