The July 2009 Issue of Substance
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Did Prescott's Erin Roche lie about the reasons for cutting special education?... Top CPS special ed official disputes Principal's claim
The Chicago Board of Education confirmed that they did not order the principal of Prescott Elementary School to cut its Special Education program.
Ms. Deborah Duskey, "Chief Officer" of the Office of Specialized Services, told . . .
Duncan speech reprinted in full
The following is the prepared text of the speech Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, delivered to the NEA RA on July 2, 2009.
Arne Duncan's Speech to RA Delegates
Prepared Remarks, Delivered . . .
Arne Duncan hits opposition in Ohio as governor insists on opposing charter expansion, helping existing public schools
Arne Duncan's attempt to bully the rest of the USA into adopting a Chicago model has been running into trouble. The following article, reprinted from Counterpunch, shows how things went for Duncan in Ohio in . . .
The MDRC Policy Brief, Reading First, and An Allergy to Reading
The MDRC Policy Brief, Reading First, and An Allergy to Reading
By Stephen Krashen (www.sdkrashen.com)
Understanding Reading First, a "policy brief" published by MDRC (Herlihy, Kemple, Bloom, Zhu,, and Berlin, 2009), presents a . . .
NEA Continues...The Education Agenda is a War Agenda...
The Education Agenda is a War Agenda by Rich Gibson Days 4 and 5 of the NEA RA
There is considerable comfort of the idea that we are all in this together. It’s an . . .
Special Education services for the most disabled children face growing attacks from Daley administration, Board of Education
Principals, parents, teachers and students across Chicago are growing in the awareness that the Chicago Board of Education, for the past seven years under the leadership of Mayor Richard M. Daley and Michael Scott, has . . .
Ward and precinct politics as usual in Chicago's South Side at Brooks High School
"It's the 'Beale - Brown Athletic Prep Center' — BBAPC for short," retired Chicago high school history teacher Hubert Jackson told Substance. "I just suggested to Mr. Scott that he get rid of the false . . .
NEA Convention... The 'madness' of electing Barack Obama again while snuffing out any militancy?
NEA RA Day 3: More than Madness by Rich Gibson
When I began to wonder about what to write about today’s RA, the first thought was to use the word that four delegates, none . . .
Arne Duncan attacks teachers as NEA convention cheers... The Day of Duncan
Maybe it really is George W. Bush’s fault. Eight years of Cowboy George make his successors look right smart.
Take U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. He looks like a precocious middle-school boy who knows . . .
Duncan omnipresent as National Education Association Opens annual meeting
Videos of former Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer (and now current U.S. Secretary of Education) Arne Duncan were one of the most common experiences of the thousands of teachers and other NEA delegates who . . .
Gunsaulus LSC, Principal, leave parents, CPS official standing in front of an empty school ... Gunsaulus LSC meeting cancelled with no notification
The Gunsaulus Academy Local School Council Organizational meeting was scheduled to be held on July 1, 2009, but it was cancelled with no explanation, and no notification, leaving several parents and one official from the . . .
A Slam for Duncan... Arne Duncan pushes 'achievement gap' and teacher bashing at Operation PUSH
At Operation Push’s annual convention on June 29th, 2009, in Chicago, the audience was filled with college students working for the city college system. Two of these students who told me that they were getting . . .
