Issues

Time to regulate what charters are teaching

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/19/ED3P1CHUEH.DTL 

The Big Idea — it’s bad education policy

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ravitch14-2010mar14,0,2024751.story 

Why We Must Fire Bad Teachers

http://mobile.newsweek.com/s/2499/CoverStory;jsessionid=904604731B8B3CD9A074AF9318D15939

The Attack on Tenure and Teachers’ Job Security

http://cafeintifada.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/the-attack-on-tenure-and-teachers-job-security/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+cafeIntifada-unitingArtWithCriticalConsciousness+(¡Cafe+Intifada!++-Uniting+Art+With+Critical+Consciousness)

List of California’s lowest-performing schools released

http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_14634736 

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/pl/tier1.asp 

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/pl/tier2.asp 

Former ‘No Child Left Behind’ Advocate Turns Critic

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124209100 

California students join thousands in nation to protest education budget cuts

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/05/2584342/california-students-join-thousands.html#storylink=omni_popular

California Students Protest Education Cuts

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/education/05protests.html?hp

Charter Schools

A proposal to open the first Hebrew-language charter school in the state was handed a major setback when school trustees in the Santa Clarita Valley deadlocked over the project’s approval — blocking its progress.

http://socialistworker.org/2010/02/11/la-teachers-take-on-charters

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hebrew-charter5-2010feb05,0,3412591.story 

I Was a Charter School Teacher

http://www.counterpunch.org/stein03102010.html

Stop L.A. Unified’s ‘charterization’

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-oew-shaffer4-2010feb04,0,6098459.story 

Charters: Students With Disabilities Need Not Apply?

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/01/27/19hehir_ep.h29.html?tkn=XVPFAlTHuLHuYEAyhZtpQti8fHUZLzKq4pqV&intc=bs

Health and Food

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/health/nutrition/08junk.html?ref=politics