Education
The following segment of Rhode Island Association of School Principals Executive Director John Golden’s op-ed in yesterday’s Providence Journal struck me as noteworthy — taken in context of his declaration that public education ought to be left to educators — and his appearance on Dan Yorke’s show today deepened the concerns that the passage originally…
Another Lie by the NEA: East Greenwich Teachers Would Take Pay Cuts Under School Committee Proposals
One of the other lies being spread by the NEA is that the proposals offered by the East Greenwich School Committee would result in pay cuts for teachers. The NEA tried to pass off this lie as fact in 2004-05 and Anchor Rising showed it was a lie then. And it is a lie in…
More details when we have them. UPDATE I just got off the phone with Superintendent Charlie Meyers who told me the Judge made these primary points at court this afternoon: There would be irreparable harm if the children were not back in school tomorrow. The School Department clearly demonstrated the point about irreparable harm in…
The NEA disinformation campaign continues. It is so patheticly transparent that it should be funny. But it is hard to laugh when they willingly and consciously exploit our children as pawns in their game of greed. However, just like we saw during the collapse of the Iron Curtain, technology allows us to immediately skewer the…
I know Dan Yorke has been giving this some play this afternoon, but I honestly thought the same thing when I stumbled across this “open letter” from East Greenwich Teachers to the public. Namely, it’s not a good idea to imply that you–the teachers–are better at raising the kids than their parents. Especially this part…
I’m not sure if Jennifer D. Jordan is speaking for herself or indirectly quoting State Senate Majority Leader Teresa Paiva-Weed in the highlighted section of this excerpt from Wednesday’s Projo…A state law known as Senate Bill 3050 also went into effect this year; the law gradually lowers the cap on the amount cities and towns…
A late Wednesday night press release (a Word document) from the East Greenwich School Committee: The East Greenwich School Committee is disappointed and frustrated that the East Greenwich teachers’ union has decided to continue their strike and refuse to return to school. When the Committee asked the union to return to the classrooms while continuing…
As we debate the teachers’ strikes, some of the issues at stake took me back to my second post ever on Anchor Rising: Talking about a pro-tax ballot initiative defeated in Oregon during 2002, a Wall Street Journal editorial stated: When the budget issue is framed in terms of higher taxes, voters don’t understand why…
Something about the following quotation — offered in “State blamed for teacher strikes — from Bob Walsh gives me the impression that there’s a long-term plan behind the words: “We predicted this would happen,” said Robert A. Walsh Jr., executive director of the National Education Association of Rhode Island, which represents 28 teacher locals. “We…
I wrote these words about the NEA’s last disinformation campaign in East Greenwich back in 2004-2005: Comments by National Education Association (NEA) teachers’ union officials remind me of words spoken years ago by Soviet officials, whose views of the world were subsequently shown to have no connection to any form of reality. As the union…
