The Illinois State Board of Education has been granted a waiver to No Child Left Behind (NCLB) that will institutionalize racism in our public school system. How is the education bureaucracy doing this? The state is changing the standards students have to meet by “RACE”. Yes, each race will have a separate standard to meet over the […]
Limiting Education Choices
April 7, 2014 by Leave a Comment
After several weeks of trying to teach my second grader how to ride a bicycle, I became pretty frustrated. I tried instructing Gracie the same way my parents taught me when I was 6. But I couldn’t understand what was going wrong. My poor mother must have run miles up and down West Street in […]
Pat Quinn 2014 State of the State: We Made a Comeback, Jobs are Being Created, Companies are Moving Here
January 29, 2014 by 6 Comments
In listening to Gov. Pat Quinn give the 2014 State of the State address today, it is clear he is as delusional as President Obama was last night in his State of the Union address. He continually repeated the following themes: We’ve made a comeback Getting the job done Finish the job Equality and fairness […]
TED: Re-imagining School Series
January 23, 2014 by 2 Comments
Click image to play the entire series and read Education Delivery - time for a change. 1. Ken Robinson: How schools kill creativity 2. Salman Khan: Let’s use video to reinvent education 3. Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud 4. Daphne Koller: What we’re learning from online education 5. Geoff Mulgan: A short […]
Education Delivery - Time for a change
January 10, 2014 by 15 Comments
In Conjunction with Jack Roeser The delivery of education has remained basically the same for the past century while other industries have changed delivery methods accordingly with technological advances. To compare, let’s first look at a summary of a couple of other industries: Music Industry Delivery [Overview of Presentation by Derrell Bradford]: Live Performance - […]
Bruce Rauner: No Excuse Video
December 30, 2013 by 3 Comments
Bruce Rauner has released a new video. It was also played right before halftime of the Bears Packers game last night. The video highlights Rauner’s views on education. From Rauner press release: “I know the government union bosses will attack me for it, but I’ll keep fighting for better schools until every child in Illinois […]
Columnist says public schools can’t improve as long as unions fight for the status quo
December 28, 2013 by 1 Comment
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a recent Detroit News editorial, Richard Berman puts the blame of America’s troubled education system exactly where it belongs: on the teachers unions. Berman, executive director for the Center for Union Facts, explains how union work rules and contract clauses are hurting public schools by limiting principals’ staffing options and protecting poor or […]
MPS has most empty buildings in Wisconsin, costing taxpayers millions by blocking choice schools
December 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By Adam Tobias | Wisconsin Reporter MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Wisconsin taxpayers have been forced to spend millions of dollars to take care of empty Milwaukee Public Schools buildings the district refuses to sell to choice school operators. MPS’ 15 vacant structures, some of which have been unused for close to a decade, are costing state and local taxpayers approximately […]
Illinois Charter School Commission and Education Choice for the Underprivileged
December 14, 2013 by 32 Comments
Democratic State Senator Kimberly Lightford and Democratic Representative Linda Chapa-Lavia introduced bills (House Bill 3754, Senate Bill 2627 ) in their respective chambers to kill the Illinois Charter School Commission. This legislation, as it is currently written, also kills any appeals process if a local school district denies a charter school application. Sen. Lightford did not […]