Mike Klonsky's Blog

As in West Virginia, educators in Oklahoma have reached a breaking point, fed up with stagnant wages and cuts to education funding. The...

On March 20th, HB 3754 that would dissolve the ALEC-created Illinois State Charter School Commission passed the House by a vote of (78-33)....

Anonymous reader points to Lynn Sweet's column in the Sun-Times which tells us that Arne Duncan wants another term and "there...

Superindent Gallo blames teachers for her mess Central Halls High School is Rhode Island was the opening salvo in corporate reformers...

History may well record the mass teacher and staff firings at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island last February, as the opening salvo ...

Obama's Labor Day speech "I don't want to give them the keys back." Obama said to the cheering crowd. " They don...

Edweek headline reads: Making Decisions Together: The Rebirth of Central Falls High School.   Yes that's right, making decisions toget...

John Thomas, Chicago Theological Seminary A recent action alert from the United Church of Christ reported that Secretary of Education Arn...

AEI's teacher-bashing spinmeister Rick Hess , tries his best to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear (Gist's mass firings at Cen...

Things have come full-circle in Central Falls, R.I. where 87 teachers, guidance counselors, librarians and other staffers, who were arbit...

As school districts struggle with state budget shortfalls, school closings and mass teacher firings have become the new face of school refo...

"Revolutionizing" education Arne Duncan has already sold his rewrite of No Child Left Behind to the neocons (yes they are still ...

Tribune Columnist Mary Schmich Anyone who watches the march with an open mind will see that these young people aren't aliens. They'r...

I very much appreciate the support from President Obama for the decisions we have made regarding Central Falls High School. Though these dec...

Senator from Harlem, critic of privatization “If there are people fleeing from something, it is cause for alarm,” he said in an interview in...

Central Falls teachers and their supporters rallied in West Warwick on Thursday ahead of a meeting of Rhode Island's Board of Regents f...

According to this morning's Times , it looks like Supt. Gallo and the Central Falls board are in retreat. After first refusing to even m...

Union leaders say they are "appalled" by Obama's cheer leading of Central Falls teacher firings. Even though they say they are...

It's Dr. Seuss' birthday today. I'm sure if the good doctor was in Central Falls, R.I. yesterday and heard Obama's pile-on s...

If there was any doubts that the mass firings of Central Falls H.S. teachers came straight from the top, Obama put them to rest yesterday wh...