Education

by Barry Bennett

This is a video for anyone who’s struggling for a better education, especially immigrant students.  (I’ll go toe to toe with Glen Beck to see who knows what about life any day.)

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www.newbookforanewworld.org

I was in the May 29th march on the Arizona state capitol, and I met a lot of people struggling for a better education.  I am a certified instructor, there are a lot of teachers in my family, and I'm from a farming town, so I've seen how the education system is used against the working class. 

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By Andy Piascik

            Suddenly Staughton Lynd is all the rage. Again. In the last 18 months, Lynd has published two new books, a third that's a reprint of an earlier work, plus a memoir co-authored with his wife Alice. In addition, a portrait of his life as an activist through 1970 by Carl Mirra of Adelphi University has been published, with another book about his work after 1970 by Mark Weber of Kent State University due soon.

Illinois is one state that is very much like California. If anything, Illinois government is more disfunctional than California's, but it certainly isn't any better. Take heed...

Welcome to Berkeley, probably still the best public university in the world. Meet your classmates, the best group of partners you can find anywhere.  The percentages for grades on exams, papers, etc. in my courses always add up to 110% because that’s what I’ve learned to expect from you, over twenty years in the best job in the world.

That’s the good news.  The bad news is that you have been the victims of a terrible swindle, denied an inheritance you deserve by contract and by your merits.  And you aren’t the only ones; victims of this ripoff include the students who were on your left and on your right in high school but didn’t get into Cal, a whole generation stiffed by mine.  This letter is an apology, and more usefully, perhaps a signal to start demanding what’s been taken from you so you can pass it on with interest.

MSEA Strike Picket

<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]-->Students and educators in Mahomet were back to class on Monday, Aug. 23 after the Mahomet Seymour Education Association (MSEA) and the school board were able to settle on a new contract on Aug. 20.  The settlement marked an end to a two-day strike, the first strike ever in their union’s history.

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MSEA secured a one-year contract with 2.6% raise (step + .5%) for teachers, 3.5% (step + 1%) for aides and 3.5% for other support staff.  Union president Joan Jordan commented on the two-day strike and the negotiations saying, “I’ve negotiated several contracts and this has been the most contentious process I have ever been through.”

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Building Up to ‘The Battle’

The Mahomet Seymour Education Association is claiming victory having settled a contract about 2:30 pm on August 20.  This signals and end to the two day strike for MSEA.

More details and pictures will be forthcoming here at UCIMC later today.

As students were moving into campus dorms along Florida and Pennsylvania Avenues in Urbana, the SEIU Local 73 and the Campus Labor Coalition held a rally to bring attention to the deepening crisis in public education. The union also held other pickets across campus throughout the day. At lunchtime, they marched in front of students and parents chanting “Students Move In! Tuition Hikes Out! Students Move In! Wage Freezes Out!”

As freshmen students return to campus this fall, they face a 9.5% tuition increase voted on this summer by the Board of Trustees. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is asking workers to accept wage freezes and recent hires among the Building Service Workers are recommended to take a 13.5% pay cut. Across the campus, empty faculty positions are not being filled, job searches are being cancelled, tuition waivers for graduate students in Fine Arts are being rescinded, and annual contracts for lecturers and instructors are not being renewed.

MSEA Picket

The first day of school for Mahomet Seymour students did not happen today because the Mahomet Seymour Education Association (MSEA) has been out on strike since 7 am.

The union has had previous struggles with the school board over employment issues. The summer of 2009 was spent pressuring the district to bargain with MSEA about staff performing medical procedures like the insertion of catheters. The district board had refused to negotiate the matter and expected non-medical staff to perform medical procedures.

      " La gauche suivit jusqu ' au bout la ligne qu ' elle s ' était tracée le 18 Mars . Les hommes de 48 accusés jadis d ' avoir volé , escroqué , dilapidé pendant leur passage au pouvoir , tournèrent contre les fédérés les mêmes calomnies qui les avaient indignées . Etienne Arago les appela des " monstres " et Henri Martin , le chantre de l ' internationale , les compara à Néron . "

                                 Hippolyte Prosper Olivier Lissagaray ( 1838 - 1901 )

Il est maintenant de notoriété publique  , que le service action des services secrets et ce dans tous les pays du monde , élimine physiquement les trublions politiques , mais aussi les fâcheux de son propre camp , jugés comme pouvant être une atteinte à la sûreté de l ' Etat .

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