Mercedes Schneider writes here about the strange events surrounding Manuel Alfaro, an ex-College Board employee who has been complaining loudly about the defects of the redesigned SAT. His home was…
“In a big win for teachers and their unions, the California “Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from a lower court ruling. The vote was 4-3. See the report in the LA School Report.”
In a big win for teachers and their unions, the California Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from a lower court ruling. The vote was 4-3. See the report in the LA School Report (controlled by Campbell Brown and The 74) here.
The initial decision had over-ruled state laws that protected teacher tenure and seniority. That decision by Judge Rolf Treu was overturned on appeal by a unanimous three-judge court. The state supreme court let stand the last decision.
Howard Blume of the Los Angeles Times reports:
In a major victory for teachers unions, the California Supreme Court has let stand a ruling that preserves traditional teacher job protections such as tenure and seniority-based layoffs.
In refusing to hear the case, the state’s high court sided not only with unions, but also the state of California and others, who contended that these job protections are both constitutional and reasonable.
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Emanuel’s handpicked Community Development Commission rubber-stamps a TIF deal in Uptown.
Source: Mayor Rahm wants to spend $16 million on high-end apartments
More about the Auditor’s Office.
All of Delaware was on their seats… the normally passive auditor’s office was on fire…. Investigating charter schools up and down the state, finding malfeasance here, corruption there, criminal activity everywhere…. and just like a close basketball game between two top Delaware female school’s teams, down to the wire at the last second, a 3 pointer gets lofted and the ball arcs through the air and all eyes turn to the basket and watch, … watch… wait for it… watching… huh? No ball? Their eyes try to follow its intended arc back to the now famous player who shot it…. and no one is there!
That properly describes the charter school audit that was underway in the state of Delaware performed by the Auditor’s office of the State of Delaware….
The State Auditor is an elected official. His job is to audit the state of Delaware to make sure…
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Delaware State Auditor Tom Wagner has a lot of explaining to do. And possibly Governor Markell as well! Things are getting a bit clearer now. On the Kavips blog, Delaware State Representative Kim…
Source: The Charter School Petty Cash Audit You Will Never See
More about DE Auditor’s Office.
Delaware is very amateurish when it comes to smearing people. No one takes smears seriously anymore and the consequences usually fall back on those pushing the smear forward.
Kathleen Davies works for Tom Wagner’s Auditor’s office. She supports better control of charter school wastefulness and has been behind some of the very scary reports the Auditor of Delaware’s office has recently released, showing the blatant corruption and disregard for all taxpayers dollars, an illness that continues to run rampant throughout Kendall Massett’s charter school conglomeration…
We find she was put on administrative leave and her reports pulled from the website… Kevin has a copy of one (more?) of the pulled reports…
Her being put on administrative leave is very reminiscent of shutting down a casino because one is shocked, shocked, that legalized gambling is going on there….
Her alleged violation was “not following required procedure”. Something we all do at work, usually for our…
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Revenge is ugly business. When it takes place at a very high state level and the object of that revenge gets a whole article about it in the state’s biggest newspaper, it is really ugly. Tod…
Source: The Smear Campaign At The Delaware Auditor’s Office & What The News Journal Didn’t Tell You
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