Post by Jim K on Aug 10, 2013 14:09:53 GMT -5
We have a crisis in California where retired Superintendent Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana has gotten 8 Title 1 large CORE districts to go rogue with her. Here is the story, Thelma was working for Arne in the USDOE. Gov. Jerry Brown refuses to sign Cali up for RTTT money so Arne is pissed. He sends little Thelma out to CA where she gets a nice Superintendents job in Santa Ana and secretly plots to get these districts to go rogue and apply for RTTT $. She resigned overnight in May and it is reported that she is now getting a job in charge of education for the City of Los Angeles.
Oh, by the way, she is a Broadie grad and classmate of the amazing (NOT) John Deasy. Arne and Thelma's plan worked, because 2 days ago 8 CORE districts circumvented the unions, Governor, and DOE of CA and applied for these waivers. None of the unions in these 8 districts signed off on this. You all get the story. We are blitzing the Gov. of Calif and the Commish of DOE in CA to step up and fight Arne and Thelma. We are also asking for Arne to be fired AGAIN for violating CA rights to the 10th Amendment. Please join us on Monday.
We are tweeting at #CAED and adding @arneduncan (he is not on the meme)
HERE ARE SOME TALKING POINTS FOR YOU TO TWEET, WRITE, OR CALL!
www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FJerryBrownGov&h=qAQFrhKrn
www.facebook.com/jerrybrown
-From one failed policy to another-RttT should NOT be the
replacement for NCLB!
-Arne Duncan needs to keep his hands out of California! With
this waiver, the USDOE went over the heads of the CA Dept of Ed and gave 8 CORE
districts the right to develop their own strategies and evaluations.
-CORE districts and their superintendents are seeking to
strip teachers of their rights to due process and tie an alarmingly high
percentage of teacher evaluations to high-stakes test results.
-NONE of the teacher’s unions associated with the CORE
districts agreed to or signed off on the waiver request.
_also request Arne Duncan be fired for violating the 10th Amendment!
Oh, by the way, she is a Broadie grad and classmate of the amazing (NOT) John Deasy. Arne and Thelma's plan worked, because 2 days ago 8 CORE districts circumvented the unions, Governor, and DOE of CA and applied for these waivers. None of the unions in these 8 districts signed off on this. You all get the story. We are blitzing the Gov. of Calif and the Commish of DOE in CA to step up and fight Arne and Thelma. We are also asking for Arne to be fired AGAIN for violating CA rights to the 10th Amendment. Please join us on Monday.
We are tweeting at #CAED and adding @arneduncan (he is not on the meme)
HERE ARE SOME TALKING POINTS FOR YOU TO TWEET, WRITE, OR CALL!
www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FJerryBrownGov&h=qAQFrhKrn
www.facebook.com/jerrybrown
-From one failed policy to another-RttT should NOT be the
replacement for NCLB!
-Arne Duncan needs to keep his hands out of California! With
this waiver, the USDOE went over the heads of the CA Dept of Ed and gave 8 CORE
districts the right to develop their own strategies and evaluations.
-CORE districts and their superintendents are seeking to
strip teachers of their rights to due process and tie an alarmingly high
percentage of teacher evaluations to high-stakes test results.
-NONE of the teacher’s unions associated with the CORE
districts agreed to or signed off on the waiver request.
_also request Arne Duncan be fired for violating the 10th Amendment!