Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Choosing Democracy: Betsy DeVos Would Dismantle Public Schools

Choosing Democracy: Betsy DeVos Would Dismantle Public Schools: By nominating Betsy DeVos for secretary of education, Donald Trump has shown he is serious about decimating public education. For the last...

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Choosing Democracy: Trump and Resistance

Choosing Democracy: Trump and Resistance: Hillary Clinton won the election by 2 million votes, but Donald Trump won the Presidency in the Electoral College.   What’s that you say a...

Sunday, November 20, 2016

Choosing Democracy: Sacramento in the Trump House

Choosing Democracy: Sacramento in the Trump House: Sacramento outgoing    first lady Michelle Rhee and   outgoing Mayor Kevin Johnson met with President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday as Rh...

Friday, October 21, 2016

Choosing Democracy: Voters Guide : The California Propositions

Choosing Democracy: Voters Guide : The California Propositions: Sacramento Progressive Alliance Voter Guide with Voting Recommendations in November 2016 Elections, with prominent YES co-endorsers YES on...

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Choosing Democracy: California Comeback: How a Ballot Measure Brought ...

Choosing Democracy: California Comeback: How a Ballot Measure Brought ...: Four years ago California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 30, the emergency ballot measure that Governor Jerry Brown and state ...

Monday, September 12, 2016

Choosing Democracy: How Messed Up is California's Charter School Secto...

Choosing Democracy: How Messed Up is California's Charter School Secto...: Difficult to Believe . Valerie Straus,  Ohio and Utah are known in education circles for having extraordinarily troubled charter s...

Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Choosing Democracy: Prop 30 Saved the Schools: Proposition 55 is essen...

Choosing Democracy: Prop 30 Saved the Schools: Proposition 55 is essen...: New Report Shows the Significant Impact of Proposition 30 Nearly four years since California voters approved Proposition 30, a new Issue Br...

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Choosing Democracy: Teacher Tenure and Due Process Protected

Choosing Democracy: Teacher Tenure and Due Process Protected: California Supreme Court affirms appeal court decision: “Vergara v. CA” is over Statement by CFT president Joshua Pechthalt: August ...

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Choosing Democracy: Back to School Shopping Lists - and State Budgets

Choosing Democracy: Back to School Shopping Lists - and State Budgets: Jeff Bryant “You can exhale now,” the headline in  Salon  reassures, because “kids have more money than ever to spend on school stuff...

Friday, August 05, 2016

Choosing Democracy: Voting for Funding Schools _ Proposition 55

Choosing Democracy: Voting for Funding Schools _ Proposition 55: Current budget projections show that unless we maintain the current income tax rates on the wealthiest Californians, our  schools will f...

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Choosing Democracy: No New Charter Schools – NAACP Draws Line in the S...

Choosing Democracy: No New Charter Schools – NAACP Draws Line in the S...: No New Charter Schools – NAACP Draws Line in the Sand An important development. This is particularly relevant given Sacramento outg...

Friday, July 22, 2016

Choosing Democracy: Trump's Dystopia

Choosing Democracy: Trump's Dystopia: Trump's Dystopia : Trump’s dark warnings and grandiose pledges that he alone can save the troubled nation sound an ominously authoritar...

Monday, July 18, 2016

Chicano History Will be in the California Text Boo...

Choosing Democracy: Chicano History Will be in the California Text Boo...: By Duane Campbell History and social science textbooks in public schools in California and most of the nation are racist, class-biased, ...

Thursday, July 14, 2016

antiracismdsa: We Won ! Chicano History Will be in the California...

antiracismdsa: We Won ! Chicano History Will be in the California...: By Duane Campbell History and social science textbooks in public schools in California and most of the nation are racist, class-biase...

Friday, July 01, 2016

Choosing Democracy: Extension of Education Tax Initiative on the Ballo...

Choosing Democracy: Extension of Education Tax Initiative on the Ballo...:  Sacramento, in front of California Middle School, leaders and members of unions and community groups stood before a large group of repo...

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Choosing Democracy: Report Cites Equity Gaps in Public Education

Choosing Democracy: Report Cites Equity Gaps in Public Education: New Report Underscores Serious “Equity Gaps” in Public Education https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/06/07/five-eye-ope...

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

California to Re Write History Books -Include Chic...

Choosing Democracy: California to Re Write History Books -Include Chic...: California to adopt a new guide to Mexican American (Chicano) history, (and everyone else) Cesar Chavez and Duane Campbell 1972 &q...

Monday, May 09, 2016

California to Rewrite History Textbooks - Include ...

antiracismdsa: California to Rewrite History Textbooks - Include ...: Cesar Chavez and Duane Campbell California to adopt a new guide to Mexican American (Chicano) history, (and everyone else) "O...

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

antiracismdsa: Stop with the Clinton campaign message that Bernie...

antiracismdsa: Stop with the Clinton campaign message that Bernie...: Nation of Change I would like my friends who are campaigning for Hillary to stop telling us all that Bernie should withdraw from the ...

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Choosing Democracy: Teachers' Unions Survive Another Attack

Choosing Democracy: Teachers' Unions Survive Another Attack: Teachers and our unions in California, along with the rest of organized labor dodged a bullet (maybe a nuclear missile is a more appropr...

Monday, February 29, 2016

Choosing Democracy: Hypocrisy of Eli Broad, Billionaire and Education ...

Choosing Democracy: Hypocrisy of Eli Broad, Billionaire and Education ...: The Philanthropic Hypocrisy of Eli Broad, Billionaire and Leading Education Reformer http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/18830/eli-...

Friday, February 26, 2016

Choosing Democracy: CTA and CFT organize against Vergara

Choosing Democracy: CTA and CFT organize against Vergara: California Educators Appeal Decision in Meritless Vergara Lawsuit Civil Rights Icon Dolores Huerta Joins Educators and Community Supp...

Tuesday, February 02, 2016

Senate Bills Take Aim at California's Growing Teacher Shortage

Choosing Democracy: Senate Bills Take Aim at California's Growing Teac...: But, they do not deal with the problem of a shortage of Latino teachers created by the actions of many CSU- Campuses as described in the pr...

Monday, February 01, 2016

The Latino Teacher Shortage in the Area Was Created.

Choosing Democracy: The Latino Teacher Shortage in the Area Was Create...: Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil. by Duane Campbell. Prof. Emeritus.  Bilingual/Multicultural Education. CSU-S.  In 2015 after the...

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Manager that Created Flint's Water Crisis Is Now Manager of Schools

Choosing Democracy: Manager that Created Flint's Water Crisis Is Now M...: Flint’s water contamination crisis began in April 2014 after Darnell Earley, an unelected emergency manager appointed by Snyder, switched F...

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Detroit Teachers Strike Against Appalling, rat inf...

Choosing Democracy: Detroit Teachers Strike Against Appalling, rat inf...: President Obama visited Detroit on January 20th, 2016 to tout the city’s resurgent auto industry, which, after the federal government’s ...

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Choosing Democracy: Teacher Unions Under Assault

Choosing Democracy: Teacher Unions Under Assault: On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that asks whether all workers in public sector unions, be they me...