Why Is the State of Florida Trying to Destroy its Own Public Schools ?
The Florida Legislature is intentionally destroying Florida’s public schools.
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The Complete Pasco County Schools Employee Engagement Survey (Kangaroo Poll)
Bumbling Bubba Browning Enlists Gallup to lend him a smidgen of legitimacy.
Read morePASCO’S ANNUAL CONTRACT FIASCO
A MYOPICALLY DAFT POLICY Surprise: Browning & Company and USEP are once again at a standoff. Annual Contract renewal policy and its ramifications for teachers who suddenly find themselves unemployed are the items at issue. Back in 2011, the unrelentingly antagonistic Florida Legislature passed a crucial component of its far-right quest to corporatize public education in the state: the codified
Read moreA NOTICE TO NEW TEACHERS, OR WHAT’S IN A UNION?
Without unions, public education and the teaching profession are screwed.
Read moreA CLIMATE OF FEAR IN EDUCATION THREATENS THE LIBERTY OF ALL AMERICANS
Florida public education policy intentionally muzzles teachers.
Read moreA TEACHER SHORTAGE IN PASCO COUNTY SCHOOLS
Ol’ Bubba wants more state control of school districts.
Read moreGUEST POST: A DEPRESSING LETTER FROM A DISILLUSIONED TEACHER
An Email I Had to Post Recently, I received an interesting email from a Pasco teacher who asked to remain anonymous. I can totally understand that request. The email was a mixture of bullets and prose, and was obviously the spontaneous result of his contemplation of where our leadership has taken us during the last fifteen years. I replied to
Read moreJOHN LEGG: CHARTER SCHOOL OWNER, TESTING TYRANT AND CHIEF ARCHITECT OF FLORIDA’S WAR ON PUBLIC EDUCATION
A Definitive Account of Fast Johnny’s Misadventures in the Florida Legislature Ol’ Johnny Legg sure has been in the news a whole lot lately. That is fitting. He’s the one lawmaker most responsible for Florida’s precipitous plunge to national laughingstock status in education over the past year. Legg and his crooked capital cohorts have been engaged in an obscene attempt
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