Using Psychology to Save You From Yourself
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This article Using Psychology to Save You From Yourself was very
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Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
A California budget -- or else!
How's this for a ballot initiative: If we don't get one by June 15, we show our elected officials the door. Now that's one I would go for.
"In the midst of the nation's worst economic crisis in nearly seven decades, with the state's unemployment rate nuzzling 10% and with bond money waiting to be spent on major transportation, water and housing projects, California has halted public construction and idled thousands of workers because our government can't adopt a budget. In three weeks, Sacramento will begin sending out IOUs instead of paychecks. And no, those IOUs can't be spent at the grocery store or the hardware store or any other business that is trying to keep its doors open. Teachers will be laid off. Health clinics will close. Stimulus money spewing out of Washington will bypass us on its way to states that have their acts together."
Read the entire LA Times editorial here.
"In the midst of the nation's worst economic crisis in nearly seven decades, with the state's unemployment rate nuzzling 10% and with bond money waiting to be spent on major transportation, water and housing projects, California has halted public construction and idled thousands of workers because our government can't adopt a budget. In three weeks, Sacramento will begin sending out IOUs instead of paychecks. And no, those IOUs can't be spent at the grocery store or the hardware store or any other business that is trying to keep its doors open. Teachers will be laid off. Health clinics will close. Stimulus money spewing out of Washington will bypass us on its way to states that have their acts together."
Read the entire LA Times editorial here.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Teaching Without Paper
Budget Crisis 2008, The Sequel
Now, thanks to the California Legislature's inability to work together to solve the budget crisis, there is a spending freeze in education. The before-school and after-school intervention classes at my school have been canceled. Staff articulation has been canceled. Field trips, too. And, just to make it even more ridiculous, we are not going to be given any paper. So if I print a progress report on my computer to keep the parents informed of their child's progress, I have to supply my own paper. Or I guess I could ask the parents to please send in some paper.
I am so glad I do not have children or grandchildren in the public education system of this once-great state. It is very sad...
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Political Lies
How can Schwarzenegger say that his revised budget "fully funds education" when in fact it cuts education by $4 billion?
Thursday, March 20, 2008
California Budget Woes
I love my job and feel fortunate to be able to say that after all these years. But this is a tough time to be a teacher. Tomorrow everyone at my school will be wearing either pink or black. Pink for the teachers who don't have jobs next year, and black for those showing support for the pink-attired teachers. (Get the pink-slip connection?) Among my colleagues in the regular English program upper grade, I am the only survivor. Morale is very low, stress is high. Please contact Governor Schwarzenegger and your state legislators to tell them their so-called solution to the budget crisis is unacceptable. California is already 46th in the nation in per-pupil spending! Do we really need to slide all the way to the bottom?
California Teachers Association
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