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Meet Richard Berman. He’s been a regular front man for big business and industry through his lobbying efforts and numerous misleading campaigns against consumer safety and environmental groups. Through his firm, Berman has fought unions, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, PETA and other watchdog groups in their efforts to raise awareness about obesity, the minimum wage, the dangers of smoking, mad cow disease, drunk driving, and other causes...
http://veracitystew.com/2012/02/10/exposed-anti-worker-lobbyist-poses-as-worker-in-super-bowl-ad-video/Meet Richard Berman. He’s been a regular front man for big business and industry... more
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"Issue 2 was defeated by a nearly whopping 23-point margin. Regardless of the margin, last night was historic as no Governor of Ohio has ever seen voters repeal any portion of their agenda within the first year in office...is itself incredibly rare...this is the only time it worked. So even a one-vote victory...would have been historic. A twenty-point margin, by comparison, just looked like overkill.”
http://veracitystew.com/2011/11/09/voters-kick-kasich-its-clear-the-people-have-spoken-video/"Issue 2 was defeated by a nearly whopping 23-point margin. Regardless of the... more
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A former assistant professor of psychology at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, Calif., has sued the institution for sex discrimination, alleging that she was fired for performing in an off-campus burlesque act.
On its own, the federal complaint, filed by Sheila M. Addison last week in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, raises questions about sex, gender stereotypes and free speech for faculty members. In the context of the recent uproar at Northwestern University, where a professor of human sexuality arranged to have a live sex demonstration take place in his lecture hall after class, some say that Addison's case also raises concerns about double standards of sexually related conduct as they apply to men and women in academe.
Addison was hired in Sept. 2007 to teach graduate students under a one-year contract as an assistant professor of psychology. The following July she was awarded a two-year contract which stated that she could be fired only for just cause, according to the complaint. The contract also held that she would be deemed to have her contract extended unless it was formally canceled. It was not canceled as she never received negative performance evaluations, the complaint says.
At about the same time that she started working at JFK, she started performing under a pseudonym, Professor Shimmy, at the Hubba Hubba Revue, a burlesque show in San Francisco. Addison performed intermittently with the revue, which typically plays to about 400 to 600 people every month, said producer and co-founder Jim Sweeney. Hubba Hubba, like traditional burlesque, intertwines partial striptease (down to pasties and g-strings), dance and comedy with parody and references to popular culture.
Addison also belonged to a group of performers who sought to bring social commentary to their acts. Some of her performances tell stories, including one in which she performs with a classically trained male ballet dancer. He is dressed as a snow fairy and she as the abominable snowman (as can be seen in the YouTube video below). As they remove nearly all of their clothes, their gender identities are revealed to be the opposite of what they first seemed.A former assistant professor of psychology at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant... more
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"During his annual budget address today, Mayor Michael Bloomberg will announce that he is sticking with a plan to lay off thousands of city teachers.
Sources say Bloomberg plans to announce that 4,666 teachers will be laid off, with an additional 1,500 positions cut through attrition. "
Here we go again. Education sure gets hit hard when there's a budget gap to close. I'm pretty sure there will be some far reaching consequences attached to such an action.
What do you guys make of this? What will happen when that many teachers get the axe? What should be cut instead of teachers jobs?
There's a short video after the jump."During his annual budget address today, Mayor Michael Bloomberg will announce... more
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Teacher Sherri Lynn Davis Viciously Beats 13 yo Student…RAW VIDEO
May 13, 2010
by Post Team
Teacher Beats Student:HOUSTON (CBS / KHOU) When your teacher supported a fellow in the corner, students at a charter school in the Houston area thought it was a joke – but apparently became a terrible and brutal beating was recorded tape.
Click to see ...Teacher Sherri Lynn Davis Viciously Beats 13 yo Student…RAW VIDEO...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/wtf-teacher-sherri-lynn-davis-vicously-beats-13-yo-student-raw-video/Teacher Sherri Lynn Davis Viciously Beats 13 yo Student…RAW VIDEO
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Education reformers have long criticized the big teachers unions for blocking efforts to shake up public school bureaucracies, but a new, $1 million campaign from one of the largest may help put some of that criticism to rest.
The American Federation of Teachers, the USA's second-largest teachers union, plans to announce today it will put up $1 million and seek additional philanthropic funding to help school systems try "sustainable, innovative and collaborative reform projects" developed by AFT teachers over the past several years.
AFT has more than 1.4 million members; about half currently work in schools.
Randi Weingarten, the union's new president, says the fund will support teacher-generated efforts. "That's something that has been totally absent" from most big school shake-ups, she says.
"Ultimately, teachers have to have a real stake in reform. It's not simply about a charismatic leader or one idea. We know what works from the ground up, and if teachers would just have a voice in the reform, we would be able to make it work."
Among the efforts the fund likely will support:
• Peer-review teacher evaluations such as those developed in Toledo, Ohio.
• Union-run charter schools similar to those in New York City.
• Pay-for-performance plans as developed in Denver.
The money would pay for implementing programs, lobbying school boards or even supporting union-friendly candidates who favor teacher-generated reforms, Weingarten says.
Joe Williams, executive director of Democrats for Education Reform, a nonprofit that has taken positions routinely at odds with unions, calls the move "a pretty important green light for innovation and experimentation, not just from the union to teachers, but from the union to elected officials."
Education reformers have long criticized the big teachers unions for blocking efforts... more
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