RESPECT is on the Rise: I lost my bid for SEA union president by 45 votes, but the Social Equality Educators have never been stronger!

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Thanks to everyone for your support for the Social Equality Educator’s (SEE) RESPECT campaign in the recent Seattle Education Association (SEA) union election!  Our campaign generated more excitement than ever before--both inside the union and among social justice and education thought leaders who supported my run for president of the union. In the end, I came …

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Front Page Seattle Times Article on SEA election: “Politics plays role in teachers union vote for president”

On By I AM AN EDUCATORIn RESPECT, Seattle Eduction Association, Social Equality Educators2 Comments

The Seattle Times ran an important front page article today on the current election in the Seattle Education Association (SEA), "Politics plays role in teachers union vote for president". I am running for President of SEA on the RESPECT ticket, a slate of social justice educators.  The main criticism of our campaign cited in the …

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The New Conscientious Test Objectors at International High School in NYC!

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A couple of days ago a New York area code popped up on my cell phone. I didn’t recognize the number—but when a teacher on the other end of line said that she was organizing a testing boycott at her high school, I certainly recognized the situation. Emily Giles, a teacher at International High School …

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Video: What Does RESPECT Mean?–Vote today for a new union leadership to defend public education

On By I AM AN EDUCATORIn RESPECT, Seattle Eduction Association, Social Equality Educators1 Comment

Voting has begun! I am running for president of the Seattle Education Association (SEA) with a dozen other educators on the RESPECT ticket.  We want to transform our union to become a powerful force to defend public education from corporate education reformers. Many of us were leaders in the MAP test boycott and we all believe …

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Arne Duncan has labeled my school—and every school in Washington State—a failure. Cue the revolt.

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The ultimate absurdity of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has been visited upon my home state of Washington. One of the many outlandish propositions of  NCLB was that 100 percent of students at all schools in the United States would be fully proficient in reading and math, as registered by student test scores, …

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