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 …
The New Conscientious Test Objectors at International High School in NYC!
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
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.
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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Help Elect RESPECT: Donate to support social justice union slate & Jesse Hagopian’s bid for president of the Seattle Education Association
We need your help raising $1,000 to help us reclaim public education I am writing to ask for your support in my bid to be the president of the Seattle Education Association (SEA)--the union representing teachers, instructional assistants, councilors, clerical workers, and support staff who work in the Seattle Public Schools. No one I have …
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