A contact at the Los Angeles Times informed me that I got a faulty report about the Vergara decision. The California Supreme Court has not released its decision.

I apologize for misleading you.

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Thomas P. ORourke says:

June 30, 2016 at 8:30 pm

I’ve not as yet seen any piece on the resignation of Kaya Henderson in DCPS. Can you get to the bottom of it?

Thomas O’Rourke

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- dianeravitch says:
  
  June 30, 2016 at 11:47 pm
  
  I will post one on Kaya. Farewell.
  
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Joel Herman says:

June 30, 2016 at 10:32 pm

Are you sure it was not SCOTUS and Friedrichs

http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/28/supreme-court-will-not-rehear-case-to-end-forced-union-dues/

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Linda says:

July 1, 2016 at 8:43 am

If the California court decides in favor of Silicon Valley, I presume the amicus brief signed by Lawrence Lessig, Lawrence Tribe, et. al. may have had an impact. IMO, Vergara’s potential adverse effect on due process for teachers, harms children and, one of the few remaining middle class professions in the U.S.

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- Joel Herman says:
  
  July 1, 2016 at 9:57 am
  
  But isn’t that the objective . Or let us say that the goal is not to destroy the middle class, that would be politically incorrect as a policy goal . The goal is obtain as much wealth and maintain it as possible.A new age of Robber Barons. If the middle class is destroyed in the process it is collateral damage .
  
  But the middle class deserves this especially some teachers , they forgot that they were just working class. I will elaborate if you want. I am substituting teachers for vast parts of organized labor. Unfortunately by the time they wake up it will be quite a hole they have to dig out of.
  
  Here is another; that I have to agree with Jeff Sessions on this is astounding.
  
  If we had a shortage of Graduates or STEM graduates ,wages would rise they are not . The object here is two fold, stagnant wages turn American students away from programs . Universities have a self interest in bringing in foreign students to fill the gap . This is not some poor kid in Shanghai being given opportunity. They are paying the full boat which inflates University tuition’s . Then the H1B increases employment competition. Thus keeping wages down. benefiting Silicone Valley and it becomes a self perpetuating cycle.
  
  “Clinton outlined this plan in her technology policy agenda, released Tuesday, saying she would “staple” a green card to graduates’ diplomas. The policy would allow new graduates to bypass H-1B work visas, though graduates would need to have jobs lined up to qualify. Thibodeau writes that the “stapling” plan is nothing new — 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney supported the idea, and it has seen bipartisan support in Congress.”
  http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-shift/2016/06/friedrichs-is-over-what-next-215087
  
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- Linda says:
  
  July 1, 2016 at 10:35 am
  
  I thought there must be a bottom to my disillusionment after (1) the Media Matters, April 27 report, excised Gates, Broad, DFER, the Waltons (2) Sen. Sherrod Brown’s long delayed complaint about charter school fleecing of Ohioans, called for money for charters, just different owners (3) for-profit, Bridge International Academies and the World Bank. Then, Lessig signed the Vergara brief, which helps Silicon Valley moguls and, the Nancy Pelosi’s questionnaire for Democratic contributors, arrived in the mail. The questions, EXCEPT the first one, addressing the educational system, in general, were aimed at building support for progressive positions. The first ed. question, guardedly created the impression that something is wrong with our schools. It’s the kind of question I would expect DFER to write, after the false crisis narrative was all over the media.
  
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- SomeDAM Poet says:
  
  July 2, 2016 at 8:47 pm
  
  I find it interesting that a small number of people in departments at Harvard (Law, Econ, Business, Education) have their hands in pies that they known nothing about.
  
  Lessig seems to go from one idiotic project to another — even dabbling for a few short months in a Presidential run.
  
  Why Harvard would actually pay him for the stuff he involves himself in is a mystery I will never understand. The vast majority of his projects have nothing whatsoever to do with legal scholarship.
  
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- Linda says:
  
  July 3, 2016 at 11:44 am
  
  John Thompson wrote that a signer of the Vergara amicus brief, dismissed the significance of the brief, writing that it was “…limited to a specific aspect of Calf. constitutional law.” Good news, if the Vergara decision is overturned, on the latest appeal, the teachers, who cobbled together money for the attorneys, in the two prior trials, won’t have to do it again b/c, the court’s reasoning may be based on a technicality…..wait…
  Northeast lawyers must channel Nelson Rockefeller. “Take the average guy who makes $100, 000 a year…”
  
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Michael Fiorillo says:

July 1, 2016 at 9:41 am

Henderson is leaving DC?

Good riddance to TFA toxic waste…

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