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Teachers of Miami-Dade County Call:

category north america / mexico | workplace struggles | press release author Saturday April 10, 2010 12:33author by Miami Autonomy and Solidarity Report this post to the editors

Take a personal day, Monday April 12th to oppose Florida Senate Bill 6/ HB 7189

Meet 3.30pm at: Tropical Park, 7900 SW 40th Street, Miami, Florida
We need to show our power and force Governor Crist to veto the bill!
We need to meet and organize ourselves autonomously as teachers from the bottom up!


Teachers of Miami-Dade County Call:
Take a personal day, Monday April 12th to oppose Florida Senate Bill 6/ HB 7189


Meet 3.30pm at: Tropical Park, 7900 SW 40th Street, Miami, Florida

We need to show our power and force Governor Crist to veto the bill!
We need to meet and organize ourselves autonomously as teachers from the bottom up!

Why we should oppose Florida Senate Bill 6/ HB 7189:
  • It’s a Tallahassee takeover of education at the expense of local collective bargaining
  • It will destroy education by forcing it to focus on test taking tips, strategies and memorization techniques; rather than critical thinking, learning and understanding which can’t be measured in standardized tests
  • It will increase inequalities by incentivizing teachers to abandon students with less parental support, financial tutoring means and family educational background in favor of schools with students with these background supports
  • It’s an unfunded mandate that will take more money from public schools and put it in the hands of standardized testing companies
  • It will take more time away from our students education in requiring class time for the administration of these new standardized tests in every subject
  • It eliminates salary funding from areas with proven indicators of quality teaching: years of experience and higher education degrees
  • It eliminates incentives for involvement in the National Board Certification program
  • It makes teachers financial planning unstable by cutting their salaries in half and then basing the other half of their pay on varying student test scores on one high stakes standardized test at the end of the year
  • It opens the door for greater nepotism and unstable and biased working environments by granting administrators excessive and arbitrary firing power
Please forward this information as widely as possible to all teachers, parents, community members and everyone you know to spread the word and support the struggle of the teachers against this attack on teachers and public education!

Note: This is a spontaneous call by teachers to take matters into their own hands. Miami Autonomy and Solidarity is posting the teachers’ call in a show of support for their struggle!

Related Link: http://miamiautonomyandsolidarity.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/teachers-of-miami-dade-county-call/
author by Miami Autonomy and Solidaritypublication date Mon Apr 12, 2010 09:35author address author phone Report this post to the editors

So since communication has been all through informal networks there have been different times for meeting at Tropical Park. It seems that the dominant time today has called for 3:30pm instead of 10am to avoid being caught on camera during school hours since teachers are technically engaging in a legal sick-out. The times that teachers are showing up may vary; but it seems that more teachers are opting for the 3:30pm time. Updated information will be posted at our blog if the discussion shifts:
http://miamiautonomyandsolidarity.wordpress.com/

Related Link: http://miamiautonomyandsolidarity.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/teachers-of-miami-dade-county-call/
 
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