In Seattle schools, you’re racist if you have a Type A personality, are libertarian, or believe there is such a thing as “proper English.” From the definitions page of their “Equity and Race Relations” website:
Cultural Racism: Those aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and Whiteness, and devalue, […]

Daniel Blanchard, a California high school student thought it’d be cool with his homies to post a picture of himself smoking pot out of a bong on MySpace. Unfortunately for Blanchard, a Placer County Deputy Sheriff came across the picture. This sheriff is also the School Resource Officer assigned to the teen’s high school and […]

From Marginal Revolution:
The United State’s has one of the most admired university systems in the world and one of the most deplored k-12 systems. Could the difference have something to do with the fact that universities operate in a competitive market with lots of private suppliers while k-12 is dominated by monopolistic, government provided […]

***this is an update to a breaking story reported earlier here by Chad***
Erica Chevillar, 25, a first-year social studies teacher at West Boca Raton High School (Florida) is in trouble for photos that she has taken (see below) as a bikini model. When these and other photos surfaced on the Internet a question arose as […]

While Insider was searching Flickr and coming up with this
I was just randomly clicking through news stories and found this:

The Sun-Sentinel reports that first year social studies teacher Erica Chevalier will not be disciplined for posing for bikini clad photos as a member of the USA National Bikini Team.
Maybe USC will offer her a […]

LAT: Labor union’s advice channeling their members into savings plans with substandard returns and high expenses
Why would a labor union direct its members to under-performing plans with some of the most expensive retirement plans available?
…the unions endorse investment providers, even specific products, and the companies reciprocate with financial support. They sponsor union conferences, advertise […]

Carson High School was one of two schools in the Los Angeles area to be selected to be part of a highly-touted reform program that comes with a $1.5m grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant is part of a development program created by researchers at Johns Hopkins University that has shown […]

The Los Angeles Times reports how the Los Angeles Unified School District is grappling with the immense violence and crime at the new South LA High as students bring the problems that exist outside the school on to campus. The new LAPD online crime map that allows one to see reported crimes in any area […]

How remorseful is LA school board candidate Christopher Arellano about the untruths and misrepresentations made during his campaign? Not much judging by his official web site (Christopherarellano.org) which still contains the very falsehoods that have embroiled his campaign.
As of today, March 9th, Independent Sources found that Arellano’s website still claims that Arellano earned two […]

Just as we posted the last update to the unfolding crisis of Christopher Arellano (”Update on the the guy we called a bonehead“), we saw that the LA Times was reporting that Eric Bauman, chairman of the county’s Democratic Central Committee had withdrawn its support for Arellano.
Bauman noted that he had asked Arellano if […]

We regret calling Christopher Arellano a bonehead. We did it because he flatly refused to even attempt to participate in a good natured pop quiz given by the LA Times consisting of a single basic match question. For a guy who claims to have multiple college degrees the question should have been quite easy. And […]

Who is Christopher Arellano you ask? Well he’s running for Los Angeles School Board–a $7 billion bureaucracy. The Los Angeles Times shrewdly asked him and the other candidates running for the position to solve a simple algebraic equation. This is not an inappropriate or rhetorical question as the Times had previously discovered that many LAUSD […]

“Radical academics do not, of course, burn down buildings, at least not since the 1970s. Instead they introduce motions of no confidence and demand resignations of those who offend their sensibilities (while insisting on complete freedom of speech for those with whom they agree — free speech for me but not for thee!).”
- Harvard’s Alan […]

The story of Terence Braxton, the Florida middle school gym teacher who allegedly let children bribe him with $1 to skip gym class, is very easy to understand. What’s confusing is that other lame brain gym teachers hadn”t tried it before.
Let’s face it, being a jr. high school teacher must suck. Even worse if […]