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Source: Progressive Educators
We call upon all trade union colleagues to stand behind the Australian Education Union as it faces the challenges of the next few weeks.
The AEU has a national moratorium on NAPLAN tests.The moratorium will stay in place until Julia Gillard agrees to prevent third parties from using the NAPLAN data to create school league tables.
read more »The Chicago Model of Militarizing Schools
Monday 29 June 2009
by: Brian Roa, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
For the past four years, I have observed the military occupation of the high school where I teach science. Currently, Chicago’s Senn High School houses Rickover Naval Academy (RNA). I use the term “occupation” because part of our building was taken away despite student, parent, teacher and community opposition to RNA’s opening. read more »The Pinnacle Education Consortium has been selected by the Government of SA as its preferred bidder for the six PPP “Super Schools”. Two other consortia have been rejected.
The Public Private Partnerships process involves a radical departure from traditional methods of Government infrastructure procurement.
read more »Source: Progressive Educators
Date: 2008-12-02
(Please note there is a website video link on Rann at the end of this article: too good to miss!)
Our beloved Premier really blew it after reading Stephen Orr’s article in the Advertiser calling on him to “intervene, find common ground, reassure all parties and stop creating an atmosphere of conflict and mistrust. He must create a vision for the future of our schools that is lacking.”
Major Marty picked up on Orr’s call to the Premier, leading to this remarkable outburst in Parliament later that day, and given front page prominence in the Advertiser the next day:
TEACHERS DISPUTE
Mr HAMILTON-SMITH (Waite—Leader of the Opposition) (14:43): Is the Premier’s media unit being used to conduct a deliberate campaign around its teachers dispute position designed to diminish the public standing and status of the teaching profession in order to create an atmosphere of conflict and public mistrust?
The Hon.
read more »While everyone’s attention yesterday was on the Industrial Commission where the Australian Education Union and the SA government were at loggerheads over a planned 24 hour strike, State Premier Mike Rann was at Aberfoyle Park High School launching a “partnership” between the school and US arms giant Raytheon.
(Nuclear “bunker busters” used by Israelis against Palestinian freedom fighters are made by Raytheon.)
Rann is 100% behind the militarization of the state’s economy, meaning, inevitably, its integration into the US military and industrial complex.
read more »Source: Serve the People
There is a huge public outcry against the Federal Government’s announced $22 million bail-out of failed private child care chain ABC Learning.
No doubt this reflects some of the anger of people around the world at the use of tax payer money to bail out the finance capitalists in the wake of the global financial meltdown.
Some of it is also directed personally at entrepreneurial owner Eddie Groves and his estranged wife Le Neve.
read more »The following article has been copied from the website of the Progressive Educators (http://www.progressiveeducators.com.
read more »Source: Serve The People
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
South Australian members of the Australian Education Union have vented their anger at the state’s Labor government by holding a 24-hour strike.
The AEU covers Technical and Further Education (TAFE) lecturers, pre-school and school teachers, principals, school services officers (SSOs), early childhood workers (ECWs) and Aboriginal education workers (AEWs) in the public education sector.
Frustrated by months of stubborn rejection of their wage claim (21% over three years) and faced with the loss of protection for class sizes and working conditions, members voted by 85 percent in Electoral Commission-conducted secret ballots, to strike.
read more »Source: mike-servethepeople
In the March 1996 Federal election, National Party candidate Larry Anthony made Australian history as the first member of a three-generational Federal parliamentary family.
Larry’s dad Doug had been a leader of the Nationals, and hence deputy Prime Minister in a federal coalition, and Doug’s dad Lawrence had also had a run as a federal pollie.
John Howard looked after young Larry with a minor portfolio, that of Children and Youth Affairs.
read more »From the SA Progressive Educator Website
Thursday, September 13, 2007
What are the principal associations up to?
This morning’s front page in the Advertiser is a real wake-up call as to what we can expect if the principal associations-backed ticket of AEU Presidential candidate Jan Webber is successful in the forthcoming AEU elections.
Essentially, the principals have gone on strike, refusing to advertise Round One vacancies in the 2008 placement process.
This is the round in which teachers in the Priority Placement Pool are matched first against vacancies.
read more »From the SA Progressive Educator Website
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Principals ticket firms up
Two incidents over the past 24 hours have confirmed that the Australian Education Union (South Australia) faces an organised “takeover” bid from the DECS-funded Principal Associations, with the support of 31 Flinders Street.
Firstly, Glynn O’Brien (SAPPA President) has confirmed that the Primary Principals Association is endorsing Jan Webber and her predominantly principal member ticket in the AEU elections. It is likely that SAPPA talk and SASPA chat lines will be used (again) to lobby for support amongst principal level members.
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