How Blueberries changed a corporate reformer

Via out friends at American Society Today, comes a short video of how a teacher in the audience changed a corporate education reformers mind. The video starts out slow, but the pay-off at the end is well worth it.

I was dead meat, but I wasn't going to lie to the lady. I said "ma'am I would send them back"

Not a young women, she sprang to her feet, she points her finger at me. She says "that's right, you would send them back. We can never send back the blueberries our suppliers send to us".

"We take 'em big, small, rich, poor, hungry, abused, brilliant, homeless, with bad vision, poor hearing, bad teeth, creative, cautious, frightened, with ADHD, English as a second language - and that's why it's not a business - it's school!"

Yeah - Blueberries Pal! Blueberries!

BASA and OASBA urge legislators to reinstate merit pay

BASA and OASBA sent a letter to the General Assembly urging budget bill conference committee members to reinstate teacher merit pay and RIF provisions. They clearly see it as a way to reduce salaries for teachers.

BASA/OASBA HB153 Final Memo

You should continue to send emails and make phone calls to your legislators and urge them to keep these SB5 like provisions out of the budget.

The Reckless Budget, story after story

When we talk about the reckless budget proposal and its impact on public education it can be hard to visualize what billions, or even millions of dollars of cuts really mean. We republished documents Innovation Ohio obtained from the administration that show what the funding levels would likely be for individual school districts, but this doesn't truly capture the full scale of the problem.

As we collate our clips each morning here at JTF, we are starting to notice a distrubing but very regular pattern. Newspaper article after article detailing school funding problems. We want to start bringing these to your attention as a means to highlight just how drastic and reckless this budget is for public education, the students and our communities.

• Nearly all Ohio school districts face cuts
• Schools' programs for gifted may be cut
• Hilliard schools face cuts if levy fails
• Proposed cuts draw critics to Southwest Schools meeting
• Schools to freeze secretaries' pay
• Area schools may lose funding
• Districts Could Face Shortfalls Even If Levies Pass
• Lakota board stalls vote on school cuts
• Community Should Express Opinions on School Levy
• Schools are cutting SRO's as budgets tighten
• Both school districts face net loss in proposed state budget
• John Dudley: Central Tech cuts would save, but at what cost?
• Paying (a lot more) to play
• District Resource Officer Could Be Among Budget Cuts
• Students struggle to pay for Ohio’s cheapest schools
• Ohio school district: Lunchtime depends on levy

Please send us links to articles in your local paper that discuss school funding issues. You can send them to admin@jointhefuture.org.

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