The G Bitch SpotThe G Bitch Spotat which a mad black woman rants about New Orleans, insomnia, teaching, various -isms and anything else involving a bitch, a spot or the letter g Articles
Closing the Jetson Center for Youth to??
2008-05-29 00:00:00 Am Funk has the gory details. It ain't pretty but is pure Bobby Jindal and his ilk who do not believe, it seems, in social services at all for anyone for any reason while they collect their taxpayer-provided salaries and benefits. More About: Youth , Center
Edweek.org: Chat on RSD June 3
2008-05-29 00:00:00 Edweek is sponsoring a chat with The Pauls---Paul Vallas and Paul Pastorek---next week, June 3, 2 pm Central time. You can submit questions here. Here's Edweek's details on the chat: NOTE: This is not an audio chat. No special equipment needed. We are currently accepting questions for this chat. Please submit questions. Chat ...
What Will Be Day 1029 and Counting
2008-05-26 00:00:00 I have "decided" to go back to the University. I made a big stink about never, ever, ever fucking going back to everyone I knew, met, saw, bumped into or got a contract offer from. But then I looked in the refrigerator, at the growing Girl, at the price of ... More About: Counting
WWJDOMD?
2008-05-26 00:00:00 What would Jesus do on Memorial Day, huh? What I did this morning--troll through a few searches for some work (I'm at work Memorial Day and so is The Girl Plessy). And what I found is another G Bitch Linky Farm! Sleepy brain prone to sudden shutdowns study Being deprived of sleep even ...
So That?s What It Was/Is/Has Been
2008-05-23 00:00:00 [Jeffrey] Kleinberg, a New York City psychologist-psychotherapist, coined the term worker's block, and defined it as "a rapid emotional, attitudinal and relational disengagement from the job, that may not be classifiable as an illness, yet is powerful enough to create a personal and, if widespread, a corporate crisis." Worker's block ...
Do You Have the Sunday T-P? And a Digital Camera?
2008-05-21 00:00:00 The Sunday T-P story "Charters break mold by picking, choosing" in the actual paper paper had an insert on admissions policies at local selective admissions charter schools but in listing Lusher's did not at all mention Tulane. Does anyone have the paper? Can you email me a picture of that ... More About: Digital Camera , Camera , Digital
From the Sunday T-P
2008-05-20 00:00:00 Greg Richmond, president of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, a group that has vetted charter school applications for Louisiana, said fewer than 1 percent of the 4,000 charter schools in the country have some kind of selective testing or auditions and that most of them have an arts ... More About: Sunday
Test Scores, Charters, Teachers and More Scores
2008-05-20 00:00:00 What did test scores prove about vouchers? In New Orleans schools that have been taken over by the state in recent years, scores among fourth-graders on this spring's Louisiana Educational Assessment Program test increased by 12 percentage points compared to last year. Scores for eighth-graders rose 4 percentage points. It was a ... More About: Test , Teachers
The Bill-O Remix
2008-05-17 00:00:00 to dance to: to snicker to: the million-times-linked-to original: More About: Remix , Bill O , Bill
Democracy at Work:3rd National Conference, June 19-22
2008-05-17 00:00:00 Democracy at Work :3rd National Conference of Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Workplaces New Orleans, LA June 19-22, 2008 The conference will be held on the campus of Loyola University in New Orleans, and is co-sponsored by the Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice at Loyola. We're preparing for three full, focused, fun ... More About: Democracy
?this basic civil right?
2008-05-17 00:00:00 "California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/us/16ma rriage.html?pagewanted=2&ref=politics ?In view of the substance and significance of the fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship,? Chief Justice George wrote, ?the California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex ... More About: Basic , Civil
More New Teachers = More New Teachers
2008-05-16 00:00:00 "Teach for America to double numbers" The national nonprofit Teach For America plans to announce today that it will more than double the number of new teachers placed in the greater New Orleans area -- a growth that surpasses the organization's 28 other regions. Teach For America has tapped 250 recent college ... More About: Teachers
Say What!?!?!
2008-05-13 00:00:00 HT: Suspect Device, item #2. If HB 199 passes, one-on-one conferences will mean a whole new thing: Legalizing permitted handguns on college campuses took its first major step toward approval Thursday after three hours of debate in a legislative committee. ... House Bill 199 by Rep. Ernest Wooten, R-Belle Chasse, was approved in an ...
Okay, Mother?s Day Me
2008-05-13 00:00:00 ...the first Mother 's Day was dreamed up by a woman named Anna Jarvis, in 1907, the idea didn't really catch fire until 1914, when President Woodrow Wilson infuriated women's rights activists by proclaiming the second Sunday in May an official holiday. "Many of the era's suffragists . . . were ...
Comments are BACK!
2008-05-10 00:00:00 Yep, even I can comment. Major changes ahead, though, as the final Viagra bugs are worked out and my theme library rebuilt. It's like having a blog again! More About: Comments , Back
The State of Public Education in NO: Some Remarks, a Speaker and a Panel
2008-05-08 00:00:00 I got there 30 minutes late so I cannot tell you anything about Scott Cowen's opening remarks or Paul Pastorek's keynote address. I can tell you that nothing is clearer about the future of schools to me. Like many meetings, many hopes were voiced, many opinions told and held, and ... More About: Education , Speaker , Public , Panel , State
Thursday Festing
2008-05-08 00:00:00 I think of this as a guest post at Humid City though the Spot was down.... I got a long Jazz Fest tradition, one of those who went as a child and carts her spawn there each year. Every year of my daughter's life, we've gone to Jazz Fest. She never ... More About: Thursday
Showing the Charter School Love
2008-05-08 00:00:00 graciously cross-posted at Humid City, my evacuation chalet My daughter goes to a charter school. I got an email the other day about tomorrow's rally in Baton Rouge in celebration of Charter School s Week (I've never heard of this one and wonder why it is the same damn week as Teacher ... More About: Love
Calling a Cracker Vote a Cracker Vote
2008-05-08 00:00:00 Before I get started, let me say that some of my closest friends are white people. I called Indiana for HRC based on what I called and call The Cracker Vote , that percentage of white people who consciously or unconsciously, strongly or mildly, overtly or covertly cannot vote for A Black ... More About: Calling
Last Sunday 2008
2008-05-08 00:00:00 graciously cross-posted at Humid City when the Spot was spotty The Lump (our 11-1/2-year-old spawn) reads during Jazz Fest. I have found this humiliating and/or embarrassing over the years, and make pains to point out her bobbing or tapping foot. This year, though, people were quite charmed. One man talked to ... More About: Sunday , 2008
Local Thursdays
2008-05-08 00:00:00 graciously cross-posted at Humid City when the Spot was spotty First off, no, I do not understand the finer points of funding and producing Jazz Fest. But I do know that $50 tickets price out a fair amount of locals and takes an iconic season away from many of us who ... More About: Local
NO Schools: Choice, a Report, and a Forum
2008-04-24 00:00:00 Can I finish both by Monday's "State of Public Education in New Orleans" forum? (I'm still amazed that a private college that has had no education department or degree in several years is the "leader" on local public education.) School Choice : Evidence and Recommendations (PDF)--good and bad news on school choice, ... More About: Schools , Report , Forum
Run Like What Kind of Business Exactly?
2008-04-17 00:00:00 The Advocate.com: People often say government should be run like a business. In offering large salaries to Louisiana Department of Economic Development Secretary Stephen Moret and Louisiana Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek, state officials seem to be heeding a time-honored rule of business: To get talented people, give competitive compensation. But concerns about ... More About: Business
Liveblogging of Sorts: G Bitch and Mister Watch (Another Damn) Dem Debate
2008-04-17 00:00:00 7:01 PM: While they are "re-introduced," I'll get settled in. Mister, when he is done helping The Girl, will appear in italics. Yes, here we go again, more analysis from Mister and crankiness from me. Yaahoo! 7:02 pm: Audience can't applaud? Sounds like a rule Clinton's campaign might want. Does this ... More About: Watch , Debate , Bitch , Damn , Liveblogging
The Goodbye
2008-04-14 00:00:00 I haven't been in St Louis #3 since my grandfather was buried there and his jazz funeral was a painfully cathartic moment in my life. And there was no parade back to the house so we missed the important dance-and-sweat-until-the-tears-stop part of the ritual. Ashley's funeral was complete--we mourned, we ... More About: Goodbye
Shifts
2008-04-12 00:00:00 I've been tempted to go back to work full time, back to teaching. It would be nice to again have a mostly-finite job that I can go home from. But as I often said when I was leaving my office, "Im going to my other job"--meals, homework, bills, relationships, errands, ...
Grumble
2008-04-06 00:00:00 I love all the commemorative stuff to Martin Luther King. But it does push to the face multiple times a day the murder of a leader of people and that smarts.
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2008-04-06 00:00:00 Ashley Morris, rager extraordinaire of "Fuck You, You Fucking Fucks" notoriety, has died suddenly and totally unexpectedly. I'm stunned. And mute. Not The Huck Upchuck, thankfully: It will be one of my biggest regrets that I never took him up on his offer, always thinking there would be tomorrow. I am ...
Man Sports Porn
2008-04-06 00:00:00 Enforcer expects rematch to get physical, plans to be ready to 'challenge them' By Chris Kuc Tribune staff reporter March 28, 2008, 9:59 PM CDT Adam Burish finds it funny when he's referred to as the Blackhawks' enforcer. "I'm 6-5!" the rookie center exclaimed Friday. No, you're 6 feet 1 inch, 189 pounds. While not the typical ... More About: Sports
And Julie Quinn, Too
More articles from this author:2008-03-29 23:00:00 See Citizens' City Hall for State Senator Julie Quinn 's (R-Metairie) questions for Alan Levine and his non-answers. The full Times-Pic article is Proposed downtown hospital size, cost questioned. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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