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The Meeting Last Night

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

First, I want to apologize for the truncated live blog last night. The battery ran out on my phone. Secondly, I’m angry with the atmosphere at the meeting last night. Depending on what source you read, there were between 350 and 450 members of the public last night. That’s protesters, counter-protesters, audience members, press and [...]

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Breaking: No Vote on Ethnic Studies Tonight

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

When you were all at lunch, John Pedicone released a statement asking that the TUSD board postpone consideration of changes to the ethnic studies program. The statement is after the jump. In the mean time, the resolution to make ethnic studies from a full cirriculum into an elective has been made a study item.

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Pedicone’s Insulting Editorial

Sunday, May 1, 2011

This morning, John Pedicone had an op-ed piece in the Star repeating the trope that the Mexican-American students that protested at last week’s board meeting were not capable of organizing the protest on their own. It doesn’t say much for Pedicone’s estimation of the students he’s responsible for that he thinks they are easily led [...]

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What Was Weak Last Week

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Usually, I provide a summary of bits that, for one reason or another, I didn’t write about over the previous week. Instead of that, I’ll just focus on one: morning talk radio “personality” Jon Justice apparently doesn’t know how local government actually works. It would be excusable if this he was having trouble naming the [...]

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