Some last minute shopping sent me to Trader Joe’s in Irvine’s Woodbury shopping center Sunday evening and I noticed a couple of Steven Choi signs close to the door. And as the clerk was scanning my purchases, I turned and…
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Who is Pulling Steven Choi’s Puppet Strings?
by Dan Chmielewski • • 4 Comments
Republican Mayoral candidate Steven Choi’s onion-thin skin has been pierced again by effective mailers that spell out his record — that Choi voted against Irvine City Budgets in 2009 and 2010 and in doing so voted against public safety, city funding…
LA Times: Yes on 30, No on 38
by Dan Chmielewski • • 1 Comment
It’s newspaper endorsement season and the competing ballot measures that most benefit schools have been reviewed by the editorial board at the LA Times. In this morning’s editions, the paper comes out for Prop 30 backed by Governor Jerry Brown…
OC Register’s War on Higher Education for the Middle Class
by Chris Prevatt • • 2 Comments
Over the past week, the editorial writers at the Orange County Register have decided to launch another all out attack on the middle class. Their recent target, is higher education for the middle class.
Why Sharon Quirk-Silva Needs to be Elected to the State Assembly
by Dan Chmielewski • • 4 Comments
Whether it’s State Assembly or Congress, residents in Irvine continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to representation in Sacramento or Washington. State Rep. Don Wagner and Congressman John Campbell place the interests of the…
Cities and States Facing Massive Revenue Shortfalls from the Feds Due to GOP Debt Ceiling Deal
by Dan Chmielewski • • 1 Comment
For my friends on the right side of the aisle, I’ll remind you that Speaker John Boehner proudly proclaimed he got 98 percent of what he wanted in the new deal to extend the nation’s debt ceiling. And once Standard…
A 21st Century Purpose for K-12 Education
by Mike Matsuda • • Comments Off
With so much talk and money thrown at school reform, we should heed the advice in Daniel Pink’s best selling book ,”Drive, the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.” According to Pink, “The secret to high performance and satisfaction—at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.†Think for a moment about what that means for teachers, for site principals, and for students.
