They’re spending it surfing this blog, and commenting on this article by State Senator Jim Banks.

This morning Northrop High School art teacher Albert Jacquay emailed what appears to be every teacher at the following schools.

—–Original Message—–
From: Jacquay,Albert
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 9:40 PM
To: Jacquay,Albert; _Nebraska Staff; _North Side Staff; _Northcrest
Staff; _Northrop Staff; _Northwood Staff; _Portage Staff; _Price Staff;
_Shambaugh Staff; _Shawnee Staff; _Snider Staff; _South Side Staff;
_South Wayne Staff; _Study Staff; _Towles Staff; _Washington Staff;
_Washington Center Staff; _Wayne Staff; _Waynedale Staff; _Weisser Park
Staff; _Young Staff; sbrace@ista-in.org; Amin,Robin; _Grile Staff

Subject: This is what we are up against. Maybe a stronger letter or
phone call would help educate this “angry white boy” from Columbia City.

Below are the visitors from Fort Wayne Community Schools just within the last 6 minutes. Since Mr. Jacquay set his email out at 9:40, there has been over 75 connections logged into the blog from k12.in.us.

Get back to work teaching the kids. You can come to the website when you’re off duty. Read the rest of this entry »

FWCS Board will be having Public Work Sessions on the following dates

Thursday, February 24, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Grile Board Room, each meeting is scheduled to last approximately 2 hours.

These are Open Work Sessions (Discussion only – no voting decisions made)

Topics to be discussed:

A. Balanced Scorecard
B. District initiatives
C. Any other topics the Board may decide to discuss

These are not regularly scheduled meetings and it is possible that many people may not have seen a posting of these events. The original posting appeared in an archive of School Board Meeting Notes.

Here Come the ‘Union’ Protests

by Craig Ladwig

The television news and talk shows have met their match. It is collective bargaining, an issue too complicated for the nine-second sound bite.

Unions are promising Statehouse protests this week against bills that would weaken their membership here. The televised reports on this important development, if the pattern holds, will be marked by misunderstanding and oversimplification. Read the rest of this entry »

US House Expected to Vote on the Repeal of “Obamacare” Today

The US House of Representatives is expected to vote today on the repeal of the controversial Health Care Reform Act passed by the Congress last year. The political change in legislative leadership stemming from the November election has, by design, made this the first major vote of the new Congress. The Senate which is still led by Nevada Democrat Harry Reid is not likely to pass a repeal or allow its consideration on the floor with and up or down vote, but “not likely” does not mean “impossible” if there is a groundswell of calls, emails and faxes for a Senate vote on the measure. Read the rest of this entry »

Yes you are, according to Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern, speaking Monday at an campaign event held by the United Steelworkers for Ohio Democrats, including Democrat Governor Ted Strickland. Read the rest of this entry »