Nadie se atreva llamarlo tontería > la acción del juez Hanen en contra del DAPA/extension de DACA

(Opinión sobre lo que pasó con la acción del juez Hanen en contra del DAPA/extension de DACA) favor de aguantar la traduccion.. Nadie se atreva llamarlo tontería Por Robert Kahn        El orden judicial de un juez de Texas en contra de los mandados ejecutivos del presidente Obama sobre la inmigración se volcará rápidamente por el corte federal del quinto circuito        El juez de distrito Andrew Hanen, nombrado derechista del presidente George W. Bush, dejó que su animosidad contra Obama y los inmigrantes prejuzga su juicio.       Hanen no sabe nada acerca de cómo se ha llevado a cabo la política de inmigración durante siglos - o que no le importa saberlo.       Cualquier director de distrito de los servicios de inmigración de Estados Unidos tiene el poder de hacer lo que el presidente Obama hizo.       Un director de distrito de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas tiene la facultad de admitir a los inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos en un capricho.       Él o ella puede liberarlos en ningún enlace, o encarcelarlos bajo cualquier fianza que elija.       Se les puede dar permisos de trabajo, o no; dejar que ellos viajan fuera de su distrito, o no; acusarlos penalmente o no; ordenar los enviaron a una audiencia de deportación inmediata o posponerlo indefinidamente. Él puede hacer esto porque de donde vinieron, o su religión, o porque entraron a Estados Unidos en un solo lugar en vez de 10 millas río arriba.       Y el jefe de ICE en el distrito adyacente puede hacer cumplir las políticas opuestas en cada punto.       Ni Texas, ni los otros 25 estados controlados por los republicanos que compraban a los jueces antes de demandar al gobierno de Obama en Brownsville, Texas soñarían con demandar a un director de distrito ICE para esto.       Porque esa es la forma en que siempre se ha hecho.       Hice el trabajo legal en las cárceles de inmigración de Estados Unidos durante años. Escribí la primera historia de las cárceles de inmigración estadounidenses. La situación no ha cambiado un poco desde mi libro salió hace 19 años.       Directores de distrito ICE tienen inmensos poderes, algunos de los cuales he descrito. Un oficial de deportación ICE tiene prácticamente los mismos poderes, aunque los oficiales de deportación son funcionarios un mero GS paso o dos por encima de un patrullero de frontera, pero no elegido - como son directores de distrito ICE.       Desde 1980, los directores de distrito para el ICE, y su predecesor, el INS, han hecho estas cosas:       - Refugiados ordenada de guerra para ser encarcelados en un distrito de la Patrulla Fronteriza, pero dejarlos ir 10 millas de distancia;       - Bonos fijado en $ 7,500 en un distrito y en $ 1,500, o nada, en una adyacente a uno;       - Teniendo en cuenta los permisos de trabajo y pospuesto indefinidamente las audiencias de deportación para los nicaragüenses, pero negó los permisos de trabajo y ordenó audiencias de deportación inmediata de los salvadoreños;       - Ordenado cada frontera-Crosser en su distrito encerrado, entonces que todos ellos van, entonces ordenó a todos encerrados de nuevo;       - Refugiados animales de guerra para ser torturados en las cárceles de inmigración estadounidenses.       La mayoría de estas órdenes peculiares fueron aprobadas, una orden o, por el fiscal general de Estados Unidos. Un director del INS o distrito ICE que se resistió al fiscal general el lunes estaría buscando un puesto de trabajo el martes.       Todas estas contradictorias a menudo crueles, políticas, eran acciones de la rama ejecutiva.       El Congreso nunca se quejó, efectivamente, ni el glorioso estado de Texas, el principal demandante en la demanda contra el gobierno de Obama - Texas, donde los bebés de 3 años de edad, se realizaron búsquedas de bandas debido a que su madre le pide que hable con un abogado.       ¿Cuáles fueron esos bebés escondidos en la vagina?        Vi a un oficial de deportación elevar el vínculo de una víctima de tortura salvadoreña desde $ 1.500 a $ 3.000 cuando mi compañero de trabajo, una monja, trató de unir a cabo.        Hermana Suzanne planteó otros $ 1.500, y cuando fue a unirse a su cliente al agente de deportación la elevó a $ 5.000.       Hermana Suzanne arrugó la nariz - La protesta de una monja - luego se puso otras monjas involucradas, y ella consiguió su cliente fuera.       Esta es la forma en que el sistema de inmigración de Estados Unidos es ejecutado: en caprichos y venganza. Por órdenes del Poder Ejecutivo, y cualquiera que sea el director de distrito dice a continuación.       Afirmar que el presidente de los Estados Unidos ha "excedido en sus poderes," por no hacer más que cualquier director de distrito ICE hace todos los días, es pura tontería.       Ahora el presidente de la Cámara, John Boehner, ha amenazado con matar a los fondos para el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional a menos que el presidente rescinde su orden para proteger a millones de personas que fueron traídos a nuestro país cuando eran niños, y se graduó de la escuela, y vivió con honestidad, y puede demostrarlo .       La propuesta de Boehner es vil, deshonesto y racista - no sólo porque es un recurso desnuda a los votantes de su partido - pero porque ignora la forma en que se llevó a cabo la política de inmigración de Estados Unidos, y se ha llevado a cabo siempre.       Seguramente Boehner, como Presidente de la Cámara, lo sabe. Él tiene acceso a esta información.        La única razón por Boehner y su partido pueden hacer esto se debe a que el 99,9% de la población de Estados Unidos no entienden cómo se ejecutan los servicios de inmigración, y siempre lo han sido.        Boehner y su partido están bañados de sangre, bailando sobre los cadáveres, dispuestos a cerrar la financiación de las operaciones antiterroristas de Estados Unidos en todo el mundo, para ganar unos puntos políticos.         Ninguno se atrevió a llamarlo sano.         El libro de Robert Kahn, "La sangre de otras personas: Prisiones de Inmigración en el Decenio de Reagan," fue publicado por Westview Press / HarperCollins en 1996.

"Impaction" What Goes Around Comes Around - Rodolfo F. Acuña #EdBlogNet @idraedu #idraed

What Goes Around Comes Around

By

Rodolfo F. Acuña

[Thanks to http://bit.ly/1uBglh0]

On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet in cooperation with the CIA led a military coup assassinating constitutionally elected Salvador Allende and unleashing a reign of terror that in the first year conservatively murdered over 11,000 people. By 1982 neo-liberal wunderkind Milton Friedman declared that dictator Pinochet "has supported a fully free-market economy as a matter of principle. Chile is an economic miracle".

Pinochet along with "the Chicago Boys" -- free- market economists—set out to convert Chile into a free market, reducing the role of the state and cutting back inflation. According to Pinochet, Chile would become "a nation of entrepreneurs."

A la Ronald Reagan, Pinochet set out to privatize Chile and make education a marketplace. As a result, Chilean education became among the most expensive in the world. The outcome was dismal and Chile’s primary school system ranks 119th of 144 countries.  Students could not afford “to graduate, and even those who attain degrees seldom earn enough to pay off their debt.”  (Sounds familiar?)

A reason why education became unaffordable is that higher education was privatized and it received limited public funding. In 2006 students took to the streets in what became known as the  Penguin Revolution – the students wore black and white uniforms, carrying signs “education is a human right.” Not seduced by minor victories, they continued to fight for free education.

Protests erupted again in May 2011 with an eight-month long occupation of college campuses. This escalated into a sustained, three-year nationwide movement. At its peak, 800,000 students flooded the streets and were supported by 81 percent of the population.

Under the leadership of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, the Chilean Congress passed a law that by 2016 education would be free.  Congress approved a corporate tax hike that will generate $8.2 billion in new revenue. (The U.S. defense budget was $581 billion in 2014). History had judged Milton Friedman and his “Chicago boys.”

What goes around comes around.

Change did not come about because the political process worked. Politicians did not conceive the change. It was the students taking to the streets and spreading the attitude, “we are fed up and we are not going to take it anymore,” that brought this about.

American students could learn from Chileans and develop a moral vision that included   education as a human right.  Chileans did not blame themselves for the crippling debt and the ineffectiveness of their government.

The demonstrations were nationwide and they lasted years. As one critic put it, students got politically involved and several of Chile’s student leaders serve in the Chilean Congress “whereas the US Congress is mainly composed of older millionaires, many of whom receive campaign funds from for-profit schools like the University of Phoenix.”

Another difference is that the United States is the citadel of neoliberalism where the 1 percent has achieved an ideological hegemony.  The sad fact is that American students will not be effective until they share a “moral vision” that demands education as a right.

In the fall of 2015 California State University at Northridge will be designated as an impacted campus. The term “impaction” has been around for some time and can apply either to majors or specific campuses.  “Major impaction means that the number of applications from fully eligible students to a designated program or major on a CSU campus during the initial filing ...” Campus impaction occurs when the number of applications received exceeds the number of available spaces. However, this is not always true and neither are the consequences.

Roughly from what I have been able to learn, CSU San Luis Obispo has been impacted for over a decade. San Luis Obispo has raised its admission requirement from a 3.0 GPA to a 3.2. Departments have the option of turning away students.  

The rationale behind impaction is that by limiting and cutting enrollment campus costs will be reduced. Campuses are under the illusion that the governor, the legislature and the Board of Trustees will then increase their budgets.  Impaction mainly affects first year students but includes other transferring students. The goal is to reduce the size of the university by one percent a year over the next seven years.

In theory students turned away from CSUN have the option of attending a non-impacted campus, for example, CSU Stanislaus, which may be okay for a student with substantial family support, but for poorer students of any race it is a hardship. For undocumented students, it is near impossible.  

It gets more insidious with majors. At many campuses students may be admitted on a "pre-major" status. Before getting admitted to the major, the student must complete the lower division courses prerequisites for admission to the impacted major.

It is divisive and pits students against one another and divides them. Minority opposition to impaction has nothing to do with lower standards for admission. They are demanding their rights and asking for equal access to a quality education. Impaction has the potential of being a means of managing enrollment and gives racist members of individual departments the power to avoid diversity.

There is nothing new about this form of social engineering. In 1985, Chancellor W. Ann Reynolds sought raise entrance requirements claiming that this would force the public schools to offer required classes. Thanks to the Latino community, students and California Legislators opposition to Reynolds’ proposal slowed it down and in the end her initiative proved to be a complete fiasco.

The only ones that will gain are for profit colleges and rich corporations.  According to The Huffington Post for profit colleges from 2007 – 2012 spent a combined $39.6 million on lobbying. By 2012 “For-profit colleges … collected $32 billion from the federal government through programs like Pell Grants, while many students failed to graduate. Among 30 companies investigated, 41.8 percent of revenue went to marketing, recruiting, and to profits while only 17.7 percent towards actual instruction.”  

Meanwhile, according to The Nation Magazine, “For-profit schools are driving a national student debt crisis that has reached $1.2 trillion in borrowing.” Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) has said that for-profits “own every lobbyist in town.” Mitt Romney strongly endorsed the industry in 2012; he has financial ties to for-profit colleges Vatterott and Full Sail University. In 2013-14, House Speaker John Boehner was a top recipient of for profit money.

Giving the devil his due, Provost Harry Hellenbrand resisted impaction, he lost and is retiring. I will not be alive to see what went around come around. It will take a long time because neoliberalism is too well entrenched. For there to be change, American students have to develop a moral vision – Education is a human right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TitWqA3ac3Q

BATs Teacher Congress - DC July 23-25 #EdBlogNet >>> Pass it on

BATs Teacher Congress - DC July 23-25 

Melissa Tomlinson &  Marla Kilfoyle

July 23/24 we are lobbying on Capitol Hill so far 22 states are represented (last year we had 38 at the Rally - hope is to get 38 on The Hill to talk to lawmakers (they are prearranging appointments).

July 25 is the Congress at the Holiday Inn Capitol from 8am to 5pm - we are reporting on our lobby day, making resolutions, drawing connections, and including all stakeholders

July 25 6-9 - BAT Social at the Holiday Inn Capitol.

We are launching this week coming up - Go Fund Me, Delegates from states, Eventbrite tickets for the social and Eventbrite free tickets for the Congress.  

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JOSH GARCIA Recognized for Leadership in 'Whole Child' Accountability #EdBlogNet @idraedu #idraed

Three lessons from Josh Garcia on redesigning school accountability:

1. Defining success and how to measure it is tough. Educators have to grapple with more subjective questions around how to measure whether students are productive citizens, for example, and what criteria courses would have to meet to be considered “rigorous.”


2. Deal forthrightly with a lack of historical data. Tacoma had to be frank with the public that it had never collected a lot of student data that would have helped measure progress. “We had to be willing to be vulnerable,” Garcia says.


3. Creating the accountability system is just the beginning: Changing familiar ways of doing business is a major challenge, Garcia says, but leaders have to do the hard work to keep people moving forward. “There are kids behind that data, and you have to keep saying that, making an action plan for them,” he says.

http://leaders.edweek.org/profile/josh-garcia-whole-child-accountability-tacoma-washington/?cmp-2.9-EML/#video 

Education vs prison costs - some good links on the subject #EdBLogNet @idraedu

Education vs prison costs

http://money.cnn.com/infographic/economy/education-vs-prison-costs/

California Spends Six Times More On Prison Inmates Than On College Students

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/05/458148/california-spends-six-times-more-on-prison-inmates-than-on-college-students/

Education vs prison costs – Multiple tables and graphics

http://goo.gl/KjGyJk

Incarceration Up, Education Down: America’s Cannibalistic Profiteering

https://www.popularresistance.org/incarceration-up-education-down-americas-cannibalistic-profiteering/

Education vs. Incarceration

http://booksthroughbars.org/learn/education-incarceration/

Education vs. Incarceration: The Real Cost of Failing Our Kids

http://www.cpbn.org/pressrelease/education-vs-incarceration-real-cost-failing-our-kids

Russ on Reading: PARCC Tests and Readability: A Close Look #EdBlogNet @idraedu #idraed

Russ on Reading: PARCC Tests and Readability: A Close Look: I approach the subject of readability on the new PARCC tests with caution. Readability is the third rail for literacy specialists. While  ...