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	<description>...requires real resources for sound educational conditions</description>
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		<title>A Brief Pictoral History of Oakland Teachers&#8217; Fight for Quality Public Education</title>
		<link>http://realschoolreform.net/2010/01/24/a-brief-pictoral-history-of-oakland-teachers-fight-for-quality-public-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently updated PowerPoint slide show showing some highlights in the efforts of Oakland teachers since 1995  to win decent compensation, lower class size, and other improvements in teaching and learning conditions. We showed it at the January 20 general membership meeting of the Oakland Education Association. You can download or view the presentation by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Davis and David Bacon on &#8220;The Decline of California&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://realschoolreform.net/2009/08/25/mike-davis-and-david-bacon-on-the-decline-of-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My recent posts have focused on the California Teachers Association’s failure to fight the slash-and-burn cuts to  public schools and other services and on potential allies in a real fight back. At the Socialism 2009 conference in San Francisco, July 2-5, authors Mike Davis and David Bacon critiqued the overall paralysis of labor “leaders” tied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Allies in a Fight Back</title>
		<link>http://realschoolreform.net/2009/08/07/finding-allies-in-a-fight-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economic crisis and rank-and-file pressure may be forcing a shift inside of the California Teachers Association leadership on the question of Proposition 13, split roll, or other tax and budget reforms. But given the history of timidity and false starts in 2004 and 2005, we can’t rely on CTA’s bureaucracy to rouse itself, let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Forward: Beyond Proposition 13</title>
		<link>http://realschoolreform.net/2009/08/05/other-progressive-california-tax-reforms/</link>
		<comments>http://realschoolreform.net/2009/08/05/other-progressive-california-tax-reforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Proposition 13 is not the only problem with California’s tax system, and split roll is not the only needed fix. The California Tax Reform Association (CTRA) proposes dozens of ways (nearly all progressive ones) for California to tap $13-17 billion of new revenue annually, or double that amount when federal matching grants are factored in.
One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Forward: What about Proposition 13?</title>
		<link>http://realschoolreform.net/2009/08/03/fighting-forward-what-about-proposition-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[School Funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California State Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Teachers Association (CTA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Progressive Taxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proposition 13]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://realschoolreform.net/?p=243</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[California’s state government has passed three disastrous budgets in less than a year: last week’s pillage followed agreements in February and last September that similarly robbed billions from social programs. Those earlier packages also included gifts to corporations in the form of giant new tax loopholes. So how can we stop this recurring nightmare? (I’m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What else can we do?</title>
		<link>http://realschoolreform.net/2009/07/28/what-else-can-we-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Teachers Association (CTA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Education Association (NEA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oakland Education Association (OEA)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I promised to offer alternatives to CTA’s historic pattern of defeatism and accommodation (discussed in the previous post).  So today I’ll list a few fairly general things I think CTA and its parent organization, the National Education Association (NEA), should do to pull out of this long downward spiral of political retreat and increasing weakness. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The CTA Way: Declare Victory after Every Defeat</title>
		<link>http://realschoolreform.net/2009/07/27/the-cta-way-declare-victory-after-every-beating/</link>
		<comments>http://realschoolreform.net/2009/07/27/the-cta-way-declare-victory-after-every-beating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Teachers Association (CTA)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dean Vogel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://realschoolreform.net/?p=135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[California’s Democratic legislature and Republican governor have just agreed to a budget dealing new, devastating blows to poor and working people and another gift to corporations and the rich.  It delivers $9 billion in cuts to kindergarten-through-university public education, and eliminates billions more in services to the families of low-income students. All proposals to mitigate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The NEA RA: a bleak look back and and hopeful look ahead</title>
		<link>http://realschoolreform.net/2009/07/21/the-nea-ra-a-bleak-look-back-and-and-hopeful-look-ahead/</link>
		<comments>http://realschoolreform.net/2009/07/21/the-nea-ra-a-bleak-look-back-and-and-hopeful-look-ahead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National Education Association (NEA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real School Reform]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://realschoolreform.net/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My posts on the National Education Association’s 2009 Representative Assembly have focused so far on a new business item I introduced calling for a national strike for full funding a corporate expense. I should note, though, that aside from the brief time it took to squash that motion, a few other things happened during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Educational Transformation, YES! (but…)”</title>
		<link>http://realschoolreform.net/2009/07/16/%e2%80%9ceducational-transformation-yes-but%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National Education Association (NEA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real School Reform]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://realschoolreform.net/?p=57</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m as willing to compromise as the next &#8220;wild-eyed&#8221; radical.  (&#8221;Wild-eyed&#8221; is what anti-teachers union blogger Mike Antonucci called several motions Oakland delegates brought to this year&#8217;s NEA Representative Assembly in San Diego.)
So after the California delegation voted on July 3 to oppose my proposal for a two-day nationwide strike for fully funded public schools I considered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Caucus Says No</title>
		<link>http://realschoolreform.net/2009/07/11/california-creamin/</link>
		<comments>http://realschoolreform.net/2009/07/11/california-creamin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Teachers Association (CTA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Eric Dyson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Education Association (NEA)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As last reported, the idea of a nationwide teachers walkout for full school funding at corporate expense was greeted by passionate cheers on July 2. That was at an NEA forum attended by several hundred delegates just one day before the organization’s four-day Representative Assembly opened in San Diego. And it was after the famous, [...]]]></description>
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