A talk on Faculty Freedom Today (today was 5.10.22) by Matthew Finkin was revolving around conventional topics: when faculty speech is protected; what are the latest vectors of attack on it etc. It had that quintessentially American flavor of pragmatic legality: establish some semblance of law (statements by AAUP, insofar they are cited by the […]
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As we expected, the administration got what it wanted: the Board approved the contract with Dr. Dubiel’s SEE LLC to conduct the coveted Equity Audit. There was, quite obviously, some behind the scene maneuvering: Anne Hall, the Board member who requested more time to analyze the issue, explained that she talked to the administration and
I am being sent lately pointers to a twitter thread. It’s a lot of puerile outrage, but this claim by… – let’s call the author Dr. X, – caught my eye: I will fight this person, their grandma, their descendents, and their ghost. Then I will build a time machine and fight them in the
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This is a small personal grievance. The district, USD116, obviously wants to keep appearances of being in compliance with the Open Meetings Act. To this end they need to upload the recordings of the meetings, if they were advertised. But this is not good, – the vile disruptors might listen to and mock them. What
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The fog around early March meetings dealing with the Equity Audit lifted a bit: the district released the recording of the Board meeting on March 8. The recording is still incomplete, but it has sound (so generous)! There exists also, somewhere in the ether, a recording of the preceding Equity Task Force meeting on March
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The whole Equity Audit saga is descending deeper into Veep territory. We last wrote about it a month ago, when a group of Urbana School District employees cast as the Equity Task Force (assisted by a parent or two) announced that they needed to carefully rethink the inscrutable problem of the Equity Audit provider. The
I remember, back in Moscow, around that time, in ’81 or so, a classmate showed me, covertly, this paperback unmistakenly printed abroad. This was the famed (among those of us who were quietly listening to jammed by Soviet stations dispatches of Voice of America, or Radio Liberty at night) Хроника Текущих Событий, Chronicle of Current
Past week saw a lot of action on the equity audit front. First, the Board of Education of Urbana School District 116 met on 2.1 to examine, inter alia, two new contenders to provide this critical service to the district. That was followed by the meeting of the Equity Task Force, on 2.3, to discuss
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If you interested in a model of what is going on with all these equity audits in Urbana School District 116, here’s one. Imagine a group of social manipulators aiming to address a need: a thing that the schemers pretend they can deliver. They start with claiming that the thing, – no, the Thing, –
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The Board is moving ahead with their equity audit process: USD116’s DEI Director Dr. Caffey selected two more players, Educational Innovations and Solutions and The Equity Imperative – to add to the mix. We didn’t have time for a deep investigation (thanks to the district tortured maneuvering – the sad story of which is related
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