Um indivíduo entra na política com discurso acerca da ética, do mal da corrupção, da necessidade de redistribuição da riqueza, das desigualdades sociais, dos luxos... passados meia dúzia de anos está a comprar uma casa por 6oo mil euros! 600 mil euros não é uma quantia que se acumule em meia dúzia de anos de trabalho, mesmo com um salário muito bom... e agora o tipo diz que não percebe qual é a polémica... isto é só rir...

Polémica da vivenda: Iglesias pede a militantes do Podemos que decidam se o querem como líder

Ir preso por contestar os aumentos constantes de salário dos corpos dirigentes à custa do empobrecimento da profissão. Tratar mal os professores virou moda neste tempos de (re)ascenção dos partidos de vocação totalitária. 

Senate Republicans pass a tax bill giving corporations a massive tax cut and cutting health care

Editorial. "Notre société souffre du creusement des inégalités, d’une pauvreté qui s’insinue partout dans notre pays, d’une précarité qui tend à s’imposer comme la norme du contrat social et pourrit la vie de millions de femmes et d’hommes, dont témoigne notre enquête dans le Médoc, tout à côté de la caste des super-riches dont Nicolas Sarkozy fut le fondé de pouvoir pendant cinq ans." 

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Last year, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette eulogized Margaret Mary Vojtko, an 83-year-old French adjunct who died in abject poverty after teaching for more than two decades at Dusquesne University, scraping by on $25,000 a year before being unceremoniously fired without severance or retirement pay.

(What Can You Do With a Humanities Ph.D., Anyway? The choice to leave academia does not have to mean life as a barista.)

Britain's five richest families worth more than poorest 20%

Oxfam report reveals scale of inequality in UK as charity appeals to chancellor over tax

Educação em Inglaterra: porque é que os professores estão a desistir, a fugir da profissão, não aguentando o ataque constante de que são alvos, eles próprios, a sua profissão e os alunos com quem trabalham. A escola transformada numa fábrica de estatísticas e preparação para exames. (via André)

teachers-life-inside-the-exam-factory? The Guardian

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Long hours, endless targets, worried children: as Michael Gove shakes up our schools, we find out why teachers are quitting in droves

'You feel you’re being judged all the time, not trusted to get on with the job you’ve been trained to do,' says teacher Nancy Powell-Brace.

As a lot of teachers see it, they are the focus of bitter hostility from ministers and educational high-ups, and the victims of an increasingly oppressive machine. Schools are swamping their pupils and staff in data and targets, leaving no room for the kind of human values that were once at the centre of what teachers did. These aspects of education, teachers say, also distort their priorities, so filling in spreadsheets sometimes takes precedence over actually teaching kids.

History teacher, 28, east London: "If I don't take work home in the evening, I feel guilty, and if I don't work at weekends, I worry that I haven't done anything for two days. In the holidays, there's a lot of marking and planning, and revision sessions. I'm 28 and don't have any children or extra responsibilities, but I'm worried about the future: this is my career, it's what I want to do, but how will I do it with a family?"

 

"There's an atmosphere of oppression," Powell-Brace says.

 

 

 

Philadelphia closes 23 schools, builds $400 million prison

Philadelphia is going to drastic measures to close a $304 million deficit. In March, Pennsylvania’s School Reform Commission voted to close a whopping 23 schools. The move came after the House cut $961 million from the education budget. And by July 1, a total of 3,783 employees of the Philadelphia school system will be unemployed. 

So how did the city find the money to invest in a new, $400 million prison complex? That's what many critics are wondering.

Contractors are currently working on the second-most-expensive prison Pennsylvania has ever built, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

The Great Divide: College, the Great Unleveler

That’s before we even begin differentiating by type of college. Higher education is becoming a caste system, separate and unequal for students with different family incomes. Where students attend college affects their chances of graduating and how indebted they will become in the process.

Private nonprofits, schools like Stanford or Vassar, list the highest “sticker prices,” but the average student pays less than half of full fare. Some nonprofits provide generous need-based aid to low- and middle-income students, supplementing their federal aid. Others devote their resources instead to merit-based aid, courting students with high SAT scores, typically from higher-income backgrounds. These colleges rise in the rankings, but they also provide a disadvantage to poorer students who would benefit from more need-based aid, who struggle financially to stay enrolled and who take out more student loans to do so.

"Zéro pointé"

"Qu’à cela ne tienne, nos gouvernants s’apprêtent à baisser encore les rémunérations et la protection sociale – ce qu’ils appellent «le coût du travail» – pour fournir de nouveaux cadeaux au capital qui les gaspille en dividendes."

Alors que des larmes de crocodile perlent aux yeux de ministres et de dirigeants du Medef quand on évoque le recul industriel, les capitalistes français s’enorgueillissent d’habiter le troisième pays au monde pour le montant des dividendes versés. Ceux-ci vont gonfler encore le volume des placements financiers qui parasitent l’économie réelle, détruisent l’emploi en refusant les rendements trop faibles et détournent les richesses produites au profit d’une minorité, toujours moins nombreuse mais infiniment 
plus riche.

Les clés USB pédagogiques renvoyaient vers un site pornographique

A Besançon, les élèves de CE2 ont reçu des clés USB pédagogiques. Mauvaise surprise pour les parents: les liens renvoyaient, pour l'un vers un site pornographique, pour l'autre vers un jeu ultra-violent.

Ted Cruz timeline via :P

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