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Please share this story with your friends! It is on fire!
I have been shouting this since 09/12/2012 but nobody wanted to listen, now it may be too damn late.
I have been shouting this since 09/12/2012 but nobody wanted to listen, now it may be too damn late.
Me too.
Obama stands accused of Treason. This is another count. I have previously posted on this scenario. Obana WAS seeking a way to release the Blind Sheik. Obama IS a Muslim Supremacist and a pro-Islamic Anti-American traitor.
His effort to cover his real goals, ('killing OBL), didn't cover much.
NatsovParty, what does your URL represent? I'm just curious.
I think most of us knew that it was a babdly orchestrated cover-up and a botched-up attempt on Obma's part to pull something shjady and illegal.
His Presidency is illegal. Google: "There is NO 'President' Obama" by me.
NatSovparty: This is the first I'd heard of this! All I've heard is name calling by opposers and other side promising answers to come! Niether seemed to be getting to the real TRUTH. This sounds more plausible than anyting 'I've heard or read so far.
Plausible and true!
I've known about it since right after it happened. That is why I was shocked that O was elected. This is a logical explanation to what happened that night in Benghazi. I can't wait for it to all come out.
So….which is it? Was it a botched attempt of a kidnapping in exchange for the mass murderer (the blind sheik)? Or is ovomit guilty of selling weapons to Turkey to have them supplied to Syria? Chris Stevens did meet with the Prime Minister of Turkey that fateful night. And supposedly the Prime Minister had an hours head start on getting out of the way before the terrorist attacked, killed, and tortured our American hero's. I know that either way, the "being" allowed for our greatest to be killed. So he is guilty, and should be punished to the full extent of military laws. And not be put off like all the other trials of terrorists. Yeah, that would include you too holder! And so many more. Oh….what goes around, comes around, and hope we are all here to be witnesses.
I have read Obama planned this with the Muslim Brotherhood in advance, that is, the kidnapping of Ambassador Stevens. I dont think they planned on killing him, but the Seals showed up, as any military american would feel he needed to do, and they killed many of the alqueda. And in retailation, they tortured and killed the three seals, and the anmbassador. So obama couldnt use the Ambassador as a pawn, to rescue on the eve of the election, and be swept into office again. I think he also planned to exchange the Blind Shiek for Stevens, but this all went askew and THIS will be Obamas October Surprise. He is going to be taken down sooner or later, whether he wins the election or he doesnt!!! I have a feeling if he loses the election, he will take little time to flee to Spain or pakistan or ever where his friends are, if he has any. He will be afraid he will be handcuffed as he steps down the stairs from the podium, after the next ignauguration, so he will take care to be long gone by then. Yes , I think he is illegal and a Coward!!!
OBAMA wanted Stevens taken hostage so that he could trade him for the Blind Sheik. The detachment was relieved leaving only Libyans to protect the mission . They planned to stand down and did. The Seals from a mile away honored thir oath while Obama betrayed America!
To me, the impolrtant think to know right now is that there was an attempt to cover up by blaming a video, which was a lie, and then blame the CIA, which was a lie. His statement in the Arose garen was an out nd out lie because he already knew what happened. He watched it on a real time camera from a drone flying over the consulate. Why was the drone flying over? Obama ordered all units who could help to go on "stand down". Why? Why was it reported by Obama to be a demonstration that out of hand when he already knew that it was an attack by Al Quaeda? Bring charges against him, Clinton, Biden, Panetta. Investigate the other things after they are arrested.
If this staged kidnapping story is true, then there were two operations going on independently. Ambassador Stevens was chief operative involved in running Libyan weapons through of the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood, via Turkey, into the hands of Syrian Islamic Jihadist Rebels. That's why he was even there in Benghazi the first place, and that's why he could have become a convenient, high-profile kidnapping victim, particularly if the kidnappers knew, in advance, that no security would be present.
I read that they removed all his security a few weeks prior, and a few days before the attacked Amb Stevens requested security due to alleged threats of potential attack. Furthermore, not only did the attackers know there was no security, they also knew the location of the secret safe house annex that was supposedly unknown of its location.
I noticed too that they attatckers seemed to know where the safe houser was. I thought that was strange. They had help from someone who knew about the attack. He had asked for more security as far back a March and June and even on the day of the attack and was ignored. Security was pulled away and sent to a place where they were not actually needed. All other units were told to "stand down" by the president. The security that was there had no live amunition in their firearms. the two seals who swere ont op of a building which was part of the compound went there against orders and gave their lives to try to protect people they managed to kill 80 of the attackers before they were killed. a lot more people wouldhave died if it hand't been for them. Has anyone heard anything about their getting honors for what they did?
The Detail was relieved.The Libyans were left to guard the Mission. They knew of the pre=planned aattack and were prepared to stand down,not to lift a finger to defend the post. It was all pre-planned with Obama who was in the loop.
Obama,being a false President IS a Spy under the UCMJ at Article 902.102
See 18USC,Part 1,Chapter 115,SSec.2381 on TREASON.
Good story, I wonder when the main stream news is going to quit coddling this man-child and call him out on his dastardly deeds. Americans will refuse to let Obama sweep this event under the rug as he did Fast and Furious and will hold him accountable for the deaths of 4 Americans. He needs to be impeached and all the bills he has signed, declared null and void, as if he didn't exist!! And since he cant provide a tangible copy of his Birth Certificate he cant even prove if he DOES exist!!!
1. His BC has been found by lawful authority to have been forged.
2. Not being the bona-fides President,Obama is NOT entitled to the Impeachment protocol. He is a private citizen and can be arrested by ANY duly sworn law enforcement official or private citizens arrest. To that end ,let me note, I personally served notice to Obama that he should consider himself under arrest for crimes against America and Treason. It was properly served on Eric Holder. I can provide a copy of the letter to anyone wanting same. See also Laity v State of New York,NY State Supreme Court,#5003-12
in which I am seeking Injunction against Obama being included on the NY State Ballkot.
He actually suffocated from the smoke. He was still alive when some Libyans found him and they carried him to a hospital where he died.
Thank you, Robert, for your efforts in this regard.
no one, and i repeat no one, takes sheriff little joe seriously about his "investigation." he wasted taxpayer dollars ona w tich hunt. obama IS a USA citizen and I am proud that he is our president..
oh, is that a fact? well we'll see how proud you are when the muslims take this country over ands you are stripped of all your rights you fkn idiot
His effort to sweep Fast and Furious uncer the rug actually implicated him in the gun running. His use of Executive Privilege was an admission that he and Holder had conversations about it.
Can't accept this. Think Ambassador Stevens was meant to die after meeting with the Turkish fellow, as he was a liability for knowing too much. The arming and support of our enemies is not something they wanted
him to share at some distant point. And why has the one suspect been carried away to Tunisia so the US has no access to him? Stevens was murdered pretty quickly. They could have carried him away just as quickly. That doesn't seem to have been their goal. Who know? Just an old Granny speculating!
You are right! Speculation! where is the turth? Congress where are you? Too busy 'day trading"?
Hitler's Nazi party enacted his laws and protected him. The current "Democratic Party" is not your Father's Democratic Party. You can be sure some Republicans are in the same Obama Cabal. Do you understand? Obama,et al,.has USURPED the Government!
I agreee with that. It is a otally different party. It is leaning toward Islam; e.g., beginnning the Democratic Convention with a Sharia prayer, muslim (CAIR) groups holding coinciding events, not wanting the word "God" on their records. the party is beginning to look more communistic than democratic.
Congress is too busy covering for Obama,as is the Mainstream Media.
This is not speculation this is information from someone on the inside! I have heard it from other credible news providers as well, just the lame stream media is refusing to report on this because they are protecting their so called savior!
Our Congress allowed this madman to destroy our Country and to allow those in Benghazi to be slaughtered. Obama is an evil twisted psychopath as is his Propaganda Minister David Axelrod and his partner in crime Valerie Jarred.
If he remains in power, America will soon fall under Sharia law. Obama is a full blown radical Muslim that is hell bent on destroying the American way of life and we have Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to thank them for having vetted someone that has no verifiable past.
They are all corrupt criminals that need to be punished for their crimes, and Obama's crime is a crime of treason.
YOU are right ON Point!
Trumps 5 million dollar offer was not presented in the exact way to command a definitive positive response…………..there was a bounty on Bin Laden !
There is no proof that Osama bin Laden IS dead. Obama is sympathetic to Osama bin Laden. Obama is a Muslim and a Traitor to America. A traitor withh control of ALL of America's buttons.
I believe the video put out by the seals who raided the compound gives the information needed to prove that he is dead. I have seen the video. they put out this video because they got tired of Obama taking the credit for Osama's death. He had nothing to do with it at all. Does it seem strasnge to anyone else that the helicopter carrying several of the members of Unit 6 was shot down and they were killed?
Obama IS a Muslim. As he likes to refer to his muslim cohorts as "Devout Muslims",Obama is prohibited under Islamic Sharia to kill other Muslims. Obama was NOT privy to the OBL raid. It was done without his Knowledge because Obama had previously pit the Kibosh on killing OBL. There is NO DNA or other proof that OBL is really dead.. That members of Seal tean 6 were shot out of the sky is evidence that a leak of the infoormation that they were IN that particular aircraft had occurred. Don't believe everything yoou hear. Even though Hitler was said to have died and the Russians testified that they saw his remains crenated,Hitler actually made it to Indonesia and impersonated a
Physician named POCH. See "The Death of Hitler". I do not believe that OBL was killed in the manner portrayed by Obama. I want to see DNA,but of course OBL is said to have been put into the ocean by US Sailors whom,it is claimed, performed a Sharia compliant interment at sea for an enemy of the USA. This is so that Obama,a "Devout Muslim" would not be condemned by his Muslim cabalists.
damn right, he is a communist, muslim, socilaist, democrat. and he hates babies too
According to the seals' video, bin Ladin is dead. You need to watch it. they, better than anyone else, know what happened the day of the raid on the compound where bin Ladin was. they were tired of Obama taking credit for it when he had nothing to do with it.
sang. wish i had a chance to vote this election. i know who i would support
I will say the same thing to you – don't believe everything you hear. Just because Ai aid something difrerent than you did, don't just assume that I don't know anything and you know it all. Perhaps your information is not that fasctual.
hey here is the truth, finally:
Intelligence officials have disclosed a new detailed timeline of the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, acknowledging the CIA played a greater role in responding to the attack than has previously been disclosed. A senior U.S. intelligence official also insisted that the CIA security team that initially responded to the attack was not given orders "to stand down in providing support," as had been suggested in media reports.
The timeline provided by a senior U.S. intelligence official gives the first precise account of how CIA security teams provided the first response to the Sept. 11 attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, which killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.
Seems as though you believe everything you hear. What's the difference? It is a proven fact that Obamaf and Hilary both lied for weeks about the cause of the attack. Don't deny that because we all know it was true. You obviously believe all the propaganda that comes out of Washington.
this issue is over, u lost. go home to your wife and kids and have some pie,. u lose, obama wins. end of story
If you are believing what comes out of Obama's mouth then you are the one who believes in lies. It has been proven he lies – he has lied about Fast and Furious and about the Benghazi murders and it has been proven whether you like it or not. guess youdon'tlisten to or watch the news or yoyu would know how much he lies. Or,maybe you just don't understand it. As far as going home to my wife and kids that would be rather hard since I am a woman. Besides which, my personal life is none of your business. Go home to mommy, little boy.
Trump's $5 milion dollar offer has nothing to do with bin Ladin. It has to do with Obama revealing some info about himself.
Obama never went to Columbia.
See: the Atlah Columia Obama Trial
That means that any "Harvard" education was based on a fraudulent fouundation.
Obama's "education" was bought and paid for by Saudi Al-Mansour!
patti's notes: saw this few days ago. as of today,10/30/12, article that obama had stevens involved with gun trading from lybia to syria,but this could be cover up. pl,orl,fla
Providing of arms to Jihadists is something that Obama is involved in.
Latest news this morning is that the administration is sayin the attack wasd a big surprise. that does notm ake any sense since trhey had redeived word from Stevens and others of trouble, danger, and two other attacks since March, 2012. There has still been no explanation why the "stand down "order from Obama to all those who could have come to the aid of the consulate. Now, he is trying to cover up with another lie thatmakes no sense. People already know that is not true because there has been enough evidence provided that tells the real story.
There were only Libyans guarding the mission and they planned to stand down at the time of the attack so that Stevens would be taken hostage. The seals from the annex a mile away saved 30 people after not obeying the illegal order to stand down. The Libyan guards SID stand down.,but that was the Libyans plan to begin with. Stevens WAS set up!
Sure, thast way Obama can blame Ste4vens for his own death and the deaths of the other 3. Anything to make himself look good. It is a known fact that he blames others for his failures.
I think you have that wrong it has been the Ovomit that has been passing around the Zombie making kool aid and I think you took a big huge sip of it. Since you can't find a way to defend your darling president you have taken the words from those of us who have been saying you democrats and the walking talking zombies. Really can't you find something original. Just like your Ozombie, noting original.
Operation Benghazi… Call your White House .. Call your Senators.. Just call… or after a week or two… no one will remember.. No more news is to be released until AFTER the elections.
Call 202-266-7453 and 202-456-1414 White House … call… don't complain.. get active!
News was released this morning. Obama states that the attack on Benghazi was a big surprise. That's odd since he watched th attack on real time video being brought to him by a drone and they had been notifed by Stevens and others that they had already been attacked several times and it was getting more dangerous. The latest notification was the morning of this attack. What a liar. And he told all units that couldf have helpd them to "stand down." Three men lost their lives coming to the aid of their brother Americans. How did the attackers know where the safe room was? That is where Stevens was souffocated because they set it on fire.
i heard through a friend of mine who is in the SEALs that Barck Hussein Obama was on the phone right before the attack, talking to one of his mooslim brothers in the state dept. and that they was sharing secrets about where the true blue American SEALS was hiding. yep, that is what i heard.. be sure to telel your congressman in the gov-mint this when u clal. yep,
@don-I am seriously concerned for your well being. You may do serious harm to your bladder holding your urine while working on your computer. Drinking mass quantiities of lemonade will tend to do that to you. Stop drinking the lemonade-going cold turkey is really not that hard. Hope you get your mind right.
All the best,
@don-I am assuming you do not know you are drinking Koolaid that is why I said lemonade. Just wanted to let you know to throw out the Koolaid….
now, i drink straight shots of reality.. u are the ones who are deluded by thinking this mumb0jumbo is true,. lol.
doctor, u avatar looks lie a swastiki… am i wrong or is it s swastki>
Obama actively works with terrorists. He IS a Traitor and currently stands accused of it!
It weould be goodf if they could actively do soething about it before tuesday – like arrest him fo treason.
Amen to that!
Looks more like you are drinking straight shots of alcohol because you are inebriated.
By all means keep us informed. We need facts, not speculation or rumors from unnamed sources in the administration. Facts can bring him down while rumors can and will be used against us as the liberal commies will do anything to win.
Remember the, " Bay Of Pigs". A blotched piece of work that ended at the feet of President Kennedy .Then follow this for the next year or so.
The U S A is loaded with current and past, Military Special Operations people, both current and retired. It is not wise to place yourself in the ire of this group. …I have never seen our Military people as angry as they are over Benghazi and: Fast and Furious. I would not want to awaken this, sleeping giant.
This is truly an unbelievable story. I knew he was behind this, but I never would have believed he was so low and so Anti-American that he would stoop to kidnapping our own Ambassador. We need to get as much proof, and not just circumstantial, real proof that he did this then we can try him for treason and remove his name from all the presidential rolls. He will have then robbed the black people of their first president. I really want to follow this story.
This guy isnt going anywhere…ever wonder …he came from nowhere…no background, no birth certificate, no SS card, no selective service card…yet no one, NO ONE did any investigation…he goes from mystery man to president…ask yourself…why didnt congress vet him the way they were supposed to?…just my opinion, but I think there are people way more powerful than the president and congress who really run this country…ask yourself why, when he has shown him self to be a complete and total joke, showing nothing but contempt for this country, pissing away $1 1/2 BILLION dollars on vacations, the media still shows millions of people voting for him…I think the future of this country has been decided for us and its not good…I also think the election results are going to show him winning even though Romney will…theres evil afoot here folks…unless you're ready to pick up a gun and fight to take this country back, you might as well sit back and watch the final destruction…this whole scenario is a political coup by the muslim brotherhood…his closest advisor , Valerie Jarrett, has a brother and Father who are members of the MB…so…its fight or flight…the choice is yours…good luck and God bless us all.
see ya
@Aftman, I believe you are right. There has been fraud in the voting I think early voting promotes fraud. asll voting should occuron electiond ay, other than bsentee votes which shouldbe verified. I believe that cvoter ID is essential. I have always beenrequired to provemy ID and it has not hurt me yet and I believe we should go back to paper ballots.
i think u r mistaken. he is an american citizen who has just convincingly won reelection to another four years. god bless president obama!!! he will be remembered as one of the greater, i dare say, greater than ronald reggreen
Actually, he is the worst president we have ever had – proven! He has spent more money than all previous presidents put together – FACT! He has created the largest deficit we have ever had – FACT! He cannot even come close to Ronald Reagan. What a fool you are!
After watching David Axelrod talk on FoxNews tonight, (11-04-2012) it sure sounded like this Obama Regime isn't telling what happened in Benghazi, because what they are actually doing is taking thier time, not only because of this election, but also, to figure out just how they are going to turn this into another ,"Fast & Furious" , where they can hide the paperwork, and then nobody will ever know, because Obama will once again call for exceutive privledge! This is getting to be a habit with this Presidency! Whenever they don't want anyone to know anything, "EXCUSE ME!, EXCEUTIVE PRIVLEDGE,PLEASE!" Next thing you know they will be burning those papers, so nobody will ever know. That would be just like this RAT Patrol.Don't knock this arrogant, ignorant, ignoramous, or he'll lie to you. Oh, Please listen to the Rat Patrol, then you can join this idiot in his delirium. He's lied about so many things in these past 4 years, "HIS WHOLE LIFE IS A LIE!"Anybody voting for this fruitloop, is just as bad as he is. He made his appearence in New Jersey, so he could make sure that he was in the papers, and on the news, but he got out of there so fast you could almost see his head spin! He couldn't wait to get out of there and get to Las Vegas! It's the same thing with this Benghazigate. IF OUR CONGRESS, ALLOWS THIS TO BE COVERED-UP, I THINK THAT THE AMERICAN CITIZENS NEED TO REMOVE OUR ELECTED OFFICALS, AND REPLACE THEM, ALONG WITH MR. BARRY SOETOROS, OR A.K.A. HARRISON J. BOUNEL,, OR WHOEVER THIS GUY IS WHO SAYS HE'S OUR PRESIDENT . BARRY SHOULD NEVER, EVER BEEN OUR PRESIDENT IN THE FIRST PLACE! We know about all the election fraud in 2008,(just go to Election fraud of 2008 on YouTube, it's all there), so people, he's lied to us coming into this, and you know for sure he's going to continue his lies, leaving. The only thing that concerns me most is those families who lost thier loved ones. HOW MANY WILL DIE AND BE COVERED-UP?How many died for this man to get here, into our White House in the first place?
it is over for u folks. time to leave th country . obama will win and u will lose. say good night..
Since Obama was re-elected,we are all the losers, including you.
Don't give up! Make the House of Representatives a beacon of light and get some serous business done. Fix the flaws in current laws in such a way to start a trend to positive change. BE SMART! Impeachment and other issues are unwinnable and don't fall in the trap that Newt did trying to get rid of Clinton over a lie about an affair. when Cong Dan Burton was doing the serious investigations that would have cleaned out real corruption throughout Washington entrenched for years. We've suffered for it since. Work with some of the Dems in the Senate that we can agree on on some issues. We are never going to agree on some social moral issues, but both sides need to understand that and so far oth sides are trying to impose thier brand of isms on all. Accomodate those issues of conscience such as birth control in health care so that Catholic institutions are not asked to change their religious belief.. aybe they could charge a cheaper heat Preium and some kidn of nigotiated price can occur on the meds to be sold by pharmacies and start a real trend to buying in bulk. odn;t forget health care was passed when the repubicans passed the Terri Schiao law. it may the right to live a Federal repsonsiblitity when private and state govts didi not provide food, shelter and health care. in some form. You want charity to be a non govt matter, then reinstate the charity deductions that used to promote it. Hold those crucial investigative hearings and others and seek TRUTH. Don't be surprised if some of both parties may resign and sneak out of town hoping not to get arrested on the way as the TRUTH of sunshine exposes ALL wrong doing. We are dealing with the 'sins' of our forbears, prior Congresses; that never addressed basic concerns on immigration, etc., Pres. Obama dii thrugh executive orders and won the election. IIs too late to kick out everyone that walked through open borders for 25 years and we the people never asked them to leave. Now we are left with dealing with issues that our basic compassion has to accept. Blame past Congresses of borh parties that neglected to take care of the serious business of the people. Newt lost one opportunity and few seem to understand that. Don;t get entrapped into it again. Republicans have got to earn back the respect they used to have Linda Joy Adams
yes, barry PLANNED to have Stephens be "captured" so barry could "rescue" him before the election, as Carter did. Unfortunately, the opponents got wind of it and turned it around. barry was peeing in his pants as he thought, "gee, that doesn't look like my plan". THAT is why he didn't act. He was still HOPING that it would CHANGE so he could still pull off his plan.
Now he's clueless as to how to deal with it. Solution: have the "media" ignore it.
wow. in terms of crackpot ideas, yours is the best so far.. i love it.. a botched kidnapping so barry could get reelected. if that was the case, it seemed to have failed, eh? and it seems not to be making any differfnece. why? because it is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing crackpot about his xcomments. Obama and his cohorts were caught inlie after lie after lie. don't you ever watch or listen to the news? try it some time – you might be amazed as to what you learn.
I think it was a combination of both events. Gun running was a FACT and Steven's was using Ambassador position as a front for one of the LARGEST CIA operations over in Benghazi. THAT is why it wasn't considered an Embassy or a Consolate. They were in the SUBURBS which we NEVER put an Embassy or Consolate. Next, Obama set everything up to also include Steven's kidnapping.Remember, the job was finishing up over their with the gun running out of Lybia and Syria. So to kill two birds with one stone, Obama's interests in the Middle East was to advance the take over of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Arab Spring. Obama was doing the handy work for the Saudi King to advance this cause. Obama has committed treason numerous times. He has put our enemies interest above American interest and has endangered our country. He still is at it. He is handing weapons to our enemies Al Quada. NOW he wants to have peace talks with them? Its ALL a front and an agreement with them to make him look good and for them to be empowered. THIS immigration BILL will let in and has already, thousands of Al Quada into our country laying low. This way when Marshall Law goes into affect…he knows AMERICANS, soldiers or police forces will NOT kill or turn on its people. Obama has filled his cabinet with Muslim Brotherhood supporters in the most POWERFUL POSITIONS. Valerie Jarret is the leader bidding for Iran. Now we have the attacks on Christians, Jews, Conservatives, Republicans and Libertarians. Can you see the pattern? Sharia Law and Islam is moving quickly to undo and destroy ALL other faiths in America and a one party system of Socialism/Marxism being put into place to nullify our Constitution and any other party affiliation. The Blind Shek is a powerful leader to Al Quada. He can organize further their causes. WE my friends are in BIG trouble IF we don't get HOLDER and OBUMMER out of office and held accountable for their crimes against America and Americans. The last straw is TOTAL GUN CONTROL to have us under his dominance. FIGHT HARD MY FRIENDS against them. WE MUST!!!! or else we will lose everything we stand for…especially our freedom. The MEDIA is so bias and LIBERAL that they too must be dismantled and held accountable for their dishonestly in communicatuong the FACTS to Americans.
I think it was a combination of both events. Gun running was a FACT and Steven's was using Ambassador position as a front for one of the LARGEST CIA operations over in Benghazi. THAT is why it wasn't considered an Embassy or a Consolate. They were in the SUBURBS which we NEVER put an Embassy or Consolate. Next, Obama set everything up to also include Steven's kidnapping. Remember, the job was finishing up over their with the gun running out of Lybia and Syria. So to kill two birds with one stone, Obama's interests in the Middle East was to advance the take over of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Arab Spring there. Obama was doing the handy work for the Saudi King to advance this cause. Obama has committed treason numerous times. He has put our enemies interest above American interest and has endangered our country. He still is at it. He is handing weapons to our enemies Al Quada. NOW he wants to have peace talks with them? Its ALL a front and an agreement with them to make him look good and for them to be empowered. THIS immigration BILL will let in and has already, thousands of Al Quada into our country laying low. This way when Marshall Law goes into affect…he knows AMERICANS, soldiers or police forces will NOT kill or turn on its people. Obama has filled his cabinet with Muslim Brotherhood supporters in the most POWERFUL POSITIONS. Valerie Jarrett is the leader bidding for Iran's interest. Now we have the attacks on Christians, Jews, Conservatives, Republicans and Libertarians by Obama. Can you see the pattern? Sharia Law and Islam is moving quickly to undo and destroy ALL other faiths in America and create a one party system of Socialism/Marxism being put into place to nullify our Constitution and any other party affiliation. The Blind Shek is a powerful leader to Al Quada. He can organize further their causes. WE my friends are in BIG trouble IF we don't get HOLDER and OBUMMER out of office and held accountable for their crimes against America and Americans. The last straw is TOTAL GUN CONTROL to have us under his dominance. That is why Obama is using the UN as a backdoor approach to come in and take our guns away. Even though the American people won and voted it down and Congress and the Senate voted gun control down. THIS again is treason on Obama's side. FIGHT HARD MY FRIENDS against them. WE MUST!!!! or else we will lose everything we stand for…especially our freedom. The MEDIA is so bias and LIBERAL that they too must be dismantled and held accountable for their dishonestly in communicating the TRUE FACTS to Americans. There is so much factual proof that Obama is NOT an AMERICAN CITIZEN. This was all a set up and a plan put into place to take down America. That is why he is continously destroying the value of our dollar and job creations for businesses.
I'll bet Obama is behind all those school shootings and the Boston Bombing that happened too !!!
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Hello matthew18, Is it a Northern Highbush?Probably so and about what age?It can most likely go into the ground,pot and all with some leaves, burlap or something put around it to insulate.Just be sure it doesn't get too dry.About the only indoor place should be a cool garage,because it needs to get a certain amount of chill hours for next year.Brady |
You have several options with potted nursery stock at this time of year. You can go ahead and plant it in its permanent site, being sure to water well, then mulch pretty deeply around the roots to avoid the freeze-thaw cycle that sometimes pops plants from the ground. You could heel it in somewhere in a sheltered location in the pot, digging the hole deep enough to bury the container to the rim, and then firming the excess soil around the pot, again watering and mulching well. Finally, you can also overwinter in a cold but not harshly cold environment -- somewhere the roots won't freeze to the point of damage, like an attached garage with some heat. I've overwintered various dormant plants with way with success, you still need to check for water a few times, and if the location warms too early and the plant breaks dormancy ahead of time, be prepared to nurse the new growth through with a grow light until its safe to put outdoors. |
I'm in zone 5 and overwintered 75 2 yr old BB plants in 1 gal pots by placing them together and covering with composted cow manure about 1/2 way up the plant. Didn't loose any. We also had a lot of snow covering the plants for most of the winter that may have helped insulate them. |
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New CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett has said that she wants to separate the discussion on closing under-utilized schools from the discussion about opening charter schools, but at a City Council committee hearing Tuesday it was clear that Byrd-Bennett is unlikely to get her wish.
CPS officials have said that they plan to close as many as 100 schools this year in order to deal with an overcapacity issue of more than 100,000 seats. The situation is a "crisis" because the district is facing a deficit next year of $1 billion, said Todd Babbitz, CPS chief transformation officer.
"For years we have made ends meet, but we are out of options," he told aldermen at the hearing.
CPS officials said they will save between $500,000 and $800,000 a year per closed school, which, at best, will take care of 8 percent of the projected deficit. Babbitz admitted Tuesday that consolidating schools is "only one piece of the puzzle," but said it will allow CPS to provide remaining schools with better facilities, including libraries, playgrounds and air conditioning.
The Education and Child Development Committee hearing was on a resolution that calls for CPS officials to tell aldermen which schools they plan to close, how they chose those schools and why they plan to open more charter schools when the district already has excess capacity.
Committee Chairwoman Latasha Thomas (17th Ward) did not sign onto the resolution, but said she always holds hearings on school closings. She also said this is the first of several hearings that she plans to hold.
Aldermen in year's past have had hearings on school closings and debated calling for a moratorium (but have never approved such a resolution). Because Chicago has mayoral control over the schools, aldermen have no power in realm of school district business.
At one point, Ald. Bob Fioretti (2nd Ward) asked CPS officials if they would commit to putting off the opening of charter schools for at least a year, as they try to "right-size" the district.
Babbitz said he was not in a position to make that promise. CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett was not in attendance at the hearing.
Frank Clark, former Com Ed chairman who was recently appointed by Byrd-Bennett to serve on a school closing commission, also did not speak about charter schools. He said his commission was charged solely with looking at utilization and to come up with a list of schools to be closed. The commission will consider such factors as safety, transportation and the value a school has to the community.
Clark said he was not anti-charter schools, but that charter schools were not within the purview of the commission.
To that, Ald. Scott Waguespack (32nd Ward) said that the commission has too narrow a focus. "Charter schools are part of the bigger picture," he said.
Babbitz said CPS has already committed to opening up 9 charter schools next school year.
And there could be more could be approved soon. CPS put out a request for proposals for new schools in August and, through that, got 13 applications.
Charter advocates say they have been told that CPS officials will make their recommendations on new schools to the Board of Education as soon as at the December board meeting. Babbitz also said the charter operators whose proposals that are not recommended could appeal the decision to the state.
On top of that, The Chicago Tribune reported in May that CPS jointly submitted a grant proposal to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation promising to open 60 more charter schools over the next five years.
Testifying at the hearing, Chicago Teachers Union Organizer Joseph McDermott summed up the question that seemed to linger over the hearing, and perhaps the entire school closing situation.
"If we are to believe that we are closing schools for austerity and there is to be 50,000 charter seats added, are we going to be facing the same fiscal cliff in five years?" he said. "This seems like a zero-sum game."
The hearing comes less than a week before the state legislature's veto session at which lawmakers are expected to vote on an amendment allowing CPS officials to extend the deadline on announcing proposed school closings from Dec. 1 to March 31. Once the school action proposals are announced, CPS still will have to hold official community hearings.
Babbitz said the details haven't been worked out, but recommendations likely won't make it to the CPS Board of Education agenda until the May board meeting—making it the latest such moves have been made.
Several aldermen and representatives from the CTU said they think that CPS should just wait until next year.
Fioretti said he has had schools in his ward close late in the school year and that parents were left in a bad situation. By then, deadlines to apply for magnet, selective enrollment and many charter schools will have passed.
Byrd-Bennett has said she plans to make sure that parents of targeted schools can still apply to these options. But she and district officials have yet to announce how that would work, especially given that acceptances to such schools will already be in place.
Ald. John Arena (45th Ward) pointed out that state law also calls for CPS to develop a master facilities plan, which isn't set to be finalized until July. "I think you are putting the cart in front of the horse," he said.
Arena and other aldermen pushed Clark and Babbitz about the timeline for things to happen, should the deadline be extended. For example, Clark said the commission will review utilization standards and hold community hearings in each neighborhood. The commission's first official meeting is next Tuesday.
Clark said he doesn't know when different elements of the commission's work will take place and even suggested it could go beyond the March 31st deadline.
"I think we can do what we have to do before March 31st, but I am not sure," he said.
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It is truely right & just to put off opening any more charters
for a year, until the district can get their act togther and "right-size" themelves and utilization list. The Il Leg shoud'nt extend the date unless CPS agrees to this in writng and at the December Board meeting.
CPS should stop closings or announce them ASAP
76% of CPS schools have classrooms that are over the limit for class size.
Maybe we could be utilizing schools more efficiently and effectively if our typical class size was 24 rather than 32 students.
CPS's decision to close neighborhood schools (that have union teachers who are fighting for lower class sizes) and open charter schools (that have non-CTU teachers who can be fired if they fight for lower class sizes) is not surprising.
CPS should put a moratorium on school closings and charter openings for two years while they come up with a workable plan for the district. If they aren't willing to do that (which they aren't) they should announce their intended school closings ASAP so communities can give input and families and employees can start planning.
It seems that CPS uses chaos as a management tool... this is no different.
Weak reporting. Aldermen, CTU flayed CPS FNGs
Once again, corporate Chicago is well served by incomplete and dishonest reporting here. But in addition to my reporting and the astute aldermen who were paying very close attention to the nonsense from CPS, there were, by my count, more than 100 people from across the city listening yesterday. Together, I'm confident that once again the people will put together what official print deliberately distorts.
I'm looking forward to going back and forth about the versions of what took place yesterday (November 19) at the City Council hearings. The hearings lasted more than two hours, and were a follow up to others in past years that have given more and more of our aldermen experience in exposing CPS lies.
A complete report will be at substancenews.net, as the 100 community leaders who attended can attest. Ten aldermen made strong statements and asked pointed questions to the latest group of CPS officials who were there to engage in the usual doubletalk and fatuous talking points. But the signal fact about the hearings was that not one of the CPS officials who spoke (or the guy from the "Commission") except the aggressive Ms. Little (whose latest title is something like "Chief Network Chief Chief...") has been with CPS for more than two years -- and every alderman there knew it!
CPS has been churning its top administrators like a buttermaker for the past several years, but when Todd failed to answer one specific question, it was clear that CPS was out of its league in the face of local elected officials who actually knew what they were talking about. Every alderman who asked a pointed question -- and there were dozens -- was coming from experience in the actual schools of the real Chicago.
In response they got repeated talking points from CPS officials, and some fatuous assurances from Mr. Clark, who should never have agreed to serve as the fig leaf for Barbara Byrd Bennett's attack on the law.
Ironically, CPS hid the one man at the meeting who actually knows intimately the history of every school closing hearing -- and every facility reality -- for the past decade or more. Jim Dispensa, who until recently was the CPS demographer, was seated behind a pillar in the back. Dispensa can forget more in a day about the realities of CPS facilities than the complete army of FNG administrators could learn in a month from their rehearsals with Becky Carroll and Robyn Ziegler on the latest simplistic talking points.
Of course, the fact that four people with a lifetime's experience in the public schools spoke on behalf of the CTU and the principals was largely ignored in this version of reality Catalyst puts on the record. There were four people who spoke at the hearing's end, each with precision that CPS is incapable of: Joey McDermott, Kurt Hilgendorf, and Brandon Johnson of the CTU and Clarice Berry of the Chicago Principals Association.
At least Catalyst should have reported that Kurt Hilgendorf, who on behalf of CTU has studied every CPS budget for the past ten years, caught and outed CPS in the Biggest Lie. The Big Lie, this and in past years, is the "deficit." Kurt pointed out, on the record, that the last time CPS (back when a guy named Ron Huberman was CEO) claimed it was facing a "deficit" of ONE BILLION DOLLARS!!! at the beginning of a fiscal year, by the end of that same fiscal year (FY 2011), the system wound up with a surplus of more than $300 million. Of course, the majority of corporate hacks who report on CPS ignored the annual CAFR, which exposed that particular lie. And so it wasn't reported from yesterday's testimony.
The FY 2012 CAFR will be provided to the Board of Education, as usual, at the December meeting. It will, again, show how big the lie was told in March, April, May and June 20111, when the FY 2012 budget was being talked about. The same pattern of lies will be exposed, and the same ignorance will be shown by my brothers and sisters in Chicago's corporate media.
And then, in December 2013, we will get the FY 2013 CAFR and learn that as we speak today, CPS was, once again, lying about that current "deficit." And that crazy claim, that went as far as Moody's, that CPS had "drained the reserves" in order to balance this coming year's budget. Of course, history is never news, and a talking point is as good as any other quote when fictional "news" is being reported, as this is today.
How could Todd Babbitz know anything about CPS? As he testified under questioning from the aldermen, he's only been at CPS a few months, had no previous educational experience, and, adding insult to injury, had been badly rehearsed in his handful of poor talking points by another department of mercenaries -- the CPS "Office of Communications" under Becky Carroll and the newly crowned Robyn Ziegler.
Knowledge is Power
George, we should elect you as the next CEO of CPS. Thank you for your insight and update for those of us that were clueless. I assumed you are against closing schools. But, keep in mind something needs to be done now on CPS expenses. CPS is spending $10 vs $5 which is all it has in the purse. They are in the red. How do you propose to resolve this issue? We need solutions now! The tax payers are sick of bad teachers and principals in our system. The city needs to fix this once and for all. I think the new mayor is trying to do his best to do exactly that. In the following year, we will see the results of his fruits. I moved my son to one of these schools that had the principal and some of the staff replaced. I can say that alot of positive changes has taken placed at our school. It takes good leadership skills and guts to do the right things for our kids. Engaging parents to be involved with their children's education. There are parents that make alot of noise, as a front to distract from the real issues in need to be resolve. Part of the problem is that some of the parents do not see themselves as the problem and do not accept the fact that their child needs help to deal with their issues. So they blame the education system. They feel the education system can fix their children's problems. Well, that is not true. The education system can only identify there is a problem and the parents has to take the child to be evaluated by a specialist. For some reason our educators do not want to make that suggestion to the parents and continue to allow the child to continue in school with the learning or behavior issues. No one benefits from this by looking the other way. Educators are frustrated and tired. Hope this help others to understand my point of view as a parent, mentor and educator.
Kurt Hilgendorf, a CTU
Kurt Hilgendorf, a CTU researcher and legislative activities staffer, spoke yesterday, November 20, 2012, at the Chicago City Council Education Committee Hearings on School Closings.
Kurt Hilgendorf taught history, economics and psychology at John Hope HS in Englewood and Von Steuben HS in Albany Park. Below is an edited version of his comments.
Executive Summary
"School closings are wrenching and demand careful decision-making. The district needs additional time to chose the schools it will close. But it must also ask for a delay in implementation of the closings. That crucial step cannot be rushed.
For that reason, we recommend that CPS take no school actions until at least December 1, 2013. The law does not require school closures, and the public is solidly opposed to them. It would be far better for CPS to take a year to develop a stable utilization plan before destroying school communities.
We are concerned that CPS has created a new commission to solicit input from the community on the closings. The existing Chicago Educational Facilities Task Force (CEFTF) was created by state statute in 2010. CEFTF represents the community and is made up of a representative range of stakeholders: legislators, CPS officials, CTU members, local school council members, community organizations, and community members
The new CPS commission, however, is a confusing duplication of effort with a focus that is much too narrow. It will avoid discussion of charter school openings on CPS utilization rates. Ordinary common sense dictates that the CPs commission must develop a plan that includes the new charters it plan to open. Also it is not possible for the community to provide the new CPS commission with useful input if the commission will not say which schools CPS will close.
There are three reasons for a hold on school actions until December 1, 2013.
First, CPS -- with more than 600 facilities -- has no master plan on how to use them. It will not have a plan in place at the end of March 2013, when CPS plans to close up to 100 schools. Without proper planning, if the district closes 60 neighborhood schools but adds 60 charters in the next few years, it will end up with the same problem it has today -- continued underutilization.
Second, CPS' projected cost savings is minimal. Even at the inflated number of $500,000 to $800,000 per building -- savings could at most reach $80 million. That is only 1.5% of the district's operating budget; a small gain for the large amount of distress closing 100 schools will cause.
Third, CPS created the utilization problem by aggressively expanding charter schools. Over the past 10 years, CPS added 50,000 charter seats, while Chicago lost 8% of its population. Opening charters causes underfunded neighborhood schools to lose students, and the vast majority of underutilized neighborhood schools are near charters. Even some charters are underutilized, according to CPS's formula.
The fourth and final reason we oppose the district's proposal is that a legislative amendment is unnecessary. School actions are not required by law. Rather than change the rules in the middle of the game, the district should take the time to do the process effectively.
It is useful to remember the following examples of problems with earlier CPS closings.
CPS has not tracked the 7,700 students who were
part of last year's school actions. The district has little information about these students, even though state law required tracking and support. Of those 7,700 students, almost 1,000 were homeless.
School actions have been concentrated on the South and West sides of the city, and African American students make up 88% of those children affected by school actions. Remember, school actions destroy stability in school communities, and the district has targeted only certain communities.
Students displaced by school closings, especially those tied to performance, have ended up at schools that perform no better than the schools they left. The district's actions have failed the "educationally sound" test that the facilities law established.
Truancy is a more pressing issue than school closings. During the period that CPS undertook school actions, it went without truant officers. As a recent Tribune series outlined, chronically truant students are a significant problem for the city, both in terms of worse student outcomes and the loss of millions in state funding. CPS has not proposed a reinstatement of truant officers.
CPS is asking teachers to create new curricula aligned to new tests that students must master at the same time it proposes major facility reorganization. Any of these initiatives would individually require several years to analyze the process and assess. When these initiatives are combined, the district is creating a logistical nightmare.
Despite the complexity of these actions, there is little evidence to suggest that the current leadership has the capacity to simultaneously complete a master plan, work with schools to combine instructional staffs and merge organizational cultures, develop a safety and security approach, organize new transportation schedules and routes, and solicit input from community members."
Parents, Community Groups & Rank and File Citizens Were Muzzled
I thank Catalyst for the article, and George Schmidt for providing additional insights.
I am a North Lawndale resident and Co-Founder of the Lawndale Alliance. I attended the hearing, along with over 100 activists from around the City. We were very disappointed that there was no public participation. A number of people took off work so that they could provide anecdotal evidence from the perspectives of communities that are most likely to be impacted. I am sharing the comments I would have made if I were given the opportunity at the hearing. http://www.scribd.com/doc/114099380/Public-Comments-to-the-City-Council-...
Aldermen take CPS to task over school closings
How can an alderman take CPS to task on school closings, especially the certain slumlords who stack in as many CHA residents as they can into an already struggling community. The alderman know for sure that when these low income families take the major standardized exam like ISAT, it will force an already struggling school into academic probation. I prefer non-charter schools and hate to see a community school shuttered, but it is also not fair for an alderman to attack CPS, if they destroy communities themselves by using CHA families to saturate a community to create a voting block for their aldermanic elections.
If poverty really does cause low performance for many low income families and the community schools are hanging by a thread in terms of academic probation, then why would an aderman usher in even more CHA to a community that already has the homeowners outnumbered and complain about schools being closed!! This seems so hypocritical to me. How can you point your finger at someone when you are a big part of the problem yourself??
First set a good example of building economically thriving coomunities that have a strong tax base of working residents who have a vested interest in their children's education. A community satured with failing low income CHA residents equals failing schools or are you too uncaring to realize this because you're busy creating your voting block for the 2015 aldermanic election.
Aldermen take CPS to task over school closings
So what you seem to be saying is certain aldermen make their own fair share of asinine decisions that impact the community, so why should they place CPS in the hot seat on school decisions when they are an equal partner in shuttering thriving communities; the slumlord one's. (LOL)
The many aldermen who questioned CPS were very well informed,
on education. They were impressive: Fioretti, Arena, Wguespak, ODowell, Cochran, etc. It was clear that they had done considerable reading on a many topics, among them:
that CPS has no master plan on how to best utilize its schools;
that CPS had created the under utilization problem by opening charters that drew students from neighborhood schools;
that CPS underfunds neighborhood schools for 5 to 10 years ifit wants to close them;
that CPS wants to keep secret the schools it will close until March 31, 2013, but CPS will go full speed ahead with actual school closings;
that CPS has created a commission that will ask the community for input on closings, but the commission will not tell the community which schools it will close, making it impossible for the community to have real input; and that all this is really just a way to privatize our public schools ... to set up corporations to profit fro Chicagoans tax dollars ... since charters are not out performing CPS schools.
By contrast, the CPS staff who came said nothing of value.
Rose, Cawley, Sicat among the 'disappeared'?
One of the rule of reporting we try to follow at Substance when we do analytical reporting is "cite source and context." Another is that you don't know what you're seeing until you've looked at it again.
Reviewing both my notes and my 150 photographs from the City Council hearing, it was clear, rather quickly, that CPS has had -- yawn... -- another purge. It wasn't only Jean-Claude Brizard and Becky Carroll (Robyn Ziegler is the new Becky Carroll, for those who've been following the quotes from on high) who were being disappeared. Six months ago, the people giving Power Point included Oliver Sicat and Tim Cawley. A year ago those of us at the school closing hearings witnessed Sicat joined by Jamiko Rose (long since disappeared) giving Power Point at Westinghouse and Simeon.
The story I hope we can pursue next week, in addition to the fun in Springfield, will be to talk to Iris, Cynthia and Howard about how they were convinced to allow CPS to get away with this illegal attack on SB 630 -- and the work of four years. The secret establishment of the "Commission" (which somehow becomes better than the old Task Force) will really be a story worth telling and thinking about.
Of course, the official nonsense pouring from the various ministries of propaganda at both City Hall and Clark Street will include distractors. David Vitale's home during the strike. Poor Penny Pritzker's Romneyesque tax dodges being exposed and protested against. (Bit of history: A. N. invented most of those dodges that the Romneys of the USA are using to burnish their reputation as traitors, but that's a much longer story; at least A.N. appreciated public schools and thanked the one that helped him...).
'Tis the season to be optimistic. And with the recent Tribune return to reporting (and investigations) with the truancy stories, I'm guarded. Catalyst can continue to replicate nonsense like that "gazillion dollar" deficit (even during the month the CAFR comes out). But as more and more intelligent citizens -- and aldermen -- ask the relevant questions, we don't need to rely on the paid propagandists of the plutocracy to proffer their punditry as fact. This is the post Romney era, and at least for a time Karl Rove's prognostications are no longer pouring sludgelike off the Wall Street Journal's Op Ed pages. Perhaps, after a couple of decades of slavish nonsense, Chicago's "independent" journalists will also find their way back to fact, history, and context.
Happy holidays.
Is Under-utilized the same as small?
Several years ago it was very fashionable when Bill Gates was running things in Chicago to have "small" schools. Now "small" schools are called under-utilized. My little brain has a hard time comprehending all of this.
Small schools is so last decade...
Bill Gates put his money where his mouth is and pushed "small schools" on Chicago (and elsewhere) for several years, beginning in the late 1990s and continuing through the early Duncan years. The pseudo-intellectual underpinnings of that racist nonsense were, as is often the case, provided by the savants at my Alma Mater, the University of Chicago. For a time, they talked about something called "personal press" as the secret to bringing what they called "achievement" (viz. higher test scores, even for schools without library, art, music, sports, etc., etc.) to the black and brown children of our ghettos and barrios. "Personal Press" and the other small schools stuff was going to do the job. The "secret sauce," so to speak (using the cliche Rahm likes to use about the Noble Network of charter frauds and hoaxes...).
Millions of CPS and Gates (and other) dollars went into pushing "small schools" -- for the black and brown children of urban America. When I was on the leadership team at Bowen High School, we were being pressured by none other than Martin Koldyke, the millionaire Venture Capitalist and AUSL big shot, to dissolve Bowen into small schoolsy thingies. At a meeting, I demanded to know why if "Small Schools" were so really good for high schools Koldyke and his ilk were not exporting it to the wealthy suburbs (such as New Trier, where Koldyke and his family lived), Glenbard, Stevenson, Glenbrook, etc. Where all the rich white kids were going to public schools that had everything (I had been studying them even then). Why did our kids at Bowen get "small schools" and the kids in Winnetka, Lincolnshire, Glen Ellyn, and Northbrook get really big high schools that had everything (enough to make a grown man cry going up there from Bowen...). Why not just play suburb and give our kids big high schools with all the smaller class sizes, clinicians, sports, extra curricular activities, etc., etc. etc.
"I WILL NOT BE CALLED A RACIST BY THE LIKES OF YOU!" the capitalist thundered in reply and then went on, for five minutes, to list all the anti-racist stuff he and his family were doing.
Actually, I hadn't said that he was a racist, since it's obvious he's not. He's just promoting another example of white supremacist ruling class nonsense, which is different. Arne Duncan's not a racist, either, but his Race To The Top is as great a white supremacist attack on black people as anything since Jim Crow and the Klan.
Anyway, for a decade, small schools were profitable to a lot of university types. A couple of guys at the University of Illinois got more than a million bucks out of CPS over about eight years doing small schools on places like Bowen. Some of them even exported their talent to other cities. Castlemont High School in Oakland, for example, was small schoolsed into ruin by the former principal of CVS, who was hailed by the Clinton administration for her greatness. The joke in Oakland was that the Castlemont scam paid for her Florida house.
Then, one day, Gates changed his mind and began shoveling the dollars into "turnaround." I reported that the day it was announced for Chicago at substancenews.net. They held a press conference at Sherman "School of Excellence" that morning, Duncan, Daley, Koldyke, and that year's local version of the Gates team to announce that "turnaround" was the thing and "small schools" was no longer the thing. By that time, Duncan had already announced that Orr High School (the Orrs, we called it, during its small schoolsy days) was going to get turnarounded in June.
So in 2008 "small schools" ended abruptly because the rich guys (in our case, Gates and Koldyke) changed their minds.
When I asked at that press conference to Daley whether he was going to apologize to the teachers at Orr, who had done all that hard work on their "small schools," Jackie Heard, Daley's press flack, immediately ended the press conference. No answer. Daley had been "Principal for a Day" year after year during Orr's small schoolsy days, and had personally shaken hands with the peasants on many the occasion.
In June 2008, more than 90 percent of the Orr teachers were abruptly dumped -- "turnaround" was the new thing. Just ask Arne and the U.S. Department of Education.
One nice touch about the Orr atrocity (and hypocrisy) came that same time. The "Phoenix Military Academy" was silently transferred out of the Orrs just before the rest of the small schools at Orr were turnarounded. Phoenix rose from its own ashes over at the old Grant Elementary School, which currently jointly hosts Phoenix (U.S. Army) and the Marine Military Academy (soon to be relocated to Ames if the tyrant has his way)...
But that's another story for another time.
The histories of all this stuff are stubborn, but have a way of staying with us even as the narrators of the other realities preach on and on and on. Just as the KOCO people have kept track of the attacks on the Bronzeville schools since the ruling class launched the "Mid-South Plan" a decade ago, and the Lawndale people have walked block by block to challenge the white supremacist version of reality that says that charters and turnarounds are the salvation of their children, so the truth comes out, eventually, about this other stuff, including the Small Schools Scam.
And as I write this, I wonder whatever happened to "personal press."
I bet there was more than one PhD or EdD in that silliness before it got dumped like a trucker's bomb on the side of the road. After all, if you can't make a buck out of the eternal "crisis" in urban public schools, what good are they to the professors?
No small and underutilized
No small and underutilized are not the same. George explained small schools, a theory / practice used in some high schools.
Underutilized means that schools have too few students enrolled. There is a state facilities task force (CEFTF for short) that has looked at the CPS method for setting utilization rates. It found that CPS overstates the number of schools are an underutilized. Raise Your Hand Illinois also researched utilization rates recently. It found that 76% of CPS schools had at least some classrooms that were overcrowded.
Google CEFTF and RYH for more info.
Access Living's position on CPS definition of underutilized
Access Living formally submitted this statement to CPS:
Comments on CPS 2012-2013 Draft School Action Guidelines
By Rodney D. Estvan M.Ed.
Education Policy Analyst
November 13, 2012
We would begin our commentary on the proposed school action guidelines by stating we believe it was a positive development that CPS provided the public and organizations like Access Living that work in the public interest with a commentary period for these guidelines. As the Chicago Public Schools are aware Access Living's primary mission is to increase the ability of people with disabilities to be full participants in society and the education of children and young adults with disabilities plays a foundational role in our mission.
Because the CPS draft school action guidelines are predicated on the Space Utilization Standards we are required to restate Access Living's objections to those standards prior to addressing issues relating directly to the guidelines themselves.
Problems with the existing CPS Space Utilization Standards:
Access Living has long objected to what the utilization standards call "ancillary classrooms." In prior versions of CPS utilization standards these rooms were called "BA" rooms, meaning below average sized classrooms. While "A," sized classrooms, were defined by CPS as "measuring 600 square feet or more," the square footage of ancillary or BA classrooms were never defined by CPS. CPS has claimed for years that spaces not designed as classrooms, such as offices, lunchrooms, or storage rooms, and used as teaching stations were excluded from capacity calculations. But our experience has been that if a space has historically been used as a classroom for students with disabilities CPS has rarely done deep research to determine the design intent of such spaces. Access Living has found windowless rooms at schools designated as self contained classrooms for severely disabled students.
It is Access Living's position that each CPS student disabled or not disabled should be provided with adequate space to learn in. Based on standards used in Washington DC, we believe CPS should define an adequate space to learn in as being about 150 square feet (sf) per student in grades k-5; 170 sf per student in grades 6-8; and 180 sf per student in high schools. Using this standard a CPS self-contained classroom for eight severely disabled students at the primary level would have to be at least the size of a standard sized classroom.
The next major objection Access Living has with the CPS 2011 utilization standards is the concept of "maximum capacity." It is the same for every full sized classroom at the elementary school level and it is 30 students. But a classroom that is designated for special education students placed legally by the school district in separate settings can under no condition even have as many as 30 students and in some cases under State law can be required to have as few as 8 students. The effect of this concept is to make almost all non- ancillary classrooms used for students with disabilities placed in self-contained settings effectively underutilized classrooms.
Access Living believes that this is profoundly wrong because it has the effect of causing schools to avoiding putting self-contained classes in full sized rooms to keep from having the classrooms designated as being underutilized. A standard sized classroom used for self-contained classes with a legally required lower teacher to student ratio needs to have a different utilization standard than the same room being used for a regular class with a much higher teacher to student ratio.
The problems with the draft guidelines for school actions 2012-2013 school year:
Aside from the major fact that the major defining aspect of the draft guidelines themselves, the utilization standards are in our opinion at best problematic and at worst inconsistent with State administrative regulations, we find other problems with the draft guidelines themselves.
In a subsection titled "Additional Information to Consider" we read:
"In determining whether to propose a closure, consolidation, reassignment boundary change, or phase-out, the CEO may consider other information including, but not limited to: safety and security, school culture and climate, school leadership, quality of the school facility, school type and programming, family and community feedback received throughout the school year independent from the process described below, analysis of transition planning costs, neighborhood development plans, whether the school has recently been affected by any school actions, changes in academic focus or actions taken pursuant to 105 ILCS 5/34-8.3, or proximity, capacity and performance of other schools in the community."
Access Living believes that far greater definition of these various considerations need to be made. For example, the idea of the quality of the school facility. A building could be considered to be in good condition and have had thousands of dollars of work done on it over the years and be completely non-accessible based on modern ADA standards. Conversely a building could have been made accessible by CPS at great cost but could be underutilized. What then? Does CPS close an underutilized school that is ADA compliant and transfer students to a large building with space that is in good condition, but is totally non-accessible? These are clear problems we want to see defined and addressed in a straight forward manner. It is Access Living's position that CPS should prohibit the closing of any school that has been made largely ADA compliant if that school's population, both students with and without disabilities, cannot be placed in an equally accessible facility. CPS has made get progress in making more schools accessible, but currently only about half of CPS schools are accessible, so those schools that are accessible need to be preserved.
Another significant problem with this passage is its vague reference to "programming" of a school CPS is considering action for. Clearly, if a school designated as underutilized has five self contained classrooms for students with significant forms of autism, cognitive disabilities, or multiple disabilities, that should be additional information to be considered. Moreover, because most non-cross categorical self contained programs have students coming from different areas the geographical location of the program itself is a critical consideration in closing such a school and relocating self-contained special education programs. A failure in the analysis of these factors can result in CPS losing more money by closing a school than keeping it open.
These issues need to be fully discussed in the Action Guidelines.
Notice and school transition plans:
We reserve comment on this section until Access Living actually sees a transition plan for a school that is proposed to be closed that has a significant special education population. In the past the "supports for students with disabilities," being moved as part of a school action were at best pro forma and we hope for better in the future.
CPS properties
What about the CPS rentals such as Elizabeth street and the building on Austin. CPS rents that space. I believe those buildings are in a blind trust. Does CPS need to rent buildings and parking spaces when we have " under utilized school buildings?
In a blind trust? So who is
In a blind trust? So who is getting the rent?
Special Education Teachers
At my school we have a closet (the building plans list it as supply closet) which is 20 feet by 8 feet without a window. The previous principal had seven children with disabilities, one teacher and two SECAs housed in this room. One of the children was in a wheelchair. Central office staff and the regional staff did not address this situation even though they were aware of it. The teacher, unfortunately, was too afraid of the principal to file a grievance, the case manager quite simply did the principal's bidding and the SECAS had no job protection. It was a horrible situation. Thankfully, the new principal knows that it was a fire trap. Yes, we did have fire drills-CFD never caught it.
Helen K., Raise Your Hand is
Helen K., Raise Your Hand is looking for examples like yours, to clarify CPS' facilities utilization study. You might re-post there.
More CPS lies... Charters' getting leases for $1 per year
This morning's news claims from Becky Carroll are, as usual, ridiculous. First, the claim that CPS is facing that billion dollar "deficit" for FY 2014 has been refuted time and again. The most recent refutation came from the CTU's Kurt Hilgendorf during his testimony at City Council on November 20. He reminded the aldermen that the last time CPS claimed is was facing a "billion dollar deficit" as before the FY 2011 budget was put through by Ron Huberman -- and yet CPS ended FY 2011 with a surplus of more than $300 million! Huberman had been lying with his Chicken Little claims to Senator Cullerton to get that billion dollar ripoff of the Chicago Teachers Pension Fund, and it worked. Had that $1.2 billion been invested by the pension fund during those years, the fund, given its returns since 2010, would have brought in around $200 million. Instead, CPS lied and robbed the pension fund.
Another "Manufactured Crisis" as our friend David Berliner wrote in his book 20 years ago, followed by some Shock Doctrine nonsense, as our friend Naomi Klein wrote in her book five years ago.
These liars never change.
The second bit of nonsense this morning comes from the resurrected Becky Carroll. In addition to peddling the "deficit" lie, Becky is also lying about the supposed "savings" CPS will get by closing schools.
Actually, the majority of closings in the past decade (since the "renaissance" began under Arne Duncan) are costing CPS a fortune. Here's how.
CPS rehabs the school building, as a cost of anywhere from $5 or $10 million (Bunche and Morse, to take two) to $20 to $30 million (Austin and Calumet) and then closes the school as a CPS school. The reasons shift like some shape shifting zombie show.
Then CPS leases the building, freshly painted and rehabbed, to a charter schools (Polaris got Morse; St. Mel's got Bunche; a couple of strange charter thingies got Austin; Perspectives got Calumet) for
But that's not all.
Buried deep in the fine print, CPS is also providing the charter school that's in that building with various services, from watchman to psychologists and social workers.
Nice scam.
But Becky Carroll is, as usual, lying when she claims CPS is going to "save" a penny on the closings.
CPS is going to waste a fortune transferring these properties into the charter schools' "portfolios." Just as CPS had been doing for ten years.
And that's why Frank Clark and Barbara Byrd Bennett are going around prattling about how the charter piece is not part of the conversation about the closing and consolidation piece. Of course not.
First they will close these real public schools, screwing more communities.
And a few months later, the predatory charter operators will get another sweetheart deal on a perfectly good, recently rehabbed public building...


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University of Bristol Botanic Garden
The Holmes
Stoke Park Road
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(Opposite Churchill Hall of Residence)
The Botanic Garden is signposted from the junction of Stoke Hill and Stoke Park Road and is located a couple of hundred yards along on your right, opposite Churchill Hall. Parking is available in the walled garden car park on site, or where legal to do so in Stoke Park Road (please respect the driveways of our neighbours). Cars and bicycles must enter via the Stoke Park Entrance as there is no vehicle entrance or access to the Botanic Garden via Hollybush Lane.
For free access to the Garden, events and fascinating lectures, plus free seed collected in the Garden, and a seasonal newsletter, become a member. See the Friends page for more information.
From the city centre
Travel to the top of Whiteladies Road and from the traffic lights on Blackboy Hill proceed across the Downs (with the Water Tower on your right). Continue across the next traffic light and Stoke Park Road is the first main turning on the right off Stoke Hill.
From the M5
Exit at junction 17 (Cribbs Causeway) and take the A4018 following signs for City Centre and Zoo until you reach the Downs. Turn last exit at first roundabout on Downs (White Tree Roundabout) in the direction of Shirehampton. Proceed down Parry's Lane then first left into Saville Road to Stoke Hill. See above.
Proceed down the hill and take first right into Stoke Park Road and entrance is 200 metres on the right.
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Open Monday to Friday
Closed on Saturday and Sunday except for advertised winter tours.
The University and Botanic Garden will be closed from 24th December 2014, reopening on 5th January 2015.
The Welcome Lodge will be closed but informational leaflets will be available and a donation from non-Friends is requested.
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Senior US administration officials met today with BP's top leadership – including group chief executive Tony Hayward – to discuss the response to the growing crisis from the oil well leak in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has been pulling out all the stops to contain the leak from the rig that caught fire and sunk last week, but officials said it could be 90 days before it is stopped. A few soundbites from the press conference today with US Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry:
If we don't secure the well, this could be one of the most significant spills in US history…The risks are serious….We have not had success in securing the source…We don't know of another spill this deep…This is quite unique.
Indeed, BP has been spending $6m per day to contain the leak, estimated at about 1,000 barrels per day, as it moves closer to shore. The authorities said it was about 20 miles from the shore on Tuesday. For the next few days, given wind and current patterns, the spill should not hit the shoreline, but the authorities are not sure what will happen after that. And they are clearly getting nervous. The meeting with BP was a signal. But the authorities did not stop there.
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today said they have launched a full investigation. In the words of Mr Salazar:
We will remain focused on providing every resource we can to support the massive response effort underway at the Deepwater Horizon, but we are also aggressively and quickly investigating what happened and what can be done to prevent this type of incident in the future.
The joint investigation will have the power to issue subpoenas, hold public hearings, call witnesses, and take other steps that may be needed to determine the cause of the incident. The Obama Administration is intent upon limiting the fallout from this spill. Not only for environmental reasons, but also, analysts say, for political reasons. President Barack Obama has proposed opening more areas offshore to drilling. But an oil spill that takes too long to contain and has the potential to impact marine and wildlife will not help his cause any. Amy Myers Jaffe, energy expert at Rice University, believes that is unfortunate:
It will definitely affect the debate. It's a shame. The industry, for the last 15 years, has had a stellar record. How unfortunate that will be to push that aside because we have had one catastrophic accident. If the industry can show, even in the face of a large catastrophe, it has the capability and the means to protect the shoreline, it will have a favorable impact.
BP gets that the stakes are high. Not only for the administration, but itself. A few years had passed since the company was under the spotlight for a string of troubles in its US operations – a fatal explosion at its biggest refinery – in Texas; leaks at Prudhoe Bay in Alaska – the US' biggest oilfield; and a propane scandal. After several years of quiet, people had begun to forget about those things. If this accident gets out of control, those previous blights on BP's record will resurface. And it also knows the industry will be upset if the critics of offshore drilling use this accident to rollback efforts by the Obama Administration to open more areas to drilling.
And so it has pledged to do all it can to limit the fallout, even considering starting a contained fire to burn up the oil. Here is what Doug Suttles, BP's chief operation officer of exploration and production, had to say:
We will not stop until we have exhausted every single option…We continue to work multiple streams, but we don't know which will be successful…People are literally working 24 hours a day coming up with new methods.
The Coast Guard's Ms Landry noted that the industry is much more prepared to handle an accident like this than it was when the Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred. Indeed, Robin West, chairman of PFC Energy, the consultancy, notes that the industry is always saying it can contain any accidents and, therefore, should be permitted more access:
It's up to the industry to prove that they can meet this challenge, which they always said they could.
It seems fair to say everyone is holding their breath.