So When Are the Pro-Lifers Going to Protest This?

Will they even figure out how relevant this issue is? Probably not. Idiots.

Yet another way in which Conservatives relegate themselves to irrelevancy. It falls to us liberals to step up and pressure Congress into closing this loophole which allows discrimination against pregnant women.

I told my boss I was pregnant, then he fired me.

Approximately a week after I told my boss I was pregnant, he fired me. I was an attorney at a small Seattle litigation firm. For most of the fall, I spent all of my time in trial preparation, working long days and weekends and enjoying it. The case settled the day before it was set for trial and our firm won a large settlement for our clients.

The day I told the managing partner I was pregnant, he threatened my job. About a week later, he came into my office to deliver a small production bonus check that I had earned for vastly exceeding my billable hour quota. Then he fired me. He assured me it was not based upon the quality of my work, but instead was for “economic reasons.” He promised to give me a good reference and said he would pay me until the end of the month regardless of whether or not I continued to work. Then he mentioned how busy the week was for him and how I could help him out by continuing to work.

Why Charter Schools Were a BAAAD Idea From the Start.

Follow the link and read the whole thing. The story gets much, much worse than it appears here.

Minnesota School Of Science Will Not Welcome Back Students With Special Needs

Last week, the families of 40 Minneapolis students with special needs were informed their children would not be welcomed back to the one-year-old charter Minnesota School of Science, which replaced Cityview Elementary School in August 2011 due to poor standardized test scores, the Twin Cities Daily Planet reports.
Originally, the arrangement stipulated that special education classrooms would remain in the building, and their occupants would remain Minneapolis Public School students in name. A one-year contract required the new charter school to provide opportunities for the special education students -- who have autism and Down syndrome, among others -- to interact with mainstream peers.
The arrangement represented the first of its kind in the country, reports the online paper. It meant Cityview’s high-needs students would not have their schooling disrupted, and the district wouldn’t need to locate space for more classrooms in already-crowded schools.
On July 9, however, the charter school’s board notified the district they would not re-sign a contract to mainstream MPS students this coming fall.