Rainbow Primary School

I am very proud, very proud to report that Kalpana, co-founder of the Rainbow School, just told me her father published a very important book with Oxford University Press. Judge Reddy served on the Supreme Court of India from 1978 to 1987. His excellent book outlines the history of the court over the past six decades. I had the honor of sharing some time with him, and he is an outstanding human rights thinker. Judge Reddy is so proud of his daughter, and so am I. You can buy his book, The Court and Constitution of India: Summit and Shallows here, in India: http://www.oup.co.in/search_detail.php?id=144755 And here in the United States: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Law/ComparativeLawandNationalLegalSy/?view=usa&ci=9780195696998 Thank you, Judge, for all you do for India. And thank you, Kalpana, for all you do for the Rainbow School, the Madhapur School, and the rest of our Hy-Tech area schools. You are a real treasure and we all love and thank you.

We have a LOT of teacher's unions in our school district. They all held a strike in October-November for more transparency in the promotions process, among other things. The high court requested the teachers go back to work even though the government and unions did not reach an agreement. (The picture, left, is of the beautiful high court building in Hyderabad.) The strike is over! That is good news for the Rainbow School. Our Usha Madam is back at work. Bad news: No settlement yet. More bad news: There are sharp differences between leadership in the unions. The management troubles will not be over any time soon. This comes at a time when A.P. has a critical shortage of teachers and needs new teachers fast. In a few cases, some government schools do not even have a university-trained teacher. The Rainbow School is lucky to have Usha Madam. A short list of unions in the area is below (there are a few I have not heard of before). For a 2008 World Bank study on A.P. teac

*****UPDATE***** MH and her team made the papers! Atlanta Constitution Journal - see the story here: http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/stories/2008/12/07/india.html Mary Helen, my old buddy who lives in Atlanta, did an amazing "preschoolers-to-preschoolers" fundraiser last year. ( Rainbow Primary School: The Future of Philanthropy: Small Individual Donors Connected to the World") She's at it again. Superwoman Mary Helen organized an event last weekend to help raise funds to electrify the new preschool building in the slum. GOOD LUCK and THANK YOU!! For more on the Preschool, including the history of how we built the building, see these pictures (below) or click here