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inthesetimes.com - News » February 9, 2011 » Web Only Above the fray, playing it safe: Mayoral candidate and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel speaks after receiving the endorsement of gay community lead...
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blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,It would be interesting to know what influenced the change of heart among those civil rights organizations, Diane. I've been exploring in my head—while I do my daily laps in the pond—wha...
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washingtonexaminer.com - The first 75 teachers who former Chancellor Michelle Rhee fired must be given about $7.5 million in back wages and offered positions with D.C. Public Schools, an arbitrator ruled. "The [termination...
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theindychannel.com - INDIANAPOLIS -- Teachers from across Indiana packed into the Indiana Statehouse on Tuesday evening to rally against Republican-led education reform.The rally, organized by state teachers unions, la...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A coalition of lawmakers and child advocates will announce tomorrow that they will appeal a lower court's decision to decline to deny schools chancellor Cathie Black a waiver that she needed to ass...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - At today's School Reform Commission meeting SRC chair Robert Archie announced that Commissioner David Girard-diCarlo has tendered his resignation.Archie said, "He is a colleague and I think I speak...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - My frame for ASCD's study trip to Finland was to examine complex issues of teaching, learning, and culture within an early childhood development context. I soon discovered that strong cultural valu...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Michelle Rhee's advocacy group, StudentsFirst, on Wednesday eveningissued a statement challenging blogger G.F. Brandenburg's account of her record as a Baltimore school teacher. The entire statemen...
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huffingtonpost.com - When it comes to increasing state funding for Chicago Public Schools, I propose a clear solution:Get more kids back into classrooms and on the road to graduation.During the 2009-10 school year, 6,3...
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eyeonmiami.blogspot.com - In 2002 Florida voters passed the state-wide "Class Size Amendment", infuriating then Gov. Jeb Bush. Now, the GOP legislature is taking aim at accountability for imposing the class size amendment. ...
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 | preaprez.wordpress.com - Do I really need to go into why there is a problem with Illinois public employee pensions again? Is it something the employees did? Is the average teacher pension of roughly $40,000 a year too gree... tbfurman |
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - As reported by the DREAMActivist blog this morning, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is looking to take another whack at the DREAM Act.Hutchison voted against the DREAM Act — which would have given som...
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democraticunderground.com - The problem has been a long ongoing and steadily increasing problem. I don't see why an ongoing and well known & forseen problem requires such radpid response. I prefer to use due process and congr...
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boston.com - SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Arnold Schwarzenegger's last-minute decision to grant clemency in a manslaughter case to the son of a key ally has set off a political furor in California and threatened to tarni...
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 | hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 12:00 pm, February 9, 2011 Photo Credits: Dream Act Rallies were students "came out" Last summer, many students “came out” as undocumented immigrants but after the failure of the Dream... coopmike48 |
blog.au.org - Back in 1984, Religious Right groups lobbied Congress in full force to pass a bill ensuring that Christian student clubs and organizations would be free to meet on public school campuses. They succ...
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theatlanticwire.com - Everyone's up in arms about multiculturalism all of a sudden. But what actually is it? British Prime Minister David Cameron seems to think it's when a government takes a "whatever" attitude toward ...
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suntimes.com - Taste of Chicago to be all food, no music, Mayor Daley says BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com Feb 8, 2011 06:05PM Dana Marberry and daughter Erin eat corn from O'Brien's on...
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 | hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 1:08 pm, February 9, 2011 Photo Credits: Adriana's Insurance billboard Just south of Bear Valley Road in Victorville, California near Interstate 15, sits a Spanish—language that (trans... coopmike48 |
democraticunderground.com - Congressman Chris Lee (R-NY) Resigns After Shirtless Photo Posted on Interne Source: ABCRep. Chris Lee, R-N.Y., resigned from Congress after a report emerged that he had sent flirtatious e-mails, i...
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bloomberg.com - Education Management Corp., the second-biggest U.S. for-profit college operator by enrollment, said fiscal second-quarter profit rose more than fourfold as total enrollment increased 13 percent. Ne...
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act.aflcio.org - On Tuesday, House Republicans—under the leadership of House Speaker John Boehner—abruptly refused to schedule a vote to renew help for victims of outsourcing. The expiring program—called Trade Adju...
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hispanicprblog.com - ALPFA, a national nonprofit that advances opportunities for Latino professionals and students, has tapped FH Hispania, the Hispanic marketing arm of Fleishman Hillard, to manage public relations ef...
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democraticunderground.com - Icelandic volcano 'set to erupt' Source: The TelegraphScientists in Iceland are warning that another volcano looks set to erupt and threatening to spew-out a pall of dust that would dwarf last year...
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