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npr.org - Enlarge Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Michelle Rhee served as the head of D.C. Public Schools for almost three years. She now heads her own education advocacy group, StudentsFirst. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP ...

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huffingtonpost.com - Representative Paul Ryan, the architect of the GOP's long-term budget proposal, would hotly dispute the claim that he hates kids. He'd tell you that he's a good family man, a good father to his thr...

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huffingtonpost.com - Silence is sometimes called a virtue. Silence can also be deadly.I remain convinced that teachers and administrators are in the most vulnerable of positions during this destructive reform movement ...

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commondreams.org - A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - State of Emergency State of Emergency Plan of Action Leaders Guide Member Flyer Regional Action Ideas Logo California is in “A State of Emergency” over the drastic cuts that are hurting ou...

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coopmike48 Elias: No Wisconsin here, but California unions are taking cuts aplenty » Ventura County Star - http://goo.gl/7JdZqabout 1 minute ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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coopmike48 Walker's first 100 days defined by unions battles, rallies, recalls - Leader-Telegram: Daily Updates -http://goo.gl/O48Nu51 seconds ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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coopmike48 A 21st century boondoogle: high tech testing - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - http://goo.gl/nJjVn9 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NYC Educator: The Short Happy Tenure of Chancellor WalcottThe Short Happy Tenure of Chancellor Walcottby Miss EyreI was in the teachers' room at school last week when I heard that Chancellor Black ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NYC Public School Parents: Fireworks at Dennis Walcott's debut at the education budget hearingsFireworks at Dennis Walcott's debut at the education budget hearingsby Leonie HaimsonOn Friday, the he...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Leadership and the Internet; Aligning Practice | Connected PrincipalsLeadership and the Internet; Aligning PracticePosted by George Couros on 4/12/11 • Categorized as Parental Involvement,School Br...

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gothamschools.org - Dee Alpert, a longtime special education advocate whose close analysis of official documents kept city and state officials on their toes, died suddenly over the weekend. Alpert, who also commented ...

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nytimes.com - In a city where so many public schools are segregated by race and wealth, Public School 9 in Brooklyn is an exception. It has a substantial number of poor children, with about 75 perc...

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michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Brizard sounds like perfect candidate for Rahm According to this morning's Trib, Rahm Emanuel's short list of outsiders for new school's CEO includes current Rochester supt. Jean-Claude Brizard. E...

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nypost.com - Michael Goodwin "It's water over the dam, under the bridge," Mayor Bloomberg said in ducking a question about Cathie Black. But for that to be true, Bloomberg must turn the end of her tenure into a...

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history.com - The bloodiest four years in American history begin when Confederate shore batteries under General P.G.T. Beauregard open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay. During th...

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miamiherald.com - TALLAHASSEE — A Clearwater, Florida, activist has filed an ethics complaint accusing Gov. Rick Scott of using his office to benefit the chain of walk-in clinics he founded.David Plyer, 64, based hi...

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theuptake.org - Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman is suing the Minneapolis and St. Paul Police departments over her arrest at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul Minnesota. This past week she visited the...

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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 2:10 am, April 12, 2011 Photo Credits: Princeton NJ ID Card For the past nine months, the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund, a Princeton-based Hispanic advocacy non-profi...

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modeducation.blogspot.com - digg_url="http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/04/today-in-labor-history-april-11.html"; April 11, 1812 – 300 Luddites attacked Wroe & Duncliffs Mfg., in Rawfords Hill, England, to destroy the ...

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boston.com - NEWFANE, Vt. — A fund set up in the memory of a southern Vermont music teacher killed by two escaped prison inmates has donated almost $500,000 to local groups in Vermont and New Hampshire that hel...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 15 Things I Believe In Right Now (Including the F-Word) | The Jose Vilson15 Things I Believe In Right Now (Including the F-Word)by JoseOh, God.I haven’t done a manifesto in about a year and a half,...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Geography of School | Mr. Teachbad's Blog of Teacher DisgruntlementGeography of Schoolby mrteachbadThere is something that has been pissing me off all year…and I thought I knew what it was. It was ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - “SoundCloud” & “Takes Questions” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...“SoundCloud” & “Takes Questions” SoundCloud lets you very easily record an audio message — the first 120 minutes are free —...

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mediaite.com - videoAs the nation begrudgingly emerged from the inevitable perfectly avoidable government shutdown that wasn’t Friday night, both Democrats and Republicans scrambled to make the ordeal into some s...

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gothamschools.org - by Philissa Cramer Two high school handball players say the city is selectively enforcing competition rules. (Brooklyn Paper) Dennis Walcott hobnobbed with students and courted the press at PS 261....

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blog.angryasianman.com - Damn. In San Francisco, four teenage boys have been arrested and fifth is being sought in the death of 16-year-old Andy Zeng, as well as an alleged arson plot -- presumably in an attempt to destroy...

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bluecheddar.wordpress.com - Let’s assume the numbers as presented by “yourguest” below are deemed correct by people with a decent night’s sleep who can check them out (this was published at approx. 11pm, I just found it at at...

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northjersey.com - US files brief in Va. challenge of health care law RICHMOND, Va. — The government has filed its response to Virginia's bid to block the Obama administration's health care reform law. The 63-page ...

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sacbee.com - UC Davis students angry about rising tuition have staged many protests in the last year and a half – including sit-ins at campus buildings, a naked rally on the quad and a march that almost walked ...

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