nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - May 26, 2011 (GBN News): Long suffering Mets fans may finally have found their knight in shining armor, when it was announced today that that hedge fund manager David Einhorn will be buying a subst...
nytimes.com - Nine states that were also-rans in last year’s Race to the Top school improvement competition will get another chance, the Obama administration announced on Wednesday, though this time $200 million...
suntimes.com - By ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter May 25, 2011 08:14PM Students and even an aldermen Wednesday labeled as excessive the out-of-school suspensions of dozens of students for waging walk-outs and s...
nola.com - WASHINGTON -- Louisiana and eight other unsuccessful finalists for last year's national Race to the Top educational competition were invited today to compete for a share of a new but smaller pot of...
educationnation.com - There is no doubt that teacher evaluation systems in the U.S. are broken: Teachers, administrators, parents, and policymakers agree that most districts fail to measure teaching well, help teachers ...
latimes.com - Bennett Kayser, the candidate favored by the teachers union, won the last remaining open seat for the Los Angeles Board of Education on Thursday, beating Luis Sanchez, who was supported by the mayo...
gothamschools.org - Flyer outside Harlem Success Academy 1 on Tuesday. (Tony Richards) Charter school parents and advocates are planning a massive rally tomorrow to demand that the NAACP withdraw from the city teacher...
preaprez.wordpress.com - NEA President Dennis Van Roekel held a telephone town hall meeting for RA delegates last night. Delegates could call in with questions. I called with a question about last year’s no confidence vote...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - Chalk up another Democratic win this week: Alabama State Rep. Daniel Boman, who entered the legislature as a Republican in November, is switching parties to become a Democrat after he says the GOP ...
npr.org - Congress scrambled to renew three controversial provisions of the anti-terror Patriot Act that otherwise would have expired at midnight Thursday. Minutes before that deadline, President Obama was a...
articles.philly.com - "It is a test of mayoral leadership, and I believe he's up to the job," former Gov. Mark Schweiker said. "This is a mayor who's finding his stride, and he can push this across the proverbial goal l...
capitolfax.com - * House Republican Leader Tom Cross unveiled his pension reform proposal yesterday… The plan, endorsed by the top Democrat and the top Republican in the Illinois House, would require many state emp...
teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com - Ø With a Defined Contribution Plan (401k, 403b, 457), only your contributions are defined;Ø Your benefit is not guaranteed;Ø Your benefit is based upon investment earnings;Ø Your benefit ends w...
nytimes.com - In 2004, when Todd S. Nelson was chief executive of the University of Phoenix, the nation’s largest for-profit college, he signed a $9.8 million settlement with the Department of Education, which f...
schooltechconnect.com - You have to call. Faxes are also good. Letters are also good. But you absolutely have to call. Below is a clip from my own call to my state representative, whom I haven't met yet. During the call, ...
pissedoffteeacher.blogspot.com - I sat around all afternoon waiting for kids to show up so I could help them with their credit recovery assignments. Two showed up ten minutes into the first period. One had gotten the slip of pa...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: With Democrats Like These...With Democrats Like These...by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)Here's a clip from the end of today's session. I've chosen to highlight the section wh...
suntimes.com - By ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter/rrossi@suntimes.com May 25, 2011 07:56PM Chicago’s “Breakfast in the Classroom” program is serving “dessert” for breakfast, tempting kids who have already eaten...
theatlanticwire.com - Historically, Vermont does two things best: maple syrup and progressive politics. The nation's leading producer of the popular waffle-topping today became the nation's only provider of single-payer...
news.change.org - Change.org received a statement from the United States Postal Service (USPS) in response to a petition with more than 8,000 signatures started by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force urging USPS...
host.madison.com - MARY SPICUZZA | mspicuzza@madison.com | 608-252-6122 madison.com | | Posted: Thursday, May 26, 2011 9:34 am A judge has struck down Gov. Scott Walker's controversial new collective bargaining law. ...
boston.com - WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lower court's ruling that authorities need warrants to talk to potential victims of sex abuse at school, without saying whether it thought the e...
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