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#NEARA11 Holding your nose and closing your eyes. « Fred Klonsky's blog

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Holding your nose and closing your eyes. « Fred Klonsky's blogHolding your nose and closing your eyes.by Fred KlonskyThe big votes at the NEA were today. Tomorrow is just an endless stream of New B...

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Recovery School District closures and changes can leave families with whiplash | NOLA.com

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Recovery School District closures and changes can leave families with whiplash | NOLA.comRecovery School District closures and changes can leave families with whiplashPublished: Monday, July 04, 20...

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Recovery School District closures and changes can leave families with whiplash

nola.com - Whenever Linda Acker's daughter, Ariel, finally settled into a new school, word came that it was time to move.All told, Ariel has attended five different high schools during the past six years, a p...

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Cops in schools too costly: CPS - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - By ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter July 3, 2011 9:10PM Since 2009, CPS had been paying the Chicago Police Department $8 million a year to station two officers at roughly 100 high schools for eigh...

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Putting the NEA endorsement of Obama in context

dailykos.com - The NEA Representative Assembly also adopted with almost no opposition and with only minor amendments a resolution very critical of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. The text of that resolution a...

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Union Shifts Position on Teacher Evaluations

nytimes.com - (Page 2 of 2) Segun Eubanks, the director of teacher quality for the union, said the new policy was intended to guide, not bind, state and local union chapters. It tries to close the disconnect bet...

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Debate in New Orleans focuses on school governance

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Debate in New Orleans focuses on school governanceDebate in New Orleans focuses on school governanceJul 4, 2011 1:02pmEmail Print NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Once a symbol of political fractiousness, failu...

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Holding your nose and closing your eyes. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - The big votes at the NEA were today. Tomorrow is just an endless stream of New Business Items that are notorious time sucks. A good amount of RA time today was spent on a proposal on accountability...

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Facing funding cuts, Houston's KIPP drops Saturday classes | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com

chron.com - There will be no more Saturday classes for students at the Knowledge is Power Program. The extended school week — one of the trademarks of the popular charter school system — is going by the waysid...

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PoliticsSee all

Ald. Ed Burke's bodyguards questioned

articles.chicagotribune.com - Finance Committee chairman kept police protection in racially charged eranow critics doubt need in tight budget times (Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune)When Ald. Edward Burke arrives at City Hall, it...

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#NEARA11 Daily Kos: Putting the NEA endorsement of Obama in context

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: Putting the NEA endorsement of Obama in contextPutting the NEA endorsement of Obama in contextby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)it will be portrayed by some as "overwhelming" when it in fa...

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NEA's Delegates Approve Obama Endorsement, Dues Increase - Teacher Beat

blogs.edweek.org - Despite a lot of hand-wringing, delegates to the National Education Association's Representative Assembly approved an early endorsement for President Barack Obama, and by a good margin: 5,414 deleg...

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A Failing School? Not to These Students

nytimes.com - (Page 2 of 2) James Eterno, Jamaica’s representative to the teachers’ union, has been portrayed in the news media as a man who cares more about preserving jobs than — as the mayor never tires of sa...

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It’s Official: A Teenager Now Lives At The White House…Happy Birthday Malia Obama! « CAFFEINATED POLITICS

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - It’s Official: A Teenager Now Lives At The White House…Happy Birthday Malia Obama! « CAFFEINATED POLITICSIt’s Official: A Teenager Now Lives At The White House…Happy Birthday Malia Obama!JULY 4, 20...

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Home - Inside Higher Ed

insidehighered.com - February 24, 2011 The return of ROTC to some campuses -- seemingly assured by the end of the military's policy against gay service members -- may be hitting a few bumps.More February 24, 2011 City ...

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In A Frederick Douglass State Of Mind [Long Live The 4th] | The Jose Vilson

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - In A Frederick Douglass State Of Mind [Long Live The 4th] | The Jose VilsonIn A Frederick Douglass State Of Mind [Long Live The 4th]by JoseWho can blame people for feeling unpatriotic on a day like...

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Quinn Follows Other Governors, Nixes Collective Bargaining

wibqfm.com - Caption: Illinois Governor Quinn speaks after National Governors Association meeting at the White House in Washington SPRINGFIELD, IL (WIBQ) -- The contagion on stripping public employees of colle...

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Glenn Beck Says \'Adios\' and Heads to Ole Mexico, I Mean Texas

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - In case you slept through the audible sigh of relief from the political left and the gushing tears from the ultra right - Glenn Beck’s Fox Network show is NO MAS as of this Thursday.Fear not for th...

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BusinessSee all

U.S. State Cuts Hit Health Care and Education, Help Bondholders

bloomberg.com - Florida is firing 1,300 workers. New York is cutting education funding and freezing public employee wages for three years. Arizona is slashing Medicaid coverage. And municipal bondholders are havin...

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Money Making Schemes: FFELP Loans, the Market, Sallie Mae, and Nelnet

alleducationmatters.blogspot.com - Copyright Notice: If you are not reading this at All Education Matters, and unless I've explicitly given an individual or entity permission to publish my work, this post has been illegally appropri...

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HUD Announces EHLP Program to Assist Distressed Borrowers

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 11:32 am, July 4, 2011 Photo Credits: HUD Last week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in conjunction with NeighborWorks® America, launched the Emergency Home...

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EnvironmentSee all

45% of kids sustained thyroid radiation

search.japantimes.co.jp - Around 45 percent of children in Fukushima Prefecture checked by the prefectural and central governments in late March experienced thyroid exposure to radiation, although in all cases in trace amou...

mikeklonsky

Chilean Women Rebuild Lives Smashed by Tsunami

womensenews.org - Some give up traditional livelihoods and do something new. Others stay put and rebuild from within devastated towns. Throughout the shoreline communities of southern Chile hardest hit by the 2010 t...

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Debate in New Orleans focuses on school governance

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No Schools Left Behind ??? Really ?? Check the data… things that make you say hmmmm… Florida charter schools ? « Continuing Change

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - No Schools Left Behind ??? Really ?? Check the data… things that make you say hmmmm… Florida charter schools ? « Continuing ChangeNo Schools Left Behind ??? Really ?? Check the data… things that ma...

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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

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