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Save Our Schools tries to make Chicago inroads
catalyst-chicago.org - Save Our Schools tries to make Chicago inroadsPosted By Cassandra West On Saturday, August 27, 2011 In Teachers Mike Klonsky, an educator, school reform activist and blogger, talks during the first...
mikeklonskyPoverty and Education in SC and the US
wrestlingwithwriting.blogspot.com- Op-Eds in The State and The Greenville News:As children across South Carolina re-enter our schools across the state, two recent reports on childhood well-being are worth considering—the State of Am...
DianeRavitchDoes Hurricane Katrina Have an Effect on Post-K Children? « Education Talk New Orleans
edutalknola.com - The premise of this story is that the disaster of Hurricane Katrina was the weather event and that 5-year old children are unaffected today. Not surprisingly they use the example of an uptown resid...
DianeRavitchSOS marches into Chicago. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Former mayoral candidate Miguel del Valle at Chicago SOS kick-off. From Catalyst:Trying to maintain the momentum of the Save Our Schools Rally last month in Washington, D.C., that drew thousands fr...
fklonskySunday links. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Illinois teachers: Don’t forget that every Tuesday is Pension Call Tuesday. We’ll post the phone number or email of an Illinois Representative and you make the call. “Our pension benefits are const...
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Herald - Serving Lake Havasu City & The Lower Colorado River Area
havasunews.com - By JACKIE LEATHERMAN Today's News-HeraldPublished Saturday, August 27, 2011 12:15 AM MST Kathy Cox thought she was the only one trying to save education. She was wrong.Now the former Lake Havasu Hi...
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The Department of Education vs. Matt Damon
current.com - You may have seen the video of Matt Damon's recent smackdown of a reporter at an education rally. But you may have missed the news coming out this week: that the Obama Administration had a sudden i...
fklonskyEDUCATION: A report from the Save Our Schools weekend - Letters
rochestercitynewspaper.com - In case you missed it, the same weekend Congress tortured us with an eleventh-hour default standoff, thousands of parents, teachers, and education leaders gathered for a call to action on education...
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Protestors greet Ariz. sheriff in Kendall Co.: ‘Go home, Joe!’ - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - BY MAUREEN O’DONNELL Staff Reporter/modonnell@suntimes.com August 27, 2011 9:36PM Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa, Ari., front, hears comments Saturday from demonstrators opposing his appearance at ...
mikeklonskySilver Lining In King Memorial Dedication Delay | Resurgence
bigthink.com - Maybe the silver lining in the postponement of the King Memorial Dedication ceremony is the time it gives us to appreciate just how dangerous it was to be a civil rights leader in the 50’s and 60’s...
coopmike48Adult children's 'bad mothering' lawsuit dismissed
mercurynews.com - CHICAGO -- Raised in a $1.5 million Barrington Hills, Ill., home by their attorney father, two grown children have spent the last two years pursuing a unique lawsuit against their mom for "bad moth...
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Ron Paul on hurricane response: "We should be like 1900" - War Room
salon.com - AP Ron Paul has a hurricane response plan: After a lunch speech today, Ron Paul slammed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, and said that no national response to Hurricane Irene is ne...
fklonskyDo We Really Need A National Weather Service?
foxnews.com - As Hurricane Irene bears down on the East Coast, news stations bombard our televisions with constant updates from the National Hurricane Center. While Americans ought to prepare for the coming sto...
mikeklonsky6 years after Katrina, Lower 9th Ward still bleak
boston.com - NEW ORLEANS—In New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, the grasses grow taller than people and street after street is scarred by empty decaying houses, the lives that once played out inside their walls hardly...
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Getting to know you. Getting to know all about you.
kathryn-thispilgrimsprogress.blogspot.com - Interesting facts about Rahm Emanuel:The name "Rahm" means "high" or "lofty" in Hebrew.Rahm-bo has two brothers. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, is an oncologist and bioethicist at the National Institute of He...
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Liberal Hero of the Day: Bernie Sanders 8-28-2011
addictinginfo.org - It's a Democrat! It's a moderate! Hell no! It's Bernie Sanders!!Awarded to true Progressive Bernie Sanders for introducing a Bill that would eliminate the payroll cap that keeps the wealthy from pa...
coopmike48Chicago Shopping
chicagotribune.com - The nation's largest teachers union voted Monday in Chicago to support President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election bid despite discord between rank-and-file teachers and the administration over key e...
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Close the achievement gap? Might as well fly to Mars - Topeka K-12
examiner.com - The federal No Child Left Behind law, George W. Bush’s signature legislation, mandates that the achievement gap among public school students vanish by 2014; when all students will magically reach “...
tbfurmanYale Study: Hispanic Women Have Different Type of Breast Cancer? - Hispanically Speaking News
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Yale Study: Hispanic Women Have Different Type of Breast Cancer? - Hispanically Speaking News: Yale University Study: Do Hispanic Women Have Different Type of Breast Cancer?0 CommentsPublished at ...
coopmike48Thousands of California parents not vaccinating their children despite whooping-cough outbreak
mercurynews.com - SANTA CRUZ -- Thousands of California parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children, despite last year's record-setting whooping cough outbreak.And the number is growing, much to the alarm o...
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Nonprofit Head of College Board Paid More Than Harvard’s Leader
bloomberg.com - Enlarge image College Board President Gaston Caperton College Board via Bloomberg W. Gaston Caperton III, president of the College Board. W. Gaston Caperton III, president of the College Board. Sou...
mikeklonskyThe Fed Gives Up | Firedoglake
firedoglake.com - Ben Bernanke, Chair of the Fed, gave a speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and told us that his big plan for helping the economy is to do nothing and hope Congress fixes it. Everything is fine, and soo...
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Nine Reasons I Quit Listening « Cooperative Catalyst
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Nine Reasons I Quit Listening « Cooperative Catalyst: Nine Reasons I Quit Listeningby John T. SpencerMegaphone Man screams gigantic curses at the oncoming traffic. I stop my bike for a moment, sta...
coopmike48Parent Involvement « #Parents Across America
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Parent Involvement « Parents Across America: Parent InvolvementBy PAA Co-founder Pamela Grundy I wrote this post for the Mom Congress Back-to-School Blog-a-thon (I was the North Carolina delegate t...
coopmike48Support AB 401 PLEASE! (Ammiano): Charter schools. (California Assembly Bill)
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - AB 401 (Ammiano): Charter schools. (California Assembly Bill):The Charter Schools Act of 1992 authorizes any one or more persons to submit a petition to the governing board of a school district to ...
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