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Cutting Progams For The Poor After Cutting Off Their Legs
newsdissector.com - August 4th, 2011 - by: Danny Coming: This week on News Dissector Radio, Friday at 1 PM on ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com. Guest: Jeff Madrick, author of The Age Of Greed, The Triumphs of Finance and t...
mikeklonskyCity Ending Overnight Aid for Homeless
chicagonewscoop.org - Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration will shut down its overnight emergency services shift for the homeless and lay off 24 employees in the city’s Department of Family and Support Services. The ...
mikeklonskyDebt deal sucks: A killer for education
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - A start of something big? (M. Klonsky pic) Save our schools The Obama/Boehner debt-ceiling deal is disaster capitalism at its worst. Republicans, with help from the White House, and using ...
mikeklonskyThe new tests will survive, even if school doesn't
schoolsmatter.info - Dolores Umbridge, Assistant Secretary of Education, US Department of Education, reassured educators and parents today that the huge budget cuts mandated by the new budget agreement will not harm ou...
DianeRavitchDiane Ravitch at Save Our Schools
dailykos.com - Those of us involved in organizing the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action know it would not have happened without the strong support of Diane Ravitch. She supported us early and of...
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Voucher testing data takes a new twist
jsonline.com - March 30, 2011 | A day after the release of state test scores showed voucher-school students in Milwaukee achieving lower levels of reading and math proficiency than students in Milwaukee Public Sc...
DianeRavitchMore on billionaire boy’s club making a profit from educators « A "Fuller" Look at Education Issues
fullerlook.wordpress.com - Previously, I wrote about how the Gates Foundation has invested millions of dollars to push for the Common Core Standards and how they are now working with other entities to make a profit from the...
leoniehaimsonBESE revokes charter of N. O. school operator | WBRZ News 2 Louisiana : Baton Rouge, LA
wbrz.com - BATON ROUGE - Louisiana's education board has revoked the license for the operator of a New Orleans charter school, only the fourth time a charter has lost its contract with the state. The Board of...
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Bloomberg to Use Own Funds in Plan to Aid Minority Youth
nytimes.com - The administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, in a blunt acknowledgment that thousands of young black and Latino men are cut off from New York’s civic, educational and economic life, plans to s...
DianeRavitchThe anti-chancellor: Scott Stringer's education-board appointee objects to Dennis Walcott, again and again
capitalnewyork.com - 10:28 am Aug. 3, 2011 | During a hearing in June, as the city’s Panel for Educational Policy prepared to move on a plan to “co-locate” 22 charter schools in public-school buildings, most of the aud...
leoniehaimsonBloomberg declares tenure is not needed in public schools
gothamschools.org - Less than two years after pledging that he did not want to end tenure, Mayor Bloomberg struck a different chord today. “Do I think it’s needed at the public school level? No,” he said today. The st...
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Political Figures on News Corp.’s Payroll - The Annotated Frank Rich -
nymag.com - Evan Bayh, former U.S. senator, Fox News contributor John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Fox News contributor Susan Brophy, former deputy assistant to Bill Clinton, News Corp...
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Debt Bill Is Signed, Ending a Fractious Battle
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Tuesday to raise the government’s debt ceiling and cut trillions of dollars from its spending, concluding a long and fractious partisan battle just hours before the go...
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Tea Party’s War on America
nytimes.com - You know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists. It only encourages them. These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have wage...
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Update: Only 92% of Newt Gingrich's Twitter Followers Are Fake
tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com - John Cook | GawkerYesterday, we published an item based on a former Newt Gingrich staffer's claim that Gingrich assembled his 1.3 million Twitter followers--a number that he's taken to bragging abo...
fklonskyHappy, At The End of The Day
schooltechconnect.com - Nice catch over at Fred's. I've said it before-- I'm not a member, but if I were a member, I'd suspend that status until there were a specific change down in Springfield. Let's go to the tape, sha...
coopmike48TOO MUCH INFORMATION « Teachers Fight Back
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - TOO MUCH INFORMATION « Teachers Fight BackTOO MUCH INFORMATIONby alkleenThe Chicago Tribune Newspaper, otherwise known as “Teacher Bashing Central”, has long been advocating that the Chicago publi...
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The Annotated Frank Rich - The Real Transgressions of the Murdoch Empire -
nymag.com - Illustration by Eddie Guy When I was offered a job as a film critic for the New York Post in 1975, it had just been labeled “a terrible newspaper” by Nora Ephron in her media column for Esquire. ...
DianeRavitchThe Annotated Frank Rich - Aaron Sorkin Imagines a Conversation Between Rupert Murdoch and Joel Klein -
nymag.com - Int. Rupert Murdoch’s office; day. Rupert Murdoch sits behind his desk as Joel Klein knocks on the door and steps in. Klein: Mr. Murdoch? Murdoch: Well, if it isn’t Lady Macbeth. Klein: Is that wha...
DianeRavitchI’ve got a major Matt Damon jones. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - I’m a 63 year-old straight teacher who thinks Matt Damon is hot. Me and Anderson Cooper can both swoon together. If you haven’t seen the video of Damon talking to some local dumb-ass reporter and a...
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Insight: Microsoft use of low
reuters.com - By Lynnley Browning FAIRFIELD, Connecticut | Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:14pm EDT FAIRFIELD, Connecticut (Reuters) - If you want to know why tax from surging corporate profits isn't making much of a dent in...
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Stock Market Continuing to Drop - Business
theatlanticwire.com - The stock market slide after yesterday's debt deal compromise was signed by President Obama is continuing this morning: "Stocks turn sharply lower, led by a sell-off of energy companies. Dow off by...
coopmike48Verizon Unions May Strike on Plan for ‘Gutting Health Care’
businessweek.com - August 03, 2011, 4:51 PM EDT By Devin Banerjee (Updates shares in sixth paragraph.) Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Lowell McAdam, who just started as chief executive officer at Verizon Communications Inc., ...
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On Ridiculous Assertions By [Some] White Liberals | The Jose Vilson
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - On Ridiculous Assertions By [Some] White Liberals | The Jose VilsonOn Ridiculous Assertions By [Some] White Liberalsfrom The Jose Vilson by JoseOh well-meaning “liberals,” you sound ridiculous even...
coopmike48TOO MUCH INFORMATION « Teachers Fight Back
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - TOO MUCH INFORMATION « Teachers Fight BackTOO MUCH INFORMATIONby alkleenThe Chicago Tribune Newspaper, otherwise known as “Teacher Bashing Central”, has long been advocating that the Chicago publi...
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Candi's Blog: Why I Must Continue To Fight For Teachers
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Candi's Blog: Why I Must Continue To Fight For TeachersWhy I Must Continue To Fight For Teachersby Candi PetersonWritten by Candi PetersonAs the General Vice President of the Washington Teachers’ U...
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SWAT Team Raids Rawesome Foods, Dumps Raw Milk - E.D. Kain - American Times
blogs.forbes.com - EducationAug. 3 2011 - 10:52 pm | 0 views | 0 recommendations |By E.D. KAIN Rawesome Foods in Venice, CA was raided for selling raw milk A multi-agency SWAT team hit Venice, CA , Rawesome Foods, Tu...
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