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Reformers Join The Mile High Club

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - Debunking a miracle school can be tedious work. Debunking an entire district is, generally, even worse. But when I heard about the recent ‘miracle’ in Denver, I was pleasantly surprised when I got...

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Obama Administration Proceeds with Reform of No Child Left Behind Following Congressional Inaction

ed.gov - August 8, 2011With the new school year fast approaching and still no bill to reform the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind, the Obama administration will provide a process for stat...

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Democrats Challenging Administration on Medicaid

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — In an unusual break with the White House, the Democratic leaders of Congress told the Supreme Court on Monday that President Obama was pursuing a misguided interpretation of federal Me...

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WEEKEND QUOTABLES

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Charles Blow"We risk the creation of an engorged generational underclass born of a culture that has less income equality and fewer prospects for mobility than the previous generation." -- The Decad...

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For-Profit College Group Sued as U.S. Lays Out Wide Fraud

nytimes.com - The Department of Justice and four states on Monday filed a multibillion-dollar fraud suit against the Education Management Corporation, the nation’s second-largest for-profit college company, char...

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Look Out, Voluntarism! Here They Come Again!

cato-at-liberty.org - Posted by Neal McCluskey Anyone who’s paid really close attention to the national curriculum standards debate – alas, not many people — knows that many standards-hawkers are guilty of one, unaccept...

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'Kids run wild, teachers are scared' at many public schools

nydailynews.com - Anthony DelMundo for News The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance at 125 Stuyvesant Avenue in Brooklyn is considered the most dangerous school in New York City. A Brooklyn high school co-founded by ...

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Reclaiming Our Own Story, Becoming the Protagonist, Changing Roles With Bill Gates and the Corporate Deformers « Living Behind the Gates

livingbehindthegates.wordpress.com - Yesterday I wrote about the dangerous comparisons to Bill Gates and Milton Friedman. My intent was to EXPOSE the Emperor without clothes, removing the cloak of philanthropy his foundation hides be...

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School Tech Connect: Rightward, March!

schooltechconnect.com - Fundie government at work:INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's new school voucher program has admitted more than 2,200 grade-school students who will receive state-funded scholarships to attend religious ...

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Brown Nixes Special Veterans' Courts, Citing Costs

baycitizen.org - Special courts designed to help troubled veterans won't be expanding quickly across the California, thanks to a veto Friday from Gov. Jerry Brown. Citing cost concerns, the governor rejected a bil...

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Governor Signs Yolo County All-Mail Election Bill

davis.patch.com - Legislation to authorize a pilot program for all-mail elections in Yolo County was signed Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown. Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada, D-Davis, authored AB 413. The Sacramento Bee repor...

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Right-Wing Billionaires Invest in Wisconsin's Recall Elections to Save School Privatization Agenda

commondreams.org - As co-chair of Wisconsin’s powerful legislative Joint Finance Committee, Alberta Darling was charged by Governor Scott Walker with cobbling together the most anti–public education budget in Wiscons...

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Credibility, Chutzpah And Debt

nytimes.com - To understand the furor over the decision by Standard & Poor’s, the rating agency, to downgrade U.S. government debt, you have to hold in your mind two seemingly (but not actually) contradictory id...

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Rupert Murdoch's American Scandals | Rolling Stone Politics

rollingstone.com - By Tim Dickinson August 3, 2011 9:05 AM ET Illustration by Robert Grossman Rupert Murdoch would like you to believe that the voicemail-hacking scandal at the News of the World "went against everyth...

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Mayor mustn’t forget city’s ‘invisible’ poor - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - By Susan Klonsky August 4, 2011 9:44PM Updated: August 5, 2011 10:26AM Living close to two expressway overpasses, I often notice carefully stashed bundles, shopping carts, sleeping bags and cardboa...

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Kimble Short Bus Tour Kicks Off In Lexington, KY

kimbleforcongress.blogspot.com - Staying in Washington long enough to insure that the Democrats promised to cut the budget and not raise taxes was very difficult for me because it meant delaying getting to know little Ayn Reagan K...

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I Am More Than a Test Score

huffingtonpost.com - Dear Mom and Dad,It's almost back to school time. I've been thinking about the coming year. I know I'm not an expert, but after seven years of going to school, something seems wrong. Don't misunder...

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For-Profit College Group Sued as U.S. Lays Out Wide Fraud

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Jersey Jazzman: Made Men

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: Made MenMade Menby DukeAs George Carlin said: "It's a big club, and you ain't in it!" As it turns out, a News Corporation division has twice come under significant civil and crimina...

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S&P’s History of Relentless Political Advocacy

news.firedoglake.com - I was tied up with other matters this weekend, so couldn’t offer a take on S&P’s downgrade decision. Jane has done most of the spade work here. But I wanted to make a few points. First of all, if t...

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