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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS Who is Accountable? CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS Go to CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS Web Site by The Perimeter Primate Let's Count the Scandals CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS REAL Prep Charter Academy The Perim...
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signon.org - Flag petition as inappropriateBy Susan DuFresne (Contact)To be delivered to: The United States SenateDear Senators: The recent passage of H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents Through the Quality Chart...
mikeklonskyArne Duncan and Reed Hastings: A Digital Promise to Our Nation's Children
online.wsj.com - BY ARNE DUNCAN AND REED HASTINGS Student achievement and educational attainment have stagnated in the U.S., and a host of our leading economic competitors are now out-educating us. In a knowledge e...
arneduncanMazany reports to Fed Bank board: "There's no safety net left..."
schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - MazanySeven times a year, the nine-member board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicagomeets in the most secure building in the city, in the bowels of LaSalle Street, where millions of dollars in wo...
mikeklonskyHow to Stop the Drop in Verbal Scores
nytimes.com - Charlottesville, Va. THE latest bad but unsurprising news on education is that reading and writing scores on the SAT have once again declined. The language competence of our high school...
K12NNThe Perry Plan: Low Wages, Texas Style | AFL
blog.aflcio.org - by James Parks, Sep 16, 2011Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry touts his job creation record as governor of Texas, but the reality is that new Texas-style jobs are low-wage jobs. Writin...
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National Journal Online -- Education Experts -- The Republicans' NCLB Plan
education.nationaljournal.com - Monday, September 19, 2011Senate Republicans are seeking to eliminate federal school assessment standards that could cause more than 80 percent of schools to be labeled as failing next year. The pr...
mikeklonskyPanelists, DOE officials showed no respect for audience at meeting
silive.com - By MAUREEN I. DOHERTY GRANT CITY I attended the Panel on Education Policy meeting on Wednesday evening at the Michael J. Petrides complex. As a parent of two students at Petrides, I am just...
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WEEKEND QUOTABLES
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Alfie Kohn"Whoever Said There's No Such Thing As a Stupid Question Never Looked Carefully at a Standardized Test" -- Huffington PostNancy PelosiRepublicans are "using the budget deficit as an excus...
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Today: L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa on Urban School Reform :: Frederick M. Hess
frederickhess.org - by Frederick M. Hess • Sep 19, 2011 at 8:09 amCross-posted from Education Weekhttp://www.frederickhess.org/2011/09/la-mayor-villaraigosa-on-urban-school-reformThis afternoon, at AEI, Los Angeles ...
mikeklonskySpeaking Spanish Puts Children At Risk
dailykos.com - This is disturbing and upsetting, I can't imagine how you and your wife must feel. As a naturalized citizen of our country (naturalized at age 4 and have been here for 37 years), I am outraged at h...
leoniehaimsonLeonard Pitts column: When justice requires death
chicagotribune.com - And they raised a cheer for death. It was a chilling moment but also a clarifying one in that it validated the grimmest suspicions about at least some of those who support capital punishment. That ...
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Thousands Cheer Bernie Sanders’s Appeal to Obama: Make the Rich Pay for Deficits
nationofchange.org - Declaring that “Social Security is the most successful government program in our nation’s history,” and decrying threats to Medicare and Medicaid that would punish Americans who did not cause the c...
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Chicago Shopping
chicagotribune.com - Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday on "Face the Nation." (Reuters ) Associated Press 4:14 a.m. CDT, September 19, 2011 Former Vice President Dick Cheney is due here today for a chat on his...
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Frank Rich and Adam Moss Talk About What's Really In Ron Suskind's Revealing New Book About the White House -- Daily Intel
nymag.com - President Obama.Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images Adam: Hi, Frank. So there’s a little commotion about this new book Confidence Men, by Ron Suskind, which is being published on Tuesday. And as it happe...
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This is what democracy looks like…in the CPS. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - At lunch today a colleague was telling us about a friend who teaches at a Chicago north side elementary school. “I asked her about the extra 90 minutes,” my colleague said. “She said they would sta...
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Confessions of a Partially Proficient Parent: Slumber parties
ednewsparent.org - I didn’t run away or hop a shuttle to DIA, so I think I can safely say our very first experience as parent hosts of a slumber party succeeded. Will we do it again? Only if slumber parties are the s...
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Dustin Slaughter's Picture: "In Debt? You're Not Alone"
alleducationmatters.blogspot.com - Dustin Slaughter (@dustinslaughter) is at Occupy Wall Street. He's been featured on AEM before when he wrote a superb piece about the recent Chilean student uprisings. Dustin is the founder of the ...
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Slain officer's family calls for Troy Davis' execution
ajc.com - By Bill RankinThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionThe state Board of Pardons and Paroles has finished hearing testimony in the last-ditch clemency bid from Troy Anthony Davis, who is trying to be spar...
fklonskyTroy Davis’ life in board’s hands
ajc.com - By Bill Rankin and Rhonda Cook rcook@ajc.comThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionThe condemned in Georgia always have a long and tortuous journey to the execution chamber. But the case of Troy Anthony D...
fklonskyJudge might give Tacoma school district the OK to hire replacement teachers during strike
oregonlive.com - TACOMA -- A Pierce County Superior Court judge says he's considering giving the Tacoma school district the option to hire replacement teachers for those on the picket line. The News Tribune report...
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The Bleeding Cure
nytimes.com - Doctors used to believe that by draining a patient’s blood they could purge the evil “humors” that were thought to cause disease. In reality, of course, all their bloodletting did was make the pati...
fklonskyWhite House calls for federal employees to increase contributions to retirement plans
democraticunderground.com - Source: The HillThe White House is asking federal employees to increase their contributions to worker retirement plans, saving $21 billion over 10 years and helping to pay for the proposed $447 bil...
coopmike48Postal unions running new TV ad (Video) - The Federal Eye
washingtonpost.com - Three major postal unions are turning to television to help generate support for proposals to revamp the United States Postal Service‘s finances.The ad, set to run during ad breaks on three major c...
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