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City's schools swindled out of millions of dollars by technology firm with department contracts
nydailynews.com - Joe Marino for News The city's special schools investigator determined that Future Technology Associates found serious violations of contract rules. The owners of a scandal-plagued consulting busin...
DianeRavitchRupert Murdoch giving keynote at Jeb Bush’s ed reform summit - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - The man chosen to give the breakfast keynote address on the second day of the upcoming National Summit on Education Reform 2011: Education Everywhere , is none other than ... media mogul Rupert Mur...
DianeRavitchGood Choices for BESE Seats
louisianaeducator.blogspot.com - Several experienced, and dedicated educators have qualified for election to BESE along with several incumbents who have already proven themselves to be friends of public education. Voters will have...
DianeRavitchBloomberg Education Record Stained by More Corruption
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Special Commissioner for Investigation Richard Condon has released a blockbuster report on the fraud perpetuated by favored DOE contractor FTA. (Report pdf is here.) The SCI points to fraud of ...
leoniehaimsonCity says it has started letting schools know they risk closure
gothamschools.org - Some schools who pulled low grades on the progress reports handed out last week are already getting notice that the city is seriously worried about their performance. Department of Education offici...
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Sending out an SOS. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Monday’s Park Ridge board of education meeting was fascinating. Let me set the scene. The board was going to adopt the proposed budget. Because Park Ridge is a moderately affluent community, and be...
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Charter school accused of scrimping on student supplies and support under state investigation
nydailynews.com - Linda Rosier/News Faye Hodge, PTA president of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter school, said students aren't getting the basics for their education. A controversial Bedford-Stuyvesant charter school ...
leoniehaimsonWake up, Chicago Teachers Union | Ben Joravsky on Politics
chicagoreader.com - After my column last week about our union-busting mayor ("Mayor union-buster: Rahm Emanuel fights the Chicago Teachers Union over a longer school day—and it's not about the kids"), I've been gettin...
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Complaint alleges Iowa education chief violated ethics law
thegazette.com - CEDAR RAPIDS — A Palo man has filed a complaint alleging that the director of the Iowa Department of Education violated state law by accepting a trip to a conference in Rio de Janeiro.Richard Frede...
leoniehaimsonYour Illinois News Radar » 911 tapes show Senator tried to use clout to convince cops to ignore husband’s call
capitolfax.com - * The details of the alleged domestic violence are in dispute, but this is not good at all… State Sen. Suzi Schmidt mentioned being a former Lake County Board chairman and her “connections” on a De...
tbfurmanTechnology Contractors Are Accused of Fraud – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Sept. 28, 2011, 5:17 p.m. Two technology company executives stole at least $6.5 million from the city by lying about how much they were paying their workers and submitting false documents to city a...
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The Jobless: Robbed with a Fountain Pen
progressivesforobama.blogspot.com - The Men We Trusted to Lead Us By Robert Scheer Progressive America Rising via Ttuthout Sept. 29, 2011 - Now he tells us. On Wednesday Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke referred to th...
mikeklonskyPoll: Social Security still popular - Maggie Haberman
politico.com - CNN included a Social Security question in a round of polling, and found that some share the idea that it's unconstitutional - which Rick Perry has intimated but not explicitly said - but most vote...
mikeklonskyCTU Taking Case to Council
chicagonewscoop.org - As Mayor Rahm Emanuel continues pushing for a longer day this school year, the Chicago Teachers Union hopes to boost its support in the City Council by holding a series of closed-door “policy brief...
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Graduates of International High School are stars of a new book
gothamschools.org - Brook Hauser’s new book, “The New Kids,” follows a year in the life of students at International High School in Prospect Heights, a small school that caters to immigrants. Among the book’s many hig...
coopmike48THE DEMISE OF OUTDOOR RECESS « Teachers Fight Back
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - THE DEMISE OF OUTDOOR RECESS « Teachers Fight Back:THE DEMISE OF OUTDOOR RECESSby alkleenI hear that more schools are completely doing away with outdoor recess. I’m sure the lawyers for school dis...
coopmike48What Happened to My Grade Book?: A Lesson in Word Choice, for Me
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - What Happened to My Grade Book?: A Lesson in Word Choice, for Me:A Lesson in Word Choice, for Meby DellaI agree with you. Sean Gainger, @graingered ,tweeted in response to my blog "=ing highstakes ...
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'Occupy Wall Street' Links up with Locked-Out Teamsters
labornotes.org - Expanding their reach beyond the confines of Wall Street, a dozen activists from the ongoing Occupy Wall Street action disrupted an art auction at Sotheby’s last week.The protest supported 43 union...
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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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A History of Fat Presidents
forbes.com - Timothy Noah asks: Who, besides William Howard Taft (300+ pounds)–who may or may not have gotten stuck in the White House bathtub but certainly arranged for a bigger one to be installed there–were ...
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DOE Contractor Is Cited for Fraud
online.wsj.com - BY LISA FLEISHER A technology contractor bilked the New York City Department of Education out millions of dollars, lying to investigators about shell companies it allegedly used to outsource work, ...
leoniehaimsonSAT Cheaters Paid Ex-Schoolmate to Do Test, Prosecutor Says
businessweek.com - September 28, 2011, 4:13 PM EDT By Chris Dolmetsch (Updates with comments from school district starting in fifth paragraph.) Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Seven Long Island, New York, students were charg...
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Unusual Staffing Plan Helps N.C. District Snag Broad Award
edweek.org - Principals from Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools cheer the announcement that the district won the Broad Prize for Urban Education on Sept. 20. —Jeff Willhelm/Charlotte Observer/APWashingtonIn 2008, th...
mikeklonskyWhat Happened to My Grade Book?: Rubbish Piles of #Blueberries and #EdReform Efforts
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - What Happened to My Grade Book?: Rubbish Piles of #Blueberries and #EdReform Efforts:Rubbish Piles of #Blueberries and #EdReform Effortsby Della"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, ever...
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Learning Walks: The Power of Teacher to Teacher PD
peterpappas.com - Peter Pappas » 22 September 2011 » In How To, Leadership, PD, Reflection, Teachers » Learn and Lead It's always a pleasure to work with the school district that “gets it.”Lebanon Community Schools ...
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