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For Christie and 2 Senators, Animus Is Mutual

nytimes.com - When floods ravaged New Jersey in August, the state’s three top elected officials — Gov. Chris Christie and Senators Frank R. Lautenberg and Robert Menendez — joined President Obama in touring dama...

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Final Plans Announced For Green Ribbon Schools

ed.gov - This week, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan made public the final plans for a new award program that will encourage our nation’s schools and communities to promote healthy and sustainable environ...

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St. Louis Beacon - Charter schools need serious reforms, report finds

stlbeacon.org - More than 10 years after the first charter school opened in St. Louis, too many charters have fallen short of their promise and need more financial help, stricter oversight and stronger incentives ...

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Slay wants Imagine schools to close

stltoday.com - ST. LOUIS • Mayor Francis Slay called for the closure of Imagine charter schools in St. Louis on Thursday, for the first time singling out the poorest-performing charters in the city. In the past, ...

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What’s a Teacher Worth?

movies.nytimes.com - “American Teacher” doesn’t come close to doing what it sets out to do, but it does end up as a heartfelt, bittersweet portrait of several teachers as they make the difficult decision of whether to ...

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DC-CAS Cheating Probe? Or Just Another Cover-up by DCPS Officials? « GFBrandenburg's Blog

gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com - You all remember the USA TODAY series that shows almost definitively massive cheating by adults on the DC CAS over the past several years, at least. The detection method was counting wrong-to-right...

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Veteran agitators flock to Occupy Wall Street

crainsnewyork.com - September 29, 2011 2:26 p.m. The city's most experienced agitators—the labor and community groups that typically organize local marches, rallies and sit-ins—have been largely missing from the Occup...

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LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy Talks School, Controversy And Cafeteria Food

huffingtonpost.com - LAUSD superintendent Dr. John Deasy does not believe in wasting time. He talks fast, sleeps little–-four hours a night-–and is in the news often for rolling out a series of ambitious new initiative...

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Is Occupy Wall Street having an impact? - Polls

mycrains.crainsnewyork.com - Thursday marked the 13th day of Occupy Wall Street, a demonstration centered in lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. The protests—against corporate influence on politics and the lack of repercussions f...

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The Toll of the Great Recession

pewhispanic.org - 9.28.2011Childhood Poverty Among Hispanics Sets Record, Leads NationBy Mark Hugo Lopez, Associate Director, Pew Hispanic Center, and Gabriel Velasco, Research Analyst, Pew Hispanic CenterThe spread...

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Into the Mainstream | Southern Poverty Law Center

splcenter.org - www.theamericancause.orgThe American Cause is a foundation founded and run by commentator and nativist firebrand Patrick Buchanan, a three-time presidential contender who may have done more than al...

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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...

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Poll: 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...

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House GOP seeks to cut job training, heating aid

denverpost.com - WASHINGTON—Setting a collision course with Democrats that could drag out for months, House Republicans on Thursday unveiled plans to cut federal money for job training, heating subsidies and grants...

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I will bring hundreds of thousands to ‘Occupy Wall Street’ | Raw Replay

rawstory.com - Hip hop magnate Russell Simmons said Thursday on MSNBC that he planned on joining the ongoing “Occupy Wall Street” in lower Manhattan. Simmons, who has an estimated net-worth of $340 million, noted...

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SAT 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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