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Campaign finance filings show wide gaps
ednewscolorado.org - Initial campaign finance filings show Denver school board candidate Happy Haynes has already raised more than $200,000, with three weeks remaining before Election Day. Haynes, a former Denver City ...
Big bucks fuel DPS board races
denverpost.com - A student works on a number diagram during the first day of school at Amos Steck Elementary on Thursday, August 18, 2011. (AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post)More than $500,000 has poured into the De...
Timothy D. Slekar: Dear Teacher Education Colleagues
huffingtonpost.com - Reports the Website "Schools Matter": In recalibrating what information the Feds will require of ed schools, a graying and sallow Arne announced that his Gates and Broad handlers have come up with ...
The problems with the PSAT and National Merit program - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - How fair does this sound? To qualify for a national merit scholarship, students in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia — as well as the 48 other states — all take the same exam but don’...
Will Order Park Cleanedd, More On The Plot Or Is It A Pretext? Grammy Scandal
newsdissector.com - October 12th, 2011 - by: Danny Multi-Media Man: News Dissector in the Media I was back on the air discussing Occupy Wall Street yesterday morning with Curtis Sliwa. Later, I had just slipped into m...
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Charter Schools Part I: Thirteen Years Into the Charter School Experiment
stateimpact.npr.org - In 1998, Ohio opened its first 15 charter schools. There are now more than 300, and they’re enrolling more than 100,000 primary and secondary students. Ohio is paying upwards of $500 million to su...
Charters Schools Part III: Cashing In on Education
stateimpact.npr.org - Traditional public school districts and charter schools have long been at odds in Ohio, but that strain is most noticeable when it comes to schools run by for-profit corporations. Ida Lieszkovszky ...
Why Education Needs an Occupy the Classroom Revolution - Education
good.is - Over the last few months, the Occupy Wall Street movement has grown from a small collection of ruffians and hardcore socialists to a groundswell of everyday Americans frustrated with the lack of op...
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Single Occupy Wall Street protester takes on 161st St. to rally against failing welfare system
nydailynews.com - Victor Chu for News Occupy Wall Street protester Abraham Weiss speaks with people outside Melrose Job Center. Occupy Wall Street became Occupy 161st St. Tuesday, with a lone protester from the down...
Five Chicago Women Arrested Inside Bank Of America For 'Returning' Trash From Foreclosed Homes (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
huffingtonpost.com - Five Chicago women were arrested at a downtown Chicago Bank of America branch Tuesday after they dumped bags of trash from foreclosed properties into the bank and refused to exit the building.Glori...
Short Funds Crimp Tribal Women's Safety Law
womensenews.org - A federal law passed in July was supposed to benefit American Indian and Alaskan Native women who are disproportionately vulnerable to abuse. But tight funding and immunity for non-Indian men are t...
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Bill Clinton: 'Occupy' needs to get specific - Mackenzie Weinger
politico.com - Former President Bill Clinton appeared on the “Late Show with David Letterman” Wednesday night and discussed his views on the Occupy Wall Street protesters, who he says need to start advocating spe...
David Mamet: ‘I did not vote for Obama’ - Tim Mak
politico.com - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet argues for the conservative vision of society and denounces liberal hypocrisy in an editorial about silk-screening and sushi on Wednesday.In a difficul...
Emanuel Budget to Include TIF Funds, Fee Hikes
chicagonewscoop.org - Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposal to close the city’s 2012 fiscal shortfall will feature funds from tax-increment financing districts, increased sticker costs for drivers of sports-utility vehicles and...
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Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education
edupln.com - learn more and get the book at www.hiphopgenius.org follow on twitter at twitter.com/husslington this video illustrates (literally!) the concept of Hip Hop Genius. these ideas are explored more ful...
Live from Occupy LA: It’s the General Assembly! With Special Guest Lt. Dan Choi!
lafiga.firedoglake.com - We’ve living streaming from Occupy LA, where during the day solar panels on the south lawn fuel the media tent, because, well this is Los Angeles. And it has been well over 80 degrees the past two...
Having Principal Problems? Give Peace a Chance! « Diary of a Public School Teacher!
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Having Principal Problems? Give Peace a Chance! « Diary of a Public School Teacher!:Having Principal Problems? Give Peace a Chance!by OldschoolteachI think I might have mentioned this a couple of h...
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Schools Matter: Sanity Returns to Wake County School Board: Koch Candidates Crushed
schoolsmatter.info - Sanity Returns to Wake County School Board: Koch Candidates Crushed In a repudiation of the segregationist policies that have caused turmoil in Wake County, NC for the past two years, voters have r...
Autism: Law make insurers cover therapy
sfgate.com - Parents of children with autism lauded the governor's decision to sign into law a bill that requires health insurers to cover behavioral health treatments for their kids, but questions linger about...
Procedures for Serious Behavior Problems - Laws, Regulations, & Policies (CA Dept of Education)
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Procedures for Serious Behavior Problems - Laws, Regulations, & Policies (CA Dept of Education):September 23, 2011 Dear County and District Superintendents, Charter School Administrators, Principal...
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The Gloves are Coming Off
saveseattleschools.blogspot.com - Today Sherry Carr's campaign sent out a press release about Kate Martin. What was noted about Kate is truthful to a point. Kate did do and say what it says BUT she has explained all of it and it...
October 15th Global Protest Info
occupywallst.org - Dear friends, First of all, thanks for your great work! I'm part of #OWS here in NYC and of the #15M Spanish movement, and I just wanted to make sure you have received this important info about Oct...
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Bill Clinton: 'Occupy' needs to get specific - Mackenzie Weinger
politico.com - Former President Bill Clinton appeared on the “Late Show with David Letterman” Wednesday night and discussed his views on the Occupy Wall Street protesters, who he says need to start advocating spe...
New York protest square to be ‘temporarily cleared’: mayor
rawstory.com - By Agence France-PresseWednesday, October 12, 2011 NEW YORK — The small Manhattan square occupied by anti-Wall Street protestors for almost four weeks will be temporarily cleared for cleaning on ...
Hispanics skip work to protest immigration law
sfgate.com - Dave Martin / AP Jose Contreras stands outside his closed store and restaurant in Albertville, Ala., Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011. Dozens of businesses across the state shut down as Hispanics took a da...
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Lawrence Lessig at Occupy Wall Street – Boing Boing
boingboing.net - By Mark Frauenfelder at 4:31 pm Wednesday, Oct 12[Video Link] Here's Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig in Boston: "If this movement can be identified as a fight against the corruption that our poli...
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