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Charter Schools: Getting Your Child on the List - Page 6 - News - Los Angeles
laweekly.com - 10/14/2011 6:39:00 PM Congratulations. When you are finished patting yourself on the back you need to realize that you are an established school and a high performing one not a fledgling charter tr...
DianeRavitchBronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.
bronxboropres.nyc.gov - Schedule and Details The Bronx Education Summit will take place on October 15, 2011 from 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM at Lehman College. 8:30 am - 9:00 am Registration (lobby of the Music Building) 9:15am - 1...
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Parents shut out once again: Contracts for Excellence process in violation of state law
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Check out this letter sent Wednesday to NY State Education Commissioner King, from the UFT, Class Size Matters, NAACP & AQE, pointing out the numerous legal flaws as regards this year’s Contracts ...
leoniehaimsonIdealism that Blinds: Facing Social and Educational Inequity
dailycensored.com - One aspect of the education reform debate that persistently gives me pause is the claim that the top students are being short-changed in U.S. public education—specifically due to disproportionate t...
mikeklonskyTeachers Protest Rupert Murdoch At School Summit
huffingtonpost.com - SAN FRANCISCO -- Teachers in the San Francisco Bay area picketed Thursday outside an education conference that features News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch as a keynote speaker, saying they believe he an...
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Hip-Hop High
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Sam SeidelThere are lots of kids who can't or won't connect with the traditional high school setting. Many brilliant and talented among them drop out and wind up on the street. That's one of the re...
mikeklonskyJeb Bush's Cyber Attack on Public Schools
motherjones.com - After that, parents are supposed to read the student Make Way for Ducklings. Parents are told to ask, "Why did Mrs. Mallard decide not to hatch her eggs in the public gardens?" Then, K12 instructs ...
leoniehaimsonMoveOn.org Civic Action: Defend Occupy Wall Street
civic.moveon.org - Defend Occupy Wall StreetAt 7am tomorrow morning Mayor Bloomberg will effectively evict the Occupy Wall Street protesters from their home in Zuccotti Park.We have less than 24 hours to stop it.We n...
leoniehaimsonEditorial: School aides can only help
thereporter.com - It's been a rocky start to the school year in Vacaville's elementary schools, where the state's fiscal crisis trickled down and washed out the vaunted class-size reduction program that limited to 2...
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Student-Loan Debt and the Occupy Davis Movement - Davis, CA Patch #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Student-Loan Debt and the Occupy Davis Movement - Davis, CA Patch:Student-Loan Debt and the Occupy Davis MovementAt the first Occupy Davis meeting last Friday (VIDEO), student debt and university i...
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Leader in Personalized Learning Solutions Joins CompassLearning's Executive Team
marketwatch.com - AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- In response to growing demand from public school systems nationwide for more efficient instructional solutions that help teachers be more eff...
leoniehaimsonOn the Upper West Side, an "F" Parents Won't Accept – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Oct. 14, 2011, 6:08 p.m. It seemed to Virgil de Voldere that with each passing year his son attended the P.S. 84 Lillian Weber School, it only became more popular. On the tours he organized for pro...
coopmike48Jeb Bush's Cyber Attack on Public Schools
motherjones.com - In June 2010, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush traveled to Columbus, Ohio, to give the commencement speech for the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, the state's largest virtual charter school. ECOT, wh...
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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Mid Day Posts
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Mid Day Posts Big Education Ape: STOP Starving America’s Public Schools | Protest LAUSD CUTS Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 12 minute...
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Big Education Ape: 10-14-11 AM Bay Area teachers protest education reform summit EDition
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coopmike48Volunteers, students help fill staffing gap at Roosevelt High School library in North Portland
oregonlive.com - For four years, Roosevelt High School did not have a school librarian; instead, there was only a library assistant. Then, in 2010, Betsy Tighe was hired with money from a school improvement grant. ...
coopmike48Los Angeles Charter Schools: Getting Your Child on the List
laweekly.com - Charter Schools: Getting Your Child on the List How to cut in line, and pervert the concept of public education By Gene Maddaus published: October 13, 2011 On a weekday evening in early spring, abo...
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This week's teaching & learning tidbits
ednewsparent.org - Boulder Valley School District board votes against later start to year The Boulder Valley School District board on Tuesday night rejected a proposal to start school four days later next fall than t...
coopmike48"Adversity Only Makes You Stronger"
bluejersey.com - Occupy Trenton, sandwiched in between the State House on one side and a State Police Office on the other, today got no attention from legislators but plenty of attention from state troopers. As wit...
coopmike48Union urges vigilance on glitchy special education data system
gothamschools.org - The teachers union is telling its members that the Department of Education’s expectations around a new special education data system are “unconscionable.” By tomorrow, teachers of student with spec...
coopmike48Teachers win money, lose protection in new Green Dot contract
gothamschools.org - Teachers at Green Dot New York Charter School are getting a raise, a bonus, and a little less job security. These are some of the modifications that are set to appear in a two-year renewal of Green...
coopmike48UCSD to hold family weekend
signonsandiego.com - The University of California San Diego is inviting parents, families and students to its fourth annual All-Campus Family Weekend Oct. 21-23.The event will include comedy performances, an alumni bar...
coopmike48DISD trustees to meet to decide fate of "excess" employees | Dallas ISD Blog
dallasisdblog.dallasnews.com - Dallas ISD trustees have called a board meeting for 6 p.m. Monday to discuss options to deal with contracted employees considered in "excess" with no position.Board president Lew Blackburn said tru...
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Urban schools offer dynamic learning experiences
northjersey.com - Autumn is the time of year when high school juniors' minds begin weighing their future plans. The allure of faraway places might seem intriguing, but often the richest educational experiences can b...
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Consumer Reports crea una guÃa gratuita de recursos para elegir universidad
vidayfamilia.univision.com - Este folleto de 30 páginas identifica y define la información más relevante para los futuros estudiantes. - Thinkstock LLC/Picture Quest VIDEO MarÃa Elena Salinas y la educación. - Univision.com Ve...
coopmike48Looking Ahead
saveseattleschools.blogspot.com - Looking ahead to the next couple months, there are few items of interest that will come due.District Scorecard The annual District Scorecard is due soon. It should come out in November. Here is las...
coopmike48AB 114 Transition Stakeholder Webinar - Announcements & Current Issues (CA Dept of Education)
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - AB 114 Transition Stakeholder Webinar - Announcements & Current Issues (CA Dept of Education):AB 114 Transition Stakeholder WebinarAn overview of changes in the provision of related services to stu...
coopmike48L.A. schools need billions in facilities upgrades, report finds
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Los Angeles public schools are in need of billions of dollars in repairs and renovations, according to the findings of a report released Friday on the condition of schools in the nation's largest d...
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This week's safe schools snippets
ednewsparent.org - PEN presents “The Bully, the Bullied & the Bystander” The Parent Engagement Network will be hosting a free public forum with guest/author Barbara Coloroso The Bully, The Bullied, and the Bystander ...
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This week's healthy schools highlights
ednewsparent.org - What’s in your child’s school lunch? If I weren’t a journalist covering parenting issues (and this week, writing Motherlode), I would have missed it. It’s National School Lunch Week. My completely ...
coopmike48Obama Administration Nixes the CLASS Act
news.firedoglake.com - The Obama Administration announced that they will not implement the CLASS Act, a voluntary long-term care insurance program that was a key priority of the late Ted Kennedy, and which was instituted...
coopmike48Quick Hits (10.14.11)
quickanded.com - Fifth-grade courses in college? Educators in a Chicago suburb are addressing college readiness. One example: College of DuPage and six local high schools are working together to improve the math cu...
coopmike48Education Under Secretary to Highlight Efforts to Support College Students with Disabilities at CAPED Conference
ed.gov - U.S. Under Secretary of Education Martha Kanter will deliver the keynote address at the California Association for Postsecondary Education and Disability (CAPED) 2011 conference on Sunday, Oct. 16,...
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Web Startup Tackles Student Debt 'Crisis'
huffingtonpost.com - (By Jon Cook) - Sue Khim was in her third year of medical school, $50,000 in debt and wondering if she would ever dig herself out.Instead of simply making the minimum monthly payments on her studen...
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Did You Make The Cut?
scholasticadministrator.typepad.com - Phantom Menace CAP: Even the statisticians who performed the [Fordham Institute] study have distanced themselves from the conclusions about the effect of NCLB on high achievers. Damn The Facts, Fu...
coopmike48Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Washington State PTSA Legislative Assembly and Charters
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Washington State PTSA Legislative Assembly and Charters:Washington State PTSA Legislative Assembly and Chartersby Melissa WestbrookFYI from Parents Across Ameri...
coopmike48Leveling: What's your story? | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
thenotebook.org - by Avi Wolfman-Arent After a tumultuous summer in which she was laid off, rehired, and given her new course roster on the first day of classes, District English teacher Kyla Jones was finally settl...
coopmike48NYC Public School Parents: Parents shut out once again: Contracts for Excellence process in violation of state law
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NYC Public School Parents: Parents shut out once again: Contracts for Excellence process in violation of state law:Parents shut out once again: Contracts for Excellence process in violation of stat...
coopmike48New principal chosen for downtown L.A. arts high school
latimesblogs.latimes.com - After a difficult search process, officials have selected a veteran Los Angeles school principal, who later started a local charter school, as the newest leader of the downtown visual and performin...
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DPS mulling tax proposal in 2012
ednewscolorado.org - Voters may well be asked to open their wallets to strengthen Denver Public Schools in the November 2012 election. DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg used a presentation Friday to members of A+ Denver ...
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Five Ways You Can #OccupyTheClassroom [It's About Time] | The Jose Vilson
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Five Ways You Can #OccupyTheClassroom [It's About Time] | The Jose Vilson:Five Ways You Can #OccupyTheClassroom [It's About Time]by JoseOccupyEverythingFor World’ Teachers’ Day, all the big edu-wig...
coopmike48For A Healthy Denver, Vote Yes on Initiative 300 « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - Right now in Denver, Colorado, there is both a jobs and public health crisis. Parents are sending their sick children to school. Working adults are unable to take time off and care for elderly pare...
coopmike48Dispatches From Denver « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - This year, we have achieved significant victories in our work to ensure more working people have the right to earn paid sick days. From Seattle to Connecticut, paid sick days standards have gained ...
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Weekly Update for the Week of October 9, 2010
seattleducation2010.wordpress.com - Some weeks are just better than others when it comes to education news. This week was a great one in terms of outrages and atrocities. But first we’ll start on a positive note. Diane Ravitch on CNN...
coopmike48Blog posts on this issue
whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 14, 2011 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the White House released Creating Pathways to Opportunity, a report highlighting the wor...
coopmike48Michelle Rhee Explains How She Overhauled the 'Most Dysfunctional School District in America'
northcanton.patch.com - Regardless of where one falls on the educational reform issues, all sides are passionate and emotional about what needs to be done to give kids in America the best education in the world. It’s the ...
coopmike48Parents and Lawmakers Urge Senate to Take Up Charter School Reform - Millburn
millburn.patch.com - A group of parents and legislators on Thursday urged the Senate to pass several measures that would create more accountability and oversight when it comes to charter schools in New Jersey. Legislat...
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Report: California ranks poorly in education spending - Sacramento Business Journal
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Report: California ranks poorly in education spending - Sacramento Business Journal:Report: California ranks poorly in education spendingSacramento Business Journal by Melissa Wiese, Web EditorDate...
coopmike48California Kids Face Days Without Class as Revenue Trails
sfgate.com - (Updates with teacher union comment starting in seventh paragraph.) Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Public schools in California, which already spend less per student than those in 28 states, are bracing fo...
coopmike48$750 Awards Available for K-12 Educators, Application Deadline Extended
myabc50.com - The deadline to apply for awards to support classroom projects designed to increase student knowledge about energy efficiency and sustainability has been extended. The New York State Energy Researc...
coopmike48The Four Largest Charter Schools In Indiana And Why They Get More Money Than Everyone Else
stateimpact.npr.org - Governor Mitch Daniels envisions a world where the state foots most of the bills for educating Indiana’s children. This includes a booming number of charter schools– many started in the last five ...
coopmike48Time, money issues push back school equity report - D.C. Schools Insider
washingtonpost.com - It seemed from the get-go like an improbably tight schedule. The Public Education Finance Reform Commission (PEFRC), not even formed until late last month, had until Nov. 30 to deliver a report to ...
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Harkin-Enzi’s Pathways to College: What Does It Mean?
quickanded.com - Flickr photo by mmahaffieIn Part 1 of our Pathways series, we discussed the details of the proposed Pathways to College grant program. The question that remained was what does it all mean? Can it ...
coopmike48Goodbye Google Buzz: The World Barely Knew You - Technology
theatlanticwire.com - After a tough life, rife with privacy complaints and confused users, Google Buzz will die in a few months so that the company can better focus its efforts on their new social network Google+. "Chan...
coopmike48Cutting art, music, foreign language from high school graduation requirements will have big impact
insidebayarea.com - It's hailed by some as a way to cut California's 18 percent dropout rate, and condemned by others as the beginning of a two-tier education system that will limit poor students' futures and decimate...
coopmike48Blog U.: Rethinking "future generations" - Getting to Green
insidehighered.com - By G. Rendell October 14, 2011 3:01 pm EDT "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs...
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Are Digital Media Labs the Libraries of the Future? - Education
good.is - As electronic books and other digital media become more popular, libraries are going through an identity crisis. Their role as repositories of bound books is uncertain in the long-term future, and ...
coopmike48In the News: State labor board backs CTU | catalyst
catalyst-chicago.org - A state labor board is demanding a hearing on the Chicago Teachers Union’s allegations that city public school officials unfairly pressured some teachers into adopting a longer school day, the Sun-...
coopmike48Nutrition Education Resource Guide - Healthy Eating & Nutrition Education (CA Dept of Education)
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Nutrition Education Resource Guide - Healthy Eating & Nutrition Education (CA Dept of Education):Nutrition Education Resource GuideA resource to assist local educational agencies and after-school p...
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Education Secretary gets earful from public school advocates
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Education Secretary gets earful from public school advocates:Education Secretary gets earful from public school advocatesArne Duncan faces off with union members who knock No Child Left Behind and ...
coopmike48Education groups oppose holding back 3rd graders who don’t read well
radioiowa.com - Executives for the Iowa Association of School Boards and the state teachers union oppose the idea of holding third-graders back if they don’t pass reading tests. Governor Branstad and his top educ...
coopmike48Parents Speak Out Against a Charter Proposed for Brooklyn – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Oct. 14, 2011, 2:28 p.m. Last week when Eva S. Moskowitz, former city councilwoman and founder of the Success Charter Network announced her plans to open a new charter school in Cobble Hill, Brookl...
coopmike48Audit Questions Spending of Pre-K Dollars – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Oct. 14, 2011, 2:07 p.m. New York City is failing to take advantage of all of the money allocated by the state for prekindergarten programs, according to an audit by City Comptroller John C. Liu. T...
coopmike48UCLA considers allowing coed dorm rooms
dailynews.com - LOS ANGELES - Coed dorm rooms could be a reality for some UCLA students as soon as next year - but don't expect campus housing to turn into "Real World UCLA" with strangers of different genders bei...
coopmike48These Occupy Wall Street protesters have a message
boston.com - NEW YORK—The Occupy Wall Street protests are hitting a nerve.A dearth of jobs, overwhelming student loans and soaring health-care costs are just three major issues protesters have targeted. And reg...
coopmike48Students storm Goldman Sachs building in Milan
democraticunderground.com - Source: Reuters - Raw StoryMILAN (Reuters) – A group of students stormed Goldman Sachs’s central Milan offices on Friday ahead of worldwide protests against financial inequality planned for the wee...