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Students visit Occupy L.A. for lesson in democracy
latimesblogs.latimes.com - About 30 schoolchildren took a field trip Tuesday afternoon – not to the aquarium – but rather to City Hall, the epicenter of Occupy Los Angeles. The fifth- through eighth-grade students from Sequo...
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kdvr.com - DENVER -- Former President George W. Bush paid tribute to Get Smart Schools, a local education reform nonprofit, in brief comments after a roundtable discussion there Thursday morning.After a 30-mi...
Citizens Stop Factory Farm -- In These Times
inthesetimes.com - Things tend to get crowded at industrial dairies, where cows can end up mired in their own manure. (Photo by: Darren McCollester/Getty Images) Unlike traditional, small-farm grazing methods, factor...
Success Charter's Co-Location in District 15 Faces Hurdles
carrollgardens.patch.com - Success Charter Network founder and former Councilmember Eva Moskowitz faces multiple hurdles in her attempt to open a K-8 charter school in the Cobble Hill/ Boerum Hill area next fall. One potenti...
The One Percent And Us
edwize.org - Over the last few weeks, a small team of New York City building inspectors descended upon UFT headquarters, responding to a mysterious 311 call. Our building has been placed under police surveillan...
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Schools | Detroit Public Schools grapple with crowded classes
detnews.com - Last Updated: October 19. 2011 1:47PM Jennifer Chambers/ The Detroit News Detroit — Every day, Donnie Hodges totes his backpack into Nolan Elementary School and heads for kindergarten class — searc...
Study Warns School Closings Unlikely to Raise Much Cash
edweek.org - ByKristen A. Graham, The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)As it prepares for large-scale school closings, the Philadelphia School District must brace itself for a painful process that probably won't gene...
Chicago math and science scores worst ever
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Duncan rode the myth of the Chicago "miracle" all the way to D.C.It's been 16 years since Mayor Richard M. Daley took control of Chicago's school system, bringing with him a school-reform agenda fo...
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Occupy Wall Street Demographic Survey Results Will Surprise You
idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com - Carl Franzen October 19, 2011, 5:46 PM We now know what they want, what social networks and online tools they use and who doesn’t like them. But just who are the Occupy Wall Street protesters? Over...
Growth of Occupy NY spurs debate over media, electoral politics
fsrn.org - Year: 2011Length: 7:19 minutes (6.69 MB)Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR) Occupy Wall Street continues to gain momentum and spread across the US gripping the country’s attention. According to a ...
Michigan Supreme Court gives go ahead to Scott recall. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Live.com GRAND BLANC, Michigan — Genesee County Clerk Michael Carr said the state’s Supreme Court has reversed a lower court’s ruling that the Nov. 8 recall election against Rep. Paul Scott, R-Gran...
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Afternoon Fix: Bachmann wishes she’d Googled Rollins
washingtonpost.com - Michele Bachmann and Ed Rollins wish they had googled each other, House Democrats are after 9-9-9, the GOP convention has a logo and another Redskins alum could be in Congress.Make sure to sign up ...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 20, 2011 Rose Garden2:07 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Today, the government of Libya announced the d...
Occupy: The Truth That Hurts
addictinginfo.org - From The New York Times, a comment about Occupy Wall Street from a reader in Chicago:- The leaderlessness and the lack of any agenda or even the desire to engage the system. Shows an almost total l...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release October 20, 2011 Multi-Million dollar Georgetown Property Deemed Excess Today, Updated Map and Dashboard UnveiledWASHINGTON, DC -...
New “Standards” Undermine Fair Trade Commitment to Farmers and Consumers « Small Farmers. Big Change.
smallfarmersbigchange.coop - October 20, 2011 by Phyllis Robinson From our friends at the Fair World Project FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 19, 2011 CONTACT: Ryan Zinn, Ph: 907-947-6046 Email: ryan@fairworldproject.org FairTrad...
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Labor board sides with Chicago Teachers Union in dispute over longer school day
chicagotribune.com - Associated Press 11:34 a.m. CDT, October 20, 2011 A state labor board has unanimously sided with the Chicago Teachers union in its efforts to seek a stop to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for a longer s...
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Big Changes Coming to Google Reader
forbes.com - Image via CrunchBaseIt was only a matter of time. When Google announced last week that it was killing off Google Buzz, those of us who use Google Reader began to get nervous. Would Google kill off...
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Verizon Workers To Join #OWS Friday
ourfuture.org - Popular This WeekOctober 19, 2011October 18, 2011more» Also Worth ReadingNo related links for this issue category. Tomorrow (Friday) as many as 1,000 Verizon workers will march with Occupy Wall St...
Occupy the Classroom
nytimes.com - Occupy Wall Street is shining a useful spotlight on one of America’s central challenges, the inequality that leaves the richest 1 percent of Americans with a greater net worth than the entire botto...
A Rag Blog Interview with Bernardine Dohrn « Bill Ayers #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A Rag Blog Interview with Bernardine Dohrn « Bill Ayers:A Rag Blog Interview with Bernardine Dohrnby billayers20 October 2011Jonah RaskinBernardine Dohrn. Photo by Thomas Good / Next Left Notes.Who...
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We Party Patriots » Blog Archive » Finding #OccupyWallStreet a Place Among Moderates Will Be Crucial
wepartypatriots.com - Oct 2011 20 Greg Sargent, who writes The Plum Line for Washington Post, recently wrote a piece discussing what would happen if the Occupy Wall Street movement found support among the working class....
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