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The folks who brought us “Illinois is Broke” are about to make Illinois broker. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Illinois is Broke is the creation of Ty Fahner’s Civic Committee. One member of the Civic Committee is former Wall Street deal maker, Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Other members include the top 1% of Chicago...
More than half of NYC students not ready to enroll in college after graduation; need remedial help
nydailynews.com - Watts/News Data shows that roughly half of New York City high school students graduate unprepared for college, city officials announced. Just 46% of city students enrolled in college four years aft...
Capital Preparatory Magnet School, Hartford CT
miracleschools.wikispaces.com - http://sdeportal.ct.gov/Cedar/WEB/ct_report/SnapshotSelect.aspx In Hartford School District Note that it is called a 'magnet' school. Does this mean selective admissions?http://articles.cnn.com/200...
Big Money, Bad Media, Secret Agendas: Welcome to America's Wildest School Board Race
thenation.com - School board elections are supposed to be quintessential America contests. Moms and Main Street small-business owners and retired teachers campaign by knocking on doors, writing letters to the edit...
Chemical bomb thrown at Occupy Maine camp
cbsnews.com - David Burns of Westbrook, Me., in the food center at the Occupy Maine camp area in Portland, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach) Occupy Wall Street protests (CBS/AP) PORTLAND, Me. - Police ar...
Hatch Trashes 99 Percent Movement: 'Really Misguided' People Who Don't 'Have Any Real Agenda'
thinkprogress.org - ThinkProgress filed this report from the Western Republican Leadership Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Late last week, hundreds of Nevadans marched through the streets of Las Vegas to protest corp...
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City Reports Shine a Light on Charters – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Oct. 21, 2011, 2:26 p.m. Midway through the last school year, a fledgling charter school in Flatbush, Brooklyn, lost its science teacher. But instead of hiring a new one, Fahari Academy Charter Sch...
Dist. 300 rallies in Springfield against Sears tax breaks
dailyherald.com - Article updated: 10/24/2011 2:40 PM Students, parents, teachers and administrators from Carpentersville-based Community Unit District 300 protest outside the Illinois Capitol in Springfield against...
A Union of Professionals. www.nysut.org
nysut.org - NYSUT Vice President Kathleen Donahue and NEA Vice President Lily Eskelsen. Photo by El-Wise Noisette.NYSUT members and other unions must continue to be vigilant against attacks on their profession...
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Alabama Official Suggests Using Prisoners As Farm Workers After Immigration Law Scares Away Laborers
thinkprogress.org - Immigrant workers are fleeing Alabama because of the state's extreme anti-immigrant law, leaving farmers without workers.After Georgia passed its harsh immigration law in the spring, the state lost...
#Edcamp Santiago: Alumnos de liceos de excelencia elevan de 50% a 80% su rendimiento en ocho meses
edcampsantiago.wordpress.com - La clave del exito es la sala de clase. Un resumen que sorprende nadie. Ganas, ganas para enseñar bién, ganas para aprender bién. En Edcamp Santiago podemos discutir, compartir experiencias, aprend...
Using Armed Officers, WI Removes Silent Protestors In The Assembly Gallery For Wearing ‘Right To Assemble’ T-Shirts (Video)
addictinginfo.org - This past week, Governor Walker called the Wisconsin State Legislature back to Madison claiming that he wanted to focus on job creation. He issued an executive order labeling it the “Back to Work W...
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The Koch brothers' ideological war
tampabay.com - By Robyn E. Blumner, Times Columnist In Print: Sunday, May 22, 2011 ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENTI imagine the tycoons Charles and David Koch must have a war room or more precisely a "war on liberal ...
Hedge fund manager readies for battle with NJEA to reform NJ schools
blog.nj.com - Imagine you are David Tepper, a 54-year-old guy with $5 billion in the bank. You’ve played the Wall Street game all your adult life, and you’ve scored huge wins, over and over.Now what?Tepper, a he...
Shanker Blog » Do Americans Think Government Should Reduce Income Inequality?
shankerblog.org - With all the recent coverage of Occupy Wall Street and President Obama’s jobs bill, we’ve heard a lot of polling results showing that a large plurality of Americans supports raising taxes on high e...
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North Jersey Turkish community reeling from 7.2-magnitude earthquake
northjersey.com - The North Jersey Turkish community was reeling from the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that shook eastern Turkey on Sunday, toppling buildings and killing at least 272 people. AMY NEWMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPH...
150 firefighters called to battle UCLA lab blaze
latimesblogs.latimes.com - A fire in a laboratory at the UCLA Center for Health Sciences was extinguished Monday after a 50-minute battle by nearly 150 firefighters, fire officials said. The fire was located on the fifth flo...
Marine Corps to teach story of first black Marines
northjersey.com - OCEANSIDE, Calif. — Oscar Culp does not like to remember. His mind has erased the harshest details. But the pain still stings for the 87-year-old WWII veteran, who endured boot camp in a snake-inf...
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Spike Lee Admits Cain Candidacy a Hoax for New ‘Mockumentary’ Film
readersupportednews.org - Friday, 21 October 2011 06:03Spike Lee Admits Cain Candidacy a Hoax for New ‘Mockumentary’ FilmAlan SmitheeFilm ReviewerToronto Post and MailOct. 21, 2011EXCLUSIVE“I can’t believe it,” a grinning S...
MTV Leaps on to the Occupy Wall Street Bandwagon - Entertainment
theatlanticwire.com - For good or for ill, Occupy Wall Street has passed a milestone in its evolution as a cultural phenomenon: it will be the setting of an MTV reality show. The former music video station announced tha...
Blue Jersey:: State Street Juxtaposition: "Fair School Funding" & Occupy Trenton #OWS
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Blue Jersey:: State Street Juxtaposition: "Fair School Funding" & Occupy Trenton:State Street Juxtaposition: "Fair School Funding" & Occupy Trentonby Rosi EfthimRight now, there's an interesting ju...
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Germany's Plan to Regrow the Global Economy
huffingtonpost.com - At the moment, Germany is embroiled in a fierce debate over how to save the Eurozone and, with it, the future of the European Union. Although stringent austerity programs will have to be enacted in...
West Davis Village touts zero net energy living
sfgate.com - Michael Macor / The Chronicle West Davis Village - a neighborhood for students, academics and university employees situated on 130 acres owned by UC Davis - aims to be the nation's largest zero net...
A Day Trip to Las Colinas « Small Farmers. Big Change.
smallfarmersbigchange.coop - Rob Everts, Co-President of Equal Exchange and Remberto Rumaldo Ascensio, President of Las Colinas looking at new coffee plants Just a few weeks ago I accompanied Todd Caspersen, Director of Purcha...
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NYPD tells teachers, “No grading papers in public.” « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Anne and I are in New York for the weekend to see our kids and grand kids. Plus it is our 35th wedding anniversary. Naturally we want to spend some time at Occupy Wall Street. Liberty Park is jamme...
‘We Are the 99 Percent’ Photo of the Day
dissenter.firedoglake.com - I used to walk by the strikers at Congress Hotel every morning on the way to class at Columbia College Chicago. For many of my peers, the hotel strikers were a punch line because, to them, they nev...
Using Armed Officers, WI Removes Silent Protestors In The Assembly Gallery For Wearing ‘Right To Assemble’ T-Shirts (Video)
addictinginfo.org - This past week, Governor Walker called the Wisconsin State Legislature back to Madison claiming that he wanted to focus on job creation. He issued an executive order labeling it the “Back to Work W...
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Blame Stingy Spending, Not Unions, For Schools' Short Hours
thinkprogress.org - On the one hand, I think lots of people who are fans of labor unions are far too quick to dismiss education reform ideas as mere union busting. On the other hand, I think lots of people with educat...
Last Week's Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRank #OCCUPYTOGETHER #ows #OCCUPYWALLSTREET #sosmarch #p2 #1u
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Last Week's Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRank Hide10.0 State refuses to release PSSA probe reports | Philadelphia ...
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