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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...
All Current Investments - The Broad Foundation
broadeducation.org - ACHIEVEMENT FIRSTwww.achievementfirst.org The Broad Foundation supports the New York City expansion of Achievement First, which aims to deliver high-quality education for low-income and minority st...
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...
A sensible proposal for education for the Democratic platform
dailykos.com - has been proposed by Democrats Abroad in France. As you will see in the text of the document, which appears below the fold, it was submitted to DA Resolutions Committee on September 14, 2011, and...
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...
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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...
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...
Study raises questions about virtual schools
washingtonpost.com - Once used by home-schoolers, child actors and others in need of a flexible way to learn outside a classroom, virtual schools have grown in popularity in the past several years. Cyber-schools genera...
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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...
Florida Teacher Somehow Broke Law By Registering Students To Vote
wonkette.com - Grim hairless weasel Rick Scott’s idea of defending democracy is to pass a hated law to make sure that minorities and students (read: dangerous liberals) in Florida are never again allowed to parti...
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...
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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...
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 ...
Tanden will look to future at CAP - Ben Smith
politico.com - The new head of the Democratic Party’s think tank hub for politics and policy said the group will focus beyond the 2012 election, and attempt to renew the party’s economic policy appeal.“We have to...
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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...
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...
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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...
Reflections from a Founder (Part III) « Small Farmers. Big Change.
smallfarmersbigchange.coop - October 25, 2011 by Phyllis Robinson This is the third and final part of Rink Dickinson’s speech on the state of fair trade, delivered at the IRTF conference in Cleveland, Ohio on October 23rd. The...
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...
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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...
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State has one of nation’s highest gaps in Hispanic-white reading proficiency
californiawatch.org - Sarah Garland/California WatchStudents practice reading skills with an intervention teacher at an elementary school in Soledad, a small Salinas Valley town. SOLEDAD – On a cool winter morning Nicol...
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