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US cops tried to erase online evidence of brutality — RT
rt.com - The police block streets near the Oakland City Hall as the Occupy Oakland protesters march towards the city hall on October 25, 2011 in California (AFP Photo / Kimihiro Hoshino) Google has been ask...
We Can't Wait to Help America's Graduates
whitehouse.gov - Posted by Arne Duncan and Melody Barnes on October 26, 2011 at 01:27 PM EDT In this globally competitive, knowledge-based economy, higher education has never been more important. Simply put, Americ...
Nearly Half of States Link Teacher Evaluations to Tests
online.wsj.com - BY STEPHANIE BANCHERO Nearly two-thirds of states have overhauled policies in the last two years to tighten oversight of teachers, using techniques including tying teacher evaluations to student te...
A Mobile Game Puts New York City Teachers in Hero's Tights – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Oct. 25, 2011, 4:58 p.m. A typical superhero throws punches, not paperclips, but a typical superhero is also not a New York City public school teacher. A new game, The Teachers of New York City, ch...
Last night at the PEP we occupied the DOE!
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Last night was inspiring as, for once, the 99% had their say at a Panel for Educational Policy meeting. The meeting, supposed to be a presentation of the Common Core standards, was very quickly t...
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Thousands occupy Illinois Capitol for retirement security. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Thousands of state employees and their families occupied the Illinois Capitol Building in Springfield at noon today. The action was sponsored by the labor coalition, We Are One. The message: Don’t ...
School Choice For The ‘Feral Underclass’ -- In These Times
inthesetimes.com - Following the lead of U.S. charter schools, English “Free Schools” are now open for business. Governments have done their best to see that the children of the "feral underclass" remain that way--by...
Cleveland school board votes to cut preschool, sports and busing over shouts and boos from residents and teachers
blog.cleveland.com - CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland school board voted to cut preschool, spring sports and busing for high school students Tuesday over the howls and boos from residents and teachers who packed the Lin...
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NYPD inspector who pepper-sprayed Wall Street protester transferred to Staten Island
nydailynews.com - Jeff Rae via Twitter NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna was caught on video pepper-spraying protesters. The NYPD police inspector who pepper sprayed a fenced-in Occupy Wall Street protester has ...
NYC Educator: Governor One Percent
nyceducator.com - NY Governor Andrew Cuomo does not much care for those who'd occupy Albany. So he directed the police to arrest them. No namby-pamby tolerance of First Amendment tolerance for him. Oddly, the police...
Jerry Brown to propose less generous pensions, higher retirement age
blogs.sacbee.com - What You Should Know About Comments on Sacbee.comSacbee.com is happy to provide a forum for reader interaction, discussion, feedback and reaction to our stories. However, we reserve the right to de...
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Police Fire Tear Gas at Protesters in Oakland, Calif.
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com - October 26, 2011, 12:22 am By SARAH MASLIN NIRJim Wilson/The New York TimesProtesters fled after police deployed tear gas to disperse a large crowd in Oakland on Monday.Police officers shot tear ga...
Cops surrounding Occupy Oakland
sfgate.com - (10-25) 04:48 PDT OAKLAND -- Oakland police are arriving this morning in force, apparently preparing to remove hundreds of people from a plaza outside City Hall, two weeks after the protesters bega...
Video: Marine Scott Olsen injured during Occupy Wall Street confrontation in Oakland
mercurynews.com - OAKLAND -- A 24-year old Marine Corps corporal and Iraqi war veteran remained in critical condition at Highland Hospital on Wednesday night with head wounds and brain swelling after being injured i...
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Art Pope, Citizens United, and North Carolina Politics : The New Yorker
newyorker.com - In the spring of 2010, the conservative political strategist Ed Gillespie flew from Washington, D.C., to Raleigh, North Carolina, to spend a day laying the groundwork for REDMAP, a new project aime...
It’s Official: The Rich Are Getting Richer
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — The top 1 percent of earners more than doubled their share of the nation’s income over the last three decades, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, in a new report likely to f...
Lawmakers keep avoiding pension reform, but pain is inevitable | Blogs On Politics
chicagobusiness.com - With all respect to Simon & Garfunkel, the sounds of silence may make for great music, but it's lousy government. Unfortunately, the sounds of silence are about all we're hearing in Chicago and in ...
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Daniel Pink - Full Interview
edupln.ning.com - When Google first appeared on the Internet, I, like many folks, googled myself. I was horrified to discover that someone else with my name had committed suicide and lived to write a book about i...
Oakland Police Love Kittens, Teargas
washingtoncitypaper.com - Last night I was following along with the #occupyoakland tweets from some folks who were at the protest in Northern California. One attendee—a journo-cartoonist (yes, that is a thing, yes, it is aw...
Steve Jobs wanted to help New York Times, bonded with Rupert Murdoch
poynter.org - by Steve Myers Published Oct. 25, 2011 10:58 am Updated Oct. 25, 2011 11:37 am “Steve Jobs“ In his new biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson describes some of the behind-the-scenes dealings betw...
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Insider trading: Ex-Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta pleads not guilty
csmonitor.com - Insider trading has been a target of both the Bush and Obama administrations. The case against Rajat Gupta, a former director of both Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble, is part of a major crackdow...
Occupy Wall Street barrages banks with letters
democraticunderground.com - Source: Carin's New York BusinessA website that encourages the so-called 99% to write personal letters to 200 top executives and board members from Bank of America Corp., Citigroup, Goldman Sachs G...
America Needs A RESCUE Mortgage Program | Resurgence
bigthink.com - What we need is a RESCUE Mortgage program, a reduced equity, spoiled credit, unemployed/underemployed expectation loan that brings mortgage relief to those who cannot otherwise qualify for the refi...
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Protesters Affiliated With Occupy Wall Street Disrupt Department Of Education Meeting
huffingtonpost.com - NEW YORK -- When New York City schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott stood up to face a full Seward Park High School auditorium on the Lower East Side Tuesday evening, he found himself confronted by th...
Occupy Hilo Makes Some Noise
my.firedoglake.com - Yesterday, I was finally able to participate in an OWS event, for even my sleepy little hollow, in the middle of nowhere, made some noise! Now, to be fair, Occupy Hilo has already made some noise i...
Iraq veteran critically injured at Occupy Oakland is from Onalaska, Wisconsin |
bluecheddar.net - According to WEAU.com, Scott Olsen is from Onalaska, Wisconsin. Olsen is the Iraq veteran who suffered a severe injury from a projectile fired by a police officer advancing on the Occupy Oakland si...
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Student Aid on the Web
studentaid.ed.gov - Your source for free information from the U.S. Department of Educaiton on preparing for and funding education beyond high school.