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Hearings on the city's technology contracts; with hundreds of millions lost through waste and fraud

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Today the NYC Council Contracts and Technology Committees held hearings about a new bill, Int. 521A, that would require the city to report any contract whose cost has overrun by more than $500,000...

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Support for Early Education

nytimes.com - To the Editor: “Occupy the Classroom,” by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, Oct. 20), made a powerful case for early education programs, including Head Start. We agree, and that is why Pre...

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Education According to Mike Milken

businessweek.com - With K12, the largest U.S. operator of taxpayer-funded online schools, the former junk-bond king has figured out how to make money in education. Is that a good thing?By John HechingerTen-year-old A...

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Shanker Blog » NAEP Shifting

shankerblog.org - Tomorrow, the education world will get the results of the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often referred to as the “nation’s report card.” The findings – reading and math s...

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Tennessee Teachers Find It Hard To Make The Grade : NPR

npr.org - Enlarge Blake Farmer for NPR Janna Beth Hunt, a first-grade teacher at Nashville's Norman Binkley Elementary, is disappointed with how she scored on her first observation under the new system. Blak...

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In a Standardized Era, a Creative School Is Forced to Be More So

nytimes.com - DURHAM, N.H. — Every spring, Linda Rief, who is in her 25th year of teaching English at Oyster River Middle School, has eighth graders do a semesterlong “genre” project. They pick a subject area li...

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Why I did TFA, and why you shouldn’t

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - There was a time, not very long ago, when I was an active volunteer alumni recruiter for TFA. And, as you might expect, I was great at it. One year, I think it was 1998, I did a recruitment session...

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Editorial: Don’t go overboard on longer school day - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - Editorials October 31, 2011 9:46AM Updated: October 31, 2011 1:45PM Mayor Rahm Emanuel is determined to extend Chicago’s ridiculously short public school day. He’s absolutely right. At 5 hours and ...

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Rhee sets up shop downtown - Sacramento Business, Housing Market News

sacbee.com - An education reform group headed by Sacramento's first lady is making K Street Mall the center of its national operations.StudentsFirst, the group founded last year by Michelle Rhee, recently signe...

DianeRavitch

U.S. Vets, Suffering From Unemployment and Homelessness, Support Occupy Protests

abcnews.go.com - Scott Olsen, the 24-year-old two-tour Iraq veteran whose skull was fractured by a rubber bullet or tear gas cannister fired by police during an Occupy Oakland protest, has become a symbol for the O...

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rep. scott garrett says "other ethnicities" are not as "straight-forward" as midwesterners

blog.angryasianman.com - Oh, hell no. Saw this on Mother Jones... Last week during a business tour of Warren County, New Jersey, Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) made some interesting remarks contrasting American midwesterners ve...

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Is This the Weirdest Rick Perry Speech Ever?

motherjones.com - Jon Ward flags this video of Texas Governor Rick Perry speaking at an event in New Hampshire on Friday, and politely calls it "unusually expressive." I will go a few steps further and say it is the...

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Who's Undercover at Your Occupy Protest? In Oakland It's These Guys.

my.firedoglake.com - Today Copwatch put up this video of undercover police officers at Occupy Oakland protests. “Copwatch@Occupy Oakland: Beware of Police Infiltrators and Provocateurs“.I would like for people in other...

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Check Out My Blog’s New Look!

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Boy, my blog sure looks different. Ronnie Burt at Edublogs just used this blog as a guinea pig to try out Edublogs’ new “responsive themes.” They’re designed to look good on the web, tablets and on...

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Love your Library -- Come to City Hall Monday, Oct. 31

afscme31.org - 10/22/2011AFSCME members who work in the Chicago Public Libraries are fighting back against Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposed budget, which would slash 363 library staff positions and reduce library ho...

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Illinois lawmakers yet to tackle $85B pension debt - Rockford, IL

rrstar.com - CHICAGO — Illinois lawmakers are hustling to close loopholes in government pension plans to prevent abuses. They've already passed laws changing retirement provisions for future employees. But so f...

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Pension overhaul on hold in Illinois

qctimes.com - SPRINGFIELD — The clock will be ticking on efforts to overhaul the state’s pension systems when lawmakers return to the Capitol next month for the final three days of the fall veto session. Althoug...

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Happy Halloween. Have a celery stick. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - After almost three decades of doing this I realize that school is serious business. Except on the afternoon of October 31st. Everything goes fairly normally before lunch. Sure. The kids are a littl...

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Repair and modernize America’s crumbling public schools.

wwws.whitehouse.gov - creator Hailey S Washington, DC October 31, 2011 Signature # 1 Eun Kyeong C Durham, NH October 31, 2011 Signature # 523 Janet R Austin, TX October 31, 2011 Signature # 522 Tonya C Forney, TX Octobe...

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Occupy San Diego’s Halloween Monster March

obrag.org - Group to march from Balboa Park to the Gaslamp to highlight frightening facts about corruption in America’s financial and political systemsSAN DIEGO, Calif. – On October 31, 2011, Occupy San Dieg...

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Protesters Arrested in Denver and Portland

nytimes.com - Confrontations between police and protesters of the Occupy Wall Street movement led to arrests in two Western cities overnight while demonstrators in Nashville defied a curfew into the early hours ...

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Teamsters strike produce co. for firing 10 workers

teamsternation.blogspot.com - This just in from the Associated Press: Teamsters pickets are marching outside the Port of Hueneme to protest the firings of 10 truck drivers by an Oxnard produce company. There are about 20 people...

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Closures could put pressure on school districts this winter

northjersey.com - Schools throughout North Jersey are on track for a challenging calendar this year after blackouts forced many of them to close Monday. The weekend snowstorm was the second event this school year to...

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