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Monitor Must Oversee Fire Dept. Hiring Practices, Judge Rules
nytimes.com - In a lacerating decision that accused Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of willfully ignoring the racial imbalance in the city’s Fire Department, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday that a court-appointed ...
leoniehaimsonChamber cheerleading the charter movement
arktimes.com - Propaganda party touted here by the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, which has served for some time as an enabler of messaging about the alleged waste of money that is the Little Rock Scho...
DianeRavitchComptroller: Most schools not meeting P.E. time requirements
gothamschools.org - City students aren’t getting the physical education they’re supposed to, according to the latest Department of Education audit out of Comptroller John Liu’s office. The audit — which follows others...
DianeRavitchTwo KIPP employees returning to HISD | School Zone
blog.chron.com - The personnel swapping continues between Texas’ largest school district and one of the largest charter school chains. Two educators who left the Houston Independent School District to work for KIPP...
DianeRavitchDo the Waivers Solve NCLB’s Problems? Or Do They Just Replace them with New Problems?
nepc.colorado.edu - The federal department of education’s waiver provisionsfor the No Child Left Behind law were announced by the Presidentwith the catch-phrase “flexibility,” prominently displayed. ...
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Debate Looms During A Year Of Overcrowding
huffingtonpost.com - NEW YORK -- Every morning at PS 148 in East Elmhurst, Queens, teacher Monique Bertolotti greets her 27 third graders, who speak English as a second language, with a reading exercise.Classes began o...
leoniehaimsonThree charter-school firms in Philadelphia to share $2.4 million grant | Philadelphia Inquirer
philly.com - Posted on Thu, Oct. 6, 2011 The Philadelphia School Partnership is celebrating its first anniversary by announcing $2.4 million in grants to three local charter-school operators that have taken ove...
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Michelle Rhee Hires Republican Lobbyist To Push 'Reforms' Over The Top In Pennsylvania
crooksandliars.com - To understand the attack on public education in Pennsylvania, begin with Rachel Tabachnik's comprehensive report on the partnership between far right-wing funders like the DeVos family with Michell...
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Occupy Wall Street Demands - What They've Come to Find at Occupy Wall Street Is America
esquire.com - THE DIN BEYOND THE DRUM CIRCLE /// "You know, this is sort of an anarchistic bunch — kids — but I really am amazed for the respect they have," says unofficial Zuccotti Park librarian Eric Seligson ...
fklonskyJudge plans monitor in NY firefighter discrimination suit
reuters.com - By Jessica Dye NEW YORK | Wed Oct 5, 2011 6:09pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A court-appointed monitor should keep tabs on the New York Fire Department for a decade to ensure it stamps out discriminat...
leoniehaimsonRev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, an Elder Statesman for Civil Rights, Dies at 89
nytimes.com - The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a storied civil rights leader who survived beatings and bombings in Alabama a half-century ago as he fought against racial injustice alongside the Rev. Dr. Martin Lu...
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Mayor Says Contract Oversight Bill Is Bad for the City
wnyc.org - Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the bill to increase scrutiny of the city's outside contracting was "not a good bill for the city" hours after it had passed overwhelmingly in the City Council Thursday...
leoniehaimsonAs School Layoffs Loom, City Points Finger at Union Chief, Who Points Right Back
nytimes.com - With more than 700 school aides facing their last day at work on Friday barring a last-minute deal, the Bloomberg administration is blaming the school aides’ powerful labor union, District Council ...
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Seeking Energy, Unions Join Protest Against Wall Street
nytimes.com - Stuart Appelbaum, an influential union leader in New York City, was in Tunisia last month, advising the fledgling labor movement there, when he received a flurry of phone calls and e-mails alerting...
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Chicago school worker reveals self as school cafeteria food blogger - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - (Chronicle Books, $22.95).“With the blog, I really wanted a public record of these meals that I couldn’t believe were being served to kids,” she says. “I thought the book would reach a wider audien...
coopmike48Bashed Potatoes -- DPS Food Chief says new standards will hurt
blogs.denverpost.com - WASHINGTON — Denver Public Schools school lunch director Leo Lesh told a group of journalists and schools advocates today that his district would likely cut free breakfast and lunch programs for po...
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Initiative to Educate Latinos About Influenza Immunization
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 8:04 pm, October 5, 2011 Photo Credits: Latinos Urged to Get Their Flu Shots Hispanic Americans are hit particularly hard by influenza with the Centers for Disease Control and Preventi...
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As jury selection continues in federal corruption trial of Springfield power broker William Cellini, teachers become the topic of discussion.
articles.chicagotribune.com - William Cellini arrives Tuesday at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago… (E. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune photo)October 04, 2011|By Annie Sweeney, Tribune reporterJury selection for longtime ...
mikeklonskyJacques Rivera Released After 21 Years in Prison for Crime He Didn't Commit
myfoxchicago.com - Chicago - Jacques Rivera, who has spent 21 years in prison, was released after Cook County prosecutors dropped murder charges because a key witness recanted his testimony. Judge Neera Walsh last mo...
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Warrant lead singer died of alcohol poisoning in Valley motel
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Jani Lane, former lead singer of the 1980s glam-band Warrant, died at a Woodland Hills motel of alcohol poisoning, coroner's officials said Wednesday. Lane died Aug. 11 at the Comfort Inn of "acute...
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Emanuel Litvinoff, Poet and Detractor of T. S. Eliot, Dies at 96
nytimes.com - Emanuel Litvinoff, an English-born Jewish poet known for his scathing verse indictment of T. S. Eliot’s anti-Semitism — and for reading it before an audience that happened to include Eliot — died o...
mikeklonskyOccupy Wall Street Star Cut by Fox Wouldn't Want to Go on Fox - National
theatlanticwire.com - Jesse LaGreca, one of the budding stars of the Occupy Wall Street movement who we profiled on Tuesday, told the New York Observer Wednesday, even though having his incisive comments cut by Fox's Gr...
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Home - Inside Higher Ed
insidehighered.com - February 24, 2011 The return of ROTC to some campuses -- seemingly assured by the end of the military's policy against gay service members -- may be hitting a few bumps.More February 24, 2011 City ...
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Sacramento Press / Students rally to confront harsh school discipline
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Sacramento Press / Students rally to confront harsh school discipline:Students rally to confront harsh school disciplineby Melissa CorkerStudents and advisers from five Sacramento area high schools...
coopmike48School Tech Connect: Dick Ingram's TRS Presentation In Crystal Lake
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Dick Ingram's TRS Presentation In Crystal Lake:Dick Ingram's TRS Presentation In Crystal Lakeby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)Had a very nice time out in Crystal Lake, which has a d...
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Ty Fahner is a big fat liar. « Fred Klonsky's blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Ty Fahner is a big fat liar. « Fred Klonsky's blog:Ty Fahner is a big fat liar.by Fred KlonskyIllinois is Broke is an organization fully funded by the the pals and members of the Civic Committee an...
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Cain: ‘If You Don’t Have A Job And You Are Not Rich, Blame Yourself!’ (VIDEO)
2012.talkingpointsmemo.com - Eric Kleefeld October 5, 2011, 12:02 PM Herman Cain had some tough words for the Occupy Wall Street protests, in an interview with Wall Street Journal: Don’t blame the banks for your financial prob...
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GOP Presidential Hopeful Endorses #OccupyWallStreet: "I stand by you"
my.firedoglake.com - Buddy Roemer (photo: dsb nola)It’s Buddy Roemer, whom the Legacy Media probably think they should continue to safely ignore, but still. David Weigel at Slate has the scoop (from a Roemer 2012 press...
coopmike48Live Blog for #OccupyWallStreet: Day Nineteen, Community Groups, Unions & Occupiers March on Wall Street
dissenter.firedoglake.com - The late people’s historian Howard Zinn wrote, “Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” Today will be the largest and most significant march yet. The number of ...
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