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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...
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...
600 charter schools x 200 graduates/year = 120,000 Turkish sympathizers produced every year
perimeterprimate.blogspot.com - Tim Stellar, a reporter for the Arizona Daily Star, has written extensively about the Sonoran Science Academy school network and its ties to the Gulen movement. In May 2010, he posted a story about...
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...
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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Charter School Push Grows - WSJ.com
online.wsj.com - BY LISA FLEISHER The rancor that has followed former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz's attempts to open charter schools across New York City is coming to a place that hasn't experienced it before: ...
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 ...
2011 Illinois school report cards: Top schools have longer days - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - By Rosalind Rossi Education Reporter/rrossi@suntimes.com October 31, 2011 12:04AM Cari Winkler helps 3rd grade students, Morgan Brooks and Maddy DeWoskin with reading at Braeside School in Highland...
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At Occupy Wall Street central, a rift is growing between east and west sides of the plaza
nydailynews.com - The Wall Street protesters determined to “Occupy Everything” now find themselves, in a sense, occupied.Six weeks after a handful of activists took up residence in Zuccotti Park — the privately owne...
NYC Law Enforcement Moving Aggressive Park Dwellers Into Occupy Wall Street Site
news.firedoglake.com - If this is true (h/t), it represents one of the more cynical actions I’ve seen from law enforcement, whose job it it to serve and protect, in a long, long time. According to Harry Siegel, cops in N...
Smelt Supreme Court ruling goes against farmers
democraticunderground.com - Source: SF Chron(10-31) 15:43 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal today by Central California farmers who claimed the federal government lacks constitutional authority to p...
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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...
Brooklyn Eagle, Bay Ridge Eagle Brooklyn, NY :: daily paper in Brooklyn
brooklyneagle.com - They Shout Down Former Manhattan Councilwoman By Mary Frost Brooklyn Daily Eagle COBBLE HILL — Waving signs and shouting out questions, parents from local schools interrupted an information sessi...
OWS has transformed public opinion - Occupy Wall Street
salon.com - You took me by surprise. For all I know, you took yourself by surprise, the first of you who arrived at Zuccotti Park and, inspired by a bunch of Egyptian students, didn’t go home again. And when t...
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Topless protest against DSK in Paris
euronews.net - A protest with a difference has taken place outside the home of the former IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn in Paris.A Ukrainian feminist organisation organised a “topless demonstration” to protest...
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...
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...
Protesters Hershey's chocolate on fair trade principle
democraticunderground.com - Source: SF Chron(10-31) 17:16 PDT SA FRACISCO -- Thousands of Bay Area residents are kissing off Hershey's chocolate this Halloween to protest its use of cocoa that is not fair trade certified.The ...
Occupy SF brings unexpected life to dormant park
sfgate.com - Thomas Webb / The Chronicle Occupy SF members have taken over the grassy area in Harry Bridges Plaza, just south of Justin Herman Plaza. Whatever you think of the politics, and whatever happens in ...
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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 ...
S.F. sheriff defends deputy in Scott Olsen videos
sfgate.com - (10-31) 11:57 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco Sheriff's Department officials expressed concern today that a deputy who took part in Tuesday's night's police action against Occupy Oakland protest...
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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NYC Law Enforcement Moving Aggressive Park Dwellers Into Occupy Wall Street Site
news.firedoglake.com - If this is true (h/t), it represents one of the more cynical actions I’ve seen from law enforcement, whose job it it to serve and protect, in a long, long time. According to Harry Siegel, cops in N...
Big Education Ape: 10-31-11 AM Why I did TFA, and why you shouldn’t EDition #OWS #CNN
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First on CNN: Occupy Des Moines ctivists to propose ‘shutting down’ candidate offices during Iowa caucuses – CNN Political Ticker
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) – Occupy Wall Street activists plan to amass in Iowa one week before the Iowa caucuses - up to the day they're held on Jan. 3, CNN has learned. The plan has been dubbed the "...