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Shanker Blog » Americans Do NOT Want To Cut Government Programs
shankerblog.org - Conservatives sometimes assert and often imply that Americans want to cut government spending on social assistance and other programs. This is a myth. In fact, when it comes to the types of program...
Teacher Pay Study Asks the Wrong Question, Ignores Facts, Insults Teachers
huffingtonpost.com - As millions of Americans search for work, and millions more scrape by to make ends meet, researchers from two conservative Washington think tanks have recently announced a "finding" that defies com...
Why Ohio Is Not Wisconsin - By Christian Schneider - The Corner
nationalreview.com - When news broke last night that Gov. John Kasich’s collective-bargaining changes had been repealed by popular vote, the Left in Wisconsin rejoiced (even though it was clear the law was going down b...
Jessica Lahey « The Core Knowledge Blog
blog.coreknowledge.org - Some lessons take a while to germinate. I know that. I have been at this teaching thing for a while now – long enough that a few of my students have become teachers themselves – but I am still amaz...
New York State Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch blasts Mayor Bloomberg’s school reforms
nydailynews.com - State education officials ripped Mayor Bloomberg's reforms of the city's school system Tuesday, calling failed public schools "warehouses" for thousands of unlucky students.Merryl Tisch, chancellor...
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Student protests over tuition fees: live
telegraph.co.uk - #nov9 #N9 And to make things more confusing 800 black cabs staging critical mass style demo in Trafalgar Sq later. Certain gridlock.09.55 With thousands expected to take to the streets here is a lo...
Come Out and Greet the Michelle First Campaign in Boston November 9
schoolsmatter.info - EVERY PARENT, STUDENT, TEACHER, PRINCIPAL, YOUTH WORKER, UNION MEMBER, PUBLIC SERVANT, and CONCERNED CITIZEN in the area should be at this event. *PLEASE LET BYOP KNOW IF YOU'RE COMING THROUGH & HO...
Charter School Plan Stirs Debate
chicagonewscoop.org - The newest battleground in the citywide conflict between the teachers’ union and charter schools has emerged at a parcel of vacant land near Chicago’s far northwest edge. And on Tuesday evening, ro...
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Russell Pearce, architect of illegal immigration law in Arizona, loses election
csmonitor.com - Russell Pearce lost an historic state senate recall election Tuesday in Arizona. Russell Pearce was the key force behind Arizona's controversial crackdown on illegal immigrants. A powerful Republic...
Harry Pachon, Hispanic Scholar and Civic Leader Passes Away
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Harry Pachon, a scholar and activist, has died at age 66. According to The Los Angeles Times, he succumbed to lung failure at Kindred Hospital in Ontario, California after several months of illness...
IL House adjourns Wednesday without voting on SB512. « Fred Klonsky
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - IL House adjourns Wednesday without voting on SB512. « Fred Klonsky:IL House adjourns Wednesday without voting on SB512.by Fred KlonskyA House committee voted SB512 to the House floor Tuesday by a ...
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IL House adjourns Wednesday without voting on SB512. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - A House committee voted SB512 to the House floor Tuesday by a 5 to 4 vote. But Wednesday came and went with no House vote on the Cross-Fahner pension killer. The last chance to vote on it is Thursd...
Union-busting, homophobic Michigan state Rep. Paul Scott narrowly recalled
dailykos.com - There's a lot to celebrate in the wake of Tuesday's elections; let's not let the recall of Michigan state Rep. Paul Scott slip through the cracks. Scott, a Republican, was chair of the state's Hous...
Segregationists swept from school board in North Carolina. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - When Republicans took control of the Wake County school board in North Carolina, their first agenda item was to restore segregated schools. Yesterday, the Republicans were swept from office followi...
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American Horror Story: Student Debt, Suicide and Occupations | HyperVocal #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - American Horror Story: Student Debt, Suicide and Occupations | HyperVocal:American Horror Story: Student Loan Debt and Suicide Over Wilted PancakesPOSTED NOVEMBER 8TH 9:51AM BY CRYN JOHANNSENSevera...
Raindrops on Roses, and Whiskers on Kittens...
edupln.com - … EdTech and iPads, and Tools for the Teacher! ….These are a few of my favorite things! Two days into owning an iPad and I’ve become obsessed, so I figured I could share a f...
More arrests at Sotheby's tonight, 'hair raising vibe'
teamsternation.blogspot.com - We're just not sure how many people got, or are getting arrested, tonight at Sotheby's, where months ago the 1% running the auction house threw 43 Teamsters art handlers out of work just because th...
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Alabama's Jefferson County OKs bankruptcy filing
reuters.com - By Melinda Dickinson BIRMINGHAM, Alabama | Wed Nov 9, 2011 5:51pm EST BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Legislators in Alabama's Jefferson County on Wednesday voted 4 to 1 to file for bankruptcy cour...
Jefferson County (AL)Commission votes 4-1 to file nation's largest municipal bankruptcy
democraticunderground.com - Source: Birningham NewsBIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The Jefferson County Commission has just voted 4-1 to file an estimated $4.1 billion bankruptcy, the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.The comm...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release November 09, 2011 EXECUTIVE ORDERPROMOTING EFFICIENT SPENDINGBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and t...
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Event: IPCC 34th Session - Climate Change Policy & Practice
climate-l.iisd.org - The 34th session of the IPCC will be held back to back with the first joint Sessions of IPCC Working Groups I and II to approve and accept the IPCC Special Report on “Managing the Risks of Extreme ...
Sierra Club: Email - 10,000+ House Guests for Obama
action.sierraclub.org - 12,000 House Guests for Obama Last Sunday, 12,000 concerned citizens, including thousands of Sierra Club members and supporters, young and old, from every walk of life and every corner of the natio...
Environmentalists May Cause Delay of Pipeline Decision
tomhayden.com - Protesters rallied against the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would run from Canada to the Gulf Coast. (Photo: New York Times)After major environmental demonstrations outside the White House, and ...
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UC Berkeley students face down police over tents set up near Sproul Hall
contracostatimes.com - BERKELEY -- Police in riot gear are facing down protesters in front of UC Berkeley's Sproul Hall, where students set up a handful of tents after a rally to bring attention to higher-education cuts ...
Barnidge: A little late to worry about charter dividing the school district
contracostatimes.com - As opponents of Clayton Valley High School's charter petition took turns at the microphone at Tuesday's Mt. Diablo school board meeting -- students, parents, teachers and administrators from other ...
UC Santa Cruz students protest university cuts and tuition increases
contracostatimes.com - SANTA CRUZ -- In one of the largest rallies at the UCSC campus in the past year more than 200 students, teachers and university employees gathered in Quarry Plaza around noon Wednesday to protest c...
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IL House adjourns Wednesday without voting on SB512. « Fred Klonsky
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - IL House adjourns Wednesday without voting on SB512. « Fred Klonsky:IL House adjourns Wednesday without voting on SB512.by Fred KlonskyA House committee voted SB512 to the House floor Tuesday by a ...
American Horror Story: Student Debt, Suicide and Occupations | HyperVocal #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - American Horror Story: Student Debt, Suicide and Occupations | HyperVocal:American Horror Story: Student Loan Debt and Suicide Over Wilted PancakesPOSTED NOVEMBER 8TH 9:51AM BY CRYN JOHANNSENSevera...
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE ? « Teachers Fight Back
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE ? « Teachers Fight Back:WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE ?by alkleenThe Personnel and Pension Committee in the Illinois Legislature voted 5-4 to send a “Pension Reform” bill to the full Ho...
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