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The OccupyUSA Blog for Thursday (Nov. 17), With Frequent Updates

thenation.com - I've been live-blogging OWS here daily since October 1. Email: epic1934@aol.com. All times ET. My new e-book, just out, is "40 Days That Shook the World: From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everyw...

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Making Sense of the Whole "Are Teachers Overpaid?" Thing :: Frederick M. Hess

frederickhess.org - A couple weeks ago, Andrew Biggs, an AEI colleague, and Jason Richwine of the Heritage Foundation, authored a controversial study on teacher pay. They used federal wage, benefit, and job-security d...

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Bloomberg: Unions hijacked Occupy protest - MJ Lee

politico.com - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested Friday that unions took over the Occupy Wall Street protest yesterday.“A vast percentage of the people were union members protesting – some private u...

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With expulsion from Zuccotti Park and numbers dwindling, Occupy Wall Street movement looks old

nydailynews.com - With their expulsion from Zuccotti Park and their numbers dwindling, the future of Occupy Wall Street seemed uneasy at best just two months after its birth. What will likely linger, no matter what ...

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#OccupyWallSt Roundup, Day 63 - NYTimes.com

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - With Occupy Wall Street taking a day of “rest and reorganizing” after a long day of protests on Thursday, it was also time for reflection and taking stock by protesters and the news media. [City Ro...

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License to Experiment on Low Income & Minority Children? « School Finance 101

schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - John Mooney at NJ Spotlight provided a reasonable overview of the NJDOE waiver proposal to “reward” successful schools and sanction and/or takeover “failing” ones. The NJDOE waiver proposal include...

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Boards | Teach For America

teachforamerica.org - National Board of DirectorsOur National Board of Directors plays a critical role in developing Teach For America’s strategic plan and ensuring that we are able to meet the ambitious goals we set fo...

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Don’t believe the education “reformers”

salon.com - Three mildly heretical thoughts about American education: First, given the impossible assignment we’ve given them—an egalitarian mission in a nation rapidly growing more stratified by income and cl...

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Shanker Blog » Why Do Most Americans Support "Assistance To The Poor" But Oppose "Welfare"?

shankerblog.org - Politicians and other public figures spend a great deal of resources – time and money – on crafting their messages so as to elicit a desired response. A famous example is the effort to relabel the ...

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It’s beginning to look like Wisconsin’s Scott Walker is headed for the exit. Recall effort goes wild. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - You can see it in the streets and among those knocking on doors collecting recall signatures. Critics of Occupy Wall Street just love to talk about how there are no specific demands and how lacking...

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Did the Obama administration assist in coordinating an attack on Occupy Wall Street? Putting FOIA to good use. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Instead of some right-wing anti-union cult like Kyle Olson’s Education Action Group using the Freedom of Information Act to go through an elementary teacher’s emails and personnel file (that would ...

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School Inequities: Cuts harm poor districts the most; can Cuomo fix it?

blog.syracuse.com - Gov. Andrew Cuomo can boast a long list of accomplishments during his first year in office: enactment of an on-time budget, a 2-percent property tax cap, a gay marriage law and tougher ethics rules...

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Michael Bloomberg: The Villain Occupy Wall Street Has Been Waiting For

commondreams.org - In the pantheon of billionaires without shame, Michael Bloomberg, the Wall Street banker-turned-business-press-lord-turned-mayor, is now secure at the top. What is so offensive is that someone who ...

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Is Rahm Emanuel angling for Barack Obama's job? | Blogs On Politics

chicagobusiness.com - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Saturday will cap off what has to be one of the better weeks of his life, when he'll climb on a big national stage to talk to the Iowa Democratic Party. Mr. Emanuel is...

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VOTE! | The G Bitch Spot

gbitchspot.com - Bitches are aggressive, assertive, domineering, overbearing, strong-minded, spiteful, hostile, direct, blunt, candid, obnoxious, thick-skinned, hard-headed, vicious, dogmatic, competent, competitiv...

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#N17 Marches, Good Jobs LA and Occupy LA: Actions and Arrests

lafiga.firedoglake.com - Thursday, in two separate actions, several hundred people participated in a march organized by Good Jobs LA, with folks from Occupy LA, SEIU and citizens joining in as part of a general day of acti...

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Over my carry-on bag…. « MomsRising Blog

momsrising.org - Only an industry that thought it was a good idea to charge customers for checking bags (something people already don’t want to do!), could possibly come up with this genius idea. Wait for it… assig...

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Pregnant woman pepper sprayed at Occupy Seattle

cbsnews.com - (AP) SEATTLE - A downtown march and rally in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement turned briefly chaotic as police scattered a crowd of rowdy protesters — including a pregnant 19-year-old an...

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Protesters and Officers Clash Near Wall Street

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - This is a live stream from The Other 99’s channel. Another live feed is below. Hundreds of protesters from Zuccotti Park clashed with the police as they tried to reach the New York Stock Exchange T...

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Canceled UC regents meeting rescheduled for Monday

contracostatimes.com - SAN FRANCISCO -- The University of California has rescheduled a Board of Regents meeting that was canceled because officials feared planned protests could turn violent. UC officials said Friday the...

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kuow.org - KUOW Specials Select a SpecialChanging The SoundBehind The Cascade CurtainDanger At WorkParamount DutySounds FamiliarLiving Without A NetThe Weight Of WarCulture ShockA Guide To VisitorsThe Puget S...

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Matt criticizes my accent and city bias. It’s “Nor Chore,” if you please. Time to Occupy Gurnee. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Reacting to my post on Mark Kirk: Fred, Putting on the Ritz. And it’s pronounced da Nor’ Chore, Fred. While Lake is the knot on the collar of the noose counties, if you will, we’re not exactly Lil’...

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Bolivian migrants ride out hard times - The Washington Post

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Bolivian migrants ride out hard times - The Washington Post:Bolivian migrants ride out hard timesEmily Alpert/FTWP - COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA - OCTOBER 1: Large homes, many of them unfinished, sit along...

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Michael Bloomberg: The Villain Occupy Wall Street Has Been Waiting For

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APD arrests occupy protesters overnight

kxan.com - AUSTIN (KXAN) - Police arrested several Occupy Austin protesters after they chained themselves to a tree near City Hall. Officers were called out when six demonstrators decided to take action when ...

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Teamsters, CWA, Occupy Wall Street protest Mayor's girlfriend

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Protesting Brookfield Properties, which evicted OWS; Mayor Bloomberg's girlfriend is a director of the company as well as of Sotheby's. As many police officers as protesters occupied the pavement t...

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