Big midyear hit for Prop 98 likely | Thoughts on Public Education
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Big midyear hit for Prop 98 likely | Thoughts on Public Education:Reality vs $ at community colleges - by Kathryn Baronby Kathryn BaronOne of the dominant issues at the fourth and final town hall meeting on how to improve the state’s community colleges wasn’t even in the 70 pages of recommendations from the Task Force on Student Success. “There was some eloquent testimony today that we need more funding,” Community College Chancellor Jack Scott told the 200 or [...]Unanimous for ... more »
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The Cost of Corporate Tax Avoidance #EDreformBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-1 hour agoNEA - The Cost of Corporate Tax Avoidance:The Cost of Corporate Tax AvoidanceWhen corporations avoid paying taxes, public education gets shortchanged.NEA Research has created a series of charts that reflect the cost – in lost federal dollars for education – of corporate tax avoidance based on Citizens for Tax Justice’s analysis. The charts cover:How much federal aid each state would have received for education from 2008-2010 ... more »
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Watch Wall Street Shut Down. Live. | OccupyWallSt.org:Watch Wall Street Shut Down. Live.Posted 23 minutes ago on Nov. 17, 2011, 7:32 a.m. EST by OccupyWallStWatch live streaming video from owsnyc at livestream.comLive Updates
What Is Special Education? :: Help! S-O-S for Parents
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What Is Special Education? :: Help! S-O-S for Parents:What Is Special Education?November 17th, 2011 by Michele Hancock M.S., P.P.S.1tweetretweetShareSurprisingly, over three million children in the United States have some sort of specific learning disability or special need. Schools are mandated by a federal law called the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to provide specialized services to children who qualify for special education. Every day, I receive an email from a parent asking how they can get their child an ... more »
How Bill Gates can be an education hero - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
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How Bill Gates can be an education hero - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: 6 common myths about hazingby Valerie StraussAt Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, hazing during homecoming week is quite the tradition. Older students pelt freshmen with paint and, sometimes, assault them.In this Post story, my colleague Michael Alison Chandler details how hazing continues to thrive at many schools (including the event informally known as “freshmen beat-down day”) and she quotes school administrators saying how hard it ... more »
Shanker Blog » Why Do Most Americans Support "Assistance To The Poor" But Oppose "Welfare"?
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Shanker Blog » Why Do Most Americans Support "Assistance To The Poor" But Oppose "Welfare"?:Why Do Most Americans Support “Assistance To The Poor” But Oppose “Welfare”?by Matthew Di CarloPoliticians 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 estate tax as the death tax – the former conjures images of very wealthy people paying ... more »
Detroit's Teach For America Recruits Stuck In Middle Of Broader Battle
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Detroit's Teach For America Recruits Stuck In Middle Of Broader Battle:Joy ResmovitsJoy.resmovits@huffingtonpost.comBecome a fan of this reporterGET UPDATES FROM JOY Like647Detroit's Teach For America Recruits Stuck In Middle Of Broader BattlePosted: 11/16/11 10:32 PM ETWhen Brenda Belcher, principal of the new Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine, interviewed Mo Torres this past summer for a position teaching Spanish, he seemed like a good fit."It was a match," Belcher recalled in a phone interview on a recent busy Friday. ... more »
The Cost of Corporate Tax Avoidance #EDreform
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NEA - The Cost of Corporate Tax Avoidance:The Cost of Corporate Tax AvoidanceWhen corporations avoid paying taxes, public education gets shortchanged.NEA Research has created a series of charts that reflect the cost – in lost federal dollars for education – of corporate tax avoidance based on Citizens for Tax Justice’s analysis. The charts cover:How much federal aid each state would have received for education from 2008-2010 Education jobs that would have been supportedAmount for all other grants to state and ... more »