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SoFla Charter School Connections to Tallahassee - Broward/Palm Beach News
blogs.browardpalmbeach.com - maverickshigh.comMavericks is just one example of the booming charter school business.The booming business of charter schools in South Florida is no accident. Local charter school operators such a...
Online publication recognizes Walker - JSOnline
jsonline.com - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has been named 2011 Governor of the Year by Governors Journal. The online publication said Walker "served as the embodiment of the state by state battle to balance budge...
The Quiz: Test yourself on education in 2011 - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - The year 2011 was monumental in education — monumentally good or monumentally bad, depending on your view. School reformers who believe in using business principles to run public schools had a bann...
Top Stories of 2012 (Gotham Gazette, Dec 26, 2011)
gothamgazette.com - Top Stories of 2012 by David Howard King Dec 26, 2011Round and round it goes. A number of our pundits made some big bets last year, pushing all their chips into the center of the table, only to see...
A Union of Professionals. www.nysut.org
nysut.org - ALBANY, NY December 27, 2011 -- Commissioner King's decision to cut off funding to School Improvement Grant (SIG) districts will disrupt services to our neediest students and deprive their schools ...
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Rahm’s big money pals buy the Sun-Times. Then criticize teachers. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - The old sage once said, “Freedom of the press belongs to those that own one.” Rahm’s big money backers understand that too well. They bought the Sun-Times last week. And this week they editorialize...
Eight large school districts could lose federal grants for not complying with requirements
polhudson.lohudblogs.com - Posted by: Cara Matthews - Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 27, 2011Eight of the 10 school districts who are receiving School Improvement Grants could lose the money if they don’t meet Saturday’s dea...
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nypost.com - A shocking one in four students at a Bronx high school slated for closure is a teen parent or pregnant, The Post has learned.That startling statistic is buried in thousands of pages of documents th...
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Keeping Students From the Polls
nytimes.com - Next fall, thousands of students on college campuses will attempt to register to vote and be turned away. Sorry, they will hear, you have an out-of-state driver’s license. Sorry, your college ID is...
A Living Wage, Long Overdue
nytimes.com - New York City provides hundreds of millions of dollars a year in taxpayer-financed subsidies to private developers. It is only right that the jobs created by those projects pay a decent wage. The F...
Abstinence-Only Education--It's Baaack for 2012!
alternet.org - Reproductive-health experts breathed a sigh of relief in 2009 when President Barack Obama did away with over a decade of funding for abstinence-only funding under previous administrations (which ha...
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Ben Falik: We Bought a School
huffingtonpost.com - After news this week that Governor Snyder lifted the limits on the number of charter schools operating in Michigan, you may be asking yourself, "What's stopping me from opening my own charter schoo...
Test your Ed Reform IQ!
pureparents.org - Washington Post education blogger Valerie Strauss has a quick end-of-year quiz for us school reform aficionados. For Public Schools Action Tuesday today, take the quiz, print it out for your New Ye...
New Year, New Teacher-my classroom resolutions for 2012 « Cooperative Catalyst
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - New Year, New Teacher-my classroom resolutions for 2012 « Cooperative Catalyst:New Year, New Teacher-my classroom resolutions for 2012by Tinashe BlanchetIt has been a long time since I’ve posted on...
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Half of America In Poverty? The Facts Say It's True
commondreams.org - Recent reports suggest that almost 50% of Americans are in poverty or at a "low income" level. The claim is based on a new supplemental measure by the Census Bureau that includes health care, trans...
School Spending Under Microscope - WSJ.com
online.wsj.com - The New York City lawyer who helped win a landmark court ruling in 2006 that ordered billions of dollars more spent on schools has been quietly building a new case to show that even after more than...
Newt: I Would Never Vote For Ron Paul
2012.talkingpointsmemo.com - Benjy Sarlin December 27, 2011, 4:57 PM Newt Gingrich on Tuesday lit into Ron Paul over extremist newsletters he once published, saying that he would not vote for him if he were the Republican nomi...
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The Sposato Show | Rahm’s Home Boy | ‘Master Cartographer’ Madigan
chicagonewscoop.org - This will be the last Palm Card for what has been a very interesting year in Chicago and Illinois politics. We’ll be back Jan. 3, and we wish you happy holidays and a safe and happy 2012. Thanks fo...
Changes made for school return dates
signonsandiego.com - NORTH COUNTY — Parents, mark your calendars: After winter break, classes resume on different dates for elementary and high school students in Escondido and San Marcos public schools.In the San Marc...
Photo Galleries Of The Week
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Obviously, photos can be great educational tools with English Language Learners and with any students (see The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons). I post about many photo galleries, also called sl...
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The IL General Assembly bought more of their crap than customers did. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Job creators. That was the justification for the Illinois General Assembly giving CME and Sears a huge tax break a few weeks ago. All the while the same General Assembly considers ways to cut publi...
How do you know if your City has a Strong Mayor? aka MAYOR 1%
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - How do you know if your City has a Strong Mayor aka MAYOR 1%?YOUR Public Schools are being Privatized andYour Dog is Pregnant ! THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF AMERICA'S POOREST AND MOST AT RISK CHILDR...
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Children Express A Powerful Wish for the Holidays: Allow All Families to Stay Together « MomsRising Blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Children Express A Powerful Wish for the Holidays: Allow All Families to Stay Together « MomsRising Blog:Children Express A Powerful Wish for the Holidays: Allow All Families to Stay Togetherby Lis...
Jersey Jazzman: Poverty, Shmoverty: Part IV
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: Poverty, Shmoverty: Part IV:Poverty, Shmoverty: Part IVby DukeThis is a little wonky, but I think the payoff is worth it. Bear with me...So I've been going on a bit about internatio...
Mother Crusader: Charter advocates LOVE to throw around the F word
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Mother Crusader: Charter advocates LOVE to throw around the F word:Charter advocates LOVE to throw around the F wordby darciecimaJersey Jazzman's take on Cerf's interview with the Associated Press ...
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Cops Ready for War - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com - Nestled amid plains so flat the locals joke you can watch your dog run away for miles, Fargo treasures its placid lifestyle, seldom pierced by the mayhem and violence common in other urban communit...
Occupy activists meet in Iowa, plan caucus events
northjersey.com - DES MOINES, Iowa — Already they have interrupted Michele Bachmann and drawn a withering putdown from Newt Gingrich as "all noise, no thought." Now, to the dismay of Iowa Republicans, Occupy activis...
OCCUPY EDUCATION - Asking students: revolutionary? #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - OCCUPY EDUCATION - Asking students: revolutionary?:Asking students: revolutionary?OCCUPY EDUCATION - 6 minutes agoAsking students: revolutionary?Whether I shall be the hero of my school life, or wh...