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Frank Biden and Privatizers Buying Nation’s 11th-Largest School District
btownerrant.com - photo by jrubinic When the Palm Beach Post endorsed Chuck E. Shaw for the Palm Beach County School Board’s district 2 seat, they praised the ex-JFK Medical Center Charter School principal for “how ...
2011 UNITY NewU Startup Funds
landing.k12newsnetwork.com - BIOCynthia Liu, PhD, is CEO/Founder of the online organizing and education news site K12NewsNetwork.com, a "MoveOn" for supporters of public education.In 2011, she received the BlogHer.com / HTC 20...
Ravitch: Billionaires (and millionaires) for education reform - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - This was written by education historian Diane Ravitch for her Bridging Differences blog, which she co-authors with Deborah Meier on the Education Week website. Ravitch and Meier exchange letters ab...
Growing Push in Newark to Retake School Reins
nytimes.com - NEWARK — For a generation of Newark students, every education decision, including choices on curriculum, spending and superintendent, has been made by state officials in Trenton. That l...
What do Bloomberg and the NEA leadership have in common? « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - There was justifiable outrage this past week directed at New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg gave a speech in which he suggested New York schools would be better with classes that were tw...
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New teacher contract could shut down Los Angeles school choice program
latimes.com - As schools across California bemoan increasing class sizes, the Alliance Technology and Math Science High School has boosted class size — on purpose — to an astonishing 48. The students work at com...
Sunday links. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Photo: CAJLA Time Magazine’s Judith Warner asks, “Why are the rich so interested in public school reform?” She says, “Let’s hope that the time to reform this business-modeled mindset has finally co...
Philip Kovacs: Huntsville Takes a Closer Look at Teach For America's "Research" - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - Several weeks ago I posted a firsthand report from University of Alabama, Huntsville assistant professor Philip Kovacs, regarding his efforts to get the Hunstville school board to re-examine its de...
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America's Best Judge
jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - The honorable Judge Sheila Rappaport from the great state of Colorado:In declaring Colorado's school finance system "significantly underfunded," Denver District Judge Sheila Rappaport rejected virt...
Santorum in Iowa Talks Effects of Legalized Gay Marriage on School Children
cedarfalls.patch.com - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said he is concerned about legalized gay marriage spilling over into lessons in the classroom, during a campaign stop in Cedar Falls, IA on Friday....
Rick Perry: 'I Don't Have Memorized' The Names Of All 9 Supreme Court Justices
thinkprogress.org - During a meeting with the Des Moines Register editorial board on Friday, Rick Perry asserted there were eight justices on the Supreme Court and mispronounced Sonia Sotomayor’s name. Perry defended ...
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'I Don't Care About That'
huffingtonpost.com - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry says he wants a huge tax break for the rich, and he doesn't care what it means for income inequality.Rick Perry announced on Tuesday that if elected pre...
Climate “Deal” Done, Cops Crush Boston Occupy, Treat Possessions Like Garbage
newsdissector.com - December 11th, 2011 - by: Danny Tune in: I will be on Jesse Jackson’s radio show this morning at 8 am on Keephopealiveradio.com LISTEN To This podcast of this week’s News Dissector Radio featuring ...
Opinion: Newt Gingrich blasts it out of park! - Roger Simon
politico.com - The Bambino stands in the center of the stage, untouchable, uncatchable, unbeatable. He is Newt Gingrich, and he has become the Sultan of Swat.It is Saturday night at yet another Republican debate ...
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Future (Why My Family Thinks I Look Stressed Even When I Tend To Disagree) | The Jose Vilson
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Future (Why My Family Thinks I Look Stressed Even When I Tend To Disagree) | The Jose Vilson:Future (Why My Family Thinks I Look Stressed Even When I Tend To Disagree)by JoseA mount of papers ungra...
Mitt Romney & Chris Christie Redux
bluejersey.com - Mitt Romney is going to be at the Parsippany Hilton tomorrow night, sharing a stage with his #1 stand-in, Chris Christie. Got $500? That'll get you in. They'll rake in big bucks; $500 gets you in t...
Are Girls Really Alright? - THE DAILY RIFF
thedailyriff.com - "Now in this country, girls outpace boys in test scores, high school and college enrollment and grad rates, and leadership positions in high school, and YET. . . it all depends on WHAT you are mea...
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blog.angryasianman.com - George Takei is the Broker of Star Peace: Our elder statesman George Takei, best known as Sulu on Star Trek, steps in to broker the peace between warring internet supporters of the Star Trek and St...
Sofia Vergara, George Lopez to be Part of CCN Heroes Tonight
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 2:28 pm, December 11, 2011 Photo Credits: George Lopez & Sofia Vergara on CNN Heroes Tribute CNN, the worldwide leader in news, announced new show details and additions to the line-up ...
What You Missed Last Night: Kenan Thompson's Sharpton Is Good - Entertainment
theatlanticwire.com - Revelation from Saturday Night Live: Al Sharpton is the role Kenan Thompson was born to play. Special shout-out to "Jim Vandeheeho of Politeco Period Com." The firebrand commentator as malaprop mac...
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America’s Greediest: The 2011 Top Ten Edition
ourfuture.org - One puts on football pageants. Another makes millions on a virtual farm. From Too Much, the Institute for Policy Studies inequality weekly, we present the year's ten most avaricious. All ten remind...
The Few, the Proud, the Very Rich
californiaprogressreport.com - Printer-friendly versionSend to friendBy Sylvia Allegretto UC Berkeley Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics Much of the current political and popular discourse has focused on inequalities that ex...
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