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An International Diane Ravitch Moment?
lilysblackboard.org - There is hope on the horizon, my dears. For more than ten long, empty, intellectually dry and dishonest years, we’ve lived under the insanity of No Child Left Untested. (Someone told me not to be s...
Legacy HS supporters rally against closure, beg for more time
gothamschools.org - Parents, students, and staff gathered to show support for Legacy Carolyn Blackette wasn’t thrilled when she first found out her daughter would be attending Legacy High School for Integrated Studies...
Still Full of Life, 114-Year-Old Philadelphia School Faces Closure
edweek.org - Published Online: December 16, 2011 ByBenjamin Herold and Jessica Kourkounis, Philadelphia Public School Notebook and WHYY/NewsWorksIsaac A. Sheppard Elementary School, now 114 years old, could be ...
Proposed charter law changes unlikely to improve schools
thenotebook.org - The state house rejected a voucher bill last night, but concerns remain about the charter law changes Governor Corbett proposed as part of the bill. In this guest blog post, Susan DeJarnatt and The...
Legacy HS supporters rally against closure, beg for more time
gothamschools.org - Parents, students, and staff gathered to show support for Legacy Carolyn Blackette wasn’t thrilled when she first found out her daughter would be attending Legacy High School for Integrated Studies...
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The education of Earl Kim *93
paw.princeton.edu - Ricardo BarrosEarl Kim *93 It’s been a busy and bruising few years for Earl Kim *93, the superintendent of schools in Montgomery Township, just north of Princeton. Like other schools chiefs during ...
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...
Jon Stewart takes on Obama’s school reform — again - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - Jon Stewart showed considerable restraint this week when he welcomed Melody Barnes, President Obama’s chief of domestic policy, on The Daily Show and she spoke about the administration’s education ...
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AFL-CIO Report Spotlights Devastating Impact of Alabama’s Anti-Immigrant Law | AFL
blog.aflcio.org - by Mike Hall, Dec 15, 2011This summer, Alabama passed one of the harshest anti-immigrant bills (HB 56) in the nation and the parallels between that law and the old South’s Jim Crow laws are “all ...
“Tiger Moms” Now Usurped by “Wolf Dads”
k12newsnetwork.com - Corporal punishment is the unspoken dark side of Asian and Asian Pacific American parenting, and if the whirlwind created by Amy Chua’s sardonic Tiger Mom memoir wasn’t enough to roil the interwebs...
SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: A Bronx Student Thanks Mayor Bloomberg For The Education He Has Received
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: A Bronx Student Thanks Mayor Bloomberg For The Education He Has Received: A Bronx Student Thanks Mayor Bloomberg For The Education He Has Received by noreply@blogger.com...
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At a Meeting Spot for Occupiers, Signs Prohibit Signs
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - Robert Stolarik for The New York TimesNo signs inside, please: the atrium at 60 Wall Street.Updated, 1:45 p.m. | Soon after the Occupy Wall Street protesters built an encampment in the financial d...
Group Clears Path for a Third-Party Ticket
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - To those who bemoan the lack of better choices in presidential elections, third-party fantasies come easily at this stage in a campaign. End hyper-partisanship and Washington dysfunction: Vote Bloo...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 16, 2011 The President said that Congress cannot go home without preventing a tax increase on 160 million hardworking Am...
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Gallery founder, director charged with pocketing $400,000 in federal education grants - chicagotribune.com
chicagotribune.com - By Tara Malone, Chicago Tribune reporter December 16, 2011 The founder and director of a Chicago art gallery that provided after-school arts education allegedly skimmed thousands of dollars in fede...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 16, 2011 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Obama nominated Judge John Thomas Fowlkes, Jr. and Mr. Kevin McNulty to serve...
Feds: 'Excessive force' by Seattle cops must stop
democraticunderground.com - Source: KOMO 4 News SeattleSEATTLE - An 11-month investigation by the U.S. Justice Department has found the Seattle Police Department "engages in a pattern of unnecessary and excessive force" in "v...
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Obesity in New York Children Is on the Decline, Officials Say – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Dec. 15, 2011, 1:24 p.m. Federal and city officials said Thursday that the number of obese New York City schoolchildren had fallen by 5.5 percent over five years, heralding a glimmer of optimism ab...
This week's healthy schools highlights
ednewsparent.org - Hungry for local in Dolores schools Fresh and local is the new trend at the cafeteria in Dolores schools. Dolores School District Food Service Director Chuck Soukup told school board members recent...
DAC gives LAUSD A Wack - District Advisory Committees
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Central and Local District Advisory Committees: Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Parent Group Files Lawsuit Charging LAUSD With Misuse of $2.5 Billion in Federal Title I FundsP_R_E_S_S_...
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BP receives $5.1 billion is settlements. RECEIVES? « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - This morning’s paper reports that BP will receive $25o million in a settlement with Cameron International. Cameron made the faulty blowout preventer. This will be put in the pot of $5.1 billion tha...
Map: Where the Jobless Are
baycitizen.org - California's unemployment rate fell for the fourth straight month in November to 11.3 percent, down from a peak of 12.5 percent in December 2010. The numbers were slightly better in the Bay Area, w...
SEC Files Fraud Charges Against Former Freddie and Fannie Chiefs - Politics
theatlanticwire.com - The Securities and Exchange Commission brought civil fraud charges against six former senior executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Friday, alleging that the employees understated the amount of s...
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We won’t invest in struggling schools
pureparents.org - They say that if they tell us what they’re doing, we’ll get upset. What are they doing? Here’s what CPS Chief Operating Officer Tim Cawley told reporters over the phone yesterday: “If we think ther...
A great charter school hustle
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - RichmondI've got to hand it to charter school authorizer and former lobbyist, Greg Richmond for coming up with this great hustle. A law recently pass by the Illinois state legislature created his n...
School Tech Connect: Heather Steans' Corrupt Commission
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Heather Steans' Corrupt Commission: Heather Steans' Corrupt Commission by noreply@blogger.com (Tim) Mike Klonsky has more details about the corrupt charter sc...
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At a Meeting Spot for Occupiers, Signs Prohibit Signs
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - Robert Stolarik for The New York TimesNo signs inside, please: the atrium at 60 Wall Street.Updated, 1:45 p.m. | Soon after the Occupy Wall Street protesters built an encampment in the financial d...
Letter from Council of Elders to Trinity Church
occupywallst.org - December 16, 2011 Dear Rev. Dr. James Cooper, We are veterans of the Civil Rights, Women’s, Peace, Environmental, LGBTQ, Immigrant Justice, labor rights and other movements of the last 60 years. Ma...
D17 ReOccupy Schedule | OccupyWallSt.org
occupywallst.org - Saturday December 17th Occupy 2.0!Posted 24 minutes ago on Dec. 16, 2011, 7:48 p.m. EST by anonymous What: Block Party and Re-Occupation Where: Sixth Avenue and Canal St. When: Saturday Dec. 17, 1...
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