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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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Taking It to the Next Level With CPS and AUSL

huffingtonpost.com - Did I miss a recent press conference at Chicago's Collins Academy? You know, the shindig where Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard announced that Collins, as of November 2011, was no...
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Malloy outlines broad principles for education reform

ctmirror.org - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy today outlined six broad principles that he says will guide the debate on education reform next year, including "intensive interventions" by the state in troubled school syste...
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Charting a course for charter schools

dothaneagle.com - At Pataula Charter Academy, they do things differently. At the K-7 school in Edison, Ga., teachers use an education philosophy called expeditionary learning, where real-world applications of school...
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Turnaround cronyism at Collins High

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Be sure and read Matt Farmer's excellent Huffington post on Chicago turnarounds. He lays bare the crony relationship between venture capitalist Mike Koldyke's Academy for Urban School Leadership (A...
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Throwing Angels Under a Bus

jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - Everyone working in a schools knows the hardest job is teaching special education - especially to the most challenging children. Like all elementary music teachers, I work with special education te...
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Overworked, understaffed and still broke. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Which state has the lowest number of government workers per capita in the nation? Scott Walker’s Wisconsin? Chris Christie’s New Jersey. Florida? Ohio? Michigan? Certainly not patronage rich Illino...
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Tells the Facts, Names the Names

counterpunch.org - My arrest, or, more accurately, my assault was personal. I was taking photographs of the police arresting Occupy Wall Street demonstrators at the December 12 Winter Garden flash mob, which had been...
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On Women and Guilt « MomsRising Blog

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - On Women and Guilt « MomsRising Blog: On Women and Guilt Misty McLaughlin at MomsRising Blog - 26 minutes ago Another smart post from our friends at Role/Reboot. -Eds. I’m on the board of a...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 20, 2011 James S. Brady Press Briefing Room1:26 P.M. ESTMR. CARNEY:  Good afternoon, everyone.  Thanks for being here.  ...
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Signs of a Broken American Democracy

elections.firedoglake.com - Paul Krugman posts a very interesting piece on his blog today by Kim Lane Scheppele about the current state of politics in Hungary.  Scheppele notes that after winning the last election the Fidesz ...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 20, 2011 James S. Brady Press Briefing Room1:59 P.M. ESTTHE PRESIDENT:  Hello, everybody.  Sorry to interrupt. MR. CARNE...
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Council Mandates City Alerts on PCB Dangers – SchoolBook

nytimes.com - Dec. 19, 2011, 5:39 p.m. The City Council voted on Monday to require the city to notify parents when toxic chemicals are discovered in the fluorescent light fixtures illuminating many of the classr...
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Tells the Facts, Names the Names

counterpunch.org - My arrest, or, more accurately, my assault was personal. I was taking photographs of the police arresting Occupy Wall Street demonstrators at the December 12 Winter Garden flash mob, which had been...
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Occupy's Reach Exceeds the Media's Grasp

my.firedoglake.com - “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated” — Mark Twain The corporate steno pool media is anxious to write the obituary for the occupations around America.  Early drafts of the predict...
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