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Florida parents win round #1 in court vs. budget cuts to schools « Parents Across America
parentsacrossamerica.org - Dec 20, 2011 leoniehaimson Each and every year here in Florida, parents spend our hard-earned money building public education for our children. We pay our property taxes to fund our schools only t...
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...
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...
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...
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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Charter School Proponents Focus On Accountability In Word If Not In Deed
huffingtonpost.com - The most recent call to close underperforming charter schools came not from a teachers' union or a school district, but from a charter-school trade association.On Thursday, the California Charter S...
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...
Woodland Community Consolidated School District 50 officials call for direct state funding of charter school - chicagotribune.com
chicagotribune.com - By Andrea L. Brown, Special to the Tribune December 20, 2011 After losing most of its share of state money to Prairie Crossing Charter School, Woodland Community Consolidated School District 50 off...
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If they bring in Jonah Edelman to work on pensions, run! « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - If all you did was read the Chicago Buffoon you would think that the reason Illinois is allegedly broke is due to two union employees who scammed the system. A tax code that favors the rich has not...
Activists celebrate the closing of polluting plant near a Los Angeles school
latimes.com - With nearly two dozen parents and others standing behind her, community activist Martha Sanchez announced Monday the end of an eight-year battle to close a metal finishing plant that residents say ...
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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One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom
togetherforjacksoncountykids.tumblr.com - “It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was ju...
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...
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. ...
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...
New Study Reveals California Has Enough Housing to Meet Demand for More Than Two Decades
californiaprogressreport.com - Printer-friendly versionSend to friendBy Bruce ReznikPlanning and Conservation League Last week, the Urban Land Institute (ULI) released a study detailing how California’s four largest metropolitan...
Antidote for Stupidity of Shipping Tax-Dollar-Financed Jobs Overseas
ourfuture.org - Amid prolonged, painfully high unemployment, ABC News Anchor Diane Sawyer for the past year tirelessly advocated a simple solution – buy American-made products. She clearly explained the reasoning:...
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List of Active Occupy Encampments Across the Country – Now at 61 | FDL Action
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - List of Active Occupy Encampments Across the Country – Now at 61 | FDL Action: List of Active Occupy Encampments Across the Country – Now at 61 by Jane Hamsher Staying warm at Oc...
L.A. UNIFIED’S FOOD FOR NAUGHT: The school district's recent rollout of healthier meals brought both distaste and waste. There are ways to feed students nutritious fare without trying to make international gourmets out of them.
4lakidsnews.blogspot.com - LA Times Editorial | http://lat.ms/w09HQz December 20, 2011 | As any parent could have told the tastemakers of Los Angeles Unified School District, it's a long road from pizza to black-bean burger...
Non-toxic Tips for Winter Coughs & Colds « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - I used to catch every cold that came into town. Office colds? Check. Office colds from my boyfriend’s office? Colds from family/friends/strangers schools/offices/jousting tournaments? Check, check,...
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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...
Congresswoman Susan Davis’ Office gets “Occupied” by Activists Protesting Defense Bill
obrag.org - By Nadin Abbott / December 19th, 2011Members of a coalition of Democrats, Occupy San Diego, Move-On and other liberal groups, took over Congresswoman Susan Davis’ (D) office today to protest of the...
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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Florida parents win round #1 in court vs. budget cuts to schools « Parents Across America
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Florida parents win round #1 in court vs. budget cuts to schools « Parents Across America: Florida parents win round #1 in court vs. budget cuts to schools by leoniehaimson Each and eve...
