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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...

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Is the Iraq War actually over? - Opinion

aljazeera.com - US President Barack Obama has expressed 'concerns' about Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki [EPA] New York, New York - Launched with so much bluster and zeal as a campaign - no, make that a crusa...

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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...

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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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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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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Morgan Stanley May Eliminate 580 NYC Jobs

bloomberg.com - Enlarge image Morgan Stanley May Eliminate 580 Jobs in New York City Pedestrians walk past Morgan Stanley headquarters in New York. Pedestrians walk past Morgan Stanley headquarters in New York. Ph...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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