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PS 51 Cancer Scare Ignites Calls For Accountability
ny1.com - To view our videos, you need toenable JavaScript. Learn how.install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. Critics are calling for Schools Chancellor Denni...
Lopsided Debate over Education Reform Reveals a Broken System - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - Alexander Russo has done an excellent job stirring the pot with his column yesterday asserting that "reform critics" like myself are "winning" the online debate.As I tried to point out yesterday, t...
Reform vs. Anti-Reform: Quoth the Raven - Teacher in a Strange Land
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Alexander Russo,So here I am, with the final hours of bleak December ticking away, casting about for the right hook to write about Education Reform in 2011: The Big Picture.Go with a top ten l...
Tides Are a-Turnin’
mskatiesramblings.blogspot.com - There are some quiet rumblings out there that the tide in education reform is turning. As the sparkle and noise of Waiting for Superman fades into memory and the propaganda machine that is NBC’s E...
ALEC-Linked Group Revealed as Major Secret Donor in Referendum on Maine Voting Rights
nationofchange.org - Last month, Maine voters delivered a major rebuke to Gov. Paul LePage (R) and the Republican-held legislature when they approved a referendum restoring election day voting registration rights in th...
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Charter schools get win in White Hat suit
dispatch.com - By Charlie Boss The Columbus Dispatch Wednesday December 28, 2011 4:46 AM The 19-month fight over whether Ohio’s largest for-profit manager of charter schools must share detailed financial records...
The Killing of a High School.
fosteringthefuture.blogspot.com - The replacement of Eastside Memorial High school with IDEA Charter is a stunning example of a school board pushing forward over the clear wishes of the students and families it was elected to serve...
In Washington area, African American students suspended and expelled two to five times as often as whites
washingtonpost.com - Across the Washington area, black students are suspended and expelled two to five times as often as white students, creating disparities in discipline that experts say reflect a growing national pr...
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Russo Off by 4 Months
schoolsmatter.info - If Alexander Russo had penned this near April 1, instead of January 1, and ended with "April Fools!" I would have enjoyed the irony, but instead, Russo appears serious with "Media: Reform Opponents...
Russo Off by 4 Months
schoolsmatter.info - If Alexander Russo had penned this near April 1, instead of January 1, and ended with "April Fools!" I would have enjoyed the irony, but instead, Russo appears serious with "Media: Reform Opponents...
More trouble on the horizon « Opine I will
rlratto.wordpress.com - NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo’s recent announcement that “The greatest challenge is going to be reforming the education system in this state” should be a wake up call for all educators throughout the ...
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Romney Turns to Supporters He Considers a Natural: Business Leaders
nytimes.com - CLINTON, Iowa — Kenneth Maass, a farmer in Remsen, Iowa, keeps a busy schedule: monthly meetings for the Plymouth County Farm Bureau, for the Northwest Rural Electric Cooperative and for his church...
Occupy protests send GOP vote counting to secret location - Political Hotsheet
cbsnews.com - Occupy activists enter the Occupy the Caucus headquarters, Dec. 27, 2011, in Des Moines, Iowa. (Credit: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) The Iowa Republican party is moving its caucus night vote counti...
The PATCO Syndrome | Labor Notes
labornotes.org - Coming at the beginning of the Reagan-era conservative ascendancy, the 1981 PATCO strike is often cited as the defining labor struggle of our time. The air traffic controllers’ strike and its bruta...
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Teachers Of Los Angeles It's Time To Party With Educators 4 Excellence!!!
southbronxschool.com - Hello teachers of Los Angeles! Do you ever get tired from the same old boring Friday nights? Are you looking for something to do other than attend another boring Clippers or Kings game? Well, look ...
Reverend Billy Looks Forward to Spring
occupywallst.org - "From time immemorial the Winter Solstice holidays have had many names. For instance, in the North where there is snow they were called "White Holidays." Then they became the "Roman Holidays," and ...
NYC Educator: The Dueling Teacher-on-Vacation Conscience
nyceducator.com - There they are. Right next to my desk here. That pile of essays I said I would grade over the vacation.I know I should. I know I'll regret it on Tuesday morning if I don't. I have other work to do,...
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Church’s shooting: Killed teens in ‘wrong place at wrong time’ - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - BY KIM JANSSEN Staff Reporter/kjanssen@suntimes.com December 28, 2011 11:36PM NBC5 screen grab of Dantril Brown, shooting victim from the Churches Chicken restaurant Tuesday night, December 27, 201...
FBI Investigates St. HOPE - Politics News Story
kcra.com - POSTED: 12:59 pm PDT June 17, 2009UPDATED: 5:00 pm PDT June 17, 2009SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that a board member at Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson'...
Precedent in LAUSD v. California busing cut?: FEDERAL APPEALS COURT SAYS ARKANSAS CAN'T STOP MAGNET SCHOOL PROGRAM FUNDING WITHOUT HEARING + Addl. coverage + Published opinion
4lakidsnews.blogspot.com - CHUCK BARTELS, JEANNIE NUSS Associated Press/from the Chicago Tribune | http://trib.in/uVXvnk 8:25 p.m. CST, December 28, 2011 - LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas cannot cut off millions of dollar...
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The 25 Highest-Paid CEOs In New York
businessinsider.com - AOL's Tim ArmstrongIn New York City, the top 1 percent take home around 30 percent of the city's income. This exclusive group includes many of the city's CEOs. Crain's New York Business found the 1...
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic:What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School SuccessDEC 29 2011, 3:00 PM ETThe Scandinavi...
Sacramento City Unified School District Online Meal Applications
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - RocketScan FMA Online Application: INCOME ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINESUse the income chart below to see if you qualify for the free or reduced price meal program.Effective July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012Hou...
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Reforming Higher Education at $1400 a Plate | Dailycensored.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Reforming Higher Education at $1400 a Plate | Dailycensored.com:Reforming Higher Education at $1400 a Plateby Adam BessieAre you a hedge fund manager or venture capitalist feeling guilty about bein...
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic:What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School SuccessDEC 29 2011, 3:00 PM ETThe Scandinavi...
DCPS Achievement Gap Blamed on Officials, Demographics, Lack of Funding
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - DCPS Achievement Gap Blamed on Officials, Demographics, Lack of Funding:DCPS Achievement Gap Blamed on Officials, Demographics, Lack of FundingDOROTHY ROWLEY THURSDAY, 29 DECEMBER 20110diggNation...
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Live Blog for #Occupy Movement: National Mall’s Union Square to Be Controlled by Capitol Police
dissenter.firedoglake.com - 2:00 PM On the Twitter user affiliated with Occupy Boston, who goes by “Guido Fawkes”: the account was subpoenaed secretly but Twitter has a policy of notifying users when law enforcement and gover...
Occupy the Iowa Caucuses! | OccupyWallSt.org
occupywallst.org - As the United States prepares for another election year and presidential candidates gather to begin their corporate-financed campaigns, we are again presented with politicians that have all been bo...
Un-Settling Occupation | OccupyWallSt.org
occupywallst.org - This evening, 5:30 - 8:30 85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217 Please join Occupy Wall St. to connect the colonial occupation of Manhattan to Occupy Wall Street— an occupation of already occu...
