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ninedemands.com - Support education for all. Reduce class sizes, ensure access to early childhood education and enrichment courses, keep educators in the classroom, support local school construction and modernizatio...
GoLocalProv | News | Aaron Regunberg: Achievement First has Little Support in Providence
golocalprov.com - Email to a friend PermalinkFriday, December 02, 2011Aaron Regunberg, GoLocalProv MINDSETTER™ Last Monday, a broad-based coalition of Providence community groups sent a letter to Governor Chafee a...
Newt’s War on Poor Children
nytimes.com - Newt Gingrich has reached a new low, and that is hard for him to do. Nearly two weeks after claiming that child labor laws are “truly stupid” and implying that poor children should be p...
Problems With Credits at School in the Bronx
nytimes.com - The chances that a student at Jane Addams High School for Academic Careers in the Bronx would graduate in four years were already poor, but seniors there said this week that they had been told of a...
Chicago to join Gates Foundation charter compact | catalyst
catalyst-chicago.org - Though they are still in negotiations over the details, Chicago Public Schools officials are set to sign on to a national intiaitive that encourages stronger cooperation between charter schools and...
Voices of the Occupation: What they'll take away
opinion.latimes.com - On Tuesday, in the hours before Occupy L.A. was ejected from the grounds of City Hall, Margot Roosevelt photographed participants and interviewed them about what had brought them to the protest and...
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Give schools support, not pink slips - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - Letters to the Editor December 1, 2011 5:58PM Updated: December 2, 2011 2:21AM When an area of the city has an increase in crime, the local police station isn’t closed, and the police and people wh...
Mayor Hits Nerve in Remarks on Class Sizes and Teachers
nytimes.com - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg faced tough questions for a second day Friday on comments he made about two of the most sensitive issues in New York City education: teacher quality and class sizes. ...
Virtually Educated
nytimes.com - It’s weird how you can lose track of our ever-changing world. For instance, until recently I thought “reality TV” meant games about people who were stuck on an island or locked in a house together ...
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Newt’s War on Poor Children
nytimes.com - Newt Gingrich has reached a new low, and that is hard for him to do. Nearly two weeks after claiming that child labor laws are “truly stupid” and implying that poor children should be p...
Gov. Walker’s Latest Genius IdeaTruthdig
truthdig.com - As if the idea of designated “free speech zones” isn’t a skin-crawlingly bad enough test of the bounds of free speech, here comes Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to up the creepy ante: Why not char...
Exam Cheating on Long Island Hardly a Secret
nytimes.com - GREAT NECK, N.Y. — The suspected test takers came from prominent, respected families, some of them in financial distress — among the five facing felony charges were the sons of a well-known lawyer,...
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Assembly Told To Prepare For Three-Day Session
capitaltonight.com - Members of the Assembly are being given a heads up this morning that a tentative three-day special session in Albany next week is possible, a highly placed Democratic source said. The potential ses...
Senate Declines to Clarify Rights of American Qaeda Suspects Arrested in U.S.
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday decided to leave unanswered a momentous question about constitutional rights in the war against Al Qaeda: whether government officials have the power to arrest p...
Greek Workers Walk Out in Protest for 7th Time
nytimes.com - ATHENS — Thousands of Greek workers walked off the job on Thursday in the seventh general strike this year to protest government austerity policies after a year and a half of cutbacks. ...
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The OccupyUSA Blog for Friday (Dec. 2), With Frequent Updates
thenation.com - I've been live-blogging OWS here daily since October 1. Email: epic1934@aol.com. All times ET. My new e-book is "40 Days That Shook the World: From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everywhere." ...
SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: The SBSB Tour of the New Educators4Excellence Website
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: The SBSB Tour of the New Educators4Excellence Website:The SBSB Tour of the New Educators4Excellence Websiteby noreply@blogger.com (Bronx Teacher)The crack team would like to con...
Homeless woman, pet dog find a way to weather windstorm
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Without the Internet or television, and not having read a newspaper or listened to the radio, Joanne had no idea what she was heading toward Wednesday night as she drove into town with her life's b...
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Bloomberg’s Girlfriend Diana Taylor Threatens to Resign From Sotheby’s Board If Teamsters’ Demands Are Met (Video)
observer.com - But what of her role on Brookfield Properties' board of directors? Diana Taylor and Mayor Bloomberg (Photo via Getty)Diana Taylor, the partner of Mayor Mike Bloomberg and a member of the board at S...
News Host Is Scrutinized for Her Ties to Candidate
nytimes.com - Greta Van Susteren, the Fox News host, faced questions on Wednesday about whether she should have disclosed the friendship between her husband, a noted Washington lawyer, and Herman Cain, whose wif...
"Hugo" named best picture by National Board of Review - Celebrity Circuit
cbsnews.com - Asa Butterfield and Chloe Grace Moretz in "Hugo." (Credit: Paramount Pictures) (CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" is the year's best film, according to the National Board of Review. The g...
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U.S. Adds 120,000 Jobs; Unemployment Drops to 8.6%
nytimes.com - The United States logged yet another month of mediocre job growth in November. The Labor Department said Friday that the nation’s employers added 120,000 jobs last month, after adding 1...
The Recession Is 4 Years Old, Guess Which Industry Is Suffering the Most? - Jordan Weissmann - Business
theatlantic.com - On the Fourth Anniversary of the downturn, two industries account for an outsized share of total job lossesReutersFour years ago this month, the United States entered the great recession. As Friday...
Occupy SF Protesters to Open People's Reserve Credit Union - San Francisco News - The Snitch #ows #coop
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Occupy SF Protesters to Open People's Reserve Credit Union - San Francisco News - The Snitch:Occupy SF Protesters to Open People's Reserve Credit UnionBy Erin Sherbert Fri., Dec. 2 2011 at 1:10 PMC...
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The OccupyUSA Blog for Friday (Dec. 2), With Frequent Updates
thenation.com - I've been live-blogging OWS here daily since October 1. Email: epic1934@aol.com. All times ET. My new e-book is "40 Days That Shook the World: From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everywhere." ...
5 questions with Dr. Cornel West on Occupy Wall Street - Under God
washingtonpost.com - The following is excerpted from a recent interview between On Faith’s Sally Quinn and Dr. Cornel West. A full transcript of the interview is available here.Princeton University Professor Cornel Wes...
San Francisco Occupiers offered new site after clash with police
democraticunderground.com - Source: CNNSan Francisco authorities offered Friday to move Occupy campers to another site, a day after the most recent round of violent clashes left a police officer injured, officials said.But pr...
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The Recession Is 4 Years Old, Guess Which Industry Is Suffering the Most? - Jordan Weissmann - Business
theatlantic.com - On the Fourth Anniversary of the downturn, two industries account for an outsized share of total job lossesReutersFour years ago this month, the United States entered the great recession. As Friday...
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