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Mayor Bloomberg Defends Call to Cut Teachers by Half
dnainfo.com - Mayor Michael Bloomberg high-fived a student at the new Spruce Street School Sept. 8, 2011. (Mayor's Office) MANHATTAN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg went on the defensive Friday over comments he made t...
New Alabama education policy director to push for charter schools
blog.al.com - Gov. Robert Bentley's new education policy director has worked under some controversial regimes in high-profile efforts to turn around failing schools.Emily Schultz, 28, began her job as Bentley's ...
White Hat employees told company must boost enrollment, profits
ohio.com - Akron businessman David Brennan told employees of White Hat Management last month that his family can no longer afford to subsidize the company he founded in 1998 and owns.White Hat is one of the c...
Naomi Wolf: The crackdown on Occupy controversy: a rebuttal | Comment is free
guardian.co.uk - What a firestorm my Comment is free blog post in the Guardian, "The Shocking News Behind the Crackdown on Occupy", has unleashed: some have praised, while others have attacked. Joshua Holland's cri...
Romney and Gingrich, from bad to worse
washingtonpost.com - Gingrich, however, embodies the vanity and rapacity that make modern Washington repulsive. And there is his anti-conservative confidence that he has a comprehensive explanation of, and plan to perf...
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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. ...
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. ...
Class sizes sharply rising & 7,000 violations this fall despite Bloomberg campaign promises
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - It’s been a busy week. On Wednesday there was a spirited rally on the steps of Tweed to protest the continued cuts to school budgets, the loss of art, music & afterschool program, and the sharp in...
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EAG’s Kyle Olson exposes kindergarten teacher’s use of “Click Clack Moo. Cows that Type,” to indoctrinate students. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Back a few years, religious con-man Pat Robertson accused Sponge Bob Square Pants of being Gay. Of course, who knows? Maybe Bob is Gay. I don’t care. The latest right-wing loony accusation is deliv...
“Legislative Laundry” -- Investigative Report on the Mechanics of the ALEC Scholarship Fund
prwatch.org - The Center for Media and Democracy is reposting Beau Hodai's investigation of so-called "scholarships" funded by corporations to bring state politicians to gatherings of the American Legislative Ex...
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...
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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...
Newt Gingrich Doesn't Like Poor Children
theroot.com - A word from Newt Gingrich, front-runner in the GOP 2012 primaries: Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods, have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works, so they have ...
All Education Matters: Seriously Subversive: Why We Desperately Need a Debtors' Strike
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - All Education Matters: Seriously Subversive: Why We Desperately Need a Debtors' Strike:Seriously Subversive: Why We Desperately Need a Debtors' Strikeby Cryn JohannsenThis piece was published over ...
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ALEC Exposed: The Koch Connection
thenation.com - This article is part of a Nation series exposing the American Legislative Exchange Council, in collaboration with the Center For Media and Democracy. John Nichols introduces the series. Hundreds ...
Revealed: how police lost control of summer riots in first crucial 48 hours
democraticunderground.com - Source: The ObserverFrontline police had to use their own mobile phones during the August riots, after the official radio system collapsed and some forces lost control of the situation to the exten...
Occupy Empire | Dissident Voice #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Occupy Empire | Dissident Voice:Occupy Empireby William BlumWhen the Vietnam War became history, and the protest signs and the bullhorns were put away, so too was the serious side of most protestor...
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EXEC SUMMARY OF THE LAUSD/UTLA LOCAL SCHOOL STABILIZATION AND EMPOWERMENT INITITIVE OF 2011 ("The Tentative Agreement") +
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE LAUSD/UTLA LOCAL SCHOOL STABILIZATION AND EMPOWERMENT INITITIVE OF 2011 ("The Tentative Agreement") + STATEMENT OF JOINT INTERE...
School Lunches and the Food Industry - NYTimes.com
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Lunches and the Food Industry - NYTimes.com:How the Food Industry Eats Your Kid’s LunchHeather Ainsworth for The New York TimesStudents at Gates Chili Middle School last month in Rochester. ...
Death by Healthy Doses
dissidentvoice.org - They buried Bouldergrass today. The cause of death was listed as “media-induced health.” Bouldergrass had begun his health crusade more than a decade ago when he began reading more than the sports ...
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Herman Cain's supporters shocked by campaign's end
latimes.com - Reporting from Atlanta— Kerry Hobbs was one of the many Herman Cain supporters who absorbed the festive vibe at the candidate’s newly opened Georgia headquarters Saturday and couldn’t believe that ...
Fox News In Chicago Pleads To Viewers “We Promise We’ll Be Better” « CAFFEINATED POLITICS
dekerivers.wordpress.com - Sometimes it is best to say nothing. It’s a good thing there’s no one watching Fox Chicago’s noon newscast. Otherwise, there might be hell to pay for the train wreck that aired Wednesday. It was on...
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EXEC SUMMARY OF THE LAUSD/UTLA LOCAL SCHOOL STABILIZATION AND EMPOWERMENT INITITIVE OF 2011 ("The Tentative Agreement") +
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE LAUSD/UTLA LOCAL SCHOOL STABILIZATION AND EMPOWERMENT INITITIVE OF 2011 ("The Tentative Agreement") + STATEMENT OF JOINT INTERE...
The Parent Trigger fails in California « Parents Across America
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Parent Trigger fails in California « Parents Across America:The Parent Trigger fails in Californiaby CarolineSFBy Caroline Grannan, San FranciscoParents Across America founding memberThe Parent...
Schools Matter: Michelle Newsum: Reclaiming Reform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: Michelle Newsum: Reclaiming Reform:Michelle Newsum: Reclaiming Reformby skrashenReclaiming ReformBy Michelle NewsumPublished in the Advocate, December, 2011, p. 13advocate@coosdems....
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Herman Cain's supporters shocked by campaign's end
latimes.com - Reporting from Atlanta— Kerry Hobbs was one of the many Herman Cain supporters who absorbed the festive vibe at the candidate’s newly opened Georgia headquarters Saturday and couldn’t believe that ...