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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...

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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. ...

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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...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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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. ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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