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Think Progress: Despite Budget Crisis, Arizona Lawmakers Propose Generous Tax Breaks For Subprime Schools *March 15, 2011-* For several months, Arizona has been grappling with a budget crisis, with its deficit for this year projected to be $825 million and next year’s standing at $1.4 billion. Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ) used the budget shortfall to cut off ...
The Media Consortium: Weekly Audit: Massive Protest In Wisconsin Shows Walker’s Overreach *March 15, 2011- *About 100,000 people gathered in Madison, Wisconsin to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s new anti-collective bargaining law. The state Senate hurriedly past the bill without a quorum last Wednesday. Roger Bybee of Working In These Times ...
Cenk Uygur: Wisconsin & Anonymous Strike Back! WATCH ON YOUTUBE: *For links to MoveYourMoney and other organizations, visit our Links and Take Action pages.*
American Independent: Has Koch Industries’ investment in Marco Rubio paid off? *March 14, 2011-* On Friday, The American Independent reported that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) received more Koch Industries money than any other candidate for U.S. Senate in the 2010 election, and many of his other major contributors have personal ...
Protesting Governor Rick Snyder at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing (3/15/11) PART 1 WATCH ON YOUTUBE: read more
Unequal Protection, Part I: Corporations Take Over *(Note: Thom Hartmann's book Unequal Protection is being serialized online by Truthout.org. This is a portion of the first installment. To receive future instllemnt via email, visit Truthout.org and subscribe.)* *Chapter 1: The Deciding Moment?* ...
Huffington Post: Wisconsin Governor's Allies Ran a Toxic Bailout Bank... and Got Rich *March 14, 2011-* People in Wisconsin are pulling their money out of Marshall & Ilsley (M&I) Bank because they know it's been helping their Governor's crusade against public employees and the middle class. They might also like to know that M&I's ...
John Nichols, The Nation, interviews Susan Sarandon in Madison, WI WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
American Independent: Florida’s Marco Rubio is Senate’s largest recipient of Koch money *March 11, 2011- *Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has made no secret of his pro-business agenda since taking office in January. It may come as little surprise, then, that his campaign was backed largely by the industries he now supports. Data obtained by ...
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#EDUSolidarity – Why I’m Standing Up « Outside the Cave #p2 #wiunion

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#EDUSolidarity – Why I’m Standing Up

by Stephen Lazar

Saturday, I found myself explaining for the umpteenth time why I, as a good teacher, would support teachers’ unions, let alone be a chapter leader. I was jotting down some notes for a blog entry, but then thought this might be worth getting bigger.

I got in touch with Ken Bernstein and Jose Vilson, both of whom I met at the recent EWA Seminar I attended, and Jonathan Halabi, who I know through my local UFT, to discuss the idea, and we decided to move forward with it. We reached out to educators we knew and respected as excellent teachers, and the idea of #EDUSolidarity was born. Our formal letter of invitation follows.

I hope you’ll join us in writing on March 22. If you don’t have a blog of your own, I am happy to publish guest posts on mine.

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Fellow Educators,

As we all know, teachers and our unions, along with those of other public sector employees, face unprecedented attacks in the national media and from local and state governments. It is easy for politicians and the media to

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School Tech Connect: BYOC Saturday

School Tech Connect: BYOC Saturday

BYOC Saturday

by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
Bring Your Own Clipboard!

Jan Schakowsky is organizing a friendly flotilla of carpooling canvassers this Saturday to head north past the Cheddar Curtain for signatures. You can either be a passenger or a driver. It's fun, believe me. If you have not canvassed a neighborhood before, you can hang with me. Hilarity will ensue and irony will abound.

Rides are leaving at 9:00 AM from:
Democratic Party of Evanston
821 Chicago Avenue, Evanston

It isn't clear to me which district we'll be targeting, but I
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Schools Matter: Guess Who Said It...

Schools Matter: Guess Who Said It...

Guess Who Said It...

by Kenneth Libby
From an e-mail list...

This is almost worthy of a STOP THE PRESSES: I actually AGREE with Diane Ravitch about something! In her appearance on The Daily Show recently, she said, “I don’t think America is overrun by bad teachers. I think America is overrun by too much poverty, too much poverty among children.” We can quibble over the meaning of “overrun” – there are WAY too many bad teachers, which Ravitch refuses to acknowledge – but she’s right that childhood poverty is a crisis in this country, which is, in general, a moral outrage, but it also has a profound impact on the ability of children to learn. What got me thinking about this was watching a 60 Minutes segment that aired on March 6th (www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/06/60minutes/main20038927.shtml) entitled “Homeless children: the hard times generation,” which profiled numerous families and kids in Florida who’d lost their homes and were living in cars or motels. It broke my heart.

Here’s a summary of the statistics from the National Center for Children in Poverty
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