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What has Florida Governor Rick Scott done for you? | Dailycensored.com

What has Florida Governor Rick Scott done for you? | Dailycensored.com

What has Florida Governor Rick Scott done for you?

Rick Scott has implemented his own business plan in Florida. He believes that, since he was a CEO, states should be run the same way a business is run. In doing so, he believes that he knows best how to run the state of Florida and has proceeded in ignoring most of its voters.

in the high tradition of the 2010 GOP, Republican supermajorities in Florida passed laws banning abortion coverage in private health insurance plans, baggy pants, bath salts, bestiality, and firearm regulation by local governments. They also tried to pass a measure requiring the Division of Recreation and Parks to hire Jack Nicklaus Design to build golf courses in every state park in Florida and create the Jack Nicklaus Golf Trail. Fortunately, that one failed, but the voter suppression bill passed, ensuring that working voters, students and those voters most likely to vote Democrat won’t have as

“..bring him, he will die at the airport!!!” The case of Edson Cosmas

Posting on a Tanzanian web message board, translated from Swahili: one of many abusive and threatening posts about Edson Cosmas, gay activist threatened with deportation to Tanzania Edson “Eddy” Cosmas is a young gay man from Tanzania (TZ) facing imminent deportation from the UK where he applied for, but was denied, asylum. He is [...]


The Best Posts About Attrition Rates At So-Called “Miracle” Schools | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

The Best Posts About Attrition Rates At So-Called “Miracle” Schools | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

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‘A voice constantly out there speaking truth’

uft.org - 2011 Dewey Award winner Linda Darling-Hammond Miller PhotographyLinda Darling-Hammond (center) receives the union’s prestigious John Dewey Award from UFT President Michael Mulgrew and Vice Presiden...
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Chicago Shopping

chicagotribune.com - A year ago, students at Marshall Metropolitan High School seemed oblivious to the class bell. They'd linger in the hallways, chat with friends, talk on cellphones. Then last summer the adults in th...
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Weprin: Bloomberg Testing Regimen ‘Insane’

politickerny.com - In light of today’s A1 New York Times story about the Bloomberg administration’s plans to administer a dozen new standardized tests in order to evaluate not students, but teachers, Queens City Coun...
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Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - The Facebook pages of my older friends all had messages about Gil Scott-Heron this morning. He died Friday. He was my age. Youtube videos. Quotes from his lyrics. Memories. In the mid-70s, if you w...
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Police Clash With Protesters in Barcelona

thelede.blogs.nytimes.com - Video posted on YouTube by Jordi Salvia, a Catalan blogger, of police officers in Barcelona using force to clear protesters from a central square. Updated | 12:59 p.m. BARCELONA, Spain — After near...
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Gil. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - News item: Gil Scott-Heron dies at the age of 62. Looking for a way Out of this confusion I’m looking for a sign Carry me home Let me lay down by a stream And let me be miles from everything Rivers...
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NYC Educator: Spam-o-rific

nyceducator.com - Every few days I get spam comments. Often they're from some sort of essay-writing company that helps kids or college students cheat. I don't much care for companies like that, and if Disqus doesn't...
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Questions Follow Leader of For-Profit Colleges

nytimes.com - In 2004, when Todd S. Nelson was chief executive of the University of Phoenix, the nation’s largest for-profit college, he signed a $9.8 million settlement with the Department of Education, which f...
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SB 512

teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com - “This legislation seeks not only to increase the membership contribution one time, it seeks to put the membership contribution on an escalating scale that is recalculated every three years… It is i...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release May 28, 2011 President Barack Obama, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced several new i...
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DOJ (WI) Asks Supreme Court To Lift Ban On Union Law

democraticunderground.com - Source: WISN 12 NewsDOJ Asks Supreme Court To Lift Ban On Union LawJudge Maryann Sumi Invalidates Law On ThursdayPOSTED: 10:17 pm CDT May 27, 2011UPDATED: 10:30 pm CDT May 27, 2011MADISON, Wis. -- ...
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