One of the main plaintiffs’ witnesses in the Lobato v. State school funding lawsuit testified Monday that his study projects Colorado needs to spent $10.3 billion a year on K-12 schools, an increase of $3.6 billion.
Justin Silverstein is vice president of Augenblick, Palaich and Associates, a Denver-based research and consulting firm that produced a 96-page study projecting the funding Colorado school districts would need to support the demands of state requirements such as new content standards, tests and teacher evaluation systems. The firm was paid $115,000 by the plaintiffs for the study.
Other witnesses Monday included superintendents of two eastern plains districts, who provided chapter and
Staying in Washington long enough to insure that the Democrats promised to cut the budget and not raise taxes was very difficult for me because it meant delaying getting to know little Ayn Reagan Kimble. Since adopting her, she has been a dynamo in the campaign office for me, but unfortunately Washington business doesn't wait for
During the recent SOS March & National Call to Action event in DC, Mike Klonsky presented the idea of an SOS think/do tank. This is a fantastic idea--we need to present both policy critiques and alternatives, in addition to taking political action.
This was also very timely in light of a discussion that has had the blogosphere aflutter for the past few weeks. I am not qualified to comment too extensively on it with my limited background in political theory (I could barely follow it, save Kevin Drum’s contribution and I only have but so much patience for theoretical bullshitting even if it's really smart bullshitting), but it seems that it’s essentially an argument about theory versus action, and policy versus politics. Some seem to be saying, as much as they might wish otherwise, that given our current political system, there’s no real political solution for achieving progressive goals. Others counter that this amounts to an
nydailynews.com - Anthony DelMundo for News The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance at 125 Stuyvesant Avenue in Brooklyn is considered the most dangerous school in New York City. A Brooklyn high school co-founded by ...
ed.gov - August 8, 2011With the new school year fast approaching and still no bill to reform the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind, the Obama administration will provide a process for stat...
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Charles Blow"We risk the creation of an engorged generational underclass born of a culture that has less income equality and fewer prospects for mobility than the previous generation." -- The Decad...
defensedenver.com - The Grand Poo-Bah of Corporate Irresponsibility, Rupert Murdoch No, we’re not joking. The New York Times reported on July 23, 2011, that: Mr. Murdoch began to put his own money behind Mr. Klein’s e...
management.fortune.cnn.com - By Geoff Colvin, senior editor at large FORTUNE -- Some people aren't at all surprised by the unending scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. They are the investors, insurers, lawyers, and others w...
citypaper.net - Two new studies show that the Philadelphia region is one of the most separate and unequal when it comes to neighborhoods and schools for blacks, whites, Hispanics and Asians. You can download them ...
takepart.com - Melanie Smollin | 1 hour ago | Comments (0) |Flag thisIs a former substitute teacher qualified to reform our classrooms? (Photo: sidewalkflying/Creative Commons)They are among the most influential ...
brookings.edu - August 08, 2011 — The White House has announced its plan to grant waivers of the provisions of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) to states that agree to put in place the education reforms favored by the ...
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 3:35 pm, August 8, 2011 Photo Credits: TSA Accused of Racially Profiling Hispanics at Newark Airport According an internal report from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA),...
forbes.com - London is ablaze after the police shooting of Mark Duggan sparked riots that have quickly spread across the city. Last Thursday police in London shot and killed Mark Duggan, a north London drug dea...
democraticunderground.com - Source: Raw StoryThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Monday refused to dismiss a lawsuit against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for creating policies that caused Ameri...
rollingstone.com - By Tim Dickinson August 3, 2011 9:05 AM ET Illustration by Robert Grossman Rupert Murdoch would like you to believe that the voicemail-hacking scandal at the News of the World "went against everyth...
nytimes.com - To understand the furor over the decision by Standard & Poor’s, the rating agency, to downgrade U.S. government debt, you have to hold in your mind two seemingly (but not actually) contradictory id...
chicagonewscoop.org - Union representatives for city traffic aides who are facing imminent layoffs filed a labor grievance Tuesday against Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration. In the grievance letter, officials for Serv...
suntimes.com - By Susan Klonsky August 4, 2011 9:44PM Updated: August 5, 2011 10:26AM Living close to two expressway overpasses, I often notice carefully stashed bundles, shopping carts, sleeping bags and cardboa...
huffingtonpost.com - Dear Mom and Dad,It's almost back to school time. I've been thinking about the coming year. I know I'm not an expert, but after seven years of going to school, something seems wrong. Don't misunder...
garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - First watch the two minutes from 20:30 to 22:50 (up until the moderator asks Rhee if she is a ‘Tiger Mom’) of this excerpt from an interview Michelle Rhee did recently.Now, the video really speaks ...
nytimes.com - The Lazarus-like recovery of the nation’s big banks did not benefit just the bankers — it also created huge paydays for hedge fund managers, including a record $4 billion gain in 2009 for one bold ...
online.wsj.com - News Corp. executives will try to use an important board meeting and full-year earnings this week to steer attention away from the scandal at the media giant's U.K. newspapers unit and refocus inve...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: Made MenMade Menby DukeAs George Carlin said: "It's a big club, and you ain't in it!" As it turns out, a News Corporation division has twice come under significant civil and crimina...
boston.com - MEMPHIS, Tenn.—A federal judge has ruled that the merger between Memphis City Schools and its surrounding county school district is legal.It paves the way to create a school system with 150,000 stu...
democraticunderground.com - Source: CNNJackson, Mississippi (CNN) -- On a recent Sunday morning just before dawn, two carloads of white teenagers drove to Jackson, Mississippi, on what the county district attorney says was a ...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - All Education Matters: OP-Ed: Freedom of Speech Under Attack - Rockstar05's Attorney Files Motion to Quash Thomas M Cooley Law School's SubpoenaOP-Ed: Freedom of Speech Under Attack - Rockstar05's ...
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