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Hundreds protest Lehman High School turnaround plan
bronxpresspolitics.blogspot.com - By MIAWLING LAMFormer Bronx teacher and education activist Peter Lamphere speaks during a rally to save Lehman High School.THE odds are stacked against them, but more than 200 former and current st...
IFF Study Released to Criticism of Research Methodology
realeducationreformdc.blogspot.com - Quality Schools, Every Child, Every Neighborhood Indeed A response by Teachers and Parents for Real Education Reform The Illinois Facilities Fund report titled: Quality Schools, Every School, E...
Florida Parent Trigger Bills Would Allow Parents To Fire Teachers, Turn Schools To Charters
huffingtonpost.com - Two bills in the Florida legislature would give parents overarching power to demand sweeping changes at low-performing schools.Under the first parent trigger proposal -- House Bill 1191, or the Par...
Race to the Top costs leave schools behind | The Journal News | LoHud.com
lohud.com - Race to the Top, the Obama administration’s ambitious but controversial education initiative, is turning out to be a major expense for local school districts at a time they can least afford it.When...
John Kuhn on Education Funding in Texas: There is a Hole in the Bucket - Living in Dialogue
blogs.edweek.org - Part 1 of 2Guest post by John Kuhn."There's a hole in the bucket, Dear Liza, Dear Liza."At the root of the school reform debate as I see it is a fundamental disagreement about causality. No one dis...
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Teachers Demand Arne Duncan’s Removal
laprogressive.com - Barack Obama, Arne DuncanEducators Letter to President Obama Now Online and Ready For SignaturesHere is the link to the Educators Letter to President Obama that asks him to withdraw his support of ...
Financial Improprieties Alleged at All-Girls Charter School Network – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Jan. 30, 2012, 3:12 p.m. A New York City charter school network has told parents that it is a victim of theft by “a senior member of the finance and operations department,” who it said used the net...
View of SOTU from right field
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - My friend called me yesterday. She sounded irate. "Do you read the Tribune?" she asks. I try not to but can't avoid it sometimes, I respond. "Did you read that column Sunday by Steve Chapman?" No I...
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CPS Board, Michael Scott, Rufus Williams Investigated for Spending on Alcohol, Parties, Bug Sweeps
myfoxchicago.com - Chicago - The inspector general for Chicago's Public Schools is investigating more than $800,000 in spending under former School Board Presidents Michael Scott and Rufus Williams. The spending in q...
Journalists—Myself Included—Swept Up in Mass Arrest at Occupy Oakland
motherjones.com - Occupy Oakland protesters flee as police attempt to kettle them ahead of Saturday's mass arrest. Glenn Halog/FlickrOn Saturday, Occupy Oakland re-entered the national spotlight during a day-long ef...
12 Arrested at NYC March for Oakland Protesters - New York Times (blog)
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - Telegraph.co.uk12 Arrested at NYC March for Oakland ProtestersNew York Times (blog)By COLIN MOYNIHAN Robert Stolarik for The New York TimesOccupy Wall Street protesters faced off with the police in...
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Bloomberg Defends 9/11 Memorial Salaries - Metropolis
blogs.wsj.com - By Michael Howard SaulAssociated Press Some of the first visitors to the National September 11 Memorial last year.New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the nearly $300,000 in severance pai...
Walcott calls state evaluation law “broken” during lobbying trip
gothamschools.org - When Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued his state budget speech two weeks ago, he offered a stark choice to districts and unions working on new teacher evaluations: agree, or face the consequences. In Albany...
Wis.: At least 160 bargaining units want to remain
articles.boston.com - Anger over that law spawned recall elections last year that saw two Republican state senators lose their seats. Walker, his lieutenant governor and four more Republican state senators are being tar...
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Buyout Profits Keep Flowing to Romney
nytimes.com - Almost 13 years ago, Mitt Romney left Bain Capital, the successful private equity firm he had helped start, and moved to Utah to rescue the Salt Lake City Olympic Games and begin a second career in...
Freddie Mac Bets Against American Homeowners
propublica.org - Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage giant, has placed multibillion-dollar bets that pay off if homeowners stay trapped in expensive mortgages with interest rates well above current rates.Fredd...
It’s Time to Close the Deal « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - On Friday, January 27, President Obama followed up on a promise made in his State of the Union Address by creating a new working group to aggressively investigate the abuses that triggered the hous...
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At Least 20 People Shot This Weekend
nbcchicago.com - advertisement At least 20 people, including a 10-year-girl, a 16-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy, have been wounded in shootings throughout the city since Friday evening. Half of these shooting...
10-Year-Old Among Victims Of Weekend Violence
huffingtonpost.com - At least 20 people, including one child and several teens, have been wounded so far during a violent and unseasonably warm weekend in Chicago.The violence began Friday evening and continued into Su...
Former campus aide suing LAUSD, claiming discrimination in firing from Lawrence Middle School
dailynews.com - An ex-campus aide -- and former PTA president -- at a Chatsworth middle school has sued the Los Angeles school district for age, gender and racial discrimination. Nina Austin says she was wrongfull...
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U.S. Drones Stir Outrage in Iraq; Fleet May Grow
nytimes.com - BAGHDAD — A month after the last American troops left Iraq, the State Department is operating a small fleet of surveillance drones here to help protect the United States Embassy and consulates, as ...
Explosion at downtown flour silo sends cap 150 feet
latimesblogs.latimes.com - January 30, 2012 | 6:53 pm A large cap blew about 150 feet from a silo as it was being filled with flour Monday evening in downtown Los Angeles, officials said.The silo, about 60 feet tall and 30 ...
Occupy protest resurfaces in Oakland after lull
northjersey.com - OAKLAND, Calif. — It started peacefully enough: A midday rally at City Hall and a march. But as the day wore on, Oakland was hit by the most turbulent protests in weeks as Occupy demonstrators clas...
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Sabrina Stevens Shupe: Why the #EdSOTU Matters
huffingtonpost.com - (Or, A Tale of Two Speeches)Over at Teacher in a Strange Land, Nancy Flanagan asked, ""Who speaks for public education?"I'd answer that a lot of people do (for better, and for worse) but we don't a...
Sabrina Stevens Shupe: Why the #EdSOTU Matters
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Sabrina Stevens Shupe: Why the #EdSOTU Matters:Sabrina Stevens ShupeTeacher-turned-activist; WriterGET UPDATES FROM SABRINA STEVENS SHUPE Like12Why the #EdSOTU MattersPosted: 01/29/2012 6:25 pmOr, ...
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Financial Improprieties Alleged at All-Girls Charter School Network – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Jan. 30, 2012, 3:12 p.m. A New York City charter school network has told parents that it is a victim of theft by “a senior member of the finance and operations department,” who it said used the net...
