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Obama’s Education Record : Education Next
educationnext.org - Does the reality match the rhetoric? By Michael Petrilli and Tyson Eberhardt | Print | NO PDF | Share SPRING 2012 / VOL. 12, NO. 2 We are now entering the fourth and final year of the first term of...
Lavielle Calls for Mandate Relief for Top-Performing School Districts
wilton.patch.com - “We must close the achievement gap from the bottom up, not from the top down!” HARTFORD – Rep. Gail Lavielle (R-143), a member of the General Assembly’s Education Committee, today called for mandat...
Education as "Politically Contested Spaces"
dailykos.com - "Politically Contested Spaces" First, let me offer where I believe the discussion of education as political (or not) often becomes distorted. We must begin this discussion with a clarification of t...
New York Judge Rules Town Can Ban Gas Hydrofracking
nytimes.com - In a victory for opponents of the drilling process known as hydrofracking, a New York State judge ruled on Tuesday that the upstate town of Dryden in Tompkins County can ban natural gas drilling wi...
New York's new statewide teacher evaluations mean public ridicule for many hard-working instructors in the city
nydailynews.com - Mario Tama/Getty Images Mayor Bloomberg’s teacher evaluation plans are nothing to be clap about. Critics say the rankings will be inaccurate and not measure other important contributions teachers m...
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“It’s Gotten So Bad” | Occupied Chicago Tribune
occupiedchicagotribune.org - By Joel Handley “We worry more about our students now more than we ever have in the past.” Since the latest Chicago Public Schools “reform” efforts began in 1996, Orr Academy High School in the Wes...
“It’s Gotten So Bad” | Occupied Chicago Tribune
occupiedchicagotribune.org - By Joel Handley “We worry more about our students now more than we ever have in the past.” Since the latest Chicago Public Schools “reform” efforts began in 1996, Orr Academy High School in the Wes...
New grading formula could mean more F’s for Miami-Dade, Broward schools - Schools
miamiherald.com - New projections released Tuesday by state education officials indicate the number of failing schools in Miami-Dade could climb to 50, from the current five. Broward’s F schools could spike to 27, f...
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Average of five students arrested per day at city schools last fall
gothamschools.org - Students and advocates rally at police headquarters after the release of data on arrests and police incidents at city schools. Police officers arrested more students and handed out more tickets in ...
Five Students Arrested a Day, Police Data Show – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Feb. 22, 2012, 3:03 p.m. City school safety agents and police officers arrested an average of five public school students a day last fall, according to new data released by the New York Police Depa...
Court Keeps City’s Homeless Shelters Open to Those Who May Have Options
nytimes.com - Saying New York City had failed to follow its own procedure for making rules, a State Supreme Court judge ruled on Tuesday that the Bloomberg administration could not impose a new, much tighter set...
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Yard sale. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - When I walk out of school on June 8th it will be with lots of memories and hands free. The few personal belongs that I have in and on my desk will have been taken home by then. Everything else stay...
Kids are Heroes - Kids are making a difference in this world
kidsareheroes.org - Kids are indeed heroes and each one has the power tochange the world.
Randall Amster: Debt of Gratitude: Less Earning, More Learning
huffingtonpost.com - I'd like to share a story, a personal story, a common story, an American story. For nearly two decades, I have carried the burden of a crushing student loan debt, well over six figures and impossib...
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Strauss-Kahn freed after French police questioning – USATODAY.com
usatoday.com - PARIS (AP) – French police released former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Wednesday after nearly 30 hours in custody for questioning about a suspected hotel prostitutio...
Student uses pepper spray at Concord elementary school; no classmates hurt
contracostatimes.com - Children at an elementary school received a lesson in the danger of messing with pepper spray Tuesday, when one student sprayed the gas in the direction of two others.Nobody was injured in the 1 p....
Supt. Deasy orders new look at L.A.'s teacher misconduct reports
latimesblogs.latimes.com - L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy has ordered his staff to submit or re-submit reports to the state credentialing commission on hundreds of teachers accused of misconduct over the last four years. Deas...
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Coal Power: Warming America, Warming The Planet
americascoalpower.org - Thanks to the hard work of America's 600 coal-fired power plants and the miracle of carbon dioxide and methane, we could see a noticeably warmer climate by 2050 -- maybe even sooner. With your cont...
Mercury spewing from power plants — again!!? « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - This might be a face kids put on to make their friends laugh, but it’s never a face parents want to see for real. Respiratory illness is rampant in this country, with more than 7 million kids suffe...
New York Judge Rules Town Can Ban Gas Hydrofracking
nytimes.com - In a victory for opponents of the drilling process known as hydrofracking, a New York State judge ruled on Tuesday that the upstate town of Dryden in Tompkins County can ban natural gas drilling wi...
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Obama Offers to Cut Corporate Tax Rate to 28%
nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — President Obama will ask Congress to scrub the corporate tax code of dozens of loopholes and subsidies to reduce the top rate to 28 percent, down from 35 percent, while giving preferen...
Obama to propose corporate tax rate of 28 percent
democraticunderground.com - (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Wednesday will propose cutting the top tax rate for corporations to 28 percent, and pay for it by eliminating dozens of tax loopholes companies now use to lo...
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The Prescience of Rev. Calvin Morris
schooltechconnect.com - Just to review... The administration came up with a plan to "turnaround" x number of neighborhood schools. They had a series of hearings marked by overwhelming opposition. Today, the board is going...
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Activists, Parents 'Occupy' School Slated for Turnaround
occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com - Parents and activists from Occupy Chicago seize Piccolo Elementary School on city's west side to stop mayor and city council from firing entire staff. Days before the Chicago Board of Education is ...
