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We Can't Wait to Help Young Americans Find Jobs

whitehouse.gov - Posted by Colleen Curtis on January 05, 2012 at 10:41 AM EST Your first job brings you more than just a steady paycheck – the experience teaches young people life and work skills that serve them lo...

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The Crane Deal's A Crock

schooltechconnect.com - I started to regret saying anything positive about the Crane “deal” the instant I heard that Rahm had praised it. In the very same nanosecond, I started to worry that the deal won't be what it seem...

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The Great Charter School Conspiracy « Wait, What?

jonpelto.wordpress.com - February 24, 2012 jonpelto Achievement First/ConnCAN, Charter Schools, Education, Malloy, Stefan Pryor Achievement First, ConnCAN, Education Reform, Malloy, Stefan Pryor The Hartford Courant headli...

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NY's Evaluation Plan--A Disaster Waiting to Happen

nyceducator.com - "Bullets are only one small part of the gun,"says Mike Klonsky, on whether VAM, or value-added, should be part of any evaluation system. This notwithstanding, there are various ways of looking at N...

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Charter School Segregation Target Of New Report

blackstarjournal.org - February 23, 2012 Charter schools often promise to bring greater equity to education, but a new brief starts with the assumption that they fall short in delivery — and provides recommendations to ...

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Teachers reject education award - Connecticut Post

ctpost.com - TRUMBULL -- Thanks, but no thanks. That sums up the letter fired off last week by some Trumbull teachers who have decided being recognized by Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, an education...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Medicaid: Help in Hard Times

huffingtonpost.com - February marks the third anniversary of the Child Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA), which has made significant improvements in health coverage for millions of children. About t...

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This week's safe schools snippets

ednewsparent.org - New York City: Five students arrested a day, police data show City school safety agents and police officers arrested an average of five public school students a day last fall, according to new data...

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Scott Walker's Koch Connection Goes Bad

thenation.com - Billionaire campaign donor David Koch has rarely spoken in public about the central role he has played in the election of Scott Walker as governor of Wisconsin, the defense of Walker's embattled go...

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The noise of change

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday he’s sensitive to the “noise associated with change.” -- Sun-Times Somehow the words, "sensitive" and "Rahm" just don't sound right in the same sentence. Chicago's ...

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Publication of Teacher “Data” Reports « JD2718

jd2718.wordpress.com - The court forced NYC to hand over the reports? That’s what Bloomberg claimed on the John Gambling Show on WOR: “I think what people miss is the courts have ordered us to release the data.” Typica...

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UC sued over student's drug-induced brain damage

sfgate.com - Sandy Huffaker / Special to The Chronicle Madelyn Bennett (right) gets help from aide Teresa Beatty in caring for her son John Gibson Bennett. The mother of a UC Berkeley student left severely brai...

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