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After 11 Years, a Police Leader Hits Turbulence
nytimes.com - The officers who stand sentinel over New York’s streets and run the station houses rarely intersect with the police commissioner. They see the man they call “boss” at Police Academy graduations, at...
GoLocalProv | News | Aaron Regunberg: The Story Achievement First Doesn’t Want You to Hear
golocalprov.com - Email to a friend PermalinkFriday, February 03, 2012Aaron Regunberg, GoLocalProv MINDSETTER™ As I’m sure many have already heard, yesterday the Board of Regents voted to approve Achievement First...
Harlem Success Acad After School Activity: Marching Kids Up and Down Stairs For An Hour How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other NYC Educator: A Fine Day for a Sellout Is Tenure a Strike Issue?Moskowitz Aims Charters at
ednotesonline.blogspot.com - Norm- Just spent 20 minutes watching Eva's staff at HSA (redacted to protect personnel from the usual vicious Moskowitz retaliation) make approx. a dozen kids march two by two down the hallways -...
Arts for LA
advocate.artsforla.org - Your Letter: As a community member in your district, I am writing to urge you to maintain LAUSD's elementary arts education program. Arts are core curriculum for students in California, and help to...
New York Students Walkout Against School Closures
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Susan Ohanian's Testing Outrages (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)
susanohanian.org - NCTE Allegiance to the Common Core Is Burying UsNOTE: I tend to be quite tolerant of people holding pedagogies differing from mine: critical, maybe, but tolerant. But the Common Core Curriculum iss...
In Texas, a Backlash Against Student Testing
nytimes.com - When Christopher Chamness entered the third grade last year, he began to get stomach aches before school. His mother, Edy, said the fire had gone out of a child who she said had previously gone joy...
Arts for LA
advocate.artsforla.org - Your Letter: As a community member in your district, I am writing to urge you to maintain LAUSD's elementary arts education program. Arts are core curriculum for students in California, and help to...
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In Spite of Elections and "Camping Bans," Revolutionary Wave Grows
occupywallst.org - A look back at Occupy Oakland before it was razed. In a world devastated by poverty, austerity cuts, and bank foreclosures, community action such as Occupy Oakland’s recent attempt to turn a dereli...
Why we need ENDA – you can still be fired in most states for being LGBT – ask Ellen
pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com - I guess that I shouldn’t find it shocking anymore when I speak to people — many progressives, mind you — who have no idea that you can lose your job for being LGBT. As in, if your employer is a hom...
Occupy Oakland Provides a Lens Into The Deep Dysfunction at OPD
baycitizen.org - Adi Sambamurthy/The Bay Citizen Occupy protesters clash with officers from the Alameda County Sheriff's Department at the Port of Oakland. On the afternoon of Jan. 28, as the police grappled with O...
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Approaching the end of my teaching career and labeled “toxic.” « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - I didn’t want it to end this way. After nearly 30 years of teaching I will be retiring in June. And I’ve loved doing what I do. I loved it a lot last night. My last school Open House. My room was f...
Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » My coffee with an SFC creep
pureparents.org - Yesterday I had coffee (well, more on that later) with a top organizer for Chicago’s astroturf branch of Stand for Children. He had asked to meet in response to my blog about SFC’s recent telephone...
Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Week 19: New Horizons
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Week 19: New Horizons: Week 18: What happens with the sub, stays with the sub… by alicemercer I’m coming back after some time off for a confe...
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BBC News - Moscow: Thousands join pro- and anti
bbc.co.uk - 4 February 2012 Last updated at 03:59 ET Protesters have been urged to wrap up warmly for temperatures as low as -19C Thousands of people are marching in Russia's capital Moscow in protest at Prime...
Arizona: Panel Votes to Ban Collective Bargaining
nytimes.com - A State Senate committee voted Wednesday to ban collective bargaining with public employee unions, a change that would be felt in school districts and local governments. The Government Reform Commi...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release February 04, 2012 Thirty years after his father massacred tens of thousands of innocent Syrian men, women, and children in Hama, ...
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Sunday’s Super Bowl brings national attention to the perils of right-to-work legislation
epi.org - Despite a dearth of proof to substantiate claims that right-to-work laws help create jobs and raise wages—and in spite of fierce opposition from activists and groups across the country, including t...
Who Would Pay the Governor’s Proposed Tax Increase? « California Budget Bites
californiabudgetbites.org - The Governor’s Proposed 2012-13 Budget assumes the passage of a ballot measure that would add three new rates to the state’s income tax on high-income Californians and add a new 0.5 percent sales t...
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Who Would Pay the Governor’s Proposed Tax Increase? « California Budget Bites
californiabudgetbites.org - The Governor’s Proposed 2012-13 Budget assumes the passage of a ballot measure that would add three new rates to the state’s income tax on high-income Californians and add a new 0.5 percent sales t...