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Pennsylvania Schools’ Financing Fight Pits District Against ‘Charter on Steroids’
nytimes.com - CHESTER, Pa. — The Chester Upland School District is more than $20 million in debt, its bank account is almost empty and it cannot afford to pay teachers past the end of this month. To ...
Parents say Loudoun officials reaching too far to stop school tardies
washingtonpost.com - Last Tuesday evening, as the Denicore kids sat down to do homework, a Loudoun County sheriff’s deputy appeared on their doorstep, court summons in hand. The charge: Too many school tardies, a Class...
Raymond W. Kelly, N.Y.P.D. Commissioner, Runs Into 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...
School vouchers have yet to prove their success definitively
nola.com - The state's private-school voucher program in New Orleans -- the test case for Gov. Bobby Jindal's new statewide voucher push -- has yet to produce enough raw data to show whether it is really boos...
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Column: Inspiring models of community engagement in Greater Minnesota | Worthington Daily Globe
dglobe.com - ST. PAUL — In the lakes-and-woods landscape surrounding Grand Rapids in north central Minnesota, a wide array of community leaders have banded together with seven school districts in several counti...
Pennsylvania Schools’ Financing Fight Pits District Against ‘Charter on Steroids’
nytimes.com - CHESTER, Pa. — The Chester Upland School District is more than $20 million in debt, its bank account is almost empty and it cannot afford to pay teachers past the end of this month. To ...
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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FDL Book Salon Welcomes Jeffrey Clements, Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It
fdlbooksalon.com - Welcome Jeff Clements (FreeSpeechForPeople) and Host, George Zornick (TheNation) [As a courtesy to our guests, please keep comments to the book and be respectful of dissenting opinions. Please take...
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...
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Dazed and Confused
nytimes.com - It’s 1976. I am 15 and have been “asked to leave” the progressive private school in Brooklyn Heights I’ve attended since age 4. This is not a surprise. I have been playing hooky all year, hanging o...
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...
Special Edition Of “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t”
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - (Usually, I just post a weekly version of this regular feature. However, sometimes I post an extra “Special Edition” when I have more good links than usual) I have a huge backlog of resources that ...
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Rahm lures Hitler's favorite company to Chicago
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Here's what they brought with them I heard the mayor boasting the other day about how he had lured the German-based company, ThyssenKrupp to Chicago to set up it's regional headquarters. Rahm cla...
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...
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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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German manufacturer faces racial harassment allegations as it prepares new Chicago headquarters - chicagotribune.com
chicagotribune.com - As it prepares to make Chicago its North American headquarters, the German-based ThyssenKrupp manufacturing company is facing allegations that Chicago area supervisors created a hostile and intimid...
Facebook's Superwoman COO Poised to Enter Billionaire Boys' Club - Business
theatlanticwire.com - The New York Times has a profile today of Sheryl Sandberg, the second-in-command at Facebook, whose personal fortune could reach $1.6 billion should all go as planned with the social networking beh...
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New York Students Walkout Against School Closures
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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 2-4 #edreform #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm lures Hitler's favorite company to Chicago Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 1 minute ago Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm lures Hitler's fa...
Schools Matter: Occupy the Unions #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Schools Matter: Occupy the Unions:Occupy the Unionsby Judy RabinLois Weiner, a professor at New Jersey City University, has an excellent article in the Winter issue ofNewPolitics titled Teacher Uni...
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...
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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 2-4 #edreform #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm lures Hitler's favorite company to Chicago Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 1 minute ago Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm lures Hitler's fa...
Teachers Don't Suck ! #edreform #sosmarch Back to the Future
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Teachers Don't Suck !:Back to the FutureBack in the “old days” of teaching, the 1960s and 1970s, teachers and the teaching profession fought long and hard to gain bargaining rights and respect. Pri...
Last Week's Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRank 2-4 #ows #EDreform #sosmarch #p2 #1u
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Last Week's Best Posts on Big Education Ape » PostRank Hide7.8 #AskArne SEND HELP! - Sacramento City Schools Approve $28M In Cuts - Most Popular News Stor...
