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Romney Has Some Great Friends Who Are For-Profit College Owners

republicreport.org - David Halperin 3.2.2012 at 1:30 PM Mitt Romney invested in Tagg Romney’s company, which invested client money in TA Associates, which invests in the for-profit education industry, which Mitt Romney...

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Gulen charter school timeline

perimeterprimate.blogspot.com - The largest charter school chain in the U.S. is run by the members of the Gulen movement, a controversial, secretive, religious, and highly nationalistic group out of Turkey that is operating in a ...

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Bill Schechter: I Was a Teacher, Not a Number - Living in Dialogue

blogs.edweek.org - Guest post by Bill Schechter. Clearly, I was a superb teacher. Probably one of the best. That's what the numbers show, and numbers don't lie.Before I retired after 35-years as a high school teacher...

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The Wells Point » Blog Archive » Singapore suggests

thewellspoint.com - Singapore suggests In January I spent three weeks in Asia, mostly in Singapore. As always it was a stimulating trip on many levels. The food was great, the company equally good and the workshops we...

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SignOn.org Beta - Repeal an Ill

signon.org - Flag petition as inappropriateBy Joe Knapp (Contact)To be delivered to:The New York State House, The New York State Senate, Governor Andrew Cuomo, The United States House of Representatives, The Un...

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Occupy protests bring small yet intense crowds to state campuses

latimes.com - Occupy Movement protests planned for colleges nationwide attracted modest yet passionate crowds at California campuses on Thursday as participants decried state budget cuts to education and the res...

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How, and How Not, to Improve the Schools by Diane Ravitch

nybooks.com - Matt Roth David Donaldson, a high school teacher in the Teach for America program, with his students at the Maryland Academy of Technology and Health Sciences, Baltimore, December 2009In his 2012 S...

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Scoring a slot at some CPS college preps: Near perfection required - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - By ROSALIND ROSSI AND ART GOLAB Staff Reporters March 1, 2012 9:18PM Mary Szromba (left) and her older sister Julia Szromba outside Walter Payton College Prep High School. Julia is a sophomore at P...

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A corporate reform coup d’etat in Bridgeport « Parents Across America

parentsacrossamerica.org - Mar 1, 2012 leoniehaimson By Norm Pattis, the attorney who litigated this case, cross-posted from his blog.A call came in moments ago. Mayor Bill Finch and his aides are busy at work in Hartford, l...

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We'll Never Turn Back - DVD on SNCC's Mississippi voter registration

estuarypress.com - 1963, 31 min., black/white, DVD We'll Never Turn Back, produced by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), was shot by Harvey Richards in Mississippi in 1963 during the dangerous vot...

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Florida school prayer: School prayer bill likely to become law

orlandosentinel.com - TALLAHASSEE – Children across the state may soon have the right to offer organized prayer — or, critics say, political messages or even Satanic verses — at mandatory school events. The Florida Hous...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the First Lady For Immediate Release March 02, 2012 Raleigh Marriott City Center Raleigh, North Carolina1:06 P.M. ESTMRS. OBAMA: Wow! This is good stuff. (Applause.) O...

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the First Lady For Immediate Release March 02, 2012 Time Warner Cable Arena Charlotte, North Carolina3:44 P.M. ESTMRS. OBAMA: Thank you all so much. (Applause.) I am no...

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angry reader of the week: sally wen mao

blog.angryasianman.com - It's that time again. Meet the Angry Reader of the Week, spotlighting you, the very special readers of this website. Over the years, I've been able to connect with a lot of cool folks, and this is ...

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Obama Calls for an End to Subsidies for Oil and Gas Companies

nytimes.com - NASHUA, N.H. — With his re-election fate increasingly tied to the price Americans are paying at the gas pump, President Obama called on Congress to end $4 billion in subsidies for oil and gas compa...

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Parent Advocates - ParentAdvocates.org

parentadvocates.org - Super Donors: Our Reading Guide To The Top 10 Super PAC Giversby Ariel Wittenberg, ProPublica, 3/1/12LINKThe coming election cycle will likely be the most expensive in history. Thanks to Citizens U...

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CA Teamsters rally to tax the rich to pay for education

teamsternation.blogspot.com - All eyes on the Teamster truck.Our Joint Council 7 brothers and sisters joined hundreds of 99 percenters at the San Francisco Civic Center yesterday for a rally against education cuts. We had t...

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Students Return To Class After Deadly School Stabbing « CBS Chicago

chicago.cbslocal.com - Chris Wormley was stabbed to death at school on the South Side. (Credit: MySpace)CHICAGO (CBS) — Students at a therapeutic day school on the city’s Far South Sire return to class Friday morning, on...

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Students Return To Class After Deadly School Stabbing « CBS Chicago

chicago.cbslocal.com - Chris Wormley was stabbed to death at school on the South Side. (Credit: MySpace)UPDATED 03/02/12 8:11 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — Students at a therapeutic day school on the city’s Far South Sire return ...

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Students arrested in assault that left Long Beach student injured

latimesblogs.latimes.com - March 1, 2012 | 6:22 pm Three teenage boys were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a Long Beach high school student was severely injured in a brawl, police said Thursday afternoon. A ...

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Loveland kids eat green eggs and ham to celebrate Dr. Seuss birthday

denverpost.com - Not sure about the green eggs, Trinity Lutheran Preschool student Sophia Reynolds, 5, looks up at her mom before tasting them Thursday at The Egg & I restaurant in Loveland. (Loveland Reporter-Hera...

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Finding Common Ground in Peru « Small Farmers. Big Change.

smallfarmersbigchange.coop - March 2, 2012 by Phyllis Robinson This article first appeared in The Exchange on February 6, 2012. By Jessica Jones-Hughes, Equal Exchange Bananas You may have heard about food co-op general manage...

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