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Summer Matters - Partnership for Children and Youth

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Summer Matters - Partnership for Children and Youth: STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION TOM TORLAKSON TO LAUNCH 2012 SUMMER MATTERS CAMPAIGN Superintendent Torlakson to Announce St...
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We have one thing she hasn’t got. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - The story of the Detroit charter school teacher who was fired for allowing and encouraging her students to organize a fund raising event for Trayvon Martin is another lesson in why I treasure my un...
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Hammond Daily Star Online - Columnists

hammondstar.com - During extensive conversations with politicians who support the Jindal “education reform” package, I repeatedly heard the clich/’, “It is all about the children,” used to defend the attacks upon te...
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IEA President Klickna’s statement on TRS. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Many of my friends have found much to applaud in IEA President Klickna’s recent statement. Klickna’s statement follows the recent leak from TRS Executive Director Dick Ingram about retiree benefit ...
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Oops...wrong decree!

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Plane reading -- Heading back to sweet home Chicago today, thank God. I hate hotel. Need my own pillow to sleep, these days. I've been lugging around my review copy of Education and Capitalism. May...
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Why Are McDonald's, Coca-Cola, and Intuit Fleeing ALEC?

businessweek.com - The American Legislative Exchange Council describes itself as a nonpartisan champion of free markets. But if you spend some time at an ALEC conference (Bloomberg Businessweek did, for an article la...
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Why Labor Organizing Should Be A Civil Right

shankerblog.org - Our guest authors today are Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill. Norman Hill, staff coordinator of the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, is president emeritus of the A. Philip R...
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Common Cause Alleges ALEC Violates Non-Profit Status

prwatch.org - Common Cause has asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for possibly violating its tax-exempt status. The request came one day afte...
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Even More On The Titanic

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Here are the latest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The Titanic: Remembering the Titanic is a Wall Street Journal slideshow. The Wall Street Journal on the Titanic, April 1912 is an ...
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austin car dealership's crappy racist commercial

blog.angryasianman.com - Not trying to get all what's-up-with-Texas? today, but damn... First, I have to say that this is not a joke. This is an actual local television commercial for Charles Mound Toyota, a car dealership...
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Last Chance: Hurry Up and File Your Taxes!

davis.patch.com - Back in January, right after my wife and I received our W-2 forms, I sat down and began filing our taxes online. I put on some quiet music to help me concentrate, poured myself a glass of wine, and...
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Obama Likely Paid Higher Tax Rate Than Romney in 2011

democraticunderground.com - Source: ReutersObama likely paid higher tax rate than Romney in 2011 By Andy Sullivan Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:29pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama released tax forms on Friday that rev...
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Governor tells lawmakers to 'man up'

sfgate.com - (04-13) 13:46 PDT San Francisco -- Republicans may have hoped Gov. Jerry Brown's Friday comments that lawmakers should "man up" and make budget cuts sooner than later would spark an intra-party war...
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A Leader of Schools Is Indicted for Fraud

nytimes.com - When state investigators demanded last year to see personal tax returns filed by Eddie Calderon-Melendez, the founder and chief executive of a troubled network of charter high schools in Brooklyn, ...
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Murder, Hate Crime Charges in Tulsa Shootings

democraticunderground.com - Source: APTULSA, Okla. April 13, 2012 (AP) Oklahoma prosecutors filed murder and hate crime charges Friday against two men arrested in an Easter weekend shooting spree that left three people dead a...
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- Wait, What?

jonathanpelto.com - Apr 13 jonpeltoAchievement First/ConnCAN, Charter Schools, Democratic Legislators, Education, Malloy, Stefan Pryor, Wyman Charter Schools, Education Reform, Malloy, Stefan Pryor Governor Dannel Mal...
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