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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...
Virginia and Maryland schools require personal finance courses, but how much will they help?
washingtonpost.com - In the summer of 2008, Jacob Karlin, currently a senior at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, scored his first job: selling doughnuts on the boardwalk in Ocean City. But the doughnuts he made ...
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...
Why Are Charter Schools Exempt from Bullying Law? – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - April 13, 2012, 12:35 p.m. New York State’s heralded anti-bullying law is about to go into effect July 1. But the state Board of Regents recently took some teeth out of the law, known as the Dignit...
Number of districts to adopt testing resolution continues to grow
tasanet.org - As of Tuesday afternoon, TASA had received confirmation from 250 districts across the state that have adopted the Resolution Concerning High Stakes, Standardized Testing of Public School Students. ...
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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A Not So Fine Madness: How Educational Reformers Expect Us to Block Out Conditions Producing “The New Jim Crow” as Factors Shaping School Performance
withabrooklynaccent.blogspot.com - If somebody told me, 15 years ago, when I was spending many of my days working with community groups in the Bronx and East New York dealing with the consequences of the crack epidemic, that you cou...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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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The California Majority Report // Stop Special Interest Money” Act Backers Host Fundraiser with the King of Super PACs, Karl Rove
camajorityreport.com - Brian Brokaw The Lincoln Club of Orange County – the "driving force" behind the so-called “Stop Special Interest Money” initiative on the November ballot – is hosting one of the nation’s leading ca...
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...
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, ...
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...
Newark mayor Cory Booker treated after helping save neighbors in fire
northjersey.com - NEWARK— The mayor of New Jersey's largest city expects to have more to say Friday about how he helped rescue neighbors from a fire. RECORD FILE PHOTO Cory Booker Newark Mayor Cory Booker was treate...
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Danny Schechter : Sayonara to Mike Wallace and the End of an Era
theragblog.blogspot.com - Mike Wallace hosting "CBS Morning News" in 1963. Photo from CBS Photo Archive / Getty Images.Sayonara to Mike Wallaceand the news era he ledMike Wallace turned the macho face-off into a personal si...
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Summer Matters - Partnership for Children and Youth Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 37 minutes ago Summer Matters - Partnership for Children and Youth: STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF P...
Big Education Ape: 4-13-12 PM Why Are Charter Schools Exempt from Bullying Law? EDition #soschat
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Modern School: UC Davis Guilty at All Levels in Student Pepper-Spraying Incident
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Modern School: UC Davis Guilty at All Levels in Student Pepper-Spraying Incident: UC Davis Guilty at All Levels in Student Pepper-Spraying Incidentby Michael DunnAccording to a report released this...
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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...