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Adopted Board Resolutions
tasanet.org - The following is a list of school districts that have adopted the Resolution Concerning High Stakes, Standardized Testing of Texas Public School Students. As of March 27, 2012, 192 districts have n...
The in box. In spite of the best efforts of the CPS board to obstruct, 6,500 sign up to run for Local School Councils. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION: Don Moore 312-236-7252, ext 236 donmoore@designsforchange.org CHICAGO, IL (APRIL 15, 2012). About 6,500 candidates signed up to run in Chicago’s Local Sc...
Who Are Those Guys?
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - On rare occasions, I put aside the GBN News parodies to do a serious piece like the following, because as much as they try, those DOE types just can’t be funny all the time. As a NY City public...
Cleveland mayor takes on teacher union over reform
necn.com - Mayor Frank Jackson, the only Ohio mayor who controls schools through an appointed board, angered fellow Democrats and the party's labor allies by challenging timeworn teacher union contracts."What...
Missouri Board of Education revokes charters of Imagine schools in St. Louis
stltoday.com - JEFFERSON CITY • The State Board of Education this afternoon unanimously voted to revoke the charters of all Imagine schools in St. Louis. The move means the schools will close at the end of this...
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Will · Opting Out
willrichardson.com - Just wanted to share that next week while thousands of New Jersey school children will be subjected to the annual ASK standardized tests, my 12-year old son Tucker will not be among them. We made a...
What the U.S. can’t learn from Finland about ed reform - The Answer Sheet
washingtonpost.com - Finland’s high-achieving public school system is now part of the conversation about U.S. education reform these days. What, it is often asked, can we learn from Finland? (Plenty, actually, though U...
Montgomery County MD versus Washington DC « GFBrandenburg's Blog
gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com - Excellent short article. Here is an excerpt: Anyone who has followed reform efforts in D.C. knows that student achievement over the past five years, as measured by test scores, has been unimpressiv...
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Teachers Seek To Oust Louisiana Governor
huffingtonpost.com - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal delivers his 2012 State of the State Address to the state legislature.Two teachers have launched a recall drive to oust Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and state House S...
Alabama Digs a Deeper Hole
nytimes.com - A new legislative session has given Alabama lawmakers an opportunity to repeal the cruel, destructive and embarrassing immigration law they passed last year — the worst in the nation. It looks as i...
HJRCA#49 has replaced HJRCA#5
iearegion28.wordpress.com - The Constitutional Amendment that we have been concerned about was filed over the weekend. Attached is information on HJRCA#49 (replaces HJRCA#5) filed by Speaker Madigan. This amendment would make...
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A Very Personal Message To The Poetry Community On Behalf Of Diane Di Prima. : Amber Tamblyn : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
poetryfoundation.org - By Amber Tamblyn Earlier this month, my spirit animal and close family friend poet Michael McClure sent me an email regarding San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane Di Prima who is now 78 years old. Mi...
How many NANNIES & MAIDS raised Romney boys?
dailykos.com - Hillary Rosen has caused a stir and one would think per the MSM it is an earth shattering stir ....his wife has actually never worked a day in her life.... Thanx to jbigss diary http://www.dailykos...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the First Lady For Immediate Release April 17, 2012 Three Rivers Club, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 5:03 P.M. EDT MRS. OBAMA: Wow. Yes! (Applause.) Pittsburgh! No...
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Richard (RJ) Eskow: How "Centrist" Democrats Are Helping Conservatives
huffingtonpost.com - So a corporate Democratic lobbyist named Hillary Rosen made a gaffe about Ann Romney's resumé. So what? The reality is that Moms of all ages have been wounded by an obsolete and misguided consensus...
The War Metaphor
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - The war metaphor has been badly overused-- war on drugs, war on poverty -- but it still holds up in some cases. Dean Baker's Huffington piece, for example, describes The War on Public Sector Worker...
CHICAGO STRIKE LOOMING ? « Teachers Fight Back
teachersfightback.com - Chicago teachers are asking for a 30% raise in the next contract and the district is offering a 2% raise. The district increased the school day by at least an hour and the teachers want to be comp...
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Kindergarten cops! Say 5-year-old autistic boy's tantrum at school gets 3 generations in scrap with NYPD
nydailynews.com - Bryan Smith/for New York Daily News Kindergartner “G.R.,” with great-grandma Lana Lirtsman (l.), mom Ida Rozenberg and grandma Maria Lirtsman. A Brooklyn school’s botched handling of a 5-year-old a...
Police handcuff Georgia kindergartner for tantrum
boston.com - MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.—Police in Georgia handcuffed a kindergartner with her arms behind her back after the girl threw a tantrum and the police chief defended the action as a safety measure.The girl's ...
Police collect DNA from middle-schoolers in murder investigation
latimesblogs.latimes.com - Detectives have taken DNA samples from several Sacramento middle-school students in connection with the murder investigation into the death of a 13-year-old girl who was found stabbed, strangled ...
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Levon Helm in 'Final Stages' of Cancer
billboard.com - Family Asks for Prayers for The Band's Last Surviving Vocalist Douglas Mason/Getty Images Levon Helm, a treasured voice in Americana music whose Southern drawl and busy-but-tight drumming brought a...
Mun2's New Programs Created For Bilingual Hispanic Adults
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 7:54 pm EST, April 17, 2012 Cable network mun2 on Tuesday announced the launching of new leisure programming for 2012 oriented toward satisfying the growing audience of young, bilingua...
Judge throws out Andrew Shirvell lawsuit against former U-M student body president
democraticunderground.com - Source: Detroit Free PressJudge throws out Andrew Shirvell lawsuit against former U-M student body president 4:43 PM, April 17, 2012 By David Jesse Free Press Education Writer A federal judge threw...
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Big Education Ape: 4-17-12 PM The Incoherent Reform of Michelle Rhee EDition #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT
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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Royko would have loved Rahm. « Fred Klonsky Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 4 minutes ago Life in Rahm’s Chicago. Royko would have loved Rahm. « Fred Klons...
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jonathanpelto.com - Apr 17 jonpeltoCharter Schools, Education, Malloy, State Budget Education Reform, Malloy Having collected some updated data on the status of Connecticut’s unfunded pension liability, it’s worth goi...
