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IT’S ALL ABOUT TRUST AT CITY HALL - Chicago Sun
suntimes.com - MARK BROWN markbrown@suntimes.com April 18, 2012 10:00PM Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks to the press after a city council meeting which voted in favor of the new anti-speeding cameras in Chicago. | Al P...
Illinois Democrat’s plan to blow up the public school system. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Illinois is a blue state. We’re not talking about Walker’s Wisconsin or Kasich’s Ohio. We talking Democrats. Chicago’s Mayor Emanuel. Governor Quinn. Party Chairman and Speaker Madigan. Senate Pres...
NCLB Outrages (Susan Ohanian Speaks Out)
susanohanian.org - Testing: How to Stop the Reign NOTE: NCLB testing begins tomorrow in New York, when 1.2 million kids begin to take the ELA and math tests in grades 3 - 8. This year the tests contain embedded multi...
Wendy Lecker: The real needs in Connecticut classrooms
ctpost.com - In the past few weeks, Connecticut has been inundated with high-priced ads from out-of state lobby groups, op-eds from businessmen, and appearances by the governor, all claiming that there is a "mo...
When Pineapple Races Hare, Students Lose, Critics of Standardized Tests Say
nytimes.com - A reading passage included this week in one of New York’s standardized English tests has become the talk of the eighth grade, with students walking around saying, “Pineapples don’t have sleeves,” a...
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Parents Across America members meet with USDE, saying: “Listen to parents, change your policy direction.”
seattleducation2010.wordpress.com - Press Release: WASHINGTON, D. C. – Several members of Parents Across America (PAA), a national network of activist parents, participated in a Parent Leaders meeting today hosted by the U. S. Depart...
Getting Ready For Daniel Biss
illinoisntu.ning.com - Over at Daniel Biss's website, he talks about his upcoming town hall on pensions. He wants to focus on two bills that I haven't heard much about, HB 5149 and 6150, which I'll have to research. But...
Education Justice | April 19, 2012 - Pro
educationjustice.org - April 20, 2012 Charter school finance and real estate advisor Illinois Facilities Fund (IFF) issued a report that recommends major disruptions for children and families in 37 public schools in Wash...
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Bishop Who Compared Obama To Hitler Urged To Resign From Notre Dame Board By Members Of Faculty
huffingtonpost.com - Catholic Bishop Daniel Jenky is continuing to feel the heat for a sermon in which he preached that President Obama's policies were following a 'similar path' to that of Hitler and Stalin.A spokeswo...
Remembering Bernard Rapoport | The Nation
thenation.com - Bernard Rapoport's death at the age of ninety-four has brought to a close one of the storied chapters in the history of American liberalism.Also by the AuthorThe recently-exposed massacre in Hadith...
Fethullah Gülen's Official Web Site
en.fgulen.com - Last Updated on Friday, 20 April 2012 20:56 by fgulen.com Friday, 20 April 2012 18:37 An article with the heading “Shadow force grows in Turkey” by Dan Bilefsky and Sebnem Arsu appeared in the Inte...
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Murdoch’s Muscle
nytimes.com - When I last saw you, at a White House Correspondents’ Dinner after-party in 2000, you were squiring around a foxy actress named Kathleen York. I have a pretty stiff public appearance, I guess. The ...
The Fruitcake and the Big Banana – a tale inspired by a pineapple « Opine I will
rlratto.wordpress.com - The Fruitcake and the Big Banana (A tale inspired by the Pineapple and the Hare) In recent times, politicians all across the country, thought they knew a way to get everyone to speak English just l...
Bee Gees star Robin Gibb wakes from coma: spokesman
rawstory.com - By Agence France-PresseSaturday, April 21, 2012 16:28 EDT Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb has woken from a coma and responded to members of his family, his spokesman said Saturday. Gibb, 62, contracte...
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Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - I was president of our local for ten years and I hated the last two months of the school year. That is when administrators made decisions That is never a good thing. Yesterday we got a memo from ou...
Quinn. We put him in office. He stabs us in the back. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - The IEA endorsed him. He only won the governor’s office by a few thousand votes against the Republican. Teacher votes. And today Quinn paid us back with a knife in the back. Thank you very much. In...
Illinois Democrat’s plan to blow up the public school system. « Fred Klonsky
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Illinois Democrat’s plan to blow up the public school system. « Fred Klonsky: Illinois Democrat’s plan to blow up the public school system.by Fred KlonskyIllinois is a blue state. We’re not talking...
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Contrasting Reports on State Revenues and Spending Tell Us Who’s Paying the Price for Harmful National Economic Policy
news.firedoglake.com - CBPP Report: Figure 1. An article in today’s New York Times tells us about two new reports, one from the Rockefeller Institute (RI), the other from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)...
President Obama Calls on Congress to Prevent Student Loan Interest Rates from Doubling | ED.gov Blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - President Obama Calls on Congress to Prevent Student Loan Interest Rates from Doubling | ED.gov Blog: President Obama Calls on Congress to Prevent Student Loan Interest Rates from Doublingby Camero...
Hiring report offers hope to California's jobless - Around the valley
modbee.com - Maybe the economic recovery isn't cooling off, after all.Although jobless rates increased last month, employers continued hiring at a decent pace throughout California in March, state officials sai...
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Sands Montessori and Burlington Elementary Schools Plant Trees to Celebrate Earth Day -- CINCINNATI, April 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
prnewswire.com - CINCINNATI, April 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Over 100 students from Sands Montessori and Burlington Elementary Schools took home trees today to plant and to celebrate Earth Day. The trees were do...
Rally Against Nuclear Power at San Onofre on April 29th
obrag.org - Rally Commemorates Chernobyl, TMI, continuing meltdown at Fukushima on Sunday, from Noon to 3pm “Shut Down San Onofre” Momentum builds following Radioactivity Release and Design-Error Shutdown of t...
Look Up! Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend « CAFFEINATED POLITICS
dekerivers.wordpress.com - Another reason to go out Saturday night. The annual Lyrid meteor shower peaks this weekend on the night of April 21-22 when Earth passes through a stream of debris from ancient Comet Thatcher. Usua...
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‘Pineapple and the Hare’ flunks the test of common sense
nydailynews.com - Sabo, Robert/New York Daily News A pineapple ready to be eaten. Just like the talking fruit in the unanswerable question on the state’s 8th grade English exam. No one in a position of authority wou...
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nypost.com - State Education Department officials were blind to the feelings of deaf students on this week’s English exams — heartlessly asking them questions about sounds such as the clickety-clack of a woman’...
#Pineapplegate Reader | Westhill District Education Assoc.
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Big Education Ape: 4-21-12 AM How to Drink Out of A Pineapple EDition #STUPIDTEST #CTEDREFORM
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Big Education Ape: 4-20-12 AM More calls for civility EDition #SOSCHAT #CTEDREFORM
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