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Oakland charter school head Ben Chavis rips audit

sfgate.com - Carlos Avila Gonzalez / SFC Ben Chavis Ben Chavis is a controversial figure who has preached the merits of hard work and intense discipline in pursuit of academic excellence since taking over the A...

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Press Release of the New Coalition for Louisiana Public Education

geauxteacher.com - For immediate releaseNew Public Education Coalition WorkingTo Make Louisiana First in Education Covington, LA – The new state-wide Coalition for Louisiana Public Education, consisting of major educ...

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Lessons From Louisiana: Go Big or Go Home

freedomworks.org - Yesterday, after months of hard work, FreedomWorks activists celebrated as the Senate finally voted to bring expansive reform to Louisiana’s failing school system. Two bills, HB976 and HB974 passed...

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The in box. “The new reality.” « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Fred, Welcome to the “New Reality” where those who serve the public, are trusted with our state’s children every day, and never missed their payments are the ones to blame and on who’s backs soluti...

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If Only We Stick Together

teachertomsblog.blogspot.com - This is so freaking encouraging. It makes my heart sing. From The Seattle Times: "We didn't go into this looking to start some big rebellion, says Michelle Purcell, a mom of three in the Seat...

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School Tech Connect: Advice For Jean-Claude Brizard

schooltechconnect.com - Lemme just tell you something. When you increase the length of the school day to 7.5 hours, without funding it--meaning, without hiring the music teachers, art teachers, PE teachers, librarians-- t...

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Desert Trails parents won’t let adults’ deceit deny their kids a great school

toped.svefoundation.org - By The parents of Desert Trails Elementary want what all parents want: a great school for their children. Over the past few years they started a PTA chapter at their school, they joined the officia...

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The Good and Bad News About Arts Education in U.S. Schools

neatoday.org - You are here: Home / Featured News / The Good and Bad News About Arts Education in U.S. Schools By Tim Walker The U.S. Department of Education painted a somewhat bleak picture of the state of arts ...

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Conservatives, ALEC, and Vouchers Lose—Temporarily—in Arizona

nepc.colorado.edu - Governor Brewer (R-AZ) caused a bill to be killed that would have greatly expanded the Arizona voucher program. Enacted a few years ago, the program gave vouchers, pegged at 90% of the average per ...

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Chicago teachers' answer to SB7 -- Vote yes in strike poll

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - The Chicago Teachers Union has put the mayor and his Board of Ed cronies on notice. After Stand For Children bankrolled the passage of SB7, corporate reformers thought they had essentially eliminat...

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An Illinois Legislator Confirmed that This Is the Constitutional Test Case

teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com - "[HB 4513] amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Article of the Illinois Pension Code. [HB 4513] increases the required employee contributions of persons who first became employees of ...

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Kathy Nickolaus ordered to step aside in recall elections

defendwisconsin.org - Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas relieved County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus from her duties for the historic recall elections in May and June. According to a statement released Thursday from the Cou...

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Transparency For The People, Not For The Lobbyists

capitaltonight.com - Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s aides are clearly unhappy with Monday’s Q-poll that included what they say is a leading question on transparency. The question was worded this way: “Governor Andrew Cuomo and th...

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Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul draws crowd at UC Berkeley

mercurynews.com - Click photo to enlarge Republican presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul speaks at Memorial Glade at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., on Thursday, April 5, 2012. UC Berkeley student organizati...

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Meet the Three ALEC Supporting Corporate Giants Who Dare You to Boycott Them

politicususa.com - By: Jason EasleyApril 5, 2012see more posts by Jason EasleyAs the ALEC boycott continues to grow some corporations are not getting the message. Executives from Pfizer, Reynolds American, and Procte...

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Arsenic in Our Chicken?

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How and Why Rankings Matter

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Behind the push for online learning

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - There's a reason Gates and the power philanthropists are pushing online education so hard and it has less to do with teaching and learning as it does with super profits. The Boston Consulting Group...

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BOYCOTTING ALEC

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Intuit Is Now The Fourth Company To Drop Voter Suppression Group ALEC

democraticunderground.com - Source: Think ProgressSoftware company Intuit, the makers of programs such as Turbo Tax and Quicken, announced today that they will join Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Kraft as the fourth company to end th...

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Trayvon Martin live chat: Trayvon Martin live chat

orlandosentinel.com - Trayvon Martin, a high-school junior from Miami who was visiting family in a gated community in Sanford, was shot to death when he encountered George Michael Zimmerman, captain of the neighborhood-...

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Jerry Brown commutes grandmother's murder sentence

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday commuted the prison sentence of a 51-year-old woman convicted of shaking her infant grandson to death 15 years ago, citing "significant doubts" about her guilt. Shirley R...

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Charles Manson has not been a model prisoner

latimesblogs.latimes.com - "He refused to cooperate, so the conclusion they drew from the reports is he still remains a danger to the public," Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Atty. Patrick Sequeira said at the time. "He was ...

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