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Malloy’s 2012 Education Reform Initiative: It’s Not Whether You Win or Lose, But How You Spin the News…
jonathanpelto.com - May 09 jonpeltoAchievement First/ConnCAN, Charter Schools, Education, Malloy, StudentsFirst Achievement First, ConnCAN, Education Reform, Malloy, Stefan Pryor In the days and hours before the Conne...
Governor, legislative leaders agree on education reforms
ctmirror.org - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy declared victory Monday night in his long, contentious push for education reforms, announcing a compromise agreement at a televised press conference with legislative leaders w...
George W. Bush Presidential Center
bushcenter.com - Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 Bush Institute Survey Suggests Education Policy is Out of Sync with Public Views DALLAS—Most Americans believe the nation does not receive a good return on its investment in ...
Shanker Blog » The Weighting Game
shankerblog.org - A while back, I noted that states and districts should exercise caution in assigning weights (importance) to the components of their teacher evaluation systems before they know what the other compo...
No Room for Dissent in a Police Department Consumed by the Numbers
nytimes.com - Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly is the cop from central casting, possessed of a square jaw, swagger and charm, and a flinty willingness to challenge any critic. Of late, party and business leaders ha...
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Privatizing Learning
nytimes.com - To the Editor: Re “A Very Pricey Pineapple,” by Gail Collins (column, April 28): We disagree fundamentally with the column’s conception of the privatization of education. Pu...
SF teachers set for strike vote amid budget woes
sfgate.com - San Francisco teachers are set for a strike vote this week over the district's demands to cut $30 million from teachers' salaries and benefits over the next two years. The union wants a 2 percent r...
Please endorse and ask your CEC to approve the National Resolution against High-stakes Testing
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - The following resolution is modeled on a resolution that as of April 25 had been approved by 405 Texas school boards , Palm Beach and St. Lucie Counties in Florida, and Community Education Council ...
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Chicago Office Workers Urged To 'Look Like a Protester' For NATO Summit
progressillinois.com - Some downtown Chicago office workers got memos to dress so as to blend in with expected protesters when they go to work Monday, May 21, the second day of the two-day NATO summit, hosted at Chicago'...
Bronx Student Ticketed For Handing Out Flyers Protesting School Closure
dnainfo.com - Malik Ayala (center) marched to the 45th Precinct on May 7, 2012 with supporters to file a complaint about a summons he received inside Lehman High School. (DNAinfo/Patrick Wall) THROGS NECK — A 16...
Save Cato
cato.org - Cato Vice President Gene Healy responded recently to the issue of board independence, which figured heavily in a David Koch Statement: Mr. Koch argues that leaving Cato’s current board in place and...
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RahmPublican
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - What Rahm must be thinking: Hey, this is great. It's like I'm back in the White House -- embracing the GOP, attacking teachers unions, their pensions and health care, closing mental health clinics,...
Joseph Stiglitz: The 99 Percent Wakes Up
thedailybeast.com - Darrell Willis wears a "99%" button and an American flag at the corner of LaSalle and Jackson during an Occupy Chicago protest Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, in Chicago. "Occupy Chicago" protests started Mo...
Moderate Republicans Fall Away in the Senate
fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com - I wrote earlier about the electoral implications of the defeat of longtime Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana in the Republican primary on Tuesday. It should make the seat much more competitive an...
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I Sure Do Feel Appreciated
nyceducator.com - Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! I know it's Teacher Appreciation Week because I got this lovely e-mail from State Education Commissioner John B. King, Jr. informing me, among other things, about ...
Create A Comic With “Rage Maker”
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Put Your Rage Into a Cartoon and Exit Laughing is a New York Times article tonight about the Web genre of “rage comics” — people using easy online tools to vent about irritating incidents they expe...
The Redesign - Dana Goldstein
danagoldstein.net - As I move into book-writing mode, I'm going to have much less time to blog, especially because I want to continue to contribute to Slate and The Nation. So I've redesigned the site so the homepage ...
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Liu Urges City To Push Projects In The Pipeline, Promises Plan Would Create 15,000 Positions
politicker.com - With his eye on a mayoral race that will play in the backdrop of a city economy still struggling, City Comptroller John Liu announced a plan this morning that he said would create 15,000 jobs by ac...
Office of the New York City Comptroller John C. Liu
comptroller.nyc.gov - PR12-05-052 Contact: Stephanie Hoo, (212) 669-3747 May 9, 2012 COMPTROLLER LIU UNVEILS INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN TO CREATE 15,000 JOBS City Can Spur Economic Growth and Realize Long-Term Savings by Accel...
K12: Investor Relations: Investor Overview
investors.k12.com - WebcastQ3 2012 K12 Inc. Earnings Conference Call (Replay)05/08/12 at 9:00 a.m. ETClick here to see the K12 Virtual Academies Academic Performance Trends (April 9, 2012)Click here to see the K12 Inv...
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Bend Over Floridians, A New PIP Law is Coming « Tangerine, Florida
tangerineflorida.com - On March 9, 2012, a major Personal Injury Protection law was changed due to rampant fraud in the Tampa and Miami areas. ”This law shifts the burden of accidents to the victims, limits consumer choi...
Retired couples may need $240,000 for health care
northjersey.com - BOSTON (AP) - Couples retiring this year can expect their medical bills throughout retirement to cost 4 percent more than those who retired a year ago, according to an annual projection released We...
Startup from UC Davis gains private funding - Business
sacbee.com - The University of California, Davis, College of Engineering's fledgling high-tech business incubator, the Engineering Translational Technology Center, has its first "graduate."Dysonics, a startup b...
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Ay, caramba! Foreign language versions of school exams riddled with errors
nydailynews.com - Robert Mecea for New York Daily News Patrick Sullivan, of the Panel for Education Policy, slammed New York's school test maker, saying "Clearly, Pearson can't deliver what they were contracted to p...
Big Education Ape: 5-9-12 PM Pineapplegate continues, with 20 more errors EDition #PINEAPPLEGATE
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Virtual charter moves forward after judge rules against State Board of Education « The Progressive Pulse
pulse.ncpolicywatch.org - A controversial bid to open up a statewide virtual charter school got a go-ahead this afternoon from an administrative law judge, and could open by this fall unless the N.C. State Board of Educatio...
