LA Schools: Restoring The SUPER In Tendent by Sara Roos
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Supt. Deasy's early and avid support of iPads under intense scrutiny - LA Times
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OSI Rent-a-Cop Comes Calling on a Teacher
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OH YOU! Mike Mulgrew's free-spending, party hearty attitude and disregard for due paying members win him new label of "knucklehead"
ED NOTES: White chalk criminal is more like it. Like Randi Weingarten, Warren Fletcher, Alex Caputo Pearl and others, his desire to lead an opulent, entitled life flies in the face of the labor union's philosophy's proletariate sensibilities and dues paying members' best interest. More and more I see the resistance gaining an advantage by thwarting teacher unions in a very public fashion. Dinner a
Paying Teachers Less Will Make them MORE Effective
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DIY INVESTIGATIVE Journalism: How Bloggers Became Watchdogs in the LAUSD iPad Boondoggle | BlogHer
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No Parlo Italiano But I Will Teach It - Educator Fights Back
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SUPERINTENDENT JOHN DEASY'S IPAD SCANDAL- JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG. ( We are in the Titanic )
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9-4-14 Hemlock on the Rocks
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