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Capital Preparatory Magnet School, Hartford CT

miracleschools.wikispaces.com - http://sdeportal.ct.gov/Cedar/WEB/ct_report/SnapshotSelect.aspx In Hartford School District Note that it is called a 'magnet' school. Does this mean selective admissions?http://articles.cnn.com/200...

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Chemical bomb thrown at Occupy Maine camp

cbsnews.com - David Burns of Westbrook, Me., in the food center at the Occupy Maine camp area in Portland, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach) Occupy Wall Street protests (CBS/AP) PORTLAND, Me. - Police ar...

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City Reports Shine a Light on Charters – SchoolBook

nytimes.com - Oct. 21, 2011, 2:26 p.m. Midway through the last school year, a fledgling charter school in Flatbush, Brooklyn, lost its science teacher. But instead of hiring a new one, Fahari Academy Charter Sch...

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A Union of Professionals. www.nysut.org

nysut.org - NYSUT Vice President Kathleen Donahue and NEA Vice President Lily Eskelsen. Photo by El-Wise Noisette.NYSUT members and other unions must continue to be vigilant against attacks on their profession...

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The Koch brothers' ideological war

tampabay.com - By Robyn E. Blumner, Times Columnist In Print: Sunday, May 22, 2011 ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENTI imagine the tycoons Charles and David Koch must have a war room or more precisely a "war on liberal ...

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150 firefighters called to battle UCLA lab blaze

latimesblogs.latimes.com - A fire in a laboratory at the UCLA Center for Health Sciences was extinguished Monday after a 50-minute battle by nearly 150 firefighters, fire officials said. The fire was located on the fifth flo...

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Marine Corps to teach story of first black Marines

northjersey.com - OCEANSIDE, Calif. — Oscar Culp does not like to remember. His mind has erased the harshest details. But the pain still stings for the 87-year-old WWII veteran, who endured boot camp in a snake-inf...

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Germany's Plan to Regrow the Global Economy

huffingtonpost.com - At the moment, Germany is embroiled in a fierce debate over how to save the Eurozone and, with it, the future of the European Union. Although stringent austerity programs will have to be enacted in...

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West Davis Village touts zero net energy living

sfgate.com - Michael Macor / The Chronicle West Davis Village - a neighborhood for students, academics and university employees situated on 130 acres owned by UC Davis - aims to be the nation's largest zero net...

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A Day Trip to Las Colinas « Small Farmers. Big Change.

smallfarmersbigchange.coop - Rob Everts, Co-President of Equal Exchange and Remberto Rumaldo Ascensio, President of Las Colinas looking at new coffee plants Just a few weeks ago I accompanied Todd Caspersen, Director of Purcha...

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‘We Are the 99 Percent’ Photo of the Day

dissenter.firedoglake.com - I used to walk by the strikers at Congress Hotel every morning on the way to class at Columbia College Chicago. For many of my peers, the hotel strikers were a punch line because, to them, they nev...

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    Milwaukee’s Alliance High Featured in Time Magazine as Model Program « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

    Milwaukee’s Alliance High Featured in Time Magazine as Model Program « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!:

    Milwaukee’s Alliance High Featured in Time Magazine as Model Program

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    By Kayla Webley Oct. 13, 2011

    The taunting started four years ago, when Dylan Huegerich was 10. Back then, he didn’t know what being gay meant, and even today the soft-spoken teenager isn’t sure where he fits on the spectrum of sexual orientation. He knows he’s different. He knows that his sense of style — his chin-length hair, his dabbling with makeup — caught the eyes of school bullies in Saukville, Wis. In seventh grade he was pelted with snowballs and shoved into lockers. Everywhere he went on campus, students shouted anti-gay slurs and pointed and stared. “It hurt so bad,” he says. “I hated my life. I hated everything.”

    His mother Amy tried to intervene. She says she was told it was her son’s fault for standing out and that he should cut his hair or try to act “more manly,” allegations the principal declined to comment on. Dylan’s mother

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    Schools Matter: Parents and Schools Sue Texas and California

    Schools Matter: Parents and Schools Sue Texas and California:

    Parents and Schools Sue Texas and California

    by Jim Horn
    From the Education Law Center:
    Schools and parents have taken the states of Texas and California to court, accusing them of violating their own state constitutions because they are not providing the basic level of education that the constitutions require.

    Both states have slashed school funding, and both have created gaping holes in opportunity for children in many communities by enacting funding systems that favor wealthier school districts.

    On Oct. 10, 2011, the Texas Taxpayer & Student Fairness Coalition (TT&SFC) filed TT&SFC v. Scott, in state court. Two weeks earlier, on Sept. 28, the California School Boards Association
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    Florida Republican Worried About Charter School Failure | Scathing Purple Musings

    Florida Republican Worried About Charter School Failure | Scathing Purple Musings:

    Florida Republican Worried About Charter School Failure

    by Bob Sikes

    Wow. Looks like Maitland republican Senator David Simmons didn’t get the memo. From Leslie Postal writing inSentinel School Zone:

    At a Florida Senate committee meeting last week, Sen. David Simmons made it clear he was worried about charter schools that opened and then later closed.

    “When we see the failure of a charter school, it sullies the name of all charter schools and the movement itself,” said the Maitland Republican.

    Simmons said he worried that money spent on these failed charters was money wasted. He mentioned it several times during a meeting of the Senate’s budget subcommittee on Pre-k-12 education.

    “The finanical impact is great,” he said. “Some of them are failing, and that’s a financial issue…
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    Why the Whole Child Needs a Coach « Whole Child Education

    The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education:

    Will the whole child need a coach? It's one thing to describe an outcome ("a skillful, empathetic, creative, persistent, curious lifelong learner"), but quite a different, and more difficult, task, to figure out how a young person learns these qualities.
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