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Friday, December 16, 2011

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Charter School Approved for Affluent Brooklyn Enclave

nytimes.com - The panel that oversees education policy in New York City approved the first charter school for brownstone Brooklyn on Wednesday night, backing a plan to give it space inside a building already sha...
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Michigan passes horrible charter law

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Rep. Rudy HobbsMichigan's new charter school law is among the worst in the nation. While lifting the cap on charters, SB 618 gives free rein to charter operators without any safeguards against mism...
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Failure Rate of Schools Overstated, Study Says

nytimes.com - When the Obama administration was seeking to drum up support for its education initiatives last spring, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told Congress that the federal law known as No Child Left ...
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Illinois Charter Authority Funded 100% By Walton Family

schooltechconnect.com - Nice article by Chip Mitchell. In a nutshell, Illinois has a new statewide chartering authority, as part of the unlimited chartering kow-towing required in Arne Duncan't rogue Race To The Top progr...
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BBC NEWS | UK | Education

news.bbc.co.uk - Pupils in England start school two years before their Scandinavian counterparts Primary school education in England is radically different from Finland and Denmark, shows a report from the Office f...
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School outs gay teen; civil rights groups outraged

boston.com - SALT LAKE CITY—Administrators at a Utah middle school outed a gay teenage boy to his parents because they feared he would be bullied, but the move has outraged civil rights groups that claim the st...
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Occupy Hilo Gets Busy... | MyFDL

my.firedoglake.com - Occupy Hilo in solidarity for the West Coast Port action As an active participant in my small, local Occupy, I would like to opine on some of the trials and tribulations experienced in trying to ge...
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Robert Scheer: There Goes the Republic

huffingtonpost.com - Once again the gods of war have united our Congress like nothing else. Unable to agree on the minimal spending necessary to save our economy, schools, medical system or infrastructure, the cowards ...
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Enough Signatures Gathered, Walker To Be Recalled!

newdogdemocrat.com -    The word is spreading that over 550,000  signatures have been gathered to recall Scott Walker! This means the movement is passing a huge milestone.  The announcement is coming sometime before th...
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Turkey hearing casts spotlight on Gulen

dailystar.com.lb - ISTANBUL: Turkish journalists Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener will face their second court hearing this month, nearly eight months after being arrested for aiding a “deep-state” group of coup-plotters wh...
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LRN Stock | K12 Stock Hits New 52-Week Low (LRN)

thestreet.com - NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- K12 (NYSE:LRN) hit a new 52-week low Wednesday as it is currently trading at $21.05, below its previous 52-week low of $21.78 with 739,453 shares traded as of 11:35 a.m. ET....
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Postal Service to delay cutbacks until mid-May

davisenterprise.com - Letter carrier Felipe Raymundo moves a tray of mail to his truck to begin delivery last week at a post office in Seattle. The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service announced it will delay planned closu...
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26 Amazing Facts About Finland's Unorthodox Education System

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Illinois Charter Authority Funded 100% By Walton Family

schooltechconnect.com - Nice article by Chip Mitchell. In a nutshell, Illinois has a new statewide chartering authority, as part of the unlimited chartering kow-towing required in Arne Duncan't rogue Race To The Top progr...
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Yes, Our Urban Kids Is Learning | Mother Jones

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Yes, Our Urban Kids Is Learning | Mother Jones:Yes, Our Urban Kids Is Learning—By Kevin Drum| Thu Dec. 15, 2011 11:57 AM PST16I didn't write about this when the results were announced last week, bu...
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Occupy Hilo Gets Busy... | MyFDL

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A Message Of Solidarity From Archbishop Desmond Tutu

occupywallst.org - Saturday December 17th  Occupy 2.0!Posted 31 minutes ago on Dec. 15, 2011, 7:37 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt Sisters and Brothers, I greet you in the Name of Our Lord and in the bonds of common friends...
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Daily Kos: Charter schools enrolling low numbers of poor students

Daily Kos: Charter schools enrolling low numbers of poor students:


Charter schools enrolling low numbers of poor students

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)
At Waterstone, about 32 percent of students in 2010 qualified for free or reduced-price lunches, an indicator of poverty, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics. At Campbell Drive, about two miles away, 93 percent of the students qualified.The trend is evident across Miami-Dade County, where overall, the number of poor children enrolled in charter schools is disproportionately low compared to traditional public schools — an advantage for the charter schools, given that poverty correlates with poor academic performance. Charter schools in Miami-Dade also enroll a smaller share of black students than traditional public schools, according to federal data. In traditional public schools, one-third of children are black, compared to one-fifth of children in charter schools.
Read those two paragraphs carefully.  In Miami-Dade County, charter schools serve a different population than traditional schools, and thus are not comparable.   So begins the third and final installment of the Miami Herald's 3-part series examining local charter schools.
The rules under which charter schools operate - Federal, state and local - are supposed to ensure equal access 
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What research exposed about market-based ed reform in 2011 - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

What research exposed about market-based ed reform in 2011 - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:


What research exposed about market-based ed reform in 2011

by Valerie Strauss
This was written by Matthew Di Carlo, senior fellow at the non-profit Albert Shanker Institute, located in Washington, D.C. This post originally appeared on the institute’s blog.

By Matthew Di Carlo
If 2010 was the year of the bombshell in research in the three “major areas” of market-based education reform – charter schools, performance pay, and value-added in evaluations – then 2011 was the year of the slow, sustained march.
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How students can survive finals — and the rest of the school year

by Valerie Strauss
This was written by Kayla Hedman, a sophomore at Champlain College in Vermont. This was published on theschool’s website.

By Kayla Hedman
Over the course of finals week students usually have two goals: (1) Do well on exams and (2) keep stress to a minimum.
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Schooling in the Ownership Society: Michigan passes horrible charter law

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Michigan passes horrible charter law:


Michigan passes horrible charter law

by Mike Klonsky
Rep. Rudy Hobbs
Michigan's new charter school law is among the worst in the nation. While lifting the cap on charters, SB 618 gives free rein to charter operators without any safeguards against mismanagement or controls on school quality.

The bill was passed, according to State Rep. Rudy Hobbs, D-Southfield, without a clear provision mandating  comprehensive student achievement data for each charter school operator. Writes Hobbs:
If a charter school operator wants to break its contract during the school year, 
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L.A. teachers approve local-control deal - latimes.com

L.A. teachers approve local-control deal - latimes.com:


L.A. teachers approve local-control deal

Teachers in Los Angeles have overwhelmingly approved an agreement that is expected to give instructors and administrators more control of their schools, while also holding them responsible for academic achievement.
The vote was 69.8% in favor and 29.4% against, with the remainder failing to specify a choice on their ballots. In all, 19,529 members, or 55%, cast ballots out of 35,593 eligible voters. Members of United Teachers Los Angeles had submitted ballots over the past several days, with the results tabulated and announced Thursday.
The Board of Education is expected to quickly follow suit in ratifying the deal. The pact would end the much-publicized “Public School Choice” initiative, under which groups inside and outside the district, including charter schools, competed for control of new and low performing campuses. The growth of independently managed charter schools had resulted in the reduction of more than 200 positions formerly held by district-employed, 
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