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Oakland school-closure protest leads to 10 arrests

Jill Tucker,Ellen Huet

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Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle

Clifton Harrison, who has two grandchildren at Lakeview Elementary, says the school board is ignoring the community.

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The Oakland school board voted Thursday to lease out a soon-to-be closed elementary school after the end of this school year despite an angry protest 12 hours earlier that resulted in 10 arrests.
The demonstration, organized by an activist group called By Any Means Necessary to protest the planned closure of five city schools and the board's plan to lease some sites or allow charter schools on others, forced the school board Wednesday night to

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3 protesters arrested at UC Regents meeting

Vivian Ho,Stephanie Baer

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Beck Diefenbach / Special to The Chronicle

UCLA student Matthew Sandoval yells at UC police before being handcuffed.

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Three protesters were arrested Thursday at the UC Board of Regents meeting, when a few dozen activists, some stripped down to swimsuits, called for more transparency in state funding talks and an end to tuition hikes.
The students used the public comments portion of the meeting held at UCSF to accuse the regents and UC President Mark Yudof of being out of touch with student needs and questioned Yudof's support of a tax initiative that protesters say would not truly benefit public

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Two-Thirds of Kids With Autism Have Been Bullied: Study - Hispanically Speaking News

Two-Thirds of Kids With Autism Have Been Bullied: Study - Hispanically Speaking News:

Two-Thirds of Kids With Autism Have Been Bullied: Study

Middle school typically the worst time for being picked on, researchers say.

Nearly two-thirds of American children with autism have been bullied at some point in their lives, and these kids are bullied three times more often than their siblings without autism, a new survey finds.
Bullying occurs in every grade but is worst in grades five through eight, with 42 percent to 49 percent of students with autism spectrum disorders in those grades bullied, according to a survey of nearly 1,200 parents of children with autism aged 6 to 15.
The Interactive Autism Network (IAN), a project of the Kennedy Krieger Institute, conducted the survey.
“These survey results show the urgent need to increase awareness, influence school policies and provide 

Daily Kos: thoughts on retiring - a Saturday morning reflection

Daily Kos: thoughts on retiring - a Saturday morning reflection:

thoughts on retiring - a Saturday morning reflection

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

Now that I have told all my current students of my decision to retire, word has begun to spread through the school.  Somehow not all the faculty has as yet heard, but the administrators have, and so have the counselors. Two of the administrators were in the building when I arrived and the principal arrived as a vice-principal the same year I did.   Only one of the counselors has been there as long as I have, but I have worked closely with several of them, so I told them as soon as I had informed my department chair.
Some people want to know why, some offer their own surmises - which are often fairly much on target - but most just offer me congratulations.
I am the 6th senior faculty members leaving this year, after 7 left last year.  At least 3 more have already made clear that they will leave after next year.
And my thoughts?   For that you have to continue beneath the squiggle.

Democrats For Education Reform Play the Indentity Politics of Division in California | Scathing Purple Musings

Democrats For Education Reform Play the Indentity Politics of Division in California | Scathing Purple Musings:

Democrats For Education Reform Play the Indentity Politics of Division in California

by Bob Sikes

Writing in American Journalism Review, Paul Fahri blisters his media colleagues for easily buying into education reforms “sweeping generalizations.” Fahri, a Washington Post reporter takes articular aim at CNN host and analyst, Fareed Zakaria. A foreign policy expert and member of the Council on Foreign Relations made the leap into domestic education policy with a CNN special titled, “Restoring the American Dream: Fixing Education.”Zakaria has somehow has become an instant domestic education policy expert. Writes Fahri:

Zakaria’s take, however, may be a perfect distillation of much of what’s wrong with mainstream media coverage of education. The prevailing narrative – and let’s be wary of our own sweeping generalizations here – is that the nation’s educational system is in crisis, that schools are “failing,” that teachers aren’t up to the job and that America’s economic competitiveness is threatened as a result. Just plug the phrase “failing schools” into Nexis and you’ll get 544 hits in newspapers and wire stories for just one month, January 2012. Some of this reflects the institutionalization of the phrase under the No Child Left Behind Act, the landmark 2001 law that ties federal education funds to school performance on standardized tests (schools are deemed “failing” under various criteria of the law). But much of it reflects the general notion that American education, per Zakaria, is in steep decline. Only 20 years ago, the phrase was hardly uttered: “Failing schools” appeared just 13 times in mainstream news accounts in January of 1992, according to Nexis. (Neither Zakaria