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huffingtonpost.com - A Maine school system may be adding the iPad 2 to its list of mandatory kindergarten classroom items, with the district footing the bill.The Auburn Schools Committee voted unanimously to provide al...

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presstvmobile.com - Published: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:55:24 More than 5,000 Union members from 3 states attended a rally at Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago to show their solidarity in the midst of what they say is an inc...

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Ladies and gentlemen. Congressman Jack Kimble, Republican of California. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Ladies and gentlemen. Congressman Jack Kimble, Republican of California. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Ladies and gentlemen. Congressman Jack Kimble, Republican of California.

APRIL 10, 2011
by Fred Klonsky

*Congressman Kimble’s latest tweet:

RepJackKimble Let’s stop the liberal media machine that says overpaid teachers are giving and selfless hedge fund managers are greedy. #edreform

*Okay. Jack is

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McDonald’s Wage For Nuclear Job Shows Some Japan Towns May Fade - Bloomberg

McDonald’s Wage For Nuclear Job Shows Some Japan Towns May Fade - Bloomberg

McDonald’s Wage For Nuclear Job Shows Some Japan Towns May Fade

By John Brinsley and Aki Ito - Apr 10, 2011 9:01 AM PT

A week before becoming ground zero for the world’s biggest nuclear crisis since 1986, the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant offered $11 an hour for full-time maintenance work in an area of Japan that was lagging even before last month’s earthquake and tsunami struck.

The wage, the same as McDonald’s Corp. (MCD) pays for part-time work in Tokyo, shows the scale of the northern Tohoku region’s economic blight and indicates towns may never recover from the disaster. Almost 28,000 people are dead or missing and 160,000 are homeless in Tohoku, where 25 percent of the population is 65 or older and job seekers outnumber jobs by two-to-one.

Once the rescue and clean-up is over, Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s government will have to decide whether to rebuild homes, roads and businesses or relocate tens of thousands of people.

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The GOP, gutting America day by day | Dailycensored.com

The GOP, gutting America day by day

Written by Irene NorthPoliticsApr 10, 2011
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Every single day I read a new story about how the Republicans are gutting [pdf] one program or another and crushing rights for one group or another. Here’s just a small list that I’ve compiled.

The GOP guts regulations requiring adequate rest for pilotsbecause the bottom line is all that matters.

The GOP plans to cut $1 trillion in medicaid. During the health care reform debates, the GOP constantly talked about how it would kill the elderly. Now, the GOP is planning on doing just that. They are stripping funding to a program that would keep the elderly alive.

There are also many issues considering women’s rights that are being proposed at the state and federal level. 30 states are restricting abortion

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Jersey Jazzman: Christie's Lying Statistics: A Recap

Jersey Jazzman: Christie's Lying Statistics: A Recap

Christie's Lying Statistics: A Recap

by Duke
Before I push ahead to look at Chris Christie's corporate-based education reform proposal, let's recap his distortions, deceptions, and outright lies when laying out his case for the need for reform:

- Christie: Teacher pay increased 5.9% in two years, which is obviously outrageous!
- Here's the Truth: Recent teacher pay raises are well in line with pay raises throughout the workforce. Teacher pay has lagged behind the average wage in New Jersey for years. And recently settled contracts are in line with the decreasing pay found in the rest of the workforce.


- Christie: Teacher salaries in New Jersey are the 4th highest in the nation.
- Here's the Truth: It's completely deceptive to compare teacher salaries without taking into account the cost of living in different regions of the county. When adjusted, teacher salaries in New Jersey are actually comparatively
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NYC Public School Parents: Dee Alpert, we will miss you!

NYC Public School Parents: Dee Alpert, we will miss you!

Dee Alpert, we will miss you!

by Leonie Haimson

On Saturday night, parents, teachers, and other members of the NYC Ed list serve received the sad news that Dee Alpert, the Special Education muckraker, columnist for EducationNews.org and a valued member of our community, had suddenly passed away. See below note from her friend Jo Anne Simon. Here is a 2007 interview with Dee, detailing how she became involved with the issue of students with disabilities and the failure of the school system to adequately address their needs.

Yet Dee had immense learning about all sorts of issues in addition to special education, which she generously shared with our subscribers. She was always the first to report on the agenda of the all-powerful NY Board of Regents (which she pointed out would be posted just days before their meetings) and the first with news and analysis of eye-opening audits. Click here for a sampling of her messages to our list.

After hearing the news last night, emotional responses started flowing forth from members. I myself

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Digging the Underground Press

Digging the Underground Press


Digging the Underground Press

by SOURCE on APRIL 10, 2011
in: AMERICAN EMPIRE, CIVIL RIGHTS, CULTURE, MEDIA
Editor: As you read this, remember that your community’s underground newspaper, the original OB Rag, was part of this era. Art Kunkin, mentioned below – he was the editor of one of the West Coast’s grandparent alternative, the LA Free Press – once called the OB Rag the best, community-based underground newspapers in the country.

The Sixties’ scrappy alternative newspapers were the oxygen that kept the era’s movements going.

By Richard Greenwald / In These Times
History books rarely speak as trenchantly to contemporary issues as John McMillian’sSmoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America (Oxford University, February). As the cascading revolts in the Muslim world demonstrate, communication systems matter.
Communication is the oxygen of social movements, but scholars have rarely focused
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China hits back with report on U.S. human rights record

China hits back with report on U.S. human rights record

China hits back with report on U.S. human rights record

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BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) -- China retorted the U.S. criticism on its human rights situation by publishing a report of the U.S. human rights record on Sunday.

The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 was released by the Information Office of China's State Council, or cabinet, in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2010 issued by the U.S. Department of State on April 8.

The U.S. reports are "full of distortions and accusations of the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions including China. However, the United States turned a blind eye to its own

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