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nypost.com - Michael Goodwin After reading my reports from New York teachers who say they are forced to raise grades and pass failing students, a friend has questions. He writes: "If nine years of mayoral contr...
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Waiting for a School Miracle

nytimes.com - TEN years ago, Congress adopted the No Child Left Behind legislation, mandating that all students must be proficient in reading or mathematics by 2014 or their school would be punished. ...
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City teachers tell of "mandated" cheating

nypost.com - The e-mail box runneth over with bad tidings. Teachers are reporting that cheating is rampant in New York City schools -- and they claim principals are the culprits. The reports are responding to m...
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Daley Lands Job With Parking Meter Lawyers

nbcchicago.com - Richard Daley, Ex-Mayor, (Another) New Job Former Mayor Richard Daley has landed a job with the firm that negotiated Chicago's parking meter deal. Daley will be "of counsel" to Katten Muchin Rosenm...
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SRC passes budget despite public outcry

thenotebook.org - The School Reform Commission passed a budget that was roundly criticized by a roomful of students, parents, advocates and others for cutting essential services like full-day kindergarten and most f...
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Menendez says Dems won't back Medicaid cuts

democraticunderground.com - Source: The HillMenendez says Dems won't back Medicaid cutsBy Sam Baker - 06/01/11 03:06 PM ETCuts to Medicaid are no more palatable than cuts to Medicare, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) told report...
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Obama Administration Transforming DoJ Civil Rights Division

news.firedoglake.com - There are plenty of areas where the Obama Administration has dashed hopes and failed to live up to expectations. However, while I’m not an expert on the reorganization of the Civil Rights Division ...
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Reflection vs Retrospection | Connected Principals

connectedprincipals.com - Posted by Akevy Greenblatt on 6/01/11 • Categorized as Best Educational Practicespicture: noupe.com As we come to the end of a school year many of the tweets and blog posts that I have seen talk ab...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release June 01, 2011 June 1, 2011Dear Mr. Chairman: (Dear Madam Chairman:) (Dear Representative:) (Dear Senator:)This report to the Con...
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In Chicago it's called a "win-win"

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Big losers are social services and schoolsThat's right. This week, former mayor Daley landed his pay-back job with the very firm that negotiated his notorious sell-off of the city's parking meters....
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Sacramento's arena plan reviewed by City Council, public

sacramentopa.blogspot.com - Ryan Lillis Sacramento Bee -- City Beat May 26, 2011 With Kings owners Joe and Gavin Maloof and dozens of fans in attendance at City Hall, the Sacramento City Council is getting its first look at t...
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RIP American middle class

teamsternation.blogspot.com - It's official. The American middle class is dead. For decades the American middle class was defined by the clothes it wore, the cars it drove, the products it consumed. And for decades, Madison Ave...
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    Making the Case: Member Lobbyists Urge Legislators to Protect CalSTRS « State of Emergency

    Making the Case: Member Lobbyists Urge Legislators to Protect CalSTRS « State of Emergency

    Making the Case: Member Lobbyists Urge Legislators to Protect CalSTRS

    by Leonard Feldman
    A team of Association and ACSA active and retired members provides information to a Pamela Schneider, staff for the Senate’s Public Employment and Retirement Committee, during the June 1 lobbying day at the state Capitol.

    (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) 1 June 2011 — During a pension lobby day Wednesday at the state Capitol, CTA members belonging to the State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) and administrators and superintendents from the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) met with lawmakers and legislative staff to press legislators to protect the pension system.

    Among the points they made, CTA and CTA-Retired (CTA-R) members and ACSA representatives emphasized that public employees contribute to their pensions and that retirement funds are not a “taxpayer giveaway,” as critics have charged. The average CalSTRS member retires at age 62 after 27 years of service. Fully 70% of

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    Modern School: Oaxacan Teachers Resist Tests, Merit Pay—Strikes to Spread Throughout Mexico?

    Modern School: Oaxacan Teachers Resist Tests, Merit Pay—Strikes to Spread Throughout Mexico?

    Oaxacan Teachers Resist Tests, Merit Pay—Strikes to Spread Throughout Mexico?

    by Michael Dunn

    On May 23, 70,000 teachers struck in Oaxaca, Mexico. They were not asking for raises or better benefits, though they certainly need them. They were demanding better funding for their students and expressing their opposition to the government’s merit pay plan that ties teacher pay to their students’ score on the new national test. Many teachers oppose the test entirely and have refused to administer it, despite the fact that their union president signed a pact with the government accepting the merit pay scheme. The new national education law, Alliance for the Quality of Education (ACE), also replaces tenure with yearly contracts. According to Labor Notes, the teachers also want the Oaxacan government to pay for the schools’ utility bills, rather than charging parents, most of whom are struggling to pay their own bills and feed their children. They also want computers installed in the schools.

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    Preliminary Review of Governor's May Revision - State Board of Education (CA Dept of Education)

    June 2011 Information Memoranda - State Board of Education (CA Dept of Education)

    June 2011 Information Memoranda

    Background information and updates on issues of interest to the State Board Members.

    Periodically, the State Board Members may receive information memoranda from State Board staff and the California Department of Education. The information memoranda may include background information, updates on issues of interest to the State Board Members, and reports on a variety of educational topics.

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    Teachers Unions Push Cap on Charter Schools in California - E.D. Kain - American Times - Forbes

    Teachers Unions Push Cap on Charter Schools in California - E.D. Kain - American Times - Forbes

    Teachers Unions Push Cap on Charter Schools in California

    by E.D. Kain

    This is what I’m talking about when I say unions use their very own style of top-down politics:

    The California Assembly passed a new cap on the number of charter schools – a bill sponsored by the California Federation of Teachers – and the recent United Federation of Teachers lawsuit would prevent the Upper West Success Academy charter school from moving to a public school campus.

    The California state Assembly will limit the number of charters to 1,450 by 2017, assuming the Senate goes along for the ride. I don’t understand this. If people want to send their kids to a charter school, what right does the state have to intervene?

    This is why data on charter school success is ultimately inconclusive. How can we know whether or not the best

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