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Cops in schools too costly: CPS - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - By ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter July 3, 2011 9:10PM Since 2009, CPS had been paying the Chicago Police Department $8 million a year to station two officers at roughly 100 high schools for eigh...

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Putting the NEA endorsement of Obama in context

dailykos.com - The NEA Representative Assembly also adopted with almost no opposition and with only minor amendments a resolution very critical of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. The text of that resolution a...

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Union Shifts Position on Teacher Evaluations

nytimes.com - (Page 2 of 2) Segun Eubanks, the director of teacher quality for the union, said the new policy was intended to guide, not bind, state and local union chapters. It tries to close the disconnect bet...

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Debate in New Orleans focuses on school governance

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Debate in New Orleans focuses on school governanceDebate in New Orleans focuses on school governanceJul 4, 2011 1:02pmEmail Print NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Once a symbol of political fractiousness, failu...

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Ald. Ed Burke's bodyguards questioned

articles.chicagotribune.com - Finance Committee chairman kept police protection in racially charged eranow critics doubt need in tight budget times (Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune)When Ald. Edward Burke arrives at City Hall, it...

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A Failing School? Not to These Students

nytimes.com - (Page 2 of 2) James Eterno, Jamaica’s representative to the teachers’ union, has been portrayed in the news media as a man who cares more about preserving jobs than — as the mayor never tires of sa...

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Home - Inside Higher Ed

insidehighered.com - February 24, 2011 The return of ROTC to some campuses -- seemingly assured by the end of the military's policy against gay service members -- may be hitting a few bumps.More February 24, 2011 City ...

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HUD Announces EHLP Program to Assist Distressed Borrowers

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 11:32 am, July 4, 2011 Photo Credits: HUD Last week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in conjunction with NeighborWorks® America, launched the Emergency Home...

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45% of kids sustained thyroid radiation

search.japantimes.co.jp - Around 45 percent of children in Fukushima Prefecture checked by the prefectural and central governments in late March experienced thyroid exposure to radiation, although in all cases in trace amou...

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Chilean Women Rebuild Lives Smashed by Tsunami

womensenews.org - Some give up traditional livelihoods and do something new. Others stay put and rebuild from within devastated towns. Throughout the shoreline communities of southern Chile hardest hit by the 2010 t...

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Debate in New Orleans focuses on school governance

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    Articles: DC Schools 'Cheating' Scandal Heats Up

    Articles: DC Schools 'Cheating' Scandal Heats Up

    DC Schools 'Cheating' Scandal Heats Up

    By M. Catharine Evans

    Top educator Wayne Ryan of Noyes Education Campus in Washington DC resigned his post after having been promoted by super school reformer Michelle Rhee. What precipitated the change? Following a timeline going back three years reveals questions which cannot be explained away. The story involves possible cheating on tests by "erasure corrections," bonuses handed out to those teachers and principals overseeing the testing, and Rhee's feigned innocence about the matter.

    A year after StudentsFirst founder Michelle Rhee assumed the Chancellorship of DC schools she toldCharlie Rose that standardized test scores should be given "the greatest weight" in performance-based teacher evaluations. That was 2008. Her nonprofit website bio makes the audacious claim that "under her leadership, the worst performing school district in the country became the only major

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    UCSF, Stanford autism study shows surprises

    UCSF, Stanford autism study shows surprises

    UCSF, Stanford autism study shows surprises

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    San Francisco -- Environmental factors play a more important role in causing autism than previously assumed and, surprisingly, an even larger role than genetics, according to a new study out of UCSF and Stanford that could force a dramatic swing in the focus of research into the developmental disorder.

    The study, published in Monday's issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, looked at 192 pairs of twins in California and, using a mathematical model, found that genetics account for about 38 percent of the risk of autism, and environmental factors account for about 62 percent.

    Previous twin studies had suggested that autism was highly inheritable, with genetics accounting for roughly 90 percent of all cases worldwide. As such, much recent research into autism has focused on tracking down the genes and unlocking the complex genetic



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    The Best Resources For Learning About Small Learning Communities | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

    The Best Resources For Learning About Small Learning Communities | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
    Sleep Longer And Become A Better Athlete I written quite a few posts about the importance of teen sleep (see The Best Resources For Helping Teens Learn About The Importance Of Sleep) and have written in my latest book how I use that research in classroom lessons. Now a new study has been ...
    The Best Resources For Learning About Small Learning Communities Our high school, and others around the United States, are divided into Small Learning Communities (SLC’s). The idea of SLC’s is to create “schools within schools.” We have a total population of 2000 students that are divided into six Small Learning ...
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    Hello DC! Hello Campus Progress! « Student Activism

    Hello DC! Hello Campus Progress! « Student Activism

    Hello DC! Hello Campus Progress!

    by Angus Johnston

    Heading down to Washington today for tomorrow’s Campus Progress national conference. I’ll be moderating a panel on students and youth in social justice movements in the United States with Carmen Berkeley of Choice USA (a former US Student Association president), John Halpin of the Center for American Progress, and Evangeline Weiss of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

    It should be a really good panel. If you’re going to be at the conference, stop by and say hi!

    NOTE: The conference schedule has changed to accommodate Bill Clinton’s schedule (he’s keynoting). Our panel starts at 11:00 now.

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    Some states leave low-income kids behind | EdNewsColorado

    Some states leave low-income kids behind | EdNewsColorado

    Some states leave low-income kids behind

    by admin

    Editor’s note: ProPublica is a non-profit investigative news service that earned Pulitzer Prizes in 2010 and 2011. This is the first national look at the percentage of high school students enrolled in high-level classes.

    By Sharona Coutts and Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica

    Florida is a state of stark contrasts. Travel a few miles from the opulent mansions of Miami Beach and you reach desperately poor neighborhoods. There’s the grinding poverty of sugar cane country and the growing middle class of Jacksonville. All told, half the public-school students in Florida qualify for subsidized lunches. Many are the first in their families to speak English or contemplate attending college.
    Students at John F. Kennedy High School in southwest Denver.

    In many states, those economic differences are reflected in the classroom, with students in wealthy schools

    Schoales taking helm at A-Plus Denver

    by Alan Gottlieb

    The A-Plus Denver citizens committee is about to get a makeover, with longtime Denver education reformer Van Schoales taking the helm of the organization later this month.

    By hiring Schoales, the A-Plus board and its co-chairs, Terrance Carroll (former speaker of the state House of Representatives) and Mary Gittings Cronin (who ran the Piton Foundation for 21 years) would seem to be signaling a desire to raise the organization’s profile and sharpen its edge.

    (Full disclosure: Schoales and I are old friends, and he is a frequent contributor to the Education News Coloradoopinion and commentary blog)

    Cronin said the organization would continue to pursue its mission – “to harness the power of Denver’s civic leadership to build public will and advocate for reforms necessary to dramatically increase student achievement in public education in Denver.”

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    Slow track for finance reform | Thoughts on Public Education

    Slow track for finance reform | Thoughts on Public Education

    Slow track for finance reform

    Brownley makes AB 18 a 2-year bill amid questions

    Posted on 7/05/11 • Categorized as Finance, Revenue and taxes, Student spending

    By John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

    AB 18, Assemblywoman Julia Brownley’s major overhaul of education finance, flew through the Assembly with near unanimity (74-2) last month. Passage seemed too easy, and it was. With union opposition and questions about a lack of specificity stirring, Brownley last week pulled the bill from its scheduled hearing in the Senate this week and has made AB 18 a two-year bill, with hearings to come next year.

    That shouldn’t be surprising. Brownley, a Santa Monica Democrat who chairs the Assembly Education Committee, continued to describe the bill as a work in progress. It sailed through the Assembly based on its promise: to simplify a convoluted finance system, make funding

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    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Brother Fred sums it all up #NEARA11

    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Brother Fred sums it all up

    Brother Fred sums it all up

    by Mike Klonsky
    As for the Obama vote. Many activists I spoke with were dismayed. The 72% of the delegates that voted support are well short of the 80% that Obama received in 2008. But it is too many. The difference is that in 2008, the vote of support was given with optimism and enthusiasm. Today’s vote was given with noses held. I’m not proud of the vote. But it is what it is. As always, it shows we have work to do. -- "Holding your nose and closing your eyes"
    Also, be sure and read Carol Corbett Burris' great Open Letter to
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    School officials violated law in failure to stop gay student's bullies | California Watch

    School officials violated law in failure to stop gay student's bullies | California Watch

    School officials violated law in failure to stop gay student's bullies

    by Corey G. Johnson

    Left in Alabama/FlickrThe death of middle school student Seth Walsh has sparked a renewed focus on bullying in schools.

    The Tehachapi Unified School District violated civil rights law by failing to stop the persistent bullying of Seth Walsh, a 13-year-old gay middle school student who committed suicide, federal investigators have concluded.

    As a result of a settlement with the U.S. Justice and Education departments, the Tehachapi district has agreed to survey all its schools and enact new policies and strategies to stamp out gender- and sexuality-based

    Ending CSU campus audits will decrease transparency, critics say

    by Erica Perez

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    A budget trailer bill that gets rid of individual financial audits at the 23 campuses of the California State University system has some observers concerned about losing a layer of financial scrutiny.

    Under AB 114, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday, the state will save an estimated $1.6 million annually by cutting out campus financial audits. Instead, CSU will include a new breakout of financials for each campus in a system-wide audit each year.

    In the past, the law required CSU to hire an outside firm to do annual system-wide audited financial statements,

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    An open letter to Ed Secretary Arne Duncan - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    An open letter to Ed Secretary Arne Duncan - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    An open letter to Ed Secretary Arne Duncan

    by Valerie Strauss

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    This was written by Carol Corbett Burris, the principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New York State.

    Read full article >>
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    Wall Street Journal on the Obama endorsement: I’m quotable. Again. « Fred Klonsky's blog

    Wall Street Journal on the Obama endorsement: I’m quotable. Again. « Fred Klonsky's blog

    Wall Street Journal on the Obama endorsement: I’m quotable. Again.

    by Fred Klonsky

    Fred Klonsky, a Chicago-area teacher and delegate to the convention, said the Obama administration should take note of the 72% vote. “For an incumbent Democratic president to receive less than 75% of the delegate vote at an NEA convention ought to cause some concern for the administration,” he said.

    The entire article can be found here.

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    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: LONG WEEKEND QUOTABLES #NEARA11

    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: LONG WEEKEND QUOTABLES

    LONG WEEKEND QUOTABLES

    by Mike Klonsky
    Joe Biden at the NEA RA
    "There is an organized effort to place blame for budget shortfalls on educators and other public workers. It is one of the biggest scams in modern American history." -- Education votes
    Teacher Ken
    “Teachers are being targeted,” said Ken Bernstein, a Prince George’s County teacher who is helping to coordinate the march. “And they are finally coming out of their classrooms and getting interested” in organizing a political response. -- Washington Post
    Brother Fred
    Fred Klonsky, a Chicago-area teacher and delegate to the convention, said the Obama administration should take note of the 72% vote. “For an incumbent Democratic president to

    DC Voices of Concern

    by Mike Klonsky
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    No Schools Left Behind ??? Really ?? Check the data… things that make you say hmmmm… Florida charter schools ? « Continuing Change

    No Schools Left Behind ??? Really ?? Check the data… things that make you say hmmmm… Florida charter schools ? « Continuing Change

    No Schools Left Behind ??? Really ?? Check the data… things that make you say hmmmm… Florida charter schools ?

    by gatorbonbc

    From the article, “But as commissioner overseeing 67 districts, Robinson can’t lose sight that the 137,000 students enrolled in the state’s charter schools is a mere fraction of the 2.6 million students in Florida public schools.”

    Hmm, Really? Well, according to analysis of FCAT scores (as posted in recent blogs)… of the 31 schools in Florida that scored an ‘F’… nearly half (15/31) were charter schools. I have not verified this data, personally, but I do think it raises a question that should be looked into by either our Governor or this Orlando Sentinel. There are

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