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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Big Education Ape: 11-17-11 AM Surprise, Homeland Security Coordinates #OWS Crackdowns EDition #EDreform

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Surprise, Homeland Security Coordinates #OWS Crackdowns

wonkette.com - Remember when people were freaking out over the Patriot Act and Homeland Security and all this other conveniently ready-to-go post-9/11 police state stuff, because it would obviously be just a matt...

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Freddie Mac Reportedly Paid Gingrich at Least $1.6 Million

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - Newt Gingrich is beginning to feel the inevitable glare of the spotlight that follows a rise of fortunes in the presidential sweepstakes.Bloomberg News reported Tuesday night that Mr. Gingrich rece...

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Williamson County snubs student teaching | The Tennessean

tennessean.com - Tennessee’s new teacher evaluation system has hit an unexpected snag.With teacher tenure and job retention riding on a top score, Williamson County is banning student teachers from working in core ...

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When Good Intentions Make Us Stupid :: Frederick M. Hess

frederickhess.org - by Frederick M. Hess • Nov 16, 2011 at 9:38 amCross-posted from Education Weekhttp://www.frederickhess.org/2011/11/when-good-intentions-make-us-stupidWhile I was gone, there were any number of cl...

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Mayors, DHS Coordinated Occupy Attacks

inthesetimes.com - When a series of crackdowns on the Occupy camps suddenly occurred in, more or less, the same week, many observers wondered if perhaps the attacks had been coordinated at a national level. Oakland M...

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OccupySupply goes to OccupyAustin | MyFDL

my.firedoglake.com - “Wow, it says OccupySupply on it!”, enthused our first recipient of those warm and fuzzy union made hats. Another hat went to a woman who works at the Welcome Table whose only clothes are the ones ...

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Occupy Clairemont Drive Bridge Over I-5

obrag.org - National Day of Action! We are the 99%! We want economic justice! November 17th @ 4:00pm at Mission Bay Park, 2688 East Mission Bay Drive 92109 We Occupy Clairemont Drive Bridge by 4:30 pmThis is a...

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#OccupySF & Edu March « occupy california

occupyca.wordpress.com - by * SAN FRANCISCO, California – Hundreds of demonstrators marched through the financial district of San Francisco on Wednesday beginning at Justin Herman Plaza, one of the main encampments of #Occ...

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Hawaiian Singer to Obama: “Occupy With Aloha”

edwize.org - “We’ll occupy the streets, we’ll occupy the courts, we’ll occupy the offices of you, till you do the bidding of the many, not the few.” Hawaiian singer-songwriter Makana turned his gig playing dinn...

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Mayors, DHS Coordinated Occupy Attacks

inthesetimes.com - When a series of crackdowns on the Occupy camps suddenly occurred in, more or less, the same week, many observers wondered if perhaps the attacks had been coordinated at a national level. Oakland M...

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School Tech Connect: Look! Books!

schooltechconnect.com - Linda Lutton has some words published in article form over at WBEZ about Rahm's media event over in Pilsen. I love how they prop him up in front of some books in Pilsen--- at one of the elementary ...

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    Big midyear hit for Prop 98 likely | Thoughts on Public Education

    Big midyear hit for Prop 98 likely | Thoughts on Public Education:

    Reality vs $ at community colleges - by Kathryn Baron

    by Kathryn Baron
    One of the dominant issues at the fourth and final town hall meeting on how to improve the state’s community colleges wasn’t even in the 70 pages of recommendations from the Task Force on Student Success. “There was some eloquent testimony today that we need more funding,” Community College Chancellor Jack Scott told the 200 or [...]

    Unanimous for Rockship - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

    by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
    Undeterred by the threat of a suit by local districts and at odds with a staff recommendation, the Santa Clara County Board of Education unanimously approved three more Rocketship Education K-5 charters Wednesday night, bringing to eight the number of Rocketship charters it has approved and signaling a receptiveness to granting as many as 20 [...]

    Big midyear hit for Prop 98 likely - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

    by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
    The first shoe fell with a thud Wednesday, when the Legislative Analyst’s Office predicted that a $3.7 billion state revenue shortfall this year would result in $2 billion in midyear “trigger” cuts, including $1.5 billion in Proposition 98 funding and $100 million each to the University of California and California State University. The other shoe will [...]
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