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Online publication recognizes Walker - JSOnline

jsonline.com - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has been named 2011 Governor of the Year by Governors Journal. The online publication said Walker "served as the embodiment of the state by state battle to balance budge...

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Is the Iraq War actually over? - Opinion

aljazeera.com - US President Barack Obama has expressed 'concerns' about Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki [EPA] New York, New York - Launched with so much bluster and zeal as a campaign - no, make that a crusa...

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Top Stories of 2012 (Gotham Gazette, Dec 26, 2011)

gothamgazette.com - Top Stories of 2012 by David Howard King Dec 26, 2011Round and round it goes. A number of our pundits made some big bets last year, pushing all their chips into the center of the table, only to see...

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A Union of Professionals. www.nysut.org

nysut.org - ALBANY, NY December 27, 2011 -- Commissioner King's decision to cut off funding to School Improvement Grant (SIG) districts will disrupt services to our neediest students and deprive their schools ...

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Abstinence-Only Education--It's Baaack for 2012!

alternet.org - Reproductive-health experts breathed a sigh of relief in 2009 when President Barack Obama did away with over a decade of funding for abstinence-only funding under previous administrations (which ha...

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Keeping Students From the Polls

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A Living Wage, Long Overdue

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School Spending Under Microscope - WSJ.com

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Half of America In Poverty? The Facts Say It's True

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Test your Ed Reform IQ!

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Morgan Stanley May Eliminate 580 NYC Jobs

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Changes made for school return dates

signonsandiego.com - NORTH COUNTY — Parents, mark your calendars: After winter break, classes resume on different dates for elementary and high school students in Escondido and San Marcos public schools.In the San Marc...

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Occupy activists meet in Iowa, plan caucus events

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Something That Needs to Happen (Part 2) : Commencing Operation Drain the Pipeline « Cooperative Catalyst

Something That Needs to Happen (Part 2) : Commencing Operation Drain the Pipeline « Cooperative Catalyst:

Something That Needs to Happen (Part 2) : Commencing Operation Drain the Pipeline

by Jabreel Chisley

Education is the gateway to freedom, prosperity, self determination, happiness and productivity; it’s the driving force behind almost every economy in the world and it’s directly related to the health of a society. When a child is denied an equitable and effective education than he or she is denied a right, a right to be free, able, and independent from the constraints of a society where bigotry still lives strong. Education is supposed to be the powering force behind freeing a child from the constraints of the aforementioned bigotry that effectively shapes the towering walls of America’s damming ghetto’s. When a child is denied the right to learn, to be challenged, to be taught, to teach, and to reach the pinnacle of his or her academic ability then he or she is set on the path to destructivity which ultimately will make him or her a dependent of the American Welfare System, whether it’s through social services or through modern-day slavery tactics that are cemented throughout America’s War on Drugs.

Now, we, especially the bigots, racists, and fascists of our country, like to point out the fact that those who live

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Can everybody claim MLK’s principles? | Being Latino Online Magazine

Can everybody claim MLK’s principles? | Being Latino Online Magazine:

Can everybody claim MLK’s principles?

by Daniel Cubias

by Daniel Cubias

Recently, I wrote about affirmative action and its (presumably short) future.

As I stated, one can object to the program without being racist. There are legitimate questions about constitutionality, legal principles, and unintended consequences.

However, one argument irks many ethnic minorities. That is whenever a white conservative insists that his opposition to affirmative action is based upon his deep love for Martin Luther King and the Reverend’s principles. Too many establishment power brokers have insisted that they are the true heirs of MLK’s legacy, with the

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Seattle Schools Community Forum: More Superintendent Talk from the Times

Seattle Schools Community Forum: More Superintendent Talk from the Times:

More Superintendent Talk from the Times

by Melissa Westbrook
Lynne Varner at the Times once again is chiming in with some very similar words on finding a superintendent. She speaks of superintendents past.

"Each left behind lessons that maybe we're now ready to learn."

NOW?! It's only taken our district a decade or more to learn some important lessons? And when can we expect this learning to take place at the Times?

She speaks of John Stanford who is now practically a saint in this district. John Stanford is a lot like John F. Kennedy. We don't really know what their potential or vision would have realized and we have deified them to the
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Daily Kos: You still have a chance to make a big difference

Daily Kos: You still have a chance to make a big difference:

You still have a chance to make a big difference

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

for NN12 in Providence.

Let me back up.

While I had a few Black classmates in high school and one in my original college class, I grew up white middle class with little exposure to people all that different that myself. Well, okay, at least when it came to race and socio-economics. Our lower middle class kids were largely Italian.

It was not until I was in the Marine Corps in the mid-1960s that I really got to know people whose background and experience were very different than my own. Doing so broadened my world, deepened my sensitivity, made me a more complete person.

Too much of the blogosphere has been like that white middle class environment in which I have grown up.

Percentage increase in National Debt by Presidency

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

Drawing my figures from this website, which has lots of other interesting info as well.

Reagan 189.0%
Bush 43 89.0%
Bush 41 51.6%
Carter 42.6%
Clinton 36.0%
Obama 34.0%

Anyone notice a pattern????

see update beneath the fold

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