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Approaching the end of my teaching career and labeled “toxic.” « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - I didn’t want it to end this way. After nearly 30 years of teaching I will be retiring in June. And I’ve loved doing what I do. I loved it a lot last night. My last school Open House. My room was f...
Samuel Gompers Students, Staff Make Final Plea to Stave Off School Closure
dnainfo.com - Joseph Duarte, a Gompers sophomore, blamed the DOE for his school's struggles at a public hearing on Thurs., Feb. 3, 2012. (DNAinfo/Patrick Wall) MOTT HAVEN — Joseph Duarte and his friends have tri...
Providence to gain two more charter schools - The Brown Daily Herald
browndailyherald.com - The Board of Regents of the Rhode Island Department of Education voted 5-4 last night in favor of a proposal to allow Achievement First, a nonprofit that has established charter schools throughou...
ALEC Education "Academy" Launches on Island Resort
truth-out.org - Today, hundreds of state legislators from across the nation will head out to an "island" resort on the coast of Florida to a unique "education academy" sponsored by the American Legislative Exchang...
High school students tell Mayor Bloomberg why he should not close their schools
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - NYC high school students from the Schomburg Satellite Academy, Herbert Lehman HS, Samuel Gompers HS, and Legacy HS -- among the 62 schools threatened with closure or truncation -- tell Mayor Bloom...
Newark superintendent to announce closing of 7 failing schools, new charter school rules
mobile.nj.com - Newark superintendent to announce closing of 7 failing schools, new charter school rules NEWARK — In an historic reshuffling of the state’s largest school system, Newark Superintendent Cami Anderso...
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Venture Capitalists Moving Into K-12 Education Right On Schedule « GFBrandenburg's Blog
gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com - A lot of folks who are worried about the direction that education is taking in this country have said, over and over again, that this is partly an attempt by billionaires to amass even more money b...
When it Comes to Education Technology, Trust but Verify -- In These Times
inthesetimes.com - New gadgets in the classroom may cost more than schools bargain for. In lieu of empirical data, why are schools rushing into this brave new world of technology? The release of Apple’s computer-base...
Superman Has Left the Building (and left the majority of the children behind)
themomarchy.wordpress.com - On January 20th, a bill (HB 2428) to establish Charter Schools was heard in the Washington State House Education Committee. While waiting for the ice and snow to melt, I decided to watch the heari...
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Romney’s Tough Immigration View Is at Odds With His Church
nytimes.com - While Mitt Romney is taking a hard line on immigration even as the Republican primaries head toward the heavily Hispanic states of Nevada, Colorado and Arizona, the Mormon Church to which he belong...
Outcry Grows Fiercer After Funding Cut by Cancer Group
nytimes.com - The nation’s leading breast cancer advocacy organization confronted the growing furor Thursday to its decision to largely end its decades-long partnership with Planned Parenthood, with rising disse...
OUTRAGE
4lakidsnews.blogspot.com - I have been biting my tongue here, caught between too-much and not-enough information. But I’m afraid there is no room for consensus or middle ground, no midpoint between the two levels of outrage...
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Arizona: Panel Votes to Ban Collective Bargaining
nytimes.com - A State Senate committee voted Wednesday to ban collective bargaining with public employee unions, a change that would be felt in school districts and local governments. The Government Reform Commi...
Assembly Committee Votes to Put Charters Under Local Control
njspotlight.com - Credit: Amanda BrownAssemblyman Patrick Diegnan (D-Middlesex). The Christie administration’s slowdown in approving charter schools in the suburbs hasn’t slowed the push by Assembly Democrats to tig...
Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private Meeting To Beat Obama
huffingtonpost.com - WASHINGTON -- At a private three-day retreat in California last weekend, conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch and about 250 to 300 other individuals pledged approximately $100 million t...
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Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » My coffee with an SFC creep
pureparents.org - Yesterday I had coffee (well, more on that later) with a top organizer for Chicago’s astroturf branch of Stand for Children. He had asked to meet in response to my blog about SFC’s recent telephone...
Approaching the end of my teaching career and labeled “toxic.” « Fred Klonsky
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Approaching the end of my teaching career and labeled “toxic.” « Fred Klonsky:Approaching the end of my teaching career and labeled “toxic.”by Fred KlonskyI didn’t want it to end this way.After nea...
My first DE podcast
ideasandthoughts.org - I have a heart for podcasting. Steve Dembo and Bud Hunt captured by attention way back when as they casually recorded themselves as they drove home from work. I loved the raw, authentic, casual nat...
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Sunday’s Super Bowl brings national attention to the perils of right-to-work legislation
epi.org - Despite a dearth of proof to substantiate claims that right-to-work laws help create jobs and raise wages—and in spite of fierce opposition from activists and groups across the country, including t...
Who Would Pay the Governor’s Proposed Tax Increase? « California Budget Bites
californiabudgetbites.org - The Governor’s Proposed 2012-13 Budget assumes the passage of a ballot measure that would add three new rates to the state’s income tax on high-income Californians and add a new 0.5 percent sales t...
Move Your Money: Hundreds of Thousands of Transfers From Big Banks to Small in Last Three Months
news.firedoglake.com - Here’s one of my most favorite statistics of the last few years. In the past 90 days, since “Bank Transfer Day” in November, 5.6 million people have moved their money out of banks. 610,000 cited Ba...
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Komen’s accidental case against breast exams
washingtonpost.com - It will be years until we know how the Komen/Planned Parenthood fight really ended. The Susan G. Komen Foundation has apologized, and promised to allow Planned Parenthood to apply for grants in the...
This week's healthy schools highlights
ednewsparent.org - White House chef tests healthy school lunch How about this for a healthy school lunch: a chef salad in a pocket alongside veggie dippers and fruit kebobs with honey yogurt dipping sauce. White Hous...
6 on UCD faculty elected scientific society fellows - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News
sacbee.com - Six UC Davis faculty members have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society, according to a campus news stat...
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Who Would Pay the Governor’s Proposed Tax Increase? « California Budget Bites
californiabudgetbites.org - The Governor’s Proposed 2012-13 Budget assumes the passage of a ballot measure that would add three new rates to the state’s income tax on high-income Californians and add a new 0.5 percent sales t...
California Legislature keeps school buses rolling
latimes.com - School buses are likely to keep rolling for now, as the Legislature on Thursday restored $248 million for home-to-school transportation that was particularly crucial for small and rural school dist...
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Harlem Success Acad After School Activity: Marching Kids Up and Down Stairs For An Hour How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other NYC Educator: A Fine Day for a Sellout Is Tenure a Strike Issue?Moskowitz Aims Charters at
ednotesonline.blogspot.com - Norm- Just spent 20 minutes watching Eva's staff at HSA (redacted to protect personnel from the usual vicious Moskowitz retaliation) make approx. a dozen kids march two by two down the hallways -...
