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The South End :: Students, group protest in Gullen Mall

The South End :: Students, group protest in Gullen Mall

Students, group protest in Gullen Mall

Part of the National Day of Action to Defend Public Education

By BRIANNA VALLESKEY | The South End
Updated: 1:45 AM
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Students, teachers and others gathered in Gullen Mall to rally for the National Day of Action to Defend Public Education.

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Students, teachers and workers rallied in the Fountain Court of Gullen Mall October 7 to protest budget cuts on education for the second National Day of Action to Defend Public Education.

With signs that read, “Bail out students, not the banks” and “Defend education,” protesters passed out flyers and gave speeches throughout the event.

Lauren Burnett, a Wayne State senior and protester at the rally, said she has been a senior since 2008.

“I couldn’t get financial aid to finish — I didn’t qualify,” Burnett said. “So, I just feel like the cuts on budgets for education here in colleges and at public schools K-12 have been really heinous and really egregious.”

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Photo Coverage: The 6th Annual GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) Respect Awards Los Angeles at the Beverly Hills hotel in Beverly Hills 2010/10/09

Photo Coverage: The 6th Annual GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) Respect Awards Los Angeles at the Beverly Hills hotel in Beverly Hills 2010/10/09

Photo Coverage: The 6th Annual GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) Respect Awards Los Angeles at the Beverly Hills hotel in Beverly Hills

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The 6th Annual GLSEN Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network Respect Awards Los Angeles at the Beverly Hills hotel in Beverly Hills, California October 8, 2010.


Actresses Chloe Sevigny L, Ginnifer Goodwin C and Jeanne Tripplehorn pose at the 6th Annual GLSEN Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network Respect Awards Los Angeles at the Beverly Hills hotel in Beverly Hills, California October 8, 2010. - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT



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A world of possibility for Rhee after D.C. - EducationNews.org �������

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A world of possibility for Rhee after D.C.
10.9.10 - The Republican candidate for governor of Iowa thinks she'd be a great head of the state's department of education. Political chatter in New Jersey has her on Gov. Chris Christie's list of candidates for the top job there. Others see her as secretary of education in a second Obama administration, if there is one.

NYC takes aim at teachers' 'tenure for breathing'
10.9.10 - NEW YORK - Do public school teachers get tenure just by breathing? ...

L.A. teachers union aims to prevent layoffs at 'bad' schools
10.9.10 - LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles teachers union is promising to challenge a proposed agreement that would change how teachers are laid off in the nation's second-largest school district, while education experts hail it as a landmark that could pave the way for changes in urban districts across the nation. ...

1 Ohio school, 4 bullied teens dead by own hand
10.9.10 - MENTOR, Ohio - Sladjana Vidovic's body lay in an open casket, dressed in the sparkly pink dress she had planned to wear to the prom. Days earlier, she had tied one end of a rope around her neck and the other around a bed post before jumping out her bedroom window. ...

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Education Week: From the Wires

Education Week: From the Wires

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Mo. suspends annual test because of budget crunch
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Leaders Debate Statewide Property Tax for Schools
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In 1 School, Bullying Blamed for 4 Teens' Deaths
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Teens urge parental involvement at suicide summit
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Shanker Blog � It's a Bird? It's a Plane? It's the Superman Movement!

Shanker Blog � It's a Bird? It's a Plane? It's the Superman Movement!

IT’S A BIRD? IT’S A PLANE? NO, IT’S THE SUPERMAN MOVEMENT!

by Eugenia Kemble

Yes, it’s the Superman Movement. Most filmmakers must secretly dream of a sequel that is bigger, better, and more important than the original. The makers of Waiting for Superman are apparently no different. “For us, the theatrical release is just the start of social action,” says Jim Berk, CEO of the aptly named Participant Media, the studio behind the movie (see here). “When I started the company, it was to motivate the grass roots and really get people to embrace an issue, and the idea was that the politics would follow,” confirms Jeff Skoll, Participant’s founder and chairman.

In 2009, these leaders decided Participant needed its own organizing arm, so they invented TakePart.com, a website tied to an extensive network of social action websites. TakePart, which constructs a special operation for every film, also offers advice to potential activists on their chosen issues – what to do and how to do it.

Charter school funders gloated and applauded when an early preview clip of Superman was shown at a

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Philadelphia School Partnership pledges financial aid for turnarounds | Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/08/2010

Philadelphia School Partnership pledges financial aid for turnarounds | Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/08/2010
Philadelphia School Partnership pledges financial aid for turnarounds A new group that wants to ensure that all Philadelphia students have access to good schools will begin by offering support to those who seek to turn around failing district schools.
Schundler blames Christie for loss of $400 million in schools aid Gov. Christie sacrificed points on New Jersey's application for $400 million in federal schools aid rather than appear to give in to the state's largest teachers union, his former education chief testified Thursday.
Methacton teachers threaten to strike Oct. 15 Teachers in Montgomery County's Methacton School District, without a contract for more than a year, notified the school board Thursday that they would go on strike Oct. 15 if no new agreement was reached by then.
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Shots were fired before Kent State shootings, forensic expert says - The Boston Globe

Shots were fired before Kent State shootings, forensic expert says - The Boston Globe

Shots were fired before Kent State shootings, forensic expert says

Associated Press / October 9, 2010

CLEVELAND — A tape recording of the shooting deaths of four Kent State University students by Ohio National Guardsmen in 1970 reveals the sound of pistol shots 70 seconds earlier, a newspaper reported yesterday, citing the work of a forensic audio expert.

If the pistol fire is authenticated, it could prove a theory that the Guardsmen thought they were being shot at during a campus Vietnam War protest and also could back up witnesses who said an FBI informant monitoring the protest fired warning shots because he felt threatened.

The National Guard opened fire on student protesters on May 4, 1970, killing four and injuring nine others. Eight Guardsmen were acquitted of federal civil rights charges four years later.

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