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Schools Matter: Occupy Wake County School Board Meeting October 18 #ows

Schools Matter: Occupy Wake County School Board Meeting October 18:

Occupy Wake County School Board Meeting October 18

by Jim Horn
Since when does disagreement on important public issues constitute "corrosive public debate?" Well, since the Chamber of Commerce decided it did. Seems the Chamber and businessmen of the Wake Partnership have joined the push to approve the new resegregation plan unless stopped by non-violent civil disobedience on or before Tuesday night.

From the News Observer:
. . . .But the future of the plan was thrown into uncertainty after Tuesday's election resulted in the victory of four Democratic school board candidates: Evans, Martin, Christine Kushner and
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Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, Walks Out on 1,000-Plus Parents Who Traveled to His L.A. County Town Hall - Los Angeles News - The Informer

Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, Walks Out on 1,000-Plus Parents Who Traveled to His L.A. County Town Hall - Los Angeles News - The Informer:

Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, Walks Out on 1,000-Plus Parents Who Traveled to His L.A. County Town Hall

By Simone Wilson Thu., Oct. 13 2011 at 9:35 AM
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Categories: Education, politics

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Arne Duncan has places to be.
​Lydia Grant, a big education activist in SoCal, asked us to attend U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's two-hour-long town hall in Pico Rivera earlier this week. Duncan had promised big things for the Tuesday event:

The town hall is hosted by the U.S. Department of Education and will include space for the public to ask questions and share their thoughts. The event is designed to engage community leaders from across the Los Angeles region in meeting President Barack Obama's challenge to lead the world in college completion by 2020.

Grant also invited about 200 parents -- and says over 1,000 showed up in total, some traveling all the way up from San Diego. But that didn't stop Duncan from walking out after 20 minutes.

"Everybody was just shocked," says Grant, because the town hall had been "pushed as if parents were going to be able to really tell their stories and get help."

And even for the short time Duncan was speaking and answering a couple questions in the brick El Rancho High School basketball court, according to Grant, the audience could barely hear what he was saying. The only words that really came through were "Jobs Act."
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Why Was a Reporter Kicked Out of Jeb Bush’s Ed Summit? | Scathing Purple Musings

Why Was a Reporter Kicked Out of Jeb Bush’s Ed Summit? | Scathing Purple Musings:

Why Was a Reporter Kicked Out of Jeb Bush’s Ed Summit?

by Bob Sikes

Thomas B. Fordham Institute blog contributor Chester E. Finn was moderating reporter’s questions at Jeb Bush’s San Francisco Ed summit when K-12 Network reporter Steve Begley asked former NYC schools chancellor, turned Rubert Murdoch fixer Joel Klein what turned out to be a few legitimate questions. From Mother Jones:

During the Q&A session, Steve Begley, a blogger from the K-12 News Network, asked Klein about what Murdoch had in mind for his foray into the education business, which Murdoch has said is a $500 billion market largely untapped by the corporate world. After noting Klein’s $4.5 million annual compensation, Begley asked him what sort of “revenue goals” Murdoch had set for him, and “what kinds of goods and services are you going to sell to meet those goals?” Before he could even finish his question, the panel moderator Chester Finn, from the Fordham Institute, cut him off. He told Begley that he was out of line, and that his question was inappropriate. He demanded that Begley

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Reason #15 to be wary of #TeachForAmerica

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White Hat Case Far From Over

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Who will be hit by Emanuel’s 517 layoffs?

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Hechinger Report | Kindergarteners at the keyboard

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Wake up, Chicago Teachers Union | Ben Joravsky on Politics

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Live from Madison, Wisconsin's March to End the Wars |

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Dog Lobby Has Political Bite in San Francisco

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VA School Insider « PWC Education Reform Blog

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Live from Madison, Wisconsin's March to End the Wars #ows

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Education Funds Sought to Uncover Cheating

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Grants, incubator to fuel Indy charter school boom

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OCTOBER 15 — International Day of Solidarity

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An unwanted fresh start, midyear - The Education Report

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Global Blogging Project - The Educator's PLN

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Reach for Your Dreams

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