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nytimes.com - Few would argue that she was a good choice. But as you watched the almost giddy reception that greeted the departure of the New York City schools chancellor, Cathleen P. Black, last week — “She was...

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necn.com - The results, released by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, showed that voucher students are nowhere near their public school counterparts — even in the Milwaukee public schools they l...

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washingtonpost.com - The spending deal agreed to Friday night to avert a government shutdown includes a provision banning the District from spending its own funds to provide abortions to low-income women as well as fun...

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dailykos.com - First, I am well aware of the immediate pain that was avoided by not shutting the government down. My wife works for the Federal government and makes far more than do I. We would have been person...

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dailykos.com - I read what was agreed to, and it makes no sense. At a time when we are trying to conserve energy, to diminish both the pollution caused by internal combustion engines and cares on the road as well...

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leoniehaimson cozy! Sundays w/Wendy Kopp’s [& Richard Barth & 4 kids] NYTimes.com: http://nyti.ms/haovsZ But who watches kids when she runs & he to gym?25 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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leoniehaimson Kopp asks 9 & 7 yr sons to do homewrk when they awake @7 AM & family has "value of the month" but do they go to KIPP? http://nyti.ms/haovsZ21 minutes ago · reply · retweet · favorite

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nydailynews.com - Hermann/News; Savulich/News Dennis Walcott (l.) may come from a more experienced background than his much maligned predecessor, Cathie Black, but don't expect many policy changes. In announcing his...

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huffingtonpost.com - A Maine school system may be adding the iPad 2 to its list of mandatory kindergarten classroom items, with the district footing the bill.The Auburn Schools Committee voted unanimously to provide al...

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washingtonpost.com - Labor Department officials ruled Monday that Prince George’s County schools shortchanged more than 1,000 teachers recruited from foreign countries and ordered the district to pay $5.9 million in ba...

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presstvmobile.com - Published: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:55:24 More than 5,000 Union members from 3 states attended a rally at Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago to show their solidarity in the midst of what they say is an inc...

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news.in.msn.com - Himani Kumar Chicago, Apr 9 (PTI) Thousands of Illinois teachers, carpenters and other public service workers gathered here in support of union employees against the proposal of limiting collective...

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firedoglake.com - Yglesias, on the budget deal. I hope people remember this year next time large Democratic majorities produce an inadequate stimulus bill, a not-good-enough health reform bill, a somewhat weak finan...

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nytimes.com - The founder and chief executive of Teach for America, Wendy Kopp, 43, is also the author, most recently, of “A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn’t in Providing an Excellent Educatio...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Glenn Beck/Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel'...

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bluecheddar.wordpress.com - Maher: “If I had to pick a phrase that encapsulates the American economy in the last decade, it surely would be, “I’ve already got your money dude.”“I’ve already got your money dude.” That’s what C...

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thenation.com - NPR Station in LA Suspends Planned Parenthood Spots April 10, 2011 Share | || Recommended by 0|One of two NPR stations in the Los Angeles area, KPCC-FM, suspended its regularly-scheduled Planned P...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - If Teachers Were Treated Like Stars! A Short Story… « Diary of a Public School Teacher!If Teachers Were Treated Like Stars! A Short Story…Can you imagine what it would be like if teachers were trea...

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politico.com - One night last week at The Dubliner, an Irish bar near the Capitol, an unassuming Denver billionaire who has quietly made himself a player in Washington’s relatively small media world, had dinner w...

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host.madison.com - STEVEN VERBURG | sverburg@madison.com | 608-252-6118 madison.com | | Posted: Saturday, April 9, 2011 1:01 pm On the heels of a shocking reversal in a critical Supreme Court race, union members and ...

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teamsternation.blogspot.com -  Bangladeshi workers say they're inspired by workers in Wisconsin and Ohio. Gov. Paul LePage ordered a labor history mural removed from the Labor Department in Maine almost 100 years to the day...

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firedoglake.com - A Lacuna There’s a hole in the rhetorical bucket of America’s extreme right, a lacuna that reveals more than all their selfish dismissals of common purpose or their condemnations of egalitarian pri...

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firedoglake.com - we'll play you a tune, Jaime (photo: darkuncle) Jamie Dimon, the CEO of Too Big To Fail JPMorgan Chase, has been whining about the fact that sensible people loathe him and his ilk. You’d think a gu...

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salsa.wiredforchange.com - To the CA State Legislature and Governor Brown: California and its residents are reeling from a fiscal and economic crisis so severe that it threatens the quality of life in our Golden State in pro...

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