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jobs.gothamschools.org - Job Description Background Success Charter Network (SCN) is a not-for-profit charter management organization that operates public charter schools in economically-disadvantaged communities with high...

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Black 'Occupy' Protesters Start Occupy The Hood

loop21.com - Malik Rhasaan Malik Rhasaan Supporting Occupy Wall Street, Occupy The Hood seeks to recruit, educate blacks and Latinos The racial makeup of the Occupy Wall Street protests has been a curious, if n...

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Sen. Patty Murray Introduces FOCUS Class Size Legislation

educationnews.org - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced the Facilitating Outstanding Classrooms Using Size Reduction (FOCUS) Act of 2011 [bill summary, PDF], which the Senator says would provide states with th...

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wsbt.com - SOUTH BEND – The controversial leader of Indiana public schools was in our area after telling teachers in Bloomington he has “fences to mend.”Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. Tony Bennett,...

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nypost.com - Mayor Bloomberg today accused the Wall Street demonstrators of trying to cripple the city's economy. "What they're trying to do is take the jobs away from people working in this city," the mayor de...

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For Some, Wall Street Is Main Street

nytimes.com - Panini and Company Cafe normally sells sandwiches to tourists in Lower Manhattan and the residents nearby, but in recent days its owner, Stacey Tzortzatos, has also become something of a restroom m...

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A challenge that fits 'Occupy Together' to a tea

blogs.chicagotribune.com - Part of my brief against the tea party movement, particularly early on, was that the angry right-wing activists who carried signs and shouted slogans at its protests seemed to have no idea exactly ...

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G.O.P. Anti-Federalism Aims at Education

nytimes.com - Representative Michele Bachmann promises to “turn out the lights” at the federal Education Department. Gov. Rick Perry calls it unconstitutional. Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, would allo...

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Vt. union to ask teachers to consider strike

boston.com - BENNINGTON, Vt.—Union leaders of the Southwestern Vermont Education Association plan to ask teachers to consider a strike during a membership meeting next week.The Bennington Banner reports (http:/...

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Oakland Schools Expanding Free-Meal Programs

nytimes.com - On a recent Saturday morning, some 60 teachers and nurses from the Oakland Unified School District gathered at Tilden Education Complex for a daylong seminar on nutrition education. Mar...

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Community-Wide Effort May Help Tame Troubled Teens

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Towns using ‘Communities That Care’ system saw decrease in vandalism, theft, study finds.A community-based prevention system may lead to lasting reductions in teen smoking, drinking, violence and o...

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Miserably low job growth | Economic Policy Institute

epi.org - Share this page:This morning’s release of the Employment Situation report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that 103,000 jobs were added in September. That number, however, includes around ...

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livestream.com - This channel will feature live streams from global non violent revolution spreading across the globe, with the first broadcasts from Wall Street Occupation in NYC that will start on Saturday, Septe...

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Capitol Alert: Jerry Brown signs California Dream Act

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Capitol Alert: Jerry Brown signs California Dream Act:Jerry Brown signs California Dream ActGov. Jerry Brown today signed legislation allowing undocumented immigrant college students to receive pub...

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You Either Get It or You Don't

bluejersey.com - "The middle class, privileged college hipsters can feel so entitled knowing so little about the world." - The author of the above must not have visited and talked with the demonstrators. These peop...

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Occupy San Diego Day 1: Good Will Marching

lafiga.firedoglake.com - Occupy San Diego has started. The nascent group had planned to occupy the Civic Center Plaza in downtown San Diego, adjacent to San Diego City Hall, starting on October 7, 2011. But there was one ...

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