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NYC Educator: Murdoch's Education Ventures Go Forward With The Help Of Politicians On His Payroll

NYC Educator: Murdoch's Education Ventures Go Forward With The Help Of Politicians On His Payroll

Murdoch's Education Ventures Go Forward With The Help Of Politicians On His Payroll

The Independent reports today that Rupert Murdoch is going ahead with his plans to create a News International-sponsored academy school near his newspaper headquarters in east London despite the hacking and political corruption scandal that is embroiling his company, News Corporation.

The hacking scandal has seen 11 former News International employees arrested on a variety of charges, from phone hacking to conspiracy, including the former News of the World editor and News International chief Rebekah Brooks and one of British

Schools Matter: Is CNCA Charter Corporation Poaching Parents and Pillaging Privacy?

Schools Matter: Is CNCA Charter Corporation Poaching Parents and Pillaging Privacy?

Is CNCA Charter Corporation Poaching Parents and Pillaging Privacy?

"Parents having decision making power over a budget is not a sustainable model." — Ana F. Ponce (CEO, CNCA Corporation)

By allowing them to dodge the requirement as a school in our attendance boundary to provide a Mainstream English program, we allow CNCA to continue their discriminatory practices that smack of exclusivity and elitism.
One of Los Angeles' most lucrative and fastest growing corporate charter chains is Camino Nuevo Charter Academy (CNCA) Corporation. Led by the corporate executive tandem of the slick businesswoman and former TFA missionary Ana F. Ponce, and Hoa Truong, a MBA courtesy of the vile Broad Residency in Urban Education [1], CNCA Corporation has nearly doubled their number of school sites in just eighteen months. Before getting into the duplicity and double dealings that account for their staggering growth in market share, I want to share a chilling email I received late last week from a neighborhood parent regarding Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) Central Region Elementary School #14

Rupert Murdoch paid Van Schoales’ salary | DeFENSE

Rupert Murdoch paid Van Schoales’ salary | DeFENSE

Rupert Murdoch paid Van Schoales’ salary

Rupert Murdoch is funding the One Chance Colorado campaign.

The Grand Poo-Bah of Corporate Irresponsibility, Rupert Murdoch

No, we’re not joking.

The New York Times reported on July 23, 2011, that:

Mr. Murdoch began to put his own money behind Mr. Klein’s efforts. At one point, he quietly donated $1 million to an advocacy group, Education Reform Now, run by Mr. Klein, bankrolling a continuing campaign to overturn a state law protecting older teachers, according to a person told of

The New Operation Wetback: Immigration and Mass Incarceration - Hispanically Speaking News

The New Operation Wetback: Immigration and Mass Incarceration - Hispanically Speaking News

The New Operation Wetback: Immigration and Mass Incarceration in the Obama Era

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Photo Credits: No More Deportations

Last week Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) joined a demonstration in Washington D.C. to protest the refusal of President Obama to use his executive powers to halt the deportations of the undocumented. Gutierrez’ arrest came only two days after Obama had addressed a conference of the National Council of La Raza. Conveniently forgetting the history of the civil right struggles that made his Presidency a possibility, Obama reminded those attending that he was bound to “uphold the laws on the books.”

With over 392,000 deportations in 2010, more than in any of the Bush years, many activists fear we are in the midst of a repeat of notorious episodes of the past such as the “Repatriation”

School Tech Connect: Which Status Quo?

School Tech Connect: Which Status Quo?

Which Status Quo?

I came across this clip from May, just thought I'd pass it along. This is from the announcement of the Early Childhood Challenge portion of RTTT. Joan Almon from Alliance for Childhood dares to say something other than "rah."


The early childhood people can see the handwriting on the wall--- it's going to be all about assessments and data

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S.&P. Downgrades U.S. Long-Term Debt

nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — Standard & Poor’s removed the United States government from its list of risk-free borrowers for the first time on Friday night, a downgrade that is freighted with symbolic significance...

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Dozens Killed as NATO Helicopter Shot Down in Afghanistan

nytimes.com - KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents shot down a NATO Chinook helicopter during an overnight operation in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 37 people on board, a coalition military official said on ...

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Why Test-Driven Accountability Is Grasping at Straws

huffingtonpost.com - Bill Gates says that his $5 billion experiment in education has not failed. Gates also claims that he trusts in science. That prompted me to reread the National Academy of Sciences' analysis of the...

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Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education

nap.edu - Below are the first 10 and last 10 pages of uncorrected machine-read text (when available) of this chapter, followed by the top 30 algorithmically extracted key phrases from the chapter as a whole....

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Halliburton High - 'Cross the Pond

jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - I'd have to say that the most important investigative journalist working on American education today is Leonie Haimson. Where she finds this stuff from the UK, I don't know, but thank heaven she do...

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Hear the Echoes #24 - News & Announcements

lsba.com - Hear the Echoes No. 24 ALEC Unveiled Whose Voice is Being Heard? A group of executives who represent around 300 of America’s largest corporations has labored in the shadows since the early 19...

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Deborah Meier Homepage

deborahmeier.com - July 2011 [to comment on this column click here to go to the blog site] It's only a week before the various events in Washington D.C. I'm hoping, mostly, to have fun and for a sufficient size to no...

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S&P Downgrades U.S. Bra Size From D Cup to Tea Cup

wepartypatriots.com - Gravity. That’s the only word to describe yesterday’s news. This issue was bursting at the seams and in the end the S&P had no choice but to get it off their chest. The country had watched for week...

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AFL-CIO Opposes Iraq, Afghanistan Wars

tomhayden.com - In an important development for the peace and justice movement, the AFL-CIO executive council has declared, “There is no way to fund what we must do as a nation without bringing our troops home fro...

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USPS posts $3.1 billion loss in Q3, warns of default

democraticunderground.com - Source: ReutersUSPS posts $3.1 billion loss in Q3, warns of defaultWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.1 billion in its third quarter and warned again it would de...

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5 Easy to Understand Effects of a Credit Downgrade (VIDEO)

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 11:05 am, August 6, 2011 Photo Credits: Standard and Poors Standard and Poors have downgraded the US Credit Rating to AA+. What does this mean? Here are five effects of the action:1.)...

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China Tells US 'Good Old Days' of Borrowing Are Over

democraticunderground.com - Source: ReutersChina Tells US 'Good Old Days' of Borrowing Are OverBy REUTERSPublished: August 6, 2011 at 10:48 AM ETNEW YORK/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China bluntly criticised the United States Saturda...

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Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - This was our first Saturday morning back in Chicago since our Wyoming road trip. Our plan was to enjoy our coffee outside on Division Street at Letizia’s. But a morning rain shower put the kabosh o...

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A Wall to Remember an Era’s First Exiles

nytimes.com - BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. — Frank Kitamoto was only 2 when he and his family — and more than 270 others of Japanese ancestry — were forcibly removed from this forested island and sent to an internme...

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Saturday coffee.+ Old school. « Fred Klonsky's blog

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blogSaturday coffee.by Fred KlonskyThis was our first Saturday morning back in Chicago since our Wyoming road trip. Our plan was to enjoy our coffee outside on Div...

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News from CDE on iTunes U (Facebook)

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - News from CDE on iTunes U (36)News from CDE on iTunes Uby California Department of Education on Saturday, August 6, 2011 at 11:30amThe summer is in full swing and we have added some new content we ...

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Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Class Size (Again)

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Class Size (Again)Class Size (Again)by Melissa WestbrookFrom reader Aggrivated, comes this Salon article about...sigh, class size. Really? Still? I'm going to...

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IPS starts Monday with 300+ fewer teachers

wishtv.com - INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Indianapolis Public Schools students are among those who go back to school Monday, but with more than 350 staff members cut since last school year, the remaining teachers are ...

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