Tuesday, January 31, 2012

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Hundreds protest Lehman High School turnaround plan

bronxpresspolitics.blogspot.com - By MIAWLING LAMFormer Bronx teacher and education activist Peter Lamphere speaks during a rally to save Lehman High School.THE odds are stacked against them, but more than 200 former and current st...

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IFF Study Released to Criticism of Research Methodology

realeducationreformdc.blogspot.com - Quality Schools, Every Child, Every Neighborhood Indeed A response by Teachers and Parents for Real Education Reform The Illinois Facilities Fund report titled: Quality Schools, Every School, E...

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Teachers Demand Arne Duncan’s Removal

laprogressive.com - Barack Obama, Arne DuncanEducators Letter to President Obama Now Online and Ready For SignaturesHere is the link to the Educators Letter to President Obama that asks him to withdraw his support of ...

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View of SOTU from right field

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - My friend called me yesterday. She sounded irate. "Do you read the Tribune?" she asks. I try not to but can't avoid it sometimes, I respond. "Did you read that column Sunday by Steve Chapman?" No I...

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Bloomberg Defends 9/11 Memorial Salaries - Metropolis

blogs.wsj.com - By Michael Howard SaulAssociated Press Some of the first visitors to the National September 11 Memorial last year.New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the nearly $300,000 in severance pai...

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Wis.: At least 160 bargaining units want to remain

articles.boston.com - Anger over that law spawned recall elections last year that saw two Republican state senators lose their seats. Walker, his lieutenant governor and four more Republican state senators are being tar...

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Buyout Profits Keep Flowing to Romney

nytimes.com - Almost 13 years ago, Mitt Romney left Bain Capital, the successful private equity firm he had helped start, and moved to Utah to rescue the Salt Lake City Olympic Games and begin a second career in...

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Freddie Mac Bets Against American Homeowners

propublica.org - Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage giant, has placed multibillion-dollar bets that pay off if homeowners stay trapped in expensive mortgages with interest rates well above current rates.Fredd...

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It’s Time to Close the Deal « MomsRising Blog

momsrising.org - On Friday, January 27, President Obama followed up on a promise made in his State of the Union Address by creating a new working group to aggressively investigate the abuses that triggered the hous...

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At Least 20 People Shot This Weekend

nbcchicago.com - advertisement At least 20 people, including a 10-year-girl, a 16-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy, have been wounded in shootings throughout the city since Friday evening. Half of these shooting...

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10-Year-Old Among Victims Of Weekend Violence

huffingtonpost.com - At least 20 people, including one child and several teens, have been wounded so far during a violent and unseasonably warm weekend in Chicago.The violence began Friday evening and continued into Su...

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U.S. Drones Stir Outrage in Iraq; Fleet May Grow

nytimes.com - BAGHDAD — A month after the last American troops left Iraq, the State Department is operating a small fleet of surveillance drones here to help protect the United States Embassy and consulates, as ...

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Explosion at downtown flour silo sends cap 150 feet

latimesblogs.latimes.com - January 30, 2012 | 6:53 pm A large cap blew about 150 feet from a silo as it was being filled with flour Monday evening in downtown Los Angeles, officials said.The silo, about 60 feet tall and 30 ...

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Occupy protest resurfaces in Oakland after lull

northjersey.com - OAKLAND, Calif. — It started peacefully enough: A midday rally at City Hall and a march. But as the day wore on, Oakland was hit by the most turbulent protests in weeks as Occupy demonstrators clas...

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Sabrina Stevens Shupe: Why the #EdSOTU Matters

huffingtonpost.com - (Or, A Tale of Two Speeches)Over at Teacher in a Strange Land, Nancy Flanagan asked, ""Who speaks for public education?"I'd answer that a lot of people do (for better, and for worse) but we don't a...

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Sabrina Stevens Shupe: Why the #EdSOTU Matters

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Sabrina Stevens Shupe: Why the #EdSOTU Matters:Sabrina Stevens ShupeTeacher-turned-activist; WriterGET UPDATES FROM SABRINA STEVENS SHUPE Like12Why the #EdSOTU MattersPosted: 01/29/2012 6:25 pmOr, ...

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