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City schools get $4m arts programs boost

articles.boston.com - A study in 2009 said that the availability of arts instruction varied greatly from school to school, with opportunities dwindling as students moved to higher grades. Since the district launched the...

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Common school program reduces signs of bullying

reuters.com - By Kerry Grens NEW YORK | Wed Feb 8, 2012 2:17pm EST NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A widely implemented school program aimed at improving kids' behavior helps to slow the increase in bullying during ...

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Good Reasons and Bad Reasons « School Finance 101

schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - Current reformy rhetoric dictates that we MUST CLOSE FAILING SCHOOLS! That we must close those schools that are dropout factories or have persistently low achievement levels on state assessments. A...

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Detroit To Close 9 Schools, Convert 4 To Charters

huffingtonpost.com - Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Roy Roberts announced a big shake-up in the district Wednesday, closing nine schools next year and converting four into charters, to save $7.5 million in an...

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The Test Generation

prospect.org - On exam day in Sabina Trombetta's Colorado Springs first-grade art class, the 6-year-olds were shown a slide of Picasso's "Weeping Woman," a 1937 cubist portrait of the artist's lover, Dora Maar, w...

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Protesters Rally Against Closures To No Avail

ny1.com - To view our videos, you need toenable JavaScript. Learn how.install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and refresh the page. The United Federation of Teachers and Occupy the...

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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS - 'Another One Bites the Dust'

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS:CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS WEBSITECHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALSA compilation of news articles about charter schools which have been charged with, or are highly suspected of, tamperin...

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School Tech Connect: The Time Is Now For Crane

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: The Time Is Now For Crane:The Time Is Now For Cranenoreply@blogger.com (Tim) Feb 9, 2012 7:40 PM - Show original item...to hit the phones.1-713-553-1500Ask for Jean Claude Briz...

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Libya Struggles to Curb Militias as Chaos Grows

nytimes.com - TRIPOLI, Libya — As the militiamen saw it, they had the best of intentions. They assaulted another militia at a seaside base here this week to rescue a woman who had been abducted. When the guns fe...

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Depressed Kids May Be Targets for Bullying, Study Suggests

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - New research challenges notion that bullying leads to mental health woes.Children with depression are at increased risk for bullying, the results of a new study suggest.The finding challenges the w...

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K12 4Q profit tumbles 46 pct as costs rise

businessweek.com - HERNDON, Va. Educational software provider K12 Inc. said Tuesday that its fiscal second-quarter net income fell nearly in half on higher costs. Profit was less than half of what analysts expected a...

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Attorney General Harris agrees to settlement

sacramentopa.blogspot.com - California Attorney General Kamala Harris and 48 state Attorneys General just announced a $25 billion settlement with the banks that will be a down payment on the debt owed to homeowners and commun...

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The Harris Claim: Side Deals and Numbers

news.firedoglake.com - “Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Secures $18 Billion California Commitment for Struggling Homeowners,” the headline blares. But wait: the foreclosure fraud settlement is only a total of $25 billi...

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You deserve better

us1.campaign-archive1.com - Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Florida Politicians have hit our public schools hard this session. Here are two special-interest driven bills that are making committee stop...

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Eduardo Marti - Administrators CUNY

cuny.edu - On July 1, 2010, the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York appointed Eduardo J. Marti as the first Vice Chancellor for Community Colleges. An experienced educator who has led several...

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