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Teachers Want to Lead Their Profession's Transformation

edweek.org - Published Online: February 7, 2012Published in Print: February 8, 2012, as Teachers Want to Lead Their Profession's TransformationCommentary ByGeneviève DeBose, Claire Jellinek, Greg Mullenholz, Sh...

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L.A. Unified bests reform groups in most cases, data show

articles.latimes.com - Graduates celebrate at Locke High School. The charter school saw lower… (Arkasha Stevenson / Los Angeles Times)August 18, 2011|By Howard Blume and Sandra PoindexterLos Angeles TimesIn a surprising ...

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City voters trust teachers union more than mayor: poll

nydailynews.com - City voters trust the teachers union more than the mayor to protect public school students’ interests, according to a poll released Wednesday.However, voters strongly support the mayor’s plans to p...

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Charter schools to get boost under Malloy plan

ctpost.com - HARTFORD -- Charter schools would expand and get more money under a plan by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration to be announced Monday, but some of the additional funding would have to come from...

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After Outcry, a Top Official Resigns at Cancer Charity

nytimes.com - Karen Handel, a former Republican candidate for governor in Georgia who joined the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation last year, resigned Tuesday morning as senior vice president for policy jus...

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Finding Purpose, and NYC, at Washington Irving HS

edwize.org - [Editor's note: The author is a social studies teacher at Washington Irving HS, Manhattan. He delivered the following speech at the Jan. 31 public hearing on Irving's proposed closure.] I began tea...

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State lawmakers unleash a whole lot of crazy

teamsternation.blogspot.com -  Jim Hoffa in Madison last year.It's becoming an annual ritual when state Legislatures convene in January. The corporate quislings who somehow got elected file anti-worker bill after anti-worker ...

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New staff arrives at Miramonte – USATODAY.com

usatoday.com - LOS ANGELES – Two days after school officials announced they were removing all the faculty and staff at a school where two teachers were arrested for allegedly abusing students, new teachers began ...

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Whistleblower Hotline Contact Data - Compliance Program

thyssenkrupp.com - The ThyssenKrupp Whistleblower Hotline is available to employees of the ThyssenKrupp Group to report possible infringements of laws or policies, in particular antitrust violations and corruption, a...

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Warren: FHFA Must Help With Principal Write-Downs

news.firedoglake.com - Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard professor, consumer advocate and candidate for US Senate in Masachusetts, said today that the Federal Housing Finance Agence (FHFA) must increase their actions on beha...

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A View From And On Iran: Obama’s New “Diplomacy”

owsnews.org - I just returned from attending a conference in Iran. I kept getting asked about Occupy activism. It seems to be getting more coverage in their media, including PRESS TV, than in our own. Here’s a r...

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