Wednesday, May 2, 2012

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Chicago Teachers Weigh Strike Option

dailykos.com - For example, amidst protests from parents in varied neighborhoods, Emanuel decided to lengthen the school day from one of the shortest in the country to the longest (7.5 hours, but as a compromise ...
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Daily Kos: DFER and Education Policies

dailykos.com -     So, what happened and who were those “small but vocal younger, reform minded advocates that supported Obama” but hated Darling-Hammond? In August 2008 a pre-convention Democrats for Education R...
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Arizona Public Media | AZPM Home

azpm.org - House OKs Scholarship Plan for Private, Home Schooling Story By Andrea Kelly April 30, 2012 The Arizona House of Representatives has agreed to expand an academic scholarship program that allows stu...
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What You Need To Know About ALEC - Bridging Differences

blogs.edweek.org - Dear Deborah,Since the 2010 elections, when Republicans took control of many states, there has been an explosion of legislation advancing privatization of public schools and stripping teachers of j...
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Quinn Quits Wage Rally After Bloomberg Is Insulted

nytimes.com - Saying she would not tolerate name-calling in political debates, Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, walked out of a rally on Monday after a participant derided New York’s mayor as “Phara...
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Occupy May Day in Bryant Park : The New Yorker

newyorker.com - The Bank of America branch at One Bryant Park was scheduled to open at eight this morning, but just before eight-thirty, a sign was taped to the revolving doors: “Due to circumstances beyond our co...
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British Panel Finds Murdoch Unfit to Lead Media Empire

nytimes.com - LONDON — In a damning report after months of investigation into the hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers here, a British parliamentary panel concluded on Tuesday that Mr. Murdoch was “not...
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Daley strikes back with poke at longer school day

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - The growing rift between Rahm Emanuel and former Mayor Daley has begun to surface publicly. Daley is punching back (well, maybe slapping is a better word) at Rahm's longer-school-day initiative. L...
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School Tech Connect: Cry Me A River?

schooltechconnect.com - I have evidently announced my ambulatory status too soon. I'm going to do this one post and then crawl to bed. In any event, in case you missed it, Rich Miller had this to say today, among other th...
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What Dinty W. Moore Knows

insidehighered.com - Dinty W. Moore is the author of numerous books, including the National Book Prize winning memoir, Between Panic & Desire, and The Accidental Buddhist. He is editor of Brevity, a journal of concise ...
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Police put on riot gear as May Day protests converge

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Police in riot gear lined some streets of downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday evening as more than 1,000 immigrants rights protesters and Occupy activists converged in one big march. The march on Broad...
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Drillers May Frack First, Disclose Later Under Draft Plan

bloomberg.com - By Katarzyna Klimasinska - Tue May 01 04:01:58 GMT 2012Natural-gas companies drilling on U.S. land would be permitted to wait until after hydraulic fracturing is completed to disclose what chemical...
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H.R.4816: Stop the Rate Hike Act of 2012 - U.S. Congress

opencongress.org - View All (18)  |  View Top Rated04/28/12Representative Conyers strongly supports blocking the scheduled increase in student loan debt but favors a Democratic alternative bill, H.R. 4816, which offs...
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