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firedoglake.com - (Photo by Jessica Kramer, via Flickr.) You’ve been reading a lot lately about the extreme, slash-and-burn partisan agendas of new Republican governors across the country — who are engaging in a no-...

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links.org.au - In Portugal, November 2010 general strike called by the Communist Party-led CGTP and the Socialist Party-led UGT was massively supported, with 3 million strikers out of a workforce of 4.7 million. ...

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newarkadvocate.com - NEWARK — When Glenn McGregor started teaching at Newark High School in 1972, public employees didn’t have collective bargaining rights.McGregor’s salary was so low he had to apply for food stamps, ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Democurmudgeon: Biden chimes in on Union support in a big way.Biden chimes in on Union support in a big way. From Ed Schultz:The Walker/Luntz timeline very suspicious, possibly illegal!! I have to ...

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host.madison.com - SCOTT WALKER | governor of Wisconsin madison.com | | Posted: Saturday, March 19, 2011 6:30 am Imagine the outrage if government workers did not have collective bargaining for wages and benefits. Co...

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socialistalternative.org - The movement to recall Walker and his Republican goons is gaining momentum. Hundreds of thousands of workers and young people are looking towards the recall to strike back and teach corporate polit...

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teamsternation.blogspot.com - Protesters continue to March in Madison for workers' rights today, but plenty of people are out collecting signatures to recall the eight Republican senators who voted against workers. If only thre...

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jsonline.com - March 19, 2011 11:39 a.m. | Defending Wisconsin PAC, a political action committee formed for the purposes of recalling Gov. Scott Walker, has announced that it also plans to try to recall Atty. Gen...

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nbc15.com - Posted Saturday, March 19, 2011 --- 8:10 a.m. Here is the latest Wisconsin news from The Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The hotly disputed collective bargaining bill that Republican Gov. Sco...

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bluecheddar.wordpress.com - by bluecheddar Dear Wisconsin, Nation, friends, and enemies: you deserve some comic relief. Bill O’Reilly: show us your finger-walking. Posted on Saturday, March 19th, 2011 at 2:23 am in Uncategori...

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kolotv.com - CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Nevada's counties have complained loudly that their state overlords plan to steal tax revenue and force on them services provided by the state. Gov. Brian Sandoval's budget...

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theuptake.org - innesota Republican House members are rushing to meet their own newly imposed deadline for balancing Minnesota’s budget. The fiscal bill deadline is March 25th, which has forced the House Tax Commi...

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politicalruminations.com - “America is NOT broke.” Michael Moore in Madison, Wisconsin on March 5, 2011: America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It's just that it’s not in your hand...

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hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com - By Hotline Staff March 19, 2011 | 6:30 PMWhat we at The Hotline learned this week:Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) made some news by raising questions about the long-term wisdom of an American mi...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Wisconsin Republicans Know They Have A Fight On Their Hands With Recall Efforts « CAFFEINATED POLITICSWisconsin Republicans Know They Have A Fight On Their Hands With Recall EffortsMARCH 19, 2011by...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Momma Politico: On Being Powerless: Guest Post from @jillsmoOn Being Powerless: Guest Post from @jillsmoby mommapolitico@gmail.com (mommapolitico)WI Workers protesting union-stripping and billionai...

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jsonline.com - March 19, 2011 4:34 p.m. | Those who follow or practice politics sometimes get presented with a choice: Be for "good government" or for a desired or desirable outcome. But it's often a false choice...

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onmilwaukee.com - No less than the future of the state hangs in the balance. As I said at the heat of the debate over President Barack Obama's campaign to reform the American health care system, history is messy whe...

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news.yahoo.com - By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press Scott Bauer, Associated Press – Mon Mar 14, 9:40 pm ET MADISON, Wis. – School boards and local governments across Wisconsin are rushing to reach agreements with uni...

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CTU Protest Of TIFs Leads To Arrests | Progress Illinois #p2 #WIUNION

CTU Protest Of TIFs Leads To Arrests | Progress Illinois

CTU Protest Of TIFs Leads To Arrests

Jackson Potter, a Little Village High School of Social Justice teacher and member of the Chicago Teachers Union, and another woman identified as Amber Smock from ADAPT were both arrested after leading 150 to 200 people -- about half of them teachers -- to march and rush in to Lincoln Park's Grossinger City Cadillac dealership as part of a rally for tax increment financing (TIF) reform. The two were arrested for misdemeanor criminal trespassing and were taken to the Near North police district.

The rally Saturday afternoon started at Jenner Elementary Academy of the Arts in the Gold Coast neighborhood, gathering teachers, students and parents, and multiple community organizations, including Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization, UNITE HERE Local 1, and the Albany Park Neighborhood Council.

The group then marched up North Clybourn Avenue, making a pit-stop at a Bank of America branch, where 20 people went inside as Potter tried to negotiate for the banking giant to sign

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The City as School: A Radical Imagining « Bill Ayers

The City as School: A Radical Imagining « Bill Ayers

The City as School: A Radical Imagining

by billayers

I want to build an educated city, a school without walls where we can live in search of, rather than in accommodation to. I want us to accept ourselves as works-in-progress, searching and unfinished, on the move in a dynamic, going world, with Chicago our commons, our performance space, and our workshop.

De-couple education from schooling: all human beings are learning from birth until death—learning, like eating and breathing, is entirely natural. It’s wasteful to think of education as a K-12 affair, or to think of education as preparation for life rather than life itself.

I want a city poised to learn more in order to achieve more in terms of human enlightenment and freedom.

An educated city would take seriously the notion that residents are the sovereign, neither objects to manipulate

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Jersey Jazzman: How To Talk Like a Reformer

Jersey Jazzman: How To Talk Like a Reformer

How To Talk Like a Reformer

I had promised myself that I was done with Laura Waters and her increasingly insipid blog; however, this post is so typical of the shallow and lazy thinking of the corporate reformers that I have to point it out.

Laura has not only signed on to the whole Cerf-Christie-Rhee-Gates-Broad-whomever agenda; she's absorbed the language of their propaganda so completely into her muscles that it now spasms out of her like a reflex:
NJEA President Barbara Keshishian has a piece in the Star-Ledger today lambasting the Jersey paper for a general lack of support and for

What Corporate Reform Is Really About

As I've been writing about the corporate reform movement over the past year, I've been thinking a lot about the reasons why a group of plutocrats would push this clearly insane agenda on to our schools.

I've come to realize I've focused most of my writing on two reasons:

1) It distracts from the real reasons for the "achievement gap" and for our current fiscal mess. Income inequity and a tax policy that favors the wealthy are far more responsible for the state of our nation than teacher tenure or pensions; the right-wing needs to find any
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martin hsu is donating 100% of sales to japan earthquake relief | angry asian man

martin hsu is donating 100% of sales to japan earthquake relief | angry asian man
martin hsu is donating 100% of sales to japan earthquake relief

"The land of Pikachu, Totoro and Hello Kitty needs our help." Artist Martin Hsu, who has some super kickass designs, is donating 100% of all proceeds from sales from his store to American Red Cross Japan Earthquake Relief.
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Daily Kos: What's Worth Learning

Daily Kos: What's Worth Learning

What's Worth Learning

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

this is a cross-posting of a review of this book. The review original appeared at Education Review

Marion Brady is a retired educator. He has taught in K-12 and at the university level. He has written columns for Knight-Ridder Newspapers and guest-blogs for the Washington Post. He has authored textbooks. He wants to change American education far more radically than do those normally identified as “reformers.”

This new book is the culmination of many years of thought and work. In it, Brady focuses on what he believes is key to reforming our educational institutions, and that is the construction of our curricula. As he has done for many years, he reminds us that the current framework of school curricula into four main domains of Language, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies is a product of the Committee of Ten in 1892, of which he notes

The curriculum now in near-universal use in America’s classrooms was poor when it was adopted, and has become more dysfunctional with each passing year. About the only thing it has going for it is familiarity and the comforts of ritual. It’s accepted not because it’s good, but because, like most rituals, it’s unexamined. Its problems are myriad and serious. (p. 5)
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Street Dogs ~ There is Power in a Union #wiunion #miunion #P2 #MadWi #Madunion

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Meeting for RIFed Teachers… | REALTeachers

Some Quick Updates… | REALTeachers

Meeting for RIFed Teachers

If you didn’t see it before, please note that the SCTA meeting for teacher who received preliminary layoff notifications (pink slips) will be on Monday March 21st at JFK High School at 4 p.m. It is critical to attend this meeting if you have a lay-off notice. You’ll get information from the legal team about how to proceed.

Rosa Parks named newest district “Priority School”

If you didn’t hear it already, Superintendent Raymond announced Wednesday to teachers and staff at Rosa Parks Middle School that their site will become the seventh “Superintendent’s Priority School.”

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