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Rahm does his best Ronald Reagan

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - "Not to quote Ronald Reagan, but I will: 'The facts are a stubborn thing,' " Emanuel said.If there was any doubt that the mayor is itching for a union-busting showdown with Chicago teachers, he's m...
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The Nation's Report Card: An F in History: Forum

kqed.org - Wed, Jun 15, 2011 -- 9:00 AMAudio currently not available for this program.The National Assessment of Educational Progress has released a report showing that the vast majority of students scored be...
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Waiting for a School Miracle

nytimes.com - TEN years ago, Congress adopted the No Child Left Behind legislation, mandating that all students must be proficient in reading or mathematics by 2014 or their school would be punished. ...
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Brown 'reluctantly' vetoes the state budget

sfgate.com - (06-16) 10:45 PDT Los Angeles -- Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed the state budget plan passed by Democrats on Wednesday. The governor made the announcement in an online video released this morning and ...
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Senate Votes to Repeal Ethanol Subsidies

news.firedoglake.com - Just days after rejecting an amendment from Tom Coburn to repeal ethanol subsidies, the Senate passed the same amendment today by a 73-27 margin. The difference was procedural. Democrats did not li...
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Dirty little Secret: Republicans Rationing Health Care Now!!

democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - With no Federal extension of Medicaid funding, thanks to tax cutting, deficit fear mongering Republicans, states have now got to ration care and coverage. Isn’t that what conservatives said would h...
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Wingers Going After the Babies

my.firedoglake.com - Child Nutrition: anathema to the wingnuts (Picture courtesy of flickr.com.) As Georgia Representative John Lewis aptly put it yesterday on the floor of the House, the right wing in its push to make...
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vancouver knows how to riot!

blog.angryasianman.com - Asians behaving badly... Vancouver riot edition! Specifially, this dude, who looks like the kind of guy who's probably fairly well-adjusted on any given day -- except when the Vancouver Canucks los...
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Rosemont Little League Juniors Advance to District Finals

rosemont.patch.com - Rosemont Little League's 12 to 14-year-old team won the Tournament of Champions Area 2 title 2-0 Tuesday against Fair Oaks / Orangevale, team official Henry Vargas said. The Rosemont Juniors will p...
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Vancouver Burns After Canucks Lose Stanley Cup - Global

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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Vice President For Immediate Release June 16, 2011 Click HERE to read the full reportannounced today by Vice President Biden on how The President’s Wireless Innovation...
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Bay of Rage, Anti-cut 2 « occupy california

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Bay of Rage, Anti-cut 2 « occupy californiaBay of Rage, Anti-cut 2by *from BayofRage://Where: Starts at intersection of Broadway & Telegraph, Oakland////When: June 17, 3:00 pm//This is the second i...
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    Markos and Lily: Dreaming at Netroots Nation - Lily's Blackboard #nn11

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    Markos and Lily: Dreaming at Netroots Nation

    Jun 16th, 2011
    by LilysBlackboard.

    Markos and Lily at Netroots Nation

    Lily sat down with Markos Moulistas founder of DailyKosand had a frank, open and compelling conversation about the Dream Act, politics, organizing and how activists and educators can make a difference in their communities and in the nation.

    The Dream Act would allowundocumented students with good character to obtain conditional permanent resident status after high school graduation, and then apply for citizenship if they successfully graduate from college or join the military.

    Brought here as children, the United States is the only country they call home. Even though they have the same dreams as other American children, and have

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    Radical Expansion of School Choice in Wisconsin Budget - E.D. Kain - American Times - Forbes

    Radical Expansion of School Choice in Wisconsin Budget - E.D. Kain - American Times - Forbes

    Radical Expansion of School Choice in Wisconsin Budget

    Jun. 16 2011 - 4:36 pm | 93 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

    Major changes are coming to the Wisconsin public school system, as the Wisconsin Senate prepares to pass Gov. Scott Walker’s budget and radically expand the state’s school voucher programs. What was once a program limited to Milwaukie will now be open to more and more districts. State Superintendent Tony Evers is not pleased:

    Once again in the middle of the night, the majority party in the Assembly voted to expand taxpayer-funded vouchers for religious and private schools. This time the result is a hidden expansion of vouchers statewide. Wisconsin is now set to expand vouchers for private and religious schools, while making a catastrophic $1.6 billion cut in funding for public schools.

    Governor Scott Walker is attempting to shore up a $3 billion budget shortfall by cutting spending on schools and local governments as well as public workers’ benefits. The governor is hoping to balance the

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    L.A. Unified to spend $20 million on parent centers - latimes.com

    L.A. Unified to spend $20 million on parent centers - latimes.com

    L.A. Unified to spend $20 million on parent centers

    This former one-room school house from 1876 has been refurbished as a parent center at a Vernon elementary schoolA historic one-room schoolhouse became the backdrop Thursday for a parent-involvement initiative that includes spending $20 million to upgrade or add parent centers across the Los Angeles Unified School District.

    The unveiling is part of a pronounced effort by the last two district superintendents to reshape and increase parent involvement. Some parent leaders have questioned the sincerity or at least the competency of the outreach.

    It will be up to local schools to find money in their budgets or through fundraising to staff the parent centers.

    For years, the quaint, wood-frame 1876 structure -- that

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    Bay of Rage, Anti-cut 2 « occupy california

    Bay of Rage, Anti-cut 2 « occupy california

    Bay of Rage, Anti-cut 2

    by *

    from BayofRage:

    //Where: Starts at intersection of Broadway & Telegraph, Oakland//
    //When: June 17, 3:00 pm//

    This is the second in a series of counterausterity marches and events we have planned for the summer, in order to begin assembling an anticapitalist force capable of combating the current age of budget cuts and economic violence. This second event is a disruption—a mobile blockade—meant to interrupt, temporarily, the business as usual which economic crisis ever more desperately imposes as the public face of private wealth. For every library and school closure, ten ATMs spring up overnight, circulating ever more swiftly the wealth, looted via predatory lending and home foreclosures. This is not news. Just as globally the US seeks to prop up brutal plutocracies and autocrats in order to maintain its grip on oil reserves and military outposts in the face of pop

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    House Bill Suggests Cutting School Meal Changes - Politics K-12 - Education Week

    House Bill Suggests Cutting School Meal Changes - Politics K-12 - Education Week

    House Bill Suggests Cutting School Meal Changes

    by Alyson Klein

    From guest blogger Nirvi Shah:

    The U.S. House's just-passed agriculture appropriations bill whacks spending for many federal food, nutrition, and ag programs, and House members included language that could undo parts of last year's Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.

    In January, the USDA issued proposed changes to the composition of school meals that will cost billions to put into place over time. For that reason, groups including the American Association of School Administrators, the Council of the Great City Schools, and the National School Boards Association opposed the law.

    Earlier this year, some House Republicans labeled parts of the new law "government overreach."

    Although not included in the text of the bill, the spending plan is accompanied by report language, essentially a nonbinding recommendation, asking the USDA to come up with a new set of nutrition standards for meals that

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    warren furutani is not taking your s#*t: skirmish breaks out on california state assembly floor | angry asian man

    warren furutani is not taking your s#*t: skirmish breaks out on california state assembly floor | angry asian man

    warren furutani is not taking your s#*t: skirmish breaks out on california state assembly floor


    Even without any kind of context, this is an awesome photo. Assemblyman Warren Furutani being restrained on the California State Assembly floor? Badass. Seriously, he looks like he wants to kick somebody's ass. And indeed, there was reportedly some kind of skirmish that went down yesterday: Skirmish breaks out on Assembly floor during budget debate.

    It apparently started when Assemblyman Don Wagner of Irvine likened a portion
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    Daily Kos: NN11 - the first day continues

    Daily Kos: NN11 - the first day continues

    NN11 - the first day continues

    by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

    I arrived at the Convention Center at about 7:15, helped set up for registration, and volunteered getting people their credentials until around 9:30. This is part of the volunteering I am doing in return for the scholarship from Democracy for America, about which more in a minute.

    I saw a familiar name, and asked the young lady if she were related to someone I knew. Turns out she's his daughter. I first met him in 1963 when we played soccer together in college.

    Saw another familiar name, and she too turned out to be the daughter of someone I knew, albeit in this case only electronically. Finally met him when he stopped by tyhe DFA booth where I was I volunteering for an hour for the rest of my service.

    There are other organizations helping with the scholarships, including for example Sojourners. The mix of those

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    How Do We Separate “Being Dumb” from “Being Cool?” « Diary of a Public School Teacher!

    How Do We Separate “Being Dumb” from “Being Cool?” « Diary of a Public School Teacher!

    How Do We Separate “Being Dumb” from “Being Cool?”

    by Oldschoolteach

    This morning I was sitting at the table, eating breakfast with my teenage son and his friend. We were talking, (This is why I eat meals at the table any chance I get), and the topic turned to the use of the “N” word, which led to who uses it and who doesn’t. That discussion led to my son informing me that some students in his school call him “white.” His refusal to lower himself academically makes me proud because I have tried to instill in him a sense of dignity, pride, and most of all, knowledge that being intelligent is not a crime.

    As an African-American girl, I too was subjected to the same ridicule,. I will never forget using the word “prerogative” and being mocked for days. Did I

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    What Do Working Dads Want For Father’s Day? They Want Family-Friendly Workplace Laws and Policies « MomsRising Blog

    What Do Working Dads Want For Father’s Day? According to a New Report, They Want Family-Friendly Workplace Laws and Policies « MomsRising Blog

    What Do Working Dads Want For Father’s Day? According to a New Report, They Want Family-Friendly Workplace Laws and Policies

    Posted June 16th, 2011 by Jared Make

    “I want to be the dad who attends all the little league games and dance recitals, the dad who is there in the afternoon/evening to help with homework, the dad who sits down to dinner with his family every night. My current job does not allow for that to happen.” — media professional and father of two children, ages 2 and 5

    With Father’s Day just around the corner, A Better Balance: The Work and Family Legal Center has released a new report, Beyond the Breadwinner: Professional Dads Speak Out on Work and Family. This report clearly shows that work-family challenges are not just a women’s issue; three out of four fathers surveyed are worried that their jobs do not allow them to be the kind of dad that want to be, and more than half say it is a source of frequent stress. The report is based on a survey of approximately 250



    Read more: http://www.momsrising.org/blog/what-do-working-dads-want-for-fathers-day-according-to-a-new-report-they-want-family-friendly-workplace-laws-and-policies/#ixzz1PTTQlgQ6
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    Another Look At Age And Labor Unions | ThinkProgress

    Another Look At Age And Labor Unions | ThinkProgress

    Another Look At Age And Labor Unions

    By Matthew Yglesias on Jun 16, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    Matt Di Carlo has an even clearer demonstration of the strong relationship between being old and being skeptical of labor unions, this time using General Social Survey data:

    The available data doesn’t really let us know if this is an aging effect or a cohort effect, but my speculation is that it’s a cohort effect if only because seniority-oriented pay schemes

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    Rep. Clarke Delivers Emotional Speech At Prison Radicalization Hearing

    Rep. Hansen Clarke (D-MI) Delivers Emotional Speech At Prison Radicalization Hearing
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    Netroots Nation: Jane Hamsher and Lt. Dan Choi on LGBT Activism in the Obama Era | Firedoglake #NN11

    Netroots Nation: Jane Hamsher and Lt. Dan Choi on LGBT Activism in the Obama Era | Firedoglake

    Netroots Nation: Jane Hamsher and Lt. Dan Choi on LGBT Activism in the Obama Era

    by Brian Sonenstein

    FDL founder Jane Hamsher is at Netroots Nation in Minneapolis today and will be joining a panel with “Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell” activist Lt. Dan Choi and others titled, “What to Do When the President is Just Not That Into You.”

    The panel begins at 3:00PM Central, and you can watch a live-stream of the discussion by clicking “Play” in the video window above.

    You can read more about the panel and its participants here.

    Choi recently had these kind words to share about Firedoglake and our new Membership Program. Watch his

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    top 10 charter schools in California.

    USC Center on Educational Governance - Rossier School of Education

    2011 USC School Performance Dashboard

    A report from the Center on Educational Governance, University of Southern California. New this year is a listing of the top 10 charter schools in California.

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    Is College Worth It? - Dana Goldstein

    Is College Worth It? - Dana Goldstein

    Is College Worth It?

    by Dana Goldstein

    My contribution to the debate is a new feature story in The Nation, which reports on several innovative, high school-level vocational education programs, and asks why the Obama administration's reform agenda has directed so little money toward linking young people to the world of work.

    I also explore the newest thinking on how to bridge the gap between the vocational track and the academic track:

    ...some progressive education reformers have attempted to move beyond the old emotional debates about tracking and expectations, and are sounding the call for a more intellectual version of “career and technical education,” or CTE, one that infuses traditional vocational training with the academic rigor and ethic of college prep. “You can teach any given subject at multiple levels,” says Samuel Lucas, a University of California, Berkeley, sociologist and author of Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility in American

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    U.S. Education Spending and Performance vs. The World [INFOGRAPHIC]

    U.S. Education Spending and Performance vs. The World [INFOGRAPHIC]

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    Presentation to Department of Ed public meeting on assessment « Parents Across America

    Presentation to Department of Ed public meeting on assessment « Parents Across America

    Presentation to Department of Ed public meeting on assessment

    by pureparents

    The June 10 USDE “Automated Scoring of Summative Assessments” public meeting in Chicago was eerily like a Pentagon briefing for vendors on the latest weapons technology.

    USDE’s Ann Whelan, who chaired the meeting, actually wrapped up the day by saying, “We need to be bold and move the industry forward.” I wondered if we should all salute as she walked out.

    The meeting was about creating computer-based and computer-scored assessments, a topic that seemed to be over the heads of many attendees (including me) but most seemed ready and willing (though not exactly able) to do whatever it takes to maintain their lucrative testing contracts.

    The questions about using artificial intelligence (AI) to score tests raised many questions and evoked several assertions that multiple choice tests have “gotten a bad rap” and are still a “very good way” to test a lot of things: “Nothing is as valid or reliable as multiple

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    “The Truth About the Economy” in Just Over Two Minutes | Edwize

    “The Truth About the Economy” in Just Over Two Minutes | Edwize

    “The Truth About the Economy” in Just Over Two Minutes

    by W.J. Levay

    From MoveOn.org, Robert Reich connects the dots for the short-attention-span crowd.

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