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U.S. Attorney: CityTime Project "Corrupted To Its Core"

manhattan.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. More people were charged with fraud today in con...
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TEACH and NFL Celebrate 2011 NFL Teacher of the Year

ed.gov - Official Department of Education Photo by Joshua Hoover Cross-posted from TEACH.gov On Thursday, June 16th Secretary Arne Duncan participated in a lively panel discussion about the importance of te...
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Iowa Dems accept 1-year freeze on school spending

finance.yahoo.com - DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Democratic state senators who had been pushing for more money for education said Monday they'd given up and agreed to Republican demands to freeze spending on local schools...
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As Survivors Dwindle, Tulsa Confronts Past

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Arizona historian explains importance of Juneteenth Day

asunews.asu.edu - June 19, 2011 Matthew C. Whitaker, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Arizona State University spoke about the history and celebration of Juneteenth Day – June 1...
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2 CityTime Fraud Suspects Flee Overseas: Authorities

nbcnewyork.com - Getty Images/Comstock Images Two consultants accused of helping steal tens of millions from the CityTime payroll project have fled to India, prosecutors said. Pamda Allen and her husband Reddy Alle...
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FTC probes possible oil market manipulation

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    Salazar, Perrelli applaud final approval of Cobell settlement

    Salazar, Perrelli applaud final approval of Cobell settlement

    Salazar, Perrelli applaud final approval of Cobell settlement

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    Written by White House Media Affairs OfficeMonday, 20 June 2011 17:36

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    WASHINGTON – Today, the Departments of Justice and Interior applauded the final approval by U.S. Senior District Judge Thomas F. Hogan of Cobell v. Salazar, a long-running and contentious individual American Indian trust class-action lawsuit. Unless the decision is appealed, the court’s approval of the $3.4 billion settlement paves the way for payments to be made to as many as a half-million individual American Indians who had Individual Indian Money accounts or an interest in trust or restricted land managed by the Department of the Interior. The suit has been pending for 15 years.

    Reaching a final settlement of Cobell has been a priority of the Obama administration.

    “The judge’s finding that the settlement is fair and reasonable is a major milestone in the Administration’s effort to reach a resolution of litigation that has cast a cloud over the government’s relationship with American Indians,” said Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, who has twice

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    Action Alert: H.R. 1891 WOULD PERMANENTLY ELIMINATE FEDERAL ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAMS / HOUSE PANEL VOTES TO ELMINATE ARTS EDUCATION

    4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Action Alert: H.R. 1891 WOULD PERMANENTLY ELIMINATE FEDERAL ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAMS / HOUSE PANEL VOTES TO ELMINATE ARTS EDUCATION

    Action Alert: H.R. 1891 WOULD PERMANENTLY ELIMINATE FEDERAL ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAMS / HOUSE PANEL VOTES TO ELMINATE ARTS EDUCATION

    CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION ACTION ALERT | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF STATE ARTS AGENCIES LEGISLATIVE ALERT| HTTP://BIT.LY/K7JABD

    Mon, Jun 20, 2011 1:30 pm - After a contentious battle over the federal budget this Spring, lawmakers reached a compromise which, thanks to the strong, steady lobbying efforts of arts advocates, included funding for both the NEA and Arts Education programs.

    But now, arts education programs are threatened by a new piece of federal legislation, the “Setting New Priorities in Education Spending Act” (HR 1891), which calls for the elimination of 43 existing federal education programs, including Arts in Education.

    Oppose HR 1891

    This bill is more serious than the annual funding measures that threaten to de-fund arts education because it would permanently strip policy language from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

    The full House of Representatives may vote on HR 1891 prior to their August Congressional Recess. Visit Americans for the Arts Action Center, where you can send a

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    CCSSO Releases Roadmap for Accountability - Politics K-12 - Education Week

    CCSSO Releases Roadmap for Accountability - Politics K-12 - Education Week

    CCSSO Releases Roadmap for Accountability

    by Alyson Klein

    Right on the heels of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's announcement that it might be time to consider, maybe, possibly offering a package of waivers to states on aspects of the No Child Left Behind Act, 40 states and the District of Columbia have announced a new "accountability road map."

    The roadmap has been in the works for a year-and-a-half, long before the department's announcement. It is basically a list of principles and parameters that states think should be included in accountabilty systems, ideally through the reauthorization fo the No Child Left Behind Act.

    These "next-generation" accountability systems would include the establishment of college-and-career-ready standards, the measurement of graduation rates, and a requirement that states help build district and school capacity to turnaround the lowest- performing schools. Schools would be given more detailed feedback than just making or not making progress under the law.

    And if Congress doesn't act, CCSSO says that states will begin proposing their own, new accountability models

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    In NAACP lawsuit, settlement details emerge then quickly retract | GothamSchools

    In NAACP lawsuit, settlement details emerge then quickly retract | GothamSchools

    In NAACP lawsuit, settlement details emerge then quickly retract

    by Geoffrey Decker

    An optimistic press release that was later retracted is the latest sign that discussions to settle a lawsuit over charter school co-locations are intensifying in advance of the suit’s first day in court.

    On Friday, the NAACP announced an agreement with the Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott to remove three schools from its lawsuit against the Department of Education. The announcement did not explain the changes, but indicated that the same solution could potentially be applied to each of the 19 charter schools listed in the suit.

    “Our conversations with the Department of Education are beginning to bear fruit,” NAACP CEO Ben Jealous said in a statement from the press release. ”Resolution on these three schools gives us hope. It allows us to focus on reaching the same agreement with regard to other schools.”

    But education department officials said they were caught off guard by the press release, which was later

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    Educational Forum: Obama and the Future of Immigration Reform - Hispanically Speaking News

    Educational Forum: Obama and the Future of Immigration Reform - Hispanically Speaking News

    Educational Forum: Obama and the Future of Immigration Reform

    Educational Forum: Obama and the Future of Immigration Reform

    Hear from experts and participate in a conversation about the status of immigration policy reform and where is this issue going. Tuesday June 21 6:30 ChicagoImage

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    Monty Neill on the choice of the frying pan or the fire: NCLB vs. RTTT « Parents Across America

    Monty Neill on the choice of the frying pan or the fire: NCLB vs. RTTT « Parents Across America

    Monty Neill on the choice of the frying pan or the fire: NCLB vs. RTTT

    by leoniehaimson

    Cross -posted at the National Journal .

    If US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has his way, states will have to “choose” between the frying pan of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the fire of Race to the Top (RTTT). Or so it seems from his vague language.

    The frying pan: Under NCLB, ever more schools will face “in need of improvement” (INOI) status and then ever-escalating sanctions as they fail to make “adequate yearly progress.” Once in that status, schools must spend money on “supplemental services” that haven’t proven to help and student transfers that are rarely available. Should they fail to make the ever-increasing AYP requirements, they’ll move on to additional mostly ineffective options – ones Duncan

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