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Chamber cheerleading the charter movement

arktimes.com - Propaganda party touted here by the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, which has served for some time as an enabler of messaging about the alleged waste of money that is the Little Rock Scho...

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Comptroller: Most schools not meeting P.E. time requirements

gothamschools.org - City students aren’t getting the physical education they’re supposed to, according to the latest Department of Education audit out of Comptroller John Liu’s office. The audit — which follows others...

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Two KIPP employees returning to HISD | School Zone

blog.chron.com - The personnel swapping continues between Texas’ largest school district and one of the largest charter school chains. Two educators who left the Houston Independent School District to work for KIPP...

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Debate Looms During A Year Of Overcrowding

huffingtonpost.com - NEW YORK -- Every morning at PS 148 in East Elmhurst, Queens, teacher Monique Bertolotti greets her 27 third graders, who speak English as a second language, with a reading exercise.Classes began o...

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Mayor Says Contract Oversight Bill Is Bad for the City

wnyc.org - Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the bill to increase scrutiny of the city's outside contracting was "not a good bill for the city" hours after it had passed overwhelmingly in the City Council Thursday...

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Seeking Energy, Unions Join Protest Against Wall Street

nytimes.com - Stuart Appelbaum, an influential union leader in New York City, was in Tunisia last month, advising the fledgling labor movement there, when he received a flurry of phone calls and e-mails alerting...

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Initiative to Educate Latinos About Influenza Immunization

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 8:04 pm, October 5, 2011 Photo Credits: Latinos Urged to Get Their Flu Shots Hispanic Americans are hit particularly hard by influenza with the Centers for Disease Control and Preventi...

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Home - Inside Higher Ed

insidehighered.com - February 24, 2011 The return of ROTC to some campuses -- seemingly assured by the end of the military's policy against gay service members -- may be hitting a few bumps.More February 24, 2011 City ...

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Ty Fahner is a big fat liar. « Fred Klonsky's blog

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Ty Fahner is a big fat liar. « Fred Klonsky's blog:Ty Fahner is a big fat liar.by Fred KlonskyIllinois is Broke is an organization fully funded by the the pals and members of the Civic Committee an...

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    Diary of a Social Art-tivist Mommy: Why we do what we do.....(and what great teachers and hamsters have in common)

    Diary of a Social Art-tivist Mommy: Why we do what we do.....(and what great teachers and hamsters have in common):

    Why we do what we do.....(and what great teachers and hamsters have in common)

    by ART-tivist Mommy
    I am lucky enough to have a wonderful student-teacher helping me in the art room for the next couple of months. Her residency in my art room is her last stop before she becomes a formal, certified art teacher. Having her here with me daily has made me really think through how to put into words all I do in my classroom in order to be able to give her the best advice about the profession.

    I heard the news last night about the passing of Steve Jobs. In trying to grasp the impact of this man on our collective lives, I ran across a speech he gave at a Stanford graduation in 2005. In this speech he imparts onto graduates many 'golden nuggets' of life; one of them being that you can only ever be great at
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    SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Michael Moore at Occupy Wall Street Protest, 10/5/11

    SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: Michael Moore at Occupy Wall Street Protest, 10/5/11:

    Michael Moore at Occupy Wall Street Protest, 10/5/11

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    Van Jones Discusses Occupy Wall Street on Real Time with Bill Maher
    Van Jones & Other Highlights of the Take Back the American Dream Conference
    Who Are the 99 Percent? Published on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 by The Washington Post by Ezra Klein *“I did everything I was supposed to and I have nothing to show for it.”* It’s not the arrests that convinced me that “Occupy Wall Street” was worth covering seriously. Nor was ...
    Who Are the 99 Percent? Published on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 by The Washington Post by Ezra Klein "I did everything I was supposed to and I have nothing to show for it." It’s not the arrests that convinced me that “Occupy Wall Street” was worth covering seriously. Nor was ...
    Wall Street Protest Grows as Unions Swell Ranks Published on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 by Reuters by Ray Sanchez NEW YORK - Thousands of anti-Wall Street demonstrators converged on New York's financial district on Wednesday, their ranks swelled by nurses, transit workers and other union members ...
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    Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - Teaching Money Skills

    Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - Teaching Money Skills:

    Teaching Money Skills I’ve just revised and updated The Best Sites For Learning Economics & Practical Money Skills. Additional suggestions are welcome….
    Department Of Ed Revamps Research Site The Department of Education just unveiled a revamped “What Works” websitehighlighting the results of their varied research. It seems to have a number of accessible tools. You can read more about it at Education Week. They seem to have surprisingly ...
    “Step Station” Step Station is a new site that lets users create simple step-by-step directions to do…anything. I’m adding it to The Best Places Where Students Can Write For An “Authentic Audience.”
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    Sacramento Press / Students rally to confront harsh school discipline

    Sacramento Press / Students rally to confront harsh school discipline:

    Students rally to confront harsh school discipline

    by Melissa Corker

    Students and advisers from five Sacramento area high schools joined in a virtual rally Wednesday – with kids from Los Angeles, Fresno and Oakland schools – as part of the National Week of Action to raise awareness about the overuse of extreme school discipline.

    The rally connected more than 100 students, parents and community activists via live video feed to discuss recent trends in suspensions, expulsions and other harsh punishments in California schools.

    According to data from the California Department of Education, there were 235,033 students enrolled in public schools in Sacramento county in the 2010-11 school year.

    There were 47,678 suspensions and expulsions issued that same year – a 20.2 percent suspension/expulsion

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    Disparate discipline in public schools | Thoughts on Public Education

    Disparate discipline in public schools | Thoughts on Public Education:

    Disparate discipline in public schools

    Black and Hispanic students more likely to get kicked out

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    By Kathryn Baron

    If Congress ever reauthorizes No Child Left Behind, civil rights groups want indicators of school success to include how they mete out punishment. School suspensions have soared over the years, and so has the disparity by race, ethnicity, and disability, according to a new report.

    The study, Discipline policies, successful schools, and racial justice, analyzes decades

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    School Tech Connect: Dick Ingram's TRS Presentation In Crystal Lake

    School Tech Connect: Dick Ingram's TRS Presentation In Crystal Lake:

    Dick Ingram's TRS Presentation In Crystal Lake

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    Had a very nice time out in Crystal Lake, which has a downtown straight out of Central Casting. I was ravenous after the train ride, so I stopped in at Cafe Olympic for the finest BLT and fries in the known universe. If I lived in Crystal Lake, I'd eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner there.

    Dick Ingram, Executive Director of the Illinois Teacher Retirement System, is an impressive fellow. Here's a guy running a $37B pension fund--- he could probably call up the finance ministers of Europe, who would take his calls, and weigh in on the whole Greek debt debacle--- and yet he bothers to go around the state talking to the everyday people whose lives are in his hands, including little old me, with my interrupted years of service and my
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    Ty Fahner is a big fat liar. « Fred Klonsky's blog

    Ty Fahner is a big fat liar. « Fred Klonsky's blog:

    Ty Fahner is a big fat liar.

    by Fred Klonsky

    Illinois is Broke is an organization fully funded by the the pals and members of the Civic Committee and their millionaire lawyer, Ty Fahner.

    As part of their efforts to destroy the Teacher Retirement System and turn our retirement into a risky ponzi scheme of created by Wall Street hedge fund managers, they have put this out:


    NYPD white shirts act like Brown Shirts.

    by Fred Klonsky

    Here is how the NY Times reported the above incident:

    The police said they arrested eight protesters around the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street, after people rushed barriers and began spilling into the street. While a couple of witnesses said that officers used pepper spray to clear the streets, Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, said


    People have the power.

    by Fred Klonsky

    The Illinois teacher pension battle isn’t over by a long shot. In fact, I would urge teachers to send an email to their General Assembly rep every day until the legislators adjourn.

    But it looks good that the overwhelming opposition to SB 512 last Spring, and the continued mobilization of opposition by grassroots organizers made up of retired and active teachers, acting as part of a loose network of

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    Did State Agency Director Flip-Flop on Florida McCay Scholarship Abuse? | Scathing Purple Musings

    Did State Agency Director Flip-Flop on Florida McCay Scholarship Abuse? | Scathing Purple Musings:

    Did State Agency Director Flip-Flop on Florida McCay Scholarship Abuse?

    by Bob Sikes

    Last summer’s Miami New Times story detailing abuse and fraud by privately run schools cashing in on McCay scholarship money finally prompted a hearing this week in Tallahassee. Matt Dixon reports for the Florida Times- Union:

    TALLAHASSEE – Democrats grilled a Department of Education official Tuesday and once again said a school-choice scholarship program allowed too much room for fraud.

    Many of the arguments that played out during the K-20 Innovate Subcommittee meeting mirrored the last session, when Democrats argued that the McKay Scholarships lacked accountability.

    “With all due respect to [the Department of Education] … it does not appear that they have the

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