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It Starts by Making Education a National Mission

ed.gov - President Barack Obama delivers remarks in Osawatomie, Kansas, White House Photo, Pete Souza, 12/6/11 “The world is shifting to an innovation economy and nobody does innovation better than America,...

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Some New York City Scores Drop in U.S. Student Tests

nytimes.com - New York City students scored slightly lower on federal math tests this year compared with 2009, according to scores released Wednesday morning, even as scores of their counterparts in other big ci...

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NCLB Waivers: Montana Says No Thanks - Politics K-12

blogs.edweek.org - Montana is formally rejecting the U.S. Department of Education's offer for more flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act, declaring that it doesn't make "educational or financial" sense to ap...

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Execution Case Dropped Against Abu-Jamal

nytimes.com - Prosecutors in Philadelphia announced Wednesday that they had dropped their attempts to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal, the death row inmate convicted of killing a police officer 30 years ago and whose su...

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Congressman Kimble Protects Americans with Patti's Law

kimbleforcongress.blogspot.com - Protecting our nation has been a priority of Jack Kimble since his election to Congress in 2006. With terrorism threatening to bring America to it's knees at any moment, Jack Kimble has team with ...

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Obama's Osawatomie speech

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - "Here, finally, is the Barack Obama many of us thought we had elected in 2008." -- Robert ReichIf you had any doubts that the Occupy Movement was impacting the presidential elections, check out Pre...

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FL gov most hated in US

teamsternation.blogspot.com - Even widely hated politicians can usually get a third of the voters to stick with them. Not Florida Gov. Pink Slip Rick Scott, who ought to be in jail but instead got voted into office. A new poll ...

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Phys Ed: A New Worry for Soccer Parents

well.blogs.nytimes.com - PhotoAlto via Getty ImagesWhat happens inside the skull of a soccer player who repeatedly heads a soccer ball? That question motivated a provocative new study of the brains of experienced players t...

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HHS says no to over-the-counter morning-after pill

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ACLU settles lesbian yearbook flap in Mississippi

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Tyler Clementi's family interviewed in People

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Occupy SF Protesters Re-Enter Plaza

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    Restoring California: Tax The Rich to Fund Public Education And Services | California Progress Report

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    Restoring California: Tax The Rich to Fund Public Education And Services

    megan at California Progress Report - 2 hours ago
    *By Joshua Pechthalt * California Federation of Teachers The California Federation of Teachers and its coalition partners Courage Campaign and California Calls have a simple proposal for the state’s voters: restore tax rates on people with incomes over one million dollars per year so that the rich pay their fair share to rebuild our schools and services. In November 2012 voters will have the opportunity to decide if this is a good idea. If current polling numbers hold up, chances are “The Millionaires’ Tax to Restore Funding for Education and Essential Services Act of 2012,” or... more »

    A Glimmer of Good News for California’s Kids

    megan at California Progress Report - 2 hours ago
    *By Mike Odeh* Children Now With the state’s unemployment rate hovering above 11 percent, impending state budget triggers that are inciting rallies across the state, and 52% growth in health insurance premiums for California families over nearly the past decade, it's hard to find truly good news...but here's some: at a time when the economic recession hit hardest (2008 to 2010), over 97,000 fewer California children were uninsured, according to a new report by the Georgetown Center for Children and Families. read more

    Bank Directors Will Remain Unaccountable Until The (Share) Owners Start Holding Them Personally Liable

    megan at California Progress Report - 2 hours ago
    *By Jack Ucciferri* If Americans have learned one concrete thing about our financial system over the past few years, it is that we can pretty much bank on the big banks screwing us over. From “mistakenly” foreclosing on active duty servicemembers (with pregnant wives), to systematically defrauding schools, non-profits, and hospitals, to misleading their own customers and investors, to submitting tens of thousands of improper foreclosure affidavits, to paying themselves outrageously after imploding our economy, the banksters seem utterly immune to moral suasion or legal sanction. ... more »

    Trucking Industry Exposed for “Ripping Off” Workers and Tax Payers

    megan at California Progress Report - 2 hours ago
    *By Patricia Castellanos* LAANE What is the trucking industry response to claims that port drivers are actually employees who have been stripped of their basic rights by trucking companies? Robert Digges, a spokesman for the American Trucking Associations, tripped on his own tongue on a CBS national news segment when he tried protesting the idea that trucking companies are cheating workers – and it’s getting picked up on blogs like the Daily Kos. “They (trucking companies) believe they get a more productive employee – excuse me a more effective worker – a worker who is efficient... more »

    Public or Private: Unemployment Hurts the Economy

    megan at California Progress Report - 2 hours ago
    *By Doug Moore* United Domestic Workers of America Homecare Providers Union When Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich proposed that students should take over the job of cleaning our schools, he was rightly denounced for wanting to eliminate what he called "stupid" child labor laws. But not a word has been said about the tens of thousands of low-wage janitors who would lose their jobs under Gingrich's plan or about what it would mean to their families and to our national and local economies. This is sad but not surprising. Tea Party extremists and other Republican ideol... more »

    In Wake of Recession, Less Than Half of Californians Live in Middle-Income Families

    megan at California Progress Report - 4 hours ago
    *Public Policy Institute of California* In the Great Recession and its aftermath, the percentage of Californians living in middle-income families fell to a new low of less than 50 percent, according to a report released today by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). By 2010, 47.9 percent of Californians lived in families considered middle income, after adjusting for the state's cost of living. These are families with incomes between $44,000 and $155,000. In 1980, 60 percent of California families were middle income. Family incomes declined across the spectrum betwe... more »

    Taxing the 1% in 2012: Why Not Reform Prop 13?

    megan at California Progress Report - 18 hours ago
    *By Paul Hogarth* Beyond Chron The Occupy movement has given progressives an incredible opportunity to focus public attention on Wall Street greed and income inequality. Yesterday, activists launched a national Occupy Our Homes campaign to re-take foreclosed houses. But as a long-term strategy, we need serious policy changes for the 1% to pay their fair share – and in California, the logical place is the November 2012 ballot. Progressives have complained for decades that our tax system is unfair, such as the fact that Prop 13 benefits big commercial landlords who bankrupt local t... more »

    California Conundrum: Competing Ballot Measures on Taxes Could Undermine One Another

    megan at California Progress Report - 1 day ago
    *By David Dayen * It is said that California is a harbinger for the nation. Since we’re having a national conversation about taxes for the wealthy, it’s natural that California would play a role in that conversation. But a difference of opinion in how to go about that conversation could result in a counter-productive disaster – or a bounty for the state, suddenly flush enough to pay for pressing priorities. read more

    Southern California Edison, Tribes Fight Over Revenues from Shuttered Coal Power Plant

    megan at California Progress Report - 1 day ago
    *By Ngoc Nguyen* New America Media The Mohave coal-fired power plant in Laughlin, Nevada shut down in 2005, but it’s still generating millions of dollars in revenue for its majority owner Southern California Edison. A fight is currently underway in California over who should benefit from those revenues – anyone other than Southern California ratepayers -- and how those proceeds should be distributed. Locked in the fight -- which has been winding through the state’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for the last five years -- are the utility, the Navajo Nation, the Hopi Tribe, th... more »

    They're Sacrificing Us to Save Wall Street - But "Occupy Our Homes" Could Change That

    megan at California Progress Report - 1 day ago
    *By Richard (RJ) Eskow * This week 60 Minutes gave viewers a good look at the widespread criminality that created the Wall Street mortgage boom and led to our ongoing financial crisis. They also saw some of the overwhelming evidence of illegal activity on the part of big banks, and were reminded that none of those banks' executives have been prosecuted. As ugly as the situation is, there is some logic behind the government's actions - and its inactions. They're acting on a tragically incorrect (but internally coherent) set of assumptions that can be summed up in one sentence. It ... more »
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