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Azbuka Academy, a defunct charter school in Northeast Portland, files suit seeking to reopen | OregonLive.com

Azbuka Academy, a defunct charter school in Northeast Portland, files suit seeking to reopen | OregonLive.com

Portland Public Schools wants $548 million, a record, to upgrade school buildings

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By Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian

November 08, 2010, 5:31PM
If voters say yes to a bond measure in May, Roosevelt, Jefferson and Cleveland high schools would be fully rebuilt, as would burned-down Marysville Elementary and four K-8 schools Full story »
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Azbuka Academy, a defunct charter school in Northeast Portland, files suit seeking to reopen

By Steve Beaven, The Oregonian

November 08, 2010, 5:18PM
Slavic Youth of America, which operated the Azbuka Academy, filed the suit on Friday in Multnomah County Circuit Court. Full story »
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Right Brain Initiative returns art to Portland-area classrooms

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By Candice Ruud, The Oregonian

November 08, 2010, 4:22PM
The Right Brain Initiative, a Portland nonprofit that aims to replace vanishing arts education in public schools, is in its third year in elementary and k-8 schools from Hillsboro to Clackamas and everywhere in between. Resident artists in all mediums work directly with students in participating schools once a week for several weeks, culminating in a final project. Full story »
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Gresham middle school library earns national recognition

Gresham middle school library award

By Matt Buxton, The Oregonian

November 08, 2010, 12:24PM
On Monday morning, West Orient Middle School -- the only middle school in the district with a certified librarian -- was recognized as the most outstanding public-school library in the state. Full story »
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Forest Grove students to celebrate armed service members during assembly

By Kelly House, The Oregonian

November 08, 2010, 11:13AM
The assembly typically packs the high school gymnasium with students, veterans and well-wishers. Full story »
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Schools Matter: Mayoral Control of Schools? Not So Much

Schools Matter: Mayoral Control of Schools? Not So Much

Mayoral Control of Schools? Not So Much

by Jim Horn
A top priority of the handful of oligarchs who control federal education policy and Arne Duncan is the elimination of public governance of the public schools by ceding power to CEOs, once known as mayors, and eliminating elected school boards. Mike Klonsky gives us a rundown on how it's going in Chicago. Not well. Here's a clip, but do read it all, please at HuffPo:
. . . . Duncan couldn't deliver a victory for Fenty, even while resorting to threats of pulling millions of federal grant dollars from D.C. schools should Gray win. This left many wondering if Duncan only favored mayoral control if he could control the mayor.

But now, with Chicago's schools in a state of leaderless limbo, the problems of having a single autocrat running big-city school systems have become obvious to all. After a decade and a half of Daley's top-down reform efforts, seven of those years with Duncan as the CEO, neighborhood
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Committee vote may endanger Md. Race to Top grant

Committee vote may endanger Md. Race to Top grant

Committee vote may endanger Md. Race to Top grant

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Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 8, 2010; 7:41 PM

A Maryland legislative committee voted Monday to reject a new regulation requiring that half of teachers' evaluations be based on student progress, calling into question the future of a $250 million federal Race to the Top grant.

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The move is a challenge to a core component of the education plan proposed by Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) and State Schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick in the spring. The federal money was awarded in part because Maryland promised that student progress would be such a large component of the evaluations, and President

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School Tech Connect: Promote the General Welfare

School Tech Connect: Promote the General Welfare

Promote the General Welfare

by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
I'm not back from my vacation yet, but I do want to point out that this is what your right-wing relatives are listening to on the radio.



Last year, I couldn't wave any amount of money under Blue Cross's nose to get a policy. Why? Because I have high cholesterol. Nor would any of the other insurers in this market take me on. You literally have to list every
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CoCoLoCo for Common Core Standards [A Conversation in Earnest] — The Jose Vilson

CoCoLoCo for Common Core Standards [A Conversation in Earnest] — The Jose Vilson

CoCoLoCo for Common Core Standards [A Conversation in Earnest]

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Sonny Coco

Let me say it straight up: I’m tired of the Common Core standards talk. No, I’m not tired of the Common Core itself, but the talk. It’s easily ran by the word like “differentiation,” whizzed all over the phrase “workshop model,” and is about to stomp all over the word “collaborative” to boot. Everyone’s talking about it the way one might yell

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Charter Schools: ASSESSING THE ICEF MODEL IN SOUTH LOS ANGELES

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Charter Schools: ASSESSING THE ICEF MODEL IN SOUTH LOS ANGELES

Charter Schools: ASSESSING THE ICEF MODEL IN SOUTH LOS ANGELES

BY LETANIA KIRKLAND IN INTERSECTIONS: THE SOUTH LOS ANGELES REPORT |USC ANNENBERG SCHOOL FOR COMMUNICATION | HTTP://BIT.LY/AIYVMP

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Nov 8, 2010-- At Frederick Douglass High School in the West Adams District you are likely to see students working the reception desk, answering the phones, handing out tardy slips and making sure any students waiting in the hallway belong there. Most are volunteering, just looking for a way to spend their time during a free period.

Every five minutes or so you might hear, “Are you late?” If a lie is suspected, the next question is, “Are you lying?” They keep a close eye on everyone.

The high school is one of 15 elementary, middle and high schools in the Inner City Education Foundation Public Schools. ICEF is a group of charter schools in South Los Angeles founded by former CEO, Mike Piscal, who envisioned bringing rigorous education to the inner city.

ICEF has become, to many, a symbol of high academic achievement all over South Los Angeles.

As of this year, ICEF schools have a 95 percent graduation rate and more than 85 percent of those graduates have been accepted to four-year colleges. Six of ICEF’s 15

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The SAT: Getting Mediocre Rich Kids Into College Since 1926 Education | Change.org

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My Life After Hate: One Man's Journey To Love

by Arno MichaelsNovember 08, 2010 @ 11:06AM PTTopics: Bullying

[Recent news of bullying and hate in schools has sparked a debate over how best to teach kindness and respect.Change.org welcomes this guest post from Arno Michaels, a former white supremacist who now teaches peace. --Eds.]

From my earliest memories, everyone told me how “gifted” I was. Teachers expected straight A's, and I delivered with little effort and even less engagement with the curriculum. By the time I reached high school, I was convinced—as many

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