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Big Education Ape:Feb. 22, 2011 Ed News Now, Special #wiunion Edition #wisolidarity #weac

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politico.com - As organized labor hails an unprecedented moment of unity playing out amid a sea of supporters marching in Madison, Wis., other union officials elsewhere are quietly wringing their hands about the ...

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tnr.com - Anti-labor forces have waited decades for the opportunity that they are now trying to seize in Wisconsin. Republican Governor Scott Walker’s plan, echoed in proposals put forward by several other c...

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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) may be drawing a hard line on collective bargaining with thousands of his state's union workers, but there are signs that some state Republicans are willing to bend ...

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huffingtonpost.com - Madison, Wisconsin, The Heartland, AmericaI am not what you would call a real "progressive" in the modern sense of the word. I actually have significant concerns about the role of public sector uni...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21COME TO MADISON TO RAISE YOUR VOICES FOR EDUCATION AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES!AFSCME bus scheduleBuses from WEA Trust (45 Nob Hill Rd.) to the Capitol will run from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. (T...

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peoplesworld.org - Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, the state AFL-CIO and its affiliates have called for a massive turnout for a rally Tuesday at the Statehouse in Columbus to protest a Republican bill to repeal coll...

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news.firedoglake.com - Nobody really knows how long the stare-down in Wisconsin will last. The Joint Finance Committee that was supposed to take public testimony on Tuesday is actually still going on, with Democratic mem...

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nation.foxnews.com - America's Talking ™ All Opinions Welcome The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of tho...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - As democracy protests spread across the Middle East, we as journalists struggle to convey the sights and sounds, the religion and politics. But there’s one central element that we can’t even begin ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - communities.washingtontimes.com - EASTON, MD — February 21, 2011 — Thousands of peaceful protestors flood the capital. Thinly veiled threats of force are issued against the protestors. Opposition l...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Wisconsin NAACP Urges Gov. Walker to Negotiate, Not LegislateThe NAACP Wisconsin State Conference stands in solidarity with Wisconsin’s public employees, and supports the rights of all employees to...

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blueridgenow.com - The Associated Press Published: Monday, February 21, 2011 at 8:31 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, February 21, 2011 at 8:31 a.m. North Carolina activists are showing their solidarity with public worker...

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theindychannel.com - Related To StoryProtesters clog the Indiana Statehouse in a protest of so-called right-to-work legislation. POSTED: 8:37 am EST February 21, 2011UPDATED: 10:11 am EST February 21, 2011INDIANAPOLIS ...

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dailyreporter.com - Published: February 18, 2011 Tags: Center for Labor Studies, collective bargaining, Scott Walker, unions By David A. Lieb, Sam HananelAssociated Press Protestors to Gov. Scott Walker's bill to elim...

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host.madison.com - ED TRELEVEN | etreleven@madison.com | 608-252-6134 madison.com | | Posted: Monday, February 21, 2011 8:41 am A temporary injunction hearing that was scheduled for Monday morning in the Madison Sch...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Happy Birthday Nina Simone.Diane Ravitch explains to the rest of American why teachers are pissed off.The average teacher in Wisconsin makes $46,000. And that’s with the right to collective bargain...

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actblue.com - Who's supporting State Senate Democratic Committee (WI) Title & Author Donors Total Raised Support the WI Senate Democrats' Figh... Kory Kozloski, SSDC Executive Director Support the WI Senate Demo...

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dailykos.com - Here are the developments in Wisconsin from over the weekend: Six days of footage If you haven’t seen this video of the protests set to the music of Arcade Fire, please watch it now:I've watched it...

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npr.org - Steve Inskeep talks to Wisconsin state senator Scott Fitzgerald about the crisis with state employees there. Sunday was the sixth day of massive protests in Wisconsin, where Governor Scott Walker a...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Wisconsin is in a showdown. Washington is headed for a government shutdown.Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker won’t budge. He insists on delivering a knockout blow to public unions in his state (excep...

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blogs.forbes.com - BusinessFeb. 18 2011 - 6:45 pm | 0 views | 0 recommendations |By RICK UNGAR As the nation focuses on the efforts of Governor Scott Walker to take away collective bargaining rights from public emplo...

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magicvalley.com - The Idaho Education Association will hold rallies today in Twin Falls, Hailey and other major cities in Idaho to "stand in support of public schools and public employees," event organizers said. Id...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - You might want to read this.How do states which allow collective bargaining for unions compare, academically, against those that don’t? Let’s first look at HS graduation rates:Grad Rates- The red a...

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nytimes.com - WASHINGTON — The battle in Wisconsin over public employee unions has left President Obama facing a tricky balance between showing solidarity with longtime political supporters and projecting a mess...

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truthdig.com - Posted on Feb 21, 2011AP / Andy ManisThe Wisconsin governor, elected in November’s GOP wave that also gave control of the state Assembly and Senate to Republicans, set off the protests earlier this...

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parkerspitzer.blogs.cnn.com - ONLY ON THE BLOG: Answering today’s six OFF-SET questions is Leah Lechleiter-Luke, Spanish/English teacher and Key Club advisor at Mauston High School. She was the 2010 Wisconsin Teacher of the Yea...

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huffingtonpost.com - Watching the battle in Wisconsin it is clear that the historic deal that created the great American middle class is in danger of unraveling. Government workers have long exchanged greater job secur...

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buzzfeed.com - 45 awesome protest signs against Governor Scott Walker's budget bill. I'm very impressed with your signs, Wisconsin. Very clever.

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Privatizing Education, the Construction of False Dichotomies, and the End Game of the Public/Private DivideWe all knew it was coming, and the good folks at Fox News just couldn’t help themselves. T...

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flickr.com - About Wisconsin Union Rallies If you've been attending the rallies in Madison, Wisconsin, share your pictures here.

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act.aflcio.org - So-called “Right to Work” Legislation · Backed heavily by out-of-state corporate interests, “Right to Work” legislation is designed to wipe out unions by bankrupting them and weakening thei...

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nytimes.com - Last week, in the face of protest demonstrations against Wisconsin’s new union-busting governor, Scott Walker — demonstrations that continued through the weekend, with huge crowds on Saturday —...

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huffingtonpost.com - WASHINGTON -- The protests that erupted last week in Wisconsin have attracted attention not only across the United States, but even as far away as Egypt. One of those out-of-state observers, Maine ...

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sun-sentinel.com - You've been had. In his proposed budget, Gov. Rick Scott is throwing Florida households crumbs, a pathetic, estimated $134 a year in tax savings, according to PolitiFact Florida. He gives corporati...

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coopmike48 Tuesday Churn: Wisconsin rallies, vouchers | EdNewsColorado -http://goo.gl/KJzpx #wisolidarity #wiunion#weac10 minutes ago · reply

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coopmike48 N.C. protesters want collective bargaining restored - Politics Wires - MiamiHerald.com - http://goo.gl/IyjrN#wisolidarity #wiunion #weac8 minutes ago · reply

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coopmike48 Union protests set for Statehouse today - WHIO Local News on newstalkradiowhio.com - http://goo.gl/Lq0iV#wisolidarity #wiunion #weac8 minutes ago · reply

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - By carpool and caravan, populists are crowing the capitol to stand up for working people. Millions of Americans are standing together today saying "we are all Wisconsin workers." All eyes are on Ma...

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huffingtonpost.com - Protests in Wisconsin continue to surge Friday, even as reports from Thursday evening claimed as many as 25,000 demonstrators had taken to the state's capitol building in Madison. Residents are tur...

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247wallst.com - Successful political activity often spreads from one geographic area to another. That has certainly been true among financially weak countries in Europe. It is now happening among nations in the Mi...

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todaystmj4.com - MADISON - Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says his chamber of the Wisconsin legislature will convene to pass non-spending bills and act on appointments on Tuesday even if minority Democrats...

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politifact.com - Crowds have built for a week in Madison as public employees and their supporters rally against Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to strip them of most of their collective bargaining rights. Walker supporter...

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blog.aflcio.org - Sally Davidow, Postal Workers senior communications manager sends, us this first-hand account of events in Wisconsin she received from a 29-year old teaching assistant at the University of Wiscons...

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tampabay.com - By Ron Matus, Times Staff Writer Posted: Feb 21, 2011 07:49 AM ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENTOpposition is heating up statewide as the Florida Legislature closes in on monumental changes to the teachi...

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signonsandiego.com - By RYAN J. FOLEY, Associated Press Monday, February 21, 2011 at 12:03 a.m. / AP Teacher Michael Mulvey of West Allis, Wis., carries a sign in the rotunda at the State Capitol in Madison, Wis., Sund...

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cnn.com - Protesters crowd Wisconsin capitalSTORY HIGHLIGHTS Rock guitarist says he'll play for protesters on Monday Governor Walker reiterates calls for missing Democrats to come back Tea Party activists ar...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19)-- On the heels of some dramatic protests in Wisconsin over a collective bargaining bill, a group from UC is planning a protest of Ohio Senate Bill #5, a bill they say would a...

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huffingtonpost.com - WASHINGTON -- It's day four of exile for Wisconsin's Democratic state senators, who crossed state lines in order to stall the expedited passage of Gov. Scott Walker's (R) budget proposal. Although ...

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rawstory.com - Tags: American, budget, labor unrest, last fifteen years, Medicare, party, percent, president bill clinton, private sector employees, public sector workers, Republican, republican strategy, sector,...

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voices.washingtonpost.com - "Republicans say that public-sector employees have become a privileged class that overburdened taxpayers," write Karen Tumulty and Brady Dennis. The question, of course, is whether it's true. Consi...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - With the battle going on in Wisconsin, we wanted to ask: How many states have collective bargaining with public employees' unions? How many forbid it? Check out our map. It's pretty revealing. Map ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Micheal Moore posted video from Cairo, Egypt for the Wisconsin protesters. 2/21/11.Watch the video here:http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/must-read/statement-kamal-abbas“Victory belongs to all the ...

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host.madison.com - Wisconsin has a long history of labor activism. The state was the first to approve collective bargaining rights for government workers. Here are a few of the highlights of Wisconsin's labor history...

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Stand with Wisconsin - California Teachers Association #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac

Stand with Wisconsin - California Teachers Association
Solidarity with Wisconsin public employees

CTA stands with our colleagues and public employees in Wisconsin whose collective bargaining rights are under attack by Gov. Scott Walker. He is scapegoating working families for state budget problems that they didn’t create. This fight is about far more than cutting salaries and benefits of dedicated public servants. It is a cynical attempt to undermine the rights of teachers and public sector workers to have a say in their profession, and it affects all of us. The ability of teachers to collectively bargain their contracts has resulted not only in improved working conditions, but in improved learning conditions for students as well, in terms of class sizes, safety, and school environment. The tactics demonstrated by the governor are nothing less than an attack on all working families and will further erode America’s middle class. We appeal to the Wisconsin state Legislature to vote down this negative and unwarranted proposal.

CTA will join unions within the California Labor Federation for a Candlelight Vigil at the State Capitol Tuesday evening to show that We Are One with educators and public employees whose rights are under attack in Wisconsin as well as Ohio, Tennessee and Idaho. Please plan to stand with us on Tuesday evening in a show of solidarity. Their struggle is truly our struggle. Si se puede!

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Schools Matter: The Latest Excuse In TN to End Teacher Rights and TEA: Evolution and Gays#wisolidarity #wiunion #weac

Schools Matter: The Latest Excuse In TN to End Teacher Rights and TEA: Evolution and Gays

The Latest Excuse In TN to End Teacher Rights and TEA: Evolution and Gays

by Jim Horn
In the current all-out assault triggered nationwide against teachers and other workers, the old lies used by the corporate reform crowd have been supplanted by the truth, especially in Tennessee where the spineless TEA has gone along with every miseducative notion in the Business Roundtable playbook. The enemies of democracy and the public space, however, see their privatization agenda waning, however, because the American people are sick and tired of their public schools being ruined by ideologues with dollar signs in the eyes. That and every deforming reform on the list has been proven ineffective where tried or too risky to be endorsed by science and research.

So now every idiot reason that can be dreamed up is broadcast as the rationale for crushing teachers in
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Democurmudgeon: Who's Funding Elections? The Underlying Disaster if Unions Disappear #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac .

Democurmudgeon: Who's Funding Elections? The Underlying Disaster if Unions Disappear.
Who's Funding Elections? The Underlying Disaster if Unions Disappear. Rachel Maddow explains corporate power granted by Citizens United, the counter balance to union contributions:
State Rep. Gordon Hintz Inspires, Rails on Republican Disregard for Democracy. I didn't know a Democrat could show this much passion. The fight is coming back.
Digging Deep into Walker's County Executive Blunders; Like the Now Costly Court House Security Mishandling. Rachel Maddow reported on Gov. Walker's costly mistake for Milwaukee County. The union security guards that were fired have now been ordered back by an arbitrator, and will be awarded back pay. The whole debacle will cost nearly a half million bucks ...
Walker’s next tactic? Fear and intimidation. National Guard tours Prison for no Reason. With nothing to hide when it comes to his obvious agenda, Gov. Scott Walker sent the National Guard into a prison to send a message of doubt and fear to union workers, even though they had no intention of striking. *jsonline: The National Guard has ...
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The Best Sites To Learn About The Christchurch Earthquake | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
The Best Sites To Learn About The Christchurch Earthquake A devastating earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand several hours ago. I’m getting ready to head off to school, but thought I’d bring together a short list of resources now and add to them later. Here are my choices for The Best Sites To Learn ...
If You’re Not Suffering From “Rhee Fatigue,” Then Here Are Two Good Articles Michelle Rhee has been all over the news, and on this blog (see The Best Posts About Michelle Rhee’s Exaggerated Test Scores and 4 concerns about Michelle Rhee). If you’re not tired of hearing about her, here are two good articles that have just been ...
Nice Collection of Web 2.0 Tools Richard Byrne has developed a nice collection of his favorite Web 2.0 tools. I’m adding the link to The Best Collections Of Web 2.0 Tools For Education.
World’s Most Liveable Cities: 2011 The Economist has just announced their choice for the World’s Most Liveable Cities: 2011. You can see a slideshow here. I’m adding it to The Best Lists Of “Best Places To Live”.
“Buildings that break the box” Buildings that break the box is a pretty neat slideshow from Salon. I’m adding it to The Best Images Of Weird, Cool & Neat-Looking Buildings (& Ways To Design Your Own).
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