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rawstory.com - Tags: billionaire, call, cancer research center, charles koch, co-owner, conglomerate, david koch, involvement, koch brothers, koch industries, massachusetts institute of technology, Nation, New, n...

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online.wsj.com - The leader of the 14 Wisconsin Senate Democrats who left the state last month to block legislation that would curb public-employee union rights said the senators plan to return "in the relatively n...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Michael Moore Rallies Thousands In Madison: 'America Is Not Broke' | TPMDCMichael Moore Rallies Thousands In Madison: 'America Is Not Broke'Evan McMorris-Santoro | March 5, 2011, 6:29PM138Share31tw...

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morningstaronline.co.uk - He told tens of thousands of protesters that "Madison is only the beginning."The crowd roared in approval as Mr Moore hailed demonstrators for standing up to Republican Governor Scott Walker's legi...

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boingboing.net - 20 lies from Scott WalkerCory Doctorow at 5:24 AM Sunday, Mar 6, 2011 A heavily-linked and cited list of 20 lies told by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker makes for good Sunday reading. The cynicism...

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millermps.wordpress.com - Mar. 4 2011 By RICK UNGAR Forbes In what may be the result of one of the great political miscalculations of our time, Scott Walker’s popularity in his home state is fast going down the tubes. A Ras...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Washington DC: Congressional Black Caucus Stands In Solidarity With Wisconsin Workers « Larry Miller's BlogWashington DC: Congressional Black Caucus Stands In Solidarity With Wisconsin WorkersFiled...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Michael Moore in Mad Town. « Fred Klonsky's blog Michael Moore in Mad Town.by Fred KlonskyStill not posting. Here’s Michael Moore’s speech from Madison yesterday when 70,000 protesters showed up on...

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greenbaypressgazette.com - Gov. Scott Walker's biennial budget is creating some concern among municipal officials who are just beginning to understand its impact."We're preparing for the worst-case scenario and hoping for th...

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defendwisconsin.org - Most Reverend Jerome E. Listecki, archbishop of Milwaukee and president of the Wisconsin Catholic Conference, has issued the following statement regarding the rights of workers and the value of uni...

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archmil.org - Most Reverend Jerome E. Listecki, archbishop of Milwaukee and president of the Wisconsin Catholic Conference, has issued the following statement regarding the rights of workers and the value of uni...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Michael Moore to Wisconsin protesters: 'Don't give up!' | Solidarity WisconsinMichael Moore to Wisconsin protesters: 'Don't give up!' By now, it's unlikely that anyone besides Scott Walker would di...

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financialfeed.net - Posted by Amy Morris on Mar 6, 2011 in Economy, Finance13 unions were sent notices on Friday to layoff 300,000 state workers.On his threat to issue dismissal notices to unions that represent worker...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Why employee pensions aren't bankrupting states | McClatchyWhy employee pensions aren't bankrupting statesBy Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy NewspapersWASHINGTON — From state legislatures to Congress to ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Politics and Publics | FiredoglakePolitics and Publicsby masaccioJohn DeweyThere is a disconnect between our people and our politics, as Jon Walker points out after almost every national poll. Peop...

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dekerivers.wordpress.com - Being that it is Sunday, and I am reading more about the proposed Wisconsin state budget, the following question comes to mind. What would Jesus think of the budget proposal put forth by Governor W...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Attacking Teachers Reveals Cost Less Than in ’81: Albert R. Hunt - BloombergAttacking Teachers Reveals Cost Less Than in ’81: Albert R. HuntBy Albert R. Hunt - Mar 6, 2011 8:01 AM PTBloomberg Opini...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Michael Moore: The Smug Wealthy Have Gone Too Far -- And We're Finally Fighting Back | Economy | AlterNetMichael Moore: The Smug Wealthy Have Gone Too Far -- And We're Finally Fighting BackBy tryin...

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shorewood.patch.com - Efforts to gather the 21,000 signatures needed to recall state Sen. Alberta Darling began in Shorewood Saturday, as volunteers and petitioners canvassed neighborhoods armed with clipboards. Leader ...

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thepilot.com - By Bill Johnston Special to The Pilot It is time - past time, in fact - that I speak my mind about the situation in Wisconsin. I do so from personal experience, an experience which dramatically alt...

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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - Yet another poll in Wisconsin, this time commissioned by a free-market think tank, the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, shows voters disapproving of Gov. Scott Walker, and saying he should comp...

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dailykos.com - Please, contribute $8 to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin to help recall eight Republican state Senators.Photo by Melissa RyanThe common characteristic of the constituent parts of the Democratic c...

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abclocal.go.com - March 6, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Chicago area letter carriers joined a rally against a proposal that would end collective bargaining rights for many Wisconsin state workers. About 150 letter carr...

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apnews.excite.com - MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore urged Wisconsin residents Saturday to fight against Republican efforts to strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights, telli...

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Modern School: Public Sector Pensions: Too Big To Fail?

Modern School: Public Sector Pensions: Too Big To Fail?
Public Sector Pensions: Too Big To Fail? Public sector pensions have become a popular bogey man. It is true that most have huge unfunded liabilities and this is a problem. However, the blame is always placed on the workers themselves who have nothing at all to do with the problem. The ...
Charter Schools: The New Jim Crow The Civil Rights Project, at UCLA, has just released a new report documenting the intense segregation that occurs at charter schools. The organization has been studying charter schools for seven years and has found that students are substantially ...
Charter School Fires Founder, Threatens to Sue LAUSD Slap on Wrist or Decertification for Crescendo? Crescendo Charter Schools, embroiled in a scandal over it administration’s mandate for teachers to cheat on state standardized exams, has fired its founder, John Allen, and threatened to sue Los ...
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School Tech Connect: The Empty Suit

School Tech Connect: The Empty Suit

The Empty Suit

by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
I finally had a minute to watch the entire grilling, in which Bernie Sanders talks about the very same heist that Michael Moore spoke about in Madison, and Arne Duncan does his best to put sentences together in response.

It really is remarkable that the president of the United States leans on Arne Duncan for policy advice. Everyone agrees that Arne Duncan is the nicest guy in town, and I believe it. What I also see in Arne Duncan is a guy who has never won an election and never could and never will, a guy who's never actually had to apply for a job and earn it on merit, a guy whose reliance on platitudes is mind-numbing (watch at about 7:40), and a guy whose core political emptiness represents the exact kind of vacuum that nature abhors and that quickly gets filled with gas. In Arne Duncan's case, the gas is emanating from sources that oppose virtually everything Barack Obama
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Congratulations, Broad-freed Emerald City « JD2718

Congratulations, Broad-freed Emerald City « JD2718

Congratulations, Broad-freed Emerald City

by jd2718

Last week Seattle threw out their Broad-trained schools superintendent.

Goodloe Johnson’s tenure was rocky. I highlighted her trying to hire Teach for America (in a big bucks sweetheart deal, she succeeded) when Seattle faced NO teacher shortage. But apparently she lied to the board. She reorganized schools, firing teachers willy nilly (sound familiar New York? DC? NOLA? any other big

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A Tale of Two PD’s « My Island View

A Tale of Two PD’s « My Island View

A Tale of Two PD’s

by tomwhitby

I attended two back to back educational conferences this week. One was a vendor supported conference for invited administrators held in NYC, and the other was a teacher sponsored Unconference at Rutgers University. Both conferences expected an attendance of about 300 participants and neither saw that happen. I came away from both conferences with useful information, but only one offered more inspiration.

For those of you who are unaware of what an Unconference is, you are not alone. I reinforced this lack of awareness with every conversation I had with any administrator I conversed with at this first get together. Since I was headed to the second conference, or unconference at the conclusion of the first, it was a natural addition to any discussion I had. Most of the administrators were unaware as to what an unconference was, or that it even was a developing form of Professional Development. They had no idea that so many unconferences

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Gov. Walker Shame On You, Spade Cooley Soundie #WeAreWI #WIUnion

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NYC Public School Parents: Video: Bloomberg booed and excoriated for his attack on teachers and our kids

NYC Public School Parents: Video: Bloomberg booed and excoriated for his attack on teachers and our kids

Video: Bloomberg booed and excoriated for his attack on teachers and our kids

by Leonie Haimson

Mayor Bloomberg was roundly booed at the annual Queens St. Patrick’s Day parade on Saturday, for threatening to lay off of over 4,000 teachers and his attack on their seniority rights. Check out the video below and excerpts from the Daily News, NY Post and NY1:

Chants of "Save our Teachers" rang out from pockets of the green-clad crowd that lined Newport Ave. and Rockaway Beach Blvd. in Belle Harbor….

Anthony Hannon, 80:….“What he’s doing to our teachers and our Fire Department – it’s shameful. Who cares about bike lanes? He’s an idiot,” sputtered Hannon. ….

"The classrooms are already overcrowded and now he wants to lay off thousands of teachers?"asked Jeanne O'Leary, who has been teaching at nearby Public School 104 for 10 years.

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We Must Change the Narrative About Public Education: Guest Blog by Diane Ravitch | Edutopia

We Must Change the Narrative About Public Education: Guest Blog by Diane Ravitch | Edutopia

We Must Change the Narrative About Public Education: Guest Blog by Diane Ravitch

By Betty Ray

3/4/11
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Editor's Note: Today's guest blogger is Diane Ravitch, an historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and former United States Assistant Secretary of Education. She is now a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Diane Ravitch

As the protests in Wisconsin dominate national news, and the White House and Congress gear up for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, currently called "No Child Left Behind"), we have a unique opportunity to put to rest some of the inaccurate narratives that have come to dominate debates around education policy, and to lay the foundations for a set of policies that can achieve our broader societal goals for children.

Myth #1: The Achievement Gap is Widening

Central to the current focus on using standardized tests to hold teachers and schools accountable is the belief that low-income children, especially minority children, are losing academic ground, and that weak schools and teachers with low expectations are to blame. In reality, African-American fourth graders have gained so much ground over the past two decades – when their schools were ostensibly failing them miserably – that they now score higher, on average, on reliable (NAEP) math tests than their white peers did as recently as 1992. And the very lowest-scoring students have seen the largest gains. White students

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Politics and Publics | Firedoglake #wiunion

Politics and Publics | Firedoglake

Politics and Publics

by masaccio

John Dewey

There is a disconnect between our people and our politics, as Jon Walker points out after almost every national poll. People favor government policies that help people, like Social Security and Medicare; and want to stop wasting money on foreign entanglements, raise taxes on the richest Americans, and cut programs that the Defense Department says aren’t needed. The Congress, and particularly the Republicans aren’t listening to those majorities. Instead, they cut taxes on the rich, assault Social Security and Medicare, and buy unnecessary equipment for the military. It almost looks like the elites run things for their own benefit and use elections to provide a veneer of democracy.

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Attacking Teachers Reveals Cost Less Than in ’81: Albert R. Hunt - Bloomberg #WIUnion

Attacking Teachers Reveals Cost Less Than in ’81: Albert R. Hunt - Bloomberg

Attacking Teachers Reveals Cost Less Than in ’81: Albert R. Hunt

By Albert R. Hunt - Mar 6, 2011 8:01 AM PT
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The political battles raging in states across America are cast as about whether big labor retains its considerable clout.

Republican Governors Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Chris Christie of New Jersey say public employees are fleecing taxpayers, causing fiscal chaos. It’s an inherent conflict, critics contend, for public-employees’ unions to bargain with government officials they helped elect with campaign support.

In a column in Newsweek last week, a former adviser to President George W. Bush charged that the primary purpose of public unions is to “work against” the interests of taxpayers. “Public unions are big money,” the article boldly proclaims. Most of the specifics are directed at unions representing teachers, firefighters and nurses, yet the

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#WIUnion Michael Moore: The Smug Wealthy Have Gone Too Far -- And We're Finally Fighting Back | Economy | AlterNet

Michael Moore: The Smug Wealthy Have Gone Too Far -- And We're Finally Fighting Back | Economy | AlterNet

Michael Moore: The Smug Wealthy Have Gone Too Far -- And We're Finally Fighting Back

By trying to destroy us corporate America has given birth to a movement -- a movement that is becoming a massive, nonviolent revolt across the country.

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America is not broke.
Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the

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#WeAreWI Archdiocese of Milwaukee – Statement Regarding the Rights of Workers and the Value of Unions | Defend Wisconsin

Archdiocese of Milwaukee – Statement Regarding the Rights of Workers and the Value of Unions | Defend Wisconsin

Archdiocese of Milwaukee – Statement Regarding the Rights of Workers and the Value of Unions

– MARCH 6, 2011POSTED IN: MESSAGES OF SUPPORT, OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

Most Reverend Jerome E. Listecki, archbishop of Milwaukee and president of the Wisconsin Catholic Conference, has issued the following statement regarding the rights of workers and the value of unions.

February 16, 2011

The Church is well aware that difficult economic times call for hard choices and financial responsibility to further the common good. Our own dioceses and parishes have not been immune to the effects of the current economic difficulties. But hard times do not nullify the moral obligation each of us has to respect the legitimate rights of workers. As Pope Benedict wrote in his 2009 encyclical, Caritas in veritate:

Governments, for reasons of economic utility, often limit the freedom or the negotiating capacity of labor unions. Hence traditional networks of solidarity have more and more obstacles to overcome. The repeated calls issued

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#WIUnion Washington DC: Congressional Black Caucus Stands In Solidarity With Wisconsin Workers « Larry Miller's Blog

Washington DC: Congressional Black Caucus Stands In Solidarity With Wisconsin Workers « Larry Miller's Blog

Washington DC: Congressional Black Caucus Stands In Solidarity With Wisconsin Workers

Filed under: Scott Walker — millerlf @ 11:05 am

WASHINGTON – Chairman Emanuel Cleaver II, Congresswoman Gwen Moore and the Congressional Black Caucus sent the following letter to Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin in support of workers’ rights. The letter to Governor Walker is attached and text included below. Chairman Cleaver also released the following statement in support:

“Anytime the rights of public workers are being compromised it is our duty to stand with them. For 40 years, the Congressional Black Caucus has worked tirelessly to ensure that all Americans, regardless of race, color or creed have the opportunity to fully pursue and achieve the American dream. Taking away public employees rights to collectively bargain seems like an assault on the pursuit of that dream.

The CBC is committed to responsibly reducing the deficit, but not with indiscriminate cuts that target hard-working American families. The sacrifices that we make as a nation must be distributed equally amongst the population – not on the backs of the public servants.”

- Chairman Emanuel Cleaver, II

______________________________
Letter to Governor Walker

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Why employee pensions aren't bankrupting states | McClatchy #WeAreWI #WIUnion

Why employee pensions aren't bankrupting states | McClatchy

Why employee pensions aren't bankrupting states

By Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — From state legislatures to Congress to tea party rallies, a vocal backlash is rising against what are perceived as too-generous retirement benefits for state and local government workers. However, that widespread perception doesn't match reality.

A close look at state and local pension plans across the nation, and a comparison of them to those in the private sector, reveals a more complicated story. However, the short answer is that there's simply no evidence that state pensions are the current burden to public finances that their critics claim.

Pension contributions from state and local employers aren't blowing up budgets. They amount to just 2.9 percent of state spending, on average, according to the National Association of State Retirement Administrators. The Center for Retiremen



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Michael Moore in Mad Town. « Fred Klonsky's blog #WeAreWI #WIUnion

Michael Moore in Mad Town. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Michael Moore in Mad Town.

by Fred Klonsky

Still not posting. Here’s Michael Moore’s speech from Madison yesterday when 70,000 protesters showed up on a day when there was no huge rally planned.

Enjoy!

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How You Can Boycott the Kochs (List of Their Products) « Larry Miller's Blog

How You Can Boycott the Kochs (List of Their Products) « Larry Miller's Blog

How You Can Boycott the Kochs (List of Their Products)

by millerlf

AlterNet / By Lauren Kelley February 28, 2011

The backlash against the Kochs’ influence in Wisconsin is gaining steam, with labor supporters starting to boycott Koch Industries’ many products (listed below)

Over the past few weeks, the billionaire Koch brothers and their front groups have steadily increased their involvement in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s efforts to strip state workers of their collective bargaining rights. The Kochs’ outsized wealth and influence are forces to be reckoned with; that’s why we should all be grateful that a Koch backlash, including a boycott of Koch Industries’ products, has started picking up steam.

AlterNet has been keeping a close eye on the Koch-financed support for Walker’s anti-union campaign. As wereported last week, Walker is deep in the pocket of the Kochs, having received some $43,000 from Koch Industries while running for governor in 2010. Once Walker was elected, he made sure to take care of his friends/financiers, giving out massive tax breaks to Koch Industries, and more recently, launching the ongoing effort to quash Wisconsin union workers’ rights.

As AlterNet’s Washington bureau chief Adele Stan puts it, Walker is “carrying out the wishes of his corporate master.” But why are the brothers Koch so interested in stifling labor rights in Wisconsin? For one thing, they

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Congressman Ryan Stands Up Against SB-5 on the House Floor

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Celebrate the end of Koch-fueled Americans for Austerity Bus Tour | Solidarity Wisconsin #WeAreWI #WIUnion

Celebrate the end of Koch-fueled Americans for Austerity Bus Tour | Solidarity Wisconsin
Celebrate the end of Koch-fueled Americans for Austerity Bus Tour Please SHOW UP EARLY so we can greet their bus and be ready! The American for Austerity (mislabeled "Americans for Prosperity") are finishing their bus tour in Madison. Let's extend a *friendly* and *peaceful* greeting to the passengers. Let's make ...
40,000-plus hit the streets as Walker goes to fundraiser Amid the Scott Walker-ordered high security conditions at the capitol, some 40,000 protesters continued their weeks-long demonstrations against the Republican Party. The margin of error of estimates on the size of the protest is the give-away: Give ...
20 lies (and counting) told by Scott Walker We’re used to politicians stretching the truth, but the level of deception and dishonesty Wisconsin’s governor has exhibited in the battle over his union-busting budget repair bill (even the name is a falsehood) sinks to astounding new lows. What ...
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