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How Corporate Education Types Roll

bobsidlethoughtsandmusings.wordpress.com - There’s little doubt that the billionaire driven corporate education reform movement desires to sift taxpayer money into contractual relationships for it’s cronies. New York Times reporter Jim Dwey...

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Cuts to K-12 Expected in Wake of Debt Deal

edweek.org - Education advocates are bracing for the fallout from the eleventh-hour congressional vote to lift the federal debt ceiling—and the significant belt-tightening that comes along with it.But how deepl...

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nypost.com - Four city high schools have been under investigation since as far back as January 2010 for alleged Regents tampering or scoring inflation that could have fraudulently boosted their graduation rates...

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Save Our Schools March NEWS #SOSMARCH

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The Hijacked Crisis

nytimes.com - Has market turmoil left you feeling afraid? Well, it should. Clearly, the economic crisis that began in 2008 is by no means over. But there’s another emotion you should feel: anger. For...

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Rick Perry and the Myth of the ‘Texas Miracle’

thefiscaltimes.com - Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who ends his shadow run for the White House this weekend by announcing his bid for the GOP presidential nomination, has been touting the success of the Lone Star State’s econ...

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Obama appoints GE's Immelt to competitiveness council

ctpost.com - SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- President Barack Obama, aiming to reinforce the message that the second half of his first term will be all about jobs, named Jeffrey Immelt, president and chief executive offic...

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Anti-Union and Anti-Women | LFA: Join The Conversation

learningfirst.org - A recent Salon article by Natasha Lennard discusses the central role of women’s issues in the current Wisconsin political saga, including this week’s recall elections. For six months, since Govern...

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Over 160 children reported among drone deaths: TBIJ

thebureauinvestigates.com - Six-year-old Sameeda Gul was injured in a drone strike in Pakistan on October 21 2009. The Bureau has identified credible reports of 168 children killed in seven years of CIA drone strikes in Paki...

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Final Friday. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - Today is the final Friday of my last summer break. Next Friday my final teaching year begins with one of those Institute Days: A morning motivational speaker and an afternoon of meetings, with fold...

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nypost.com - Four city high schools have been under investigation since as far back as January 2010 for alleged Regents tampering or scoring inflation that could have fraudulently boosted their graduation rates...

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nypost.com - Four city high schools have been under investigation since as far back as January 2010 for alleged Regents tampering or scoring inflation that could have fraudulently boosted their graduation rates...

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Boys Town - Teacher in a Strange Land

blogs.edweek.org - As a middle school band teacher, I frequently had guest clinicians visit my classroom to work with my adolescent musicians. A college band director who was coaching my students once expressed surpr...

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    Expense records show who has had Arlene Ackerman's ear - Philly.com

    Expense records show who has had Arlene Ackerman's ear - Philly.com

    Expense records show who has had Arlene Ackerman's ear

    August 12, 2011|By Susan Snyder, Dylan Purcell, and Kristen A. Graham, Inquirer Staff Writers
    • Arlene C. Ackerman praised Melonease Shaw on the consultant/lobbyist's company website.

    It was a working dinner - salad, crimson snapper, halibut, and key lime pie - for Philadelphia schools chief Arlene C. Ackerman and Melonease Shaw, a political consultant and lobbyist.

    Shaw was briefing Ackerman in 2009 "after mtg. with legislators on Charter/Renaissance Schools," according to Ackerman's expense-account records released to The Inquirer by the Philadelphia School District. The two met at Devon, a seafood restaurant on Rittenhouse Square, and their tab topped $100.

    The records - covering a period from February 2008, before Ackerman was formally hired, through May of this year - show that more than a third of her local dinners were with Shaw, who has received $268,997 in district contracts since 2008 and touts her relationship with Ackerman on the website of her company, Maven Inc.

    For months, the Maven website also has highlighted Ackerman's praise for Shaw's business services