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Wis. School Districts Move Toward Merit Pay for Teachers
edweek.org - Published Online: December 12, 2011 ByErin Richards, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)On a Tuesday afternoon in mid-October, between 40 and 50 Cedarburg School District educators sat in a small audi...
Braun: New kind of N.J. school privatization on the rise
blog.nj.com - Public education in New Jersey has been roiled recently by conflicts over charter schools, vouchers and "virtual" schools — but, now, a new type of privatization is on the horizon: allowing public ...
A Back-to-School Special: Mary Levy Discusses DCPS’s de Facto Segregation, Lack of Transparency, High Turnover and More | . . . . . TheFightBack
thefightback.org - The DCPS school year is under way and many students are adjusting to an unfamiliar environment. They’re not alone. A surprising number of both teachers and principals are also completing their firs...
Lawmaker Aims to Abolish Middle School Phys. Ed. Requirement - Schooled in Sports
blogs.edweek.org - If Florida state Rep. Larry Metz gets his way, middle school students will no longer be required by state law to take a daily physical education class, starting in July.Metz's bill, filed back in l...
Class Matters. Why Won’t We Admit It?
nytimes.com - Durham, N.C. NO one seriously disputes the fact that students from disadvantaged households perform less well in school, on average, than their peers from more advantaged backgrounds....
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Emanuel welcomes out-of-town charter schools
wbez.org - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel put out the welcome mat for out-of-state charter schools Tuesday.“I want all the charter operators who don’t yet operate in the City of Chicago to see this as an opportun...
Growing Push in Newark to Retake School Reins
nytimes.com - NEWARK — For a generation of Newark students, every education decision, including choices on curriculum, spending and superintendent, has been made by state officials in Trenton. That l...
Class Matters. Why Won’t We Admit It?
nytimes.com - Durham, N.C. NO one seriously disputes the fact that students from disadvantaged households perform less well in school, on average, than their peers from more advantaged backgrounds....
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Time to Throw Money at the Problem « InterACT
accomplishedcaliforniateachers.wordpress.com - It’s a well-worn phrase: you can’t just throw money at the problem. Well, what if the problem is a serious lack of money? Essentially, that’s the issue playing out in the Colorado court system. Th...
‘You can’t trust him,’ gay vet says after exchange with Romney in N.H. - Election 2012
washingtonpost.com - MANCHESTER, N.H. – Mitt Romney got into a rare heated confrontation with a gay veteran at a diner here Monday morning that concluded with the 63-year-old man telling reporters: “You can’t trust him...
Challenges Mount to California's LGBT Education Law | News
advocate.com - A contingent of antigay groups is mobilizing to overturn or substantially dilute California’s new FAIR Education Law, which requires social science curricula in public schools to include the histor...
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85% of unions that voted, recertified
whby.com - Text Size:December 12, 2011S M T W TF S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 12 13 14 15 16 1718 19 20 21 22 23 2425 26 27 28 29 30 31WHBYCBSNews » WEAC: 85% of unions that voted, recertified Dec...
One arrested at Occupy protest in Port Hueneme
latimesblogs.latimes.com - One Occupy protester was arrested Monday at the Port of Hueneme after laying down in the roadway and refusing to move, backing up truck traffic, authorities said. That was the only confrontation in...
Hundreds march to Port of Oakland for shutdown
sfgate.com - (12-12) 06:18 PST OAKLAND -- About 200 protesters are marching this morning in hopes of shutting down the Port of Oakland as part of the national Occupy movement. Organizers have pledged to march t...
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Depression and Democracy
nytimes.com - It’s time to start calling the current situation what it is: a depression. True, it’s not a full replay of the Great Depression, but that’s cold comfort. Unemployment in both America and Europe rem...
Robert Reich (Are Mitt and Newt Channeling their Inner Progressives?)
robertreich.org - Two important reforms are stopping the revolving door between Washington and the nation’s financial giants, and preventing financiers from flipping companies(making short-term profits by borrowing ...
Nullifying Democracy | OurFuture.org
ourfuture.org - By Digby December 12, 2011 - 12:15pm ET Popular This WeekDecember 06, 2011December 05, 2011more» Also Worth Reading James Fallows: Before the episode recedes fully from the news, please read this ...
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Illinois is not too broke to make this Christmas day for two giant corporations. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Merry Christmas Sears and CME (the corporations that runs the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Board of Trade). Today Santa is coming to visit you. Naughty. Not nice. The Illinois House Revenue ...
Major corporations pay few taxes
sacramentopa.blogspot.com - 265 Major, Profitable U.S. Corporations' Tax AvoidanceCosts States $42 Billion Over Three Years; Sixty EightCompanies Have At Least One Tax-Free YearCitizens for Tax JusticeDecember 7, 2011http://w...
Waste Connections Blames Move On Location, Taxes, Rules - Sacramento News Story
kcra.com - POSTED: 6:48 am PST December 12, 2011UPDATED: 12:49 pm PST December 12, 2011FOLSOM, Calif. (KCRA) -- Waste Connections is leaving Folsom, heading to Texas and taking about 130 jobs with it.Company ...
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In lawsuit, teacher's aide Rhonda Rivera claims toxic Bronx New School gave her cancer
nydailynews.com - An elementary school teacher’s aide who worked 19 years in a notoriously toxin-riddled Bronx school says in a new lawsuit that the building gave her cancer.Rhonda Rivera, 50, claims, in the first s...
How to get arsenic out of juice « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - I am ready to pluck that juice box out of my kid’s sticky little hands, no matter how big the juice-splosion. It’s not about the sugar this time – oh, no – it’s because of the arsenic! A Consumer ...
School Scene: More info may get more into engineering, survey finds
mercurynews.com - Poll: More info may get more into engineering A study of 1,000 American teenagers showed that more information about the field of engineering might prompt half of them to consider the field as a ca...
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Illinois is not too broke to make this Christmas day for two giant corporations. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - Merry Christmas Sears and CME (the corporations that runs the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Board of Trade). Today Santa is coming to visit you. Naughty. Not nice. The Illinois House Revenue ...
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Challenges Mount to California's LGBT Education Law | News
advocate.com - A contingent of antigay groups is mobilizing to overturn or substantially dilute California’s new FAIR Education Law, which requires social science curricula in public schools to include the histor...
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