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Protesters Wreak Havoc As Ten Arrested
huffingtonpost.com - A class meets in the auditorium building at Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, Calif., Friday, March 18, 2011. Oakland, Calif. (AP) -- Oakland's school board is planning to resume a meeting ...
Eureka College maintains spot on honor roll - Peoria, IL
pjstar.com - For the second consecutive year, Eureka College has been named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary community service.This year, Eureka College moved up in...
Behind Every Harassed Child? A Lot of Clueless Adults
movies.nytimes.com - “Bully,” Lee Hirsch’s moving and troubling documentary about the misery some children inflict upon others, arrives at a moment when bullying, long tolerated as a fact of life, is being redefined as...
Charter Spending Squeezing Education Budget – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - March 29, 2012, 5:51 p.m. New York City’s Education Department will spend $51 million to open more than two dozen new charter schools next year, according to a report released on Thursday by the In...
Charter Spending Squeezing Education Budget – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - March 29, 2012, 5:51 p.m. New York City’s Education Department will spend $51 million to open more than two dozen new charter schools next year, according to a report released on Thursday by the In...
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Duval to challenge state Board of Education
jacksonville.com - The Duval County School Board will challenge the state Board of Education’s decision approving an online-only charter school’s application to open in Jacksonville. The School Board told its attorne...
‘Parent Trigger’ effort falls short | writeradelanto, lindstromstaff, natasha - District
vvdailypress.com - ADELANTO • The trailblazing effort to force a major overhaul of Desert Trails Elementary by invoking the so-called “Parent Trigger” law failed to advance Wednesday night. The Desert Trails Parent U...
Harlem charter school teachers unionize
columbiaspectator.com - Teachers at a bilingual elementary school in West Harlem are relieved to have won a fight with the school board to unionize—a rare move for a charter school. Faculty and staff at the New York Frenc...
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Connecticut and “Education Reform” – The Truth is it’s all about Section 18:
jonathanpelto.com - Mar 29 jonpeltoAchievement First/ConnCAN, Charter Schools, Democratic Legislators, Education, Malloy, Stefan Pryor Charter Schools, Education Reform, Malloy, Stefan Pryor Yesterday, Governor Dannel...
RITA KRAMER: A DARK PASSOVER | MIDEAST OUTPOST
mideastoutpost.com - When families gather around the Seder table, many recall the dark Passover of 1943 and the climax of the months-long battle in which the small number of men and women remaining in the Warsaw Ghetto...
Who Voted For The Most Radical Right-Wing Budget In American History?
ourfuture.org - Today, 228 House representatives -- all Republicans -- voted for a budget that would give every millionaire a brand new $265,000 tax handout, cut funding for the poor by $3.3 trillion, privatize Me...
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Storobin Leads by 10 As Ballots Are Contested on Both Sides
politicker.com - Councilman Fidler (Photo: Facebook) Things are getting tense at the Board of Elections office in Brooklyn today where the count of absentee and provisional ballots from last week’s State Senate spe...
Modern School: The Sky is Falling: LAUSD Has Only $700 Million in Surplus
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Modern School: The Sky is Falling: LAUSD Has Only $700 Million in Surplus: The Sky is Falling: LAUSD Has Only $700 Million in Surplus by Michael Dunn Last week, LAUSD presented an Interim Fin...
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whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 29, 2012 The President proposed the Buffett Rule to ensure a very basic principle of fairness: millionaires shouldn’t pay l...
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Another 'Parent Trigger' Effort Ends in Defeat
kcrw.com - Subscribe to this Podcast:Listen to/Watch entire show: First in Compton, now in Adelanto — out in the Mojave Desert — elected school boards have rejected petitions by parents to reform failing scho...
There is No Mayan Apocolypse Prediction Says Mexican Astronomer
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 7:14 pm EST, March 29, 2012 Neither the Mayans’ texts nor their calendar contain predictions of an apocalypse later this year, but regrettably “pseudoscientific media outlets are talki...
Whale freed from fishing net off Palos Verdes
latimesblogs.latimes.com - A team of volunteers Thursday cut a gray whale loose from fishing gear it was tangled in off the coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, the second such rescue operation in Southern California in five...
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Rockford out. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - After negotiating for over a year, members of the Rockford Education Association walked off the job this morning. District 205, one of the largest in the state, is known for being among the most to...
Age, sex, race, education and credit cards
foxbusiness.com - Rugged individualism. It's part of our national ethos, and we all like to believe that we make our own choices and determine our own destinies. But in reality, most of us are products of our enviro...
Google's Alternative to Paywalls: Customer Surveys - Technology
theatlanticwire.com - Google is rolling out a new product, “Google Consumer Surveys,” that lets publishers monetize content through “microsurveys” created by companies that want to carry out inexpensive market research....
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Early morning Fox. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - WGN’s early morning sport reporter, Pat Tomasulo. I’m getting ready to fly off to Brooklyn this morning to see my daughters, their partners, my grand kids and the rest of my New York family. I neve...
New York City Bans 'Divorce' From Standardized Testing: Twitter Responds
huffingtonpost.com - Should the word "divorce" be banned from standardized tests?The "D" word is part of a recently released list of more than 50 words and references that the New York City Department of Education hope...
Early morning Fox. « Fred Klonsky
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Early morning Fox. « Fred Klonsky: Early morning Fox.by Fred KlonskyWGN’s early morning sport reporter, Pat Tomasulo. I’m getting ready to fly off to Brooklyn this morning to see my daughters, thei...
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Challenging Corporate Ed Reform
rethinkingschools.org - Spring 2012Illustration: Michael Duffy By Stan Karp This is a revised version of a speech given at the Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference in Seattle, October 2011. Corporate school re...
Treasury's class size comments refuted by expert - National
nzherald.co.nz - An education expert has dismissed Treasury's call to rethink classroom sizes so more money can be pumped into improving teacher quality, saying New Zealand teachers are already among the highest pe...
Big Education Ape: 3-29-12 PM STRIKE! EDition #CORPREFORM #soschat
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Cerf defends Christie's proposed changes to school funding formula
mobile.nj.com - TRENTON — The state’s top education official today defended the Christie administration’s proposed changes to the school funding formula, including a plan to spend less money on poor students. Test...
