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• Resume Workshop Tomorrow

  
  Hoboken411.com — Authority: 148
  2/8/2010:Free Resume Help for Hoboken residentsThere’s no doubt that many Hobokenites are out of work (with the national “official” unemployment rate at around 10%) – so this event might be useful for quite a few of you regular readers. Taking place tomorrow morning at 10:30am is a free “Winning Resumes ...
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• Charter Schooling’s Race Problem

  
  Voting While Intoxicated — Authority: 133
  I’m a big supporter of charter schools (and school vouchers depending on how they are implemented). So it was with some interest that I noticed that apparently the latest concern about charter schooling is resegregation : A new report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, “Choice Without Equity: Charter School ...
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• New regional charter school: Not a black/white issue

  
  Get Schooled — Authority: 540
  In fighting approval of a regional charter school, southwest Georgia superintendents allege that the Pataula Charter Academy would signal a return to the era in Georgia when blacks and whites attended different schools. The debate is re-opening old wounds of race and disparate education in districts still under court ...
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• No Scripts, No Talking Points

  
  Edwize — Authority: 496
  Craig Garber, UFT Chapter Leader at Beginning with Children Charter School in Brooklyn, reflects on his recent trip to Albany as part of Charter School Lobby Day, orchestrated by the New York Charter Schools Association and the New York City Charter Schools Center. The early morning three-hour drive to Albany put me ...
  4 days ago

• Mindstream will Assist Policy Makers, Schools, Educators and Industry Suppliers

  
  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 449
  
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• Millot: Arrogance and Idiocy in Massachusetts Chartering Policy

  
  This Week In Education — Authority: 569
  Setting aside the question of legality, the political appointees running Massachusetts public education would probably not recommend their approach to the Gloucester Community Arts Charter School (GCACS) application as a case study in good policy making. Just about everyone but the Commissioner of Elementary and ...
  5 days ago

• TWEET THIS! TWITTER FOR BUSINESS party tonight

  
  Okie Campaigns - I am a warfighter, I do NOT give up and I do NOT give in! — Authority: 128
  My OKIE Twitter buddy Jessica (@blogging4jobs) has a book coming out! Tweet This Launch Party Thursday, February 4th at Sapphire Bar in Bricktown (Oklahoma City) 6:30-8:00 PM Fabulous fun & PRIZES with live streaming from the event ! Drink special, free appetizers, and book ...
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• Millot: How MA Ed. Agency Head Overrules Staff and Gets a Charter Approved

  
  This Week In Education — Authority: 569
  There was nothing particularly remarkable about the Gloucester Community Arts Charter School (GCACS) application process until AFTER the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s (DESE) Charter Schools Office (CSO) staff wrote its recommendation against approval for the Departments ...
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• Obama to Andrew: “We Don’t Quit!”

  
  Edwize — Authority: 496
  Seth Andrew, 31, founder of Democracy Preparatory Charter School and aspiring Charter Management Organization CEO. This weekend, the parents and students of Democracy Preparatory Charter School learned that Seth Andrew, the school’s founder/leader, intends to leave New York and open new charter schools in Rhode ...
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• Run Schools Like Businesses? Absolutely!

  
  Education On The Plate — Authority: 411
  Image by Raymond Yee via Flickr I’m about to say something radical. Okay, it may not seem so radical to you but to the people who have known or read me for some time this will be startling. Schools SHOULD be run as businesses. I ran a business for almost 20 years so I think I understand some things about ...
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• Sheila Joseph: Charter’s Maybelline Cover Girl

  
  Edwize — Authority: 496
  East New York Preparatory Charter School founder and Maybelline honoree Sheila Joseph Sheila Joseph, the disgraced founder of East New York Preparatory Charter School, was once a rising star in New York’s charter school movement.  Today, she has become a stark symbol of why New York charter schools so desperately ...
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• Andrew Broy Named President of Illinois Network of Charter Schools

  
  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 449
  
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• Documenting Clovis – End of Semester Edition

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 139
  installment of “Documenting a New School”. A reminder that earlier this year, a new cyber charter school in California called Clovis Online School was created (see Clovis Online School). Over the past few months, Rob Darrow has been posting entries on the school’s blog (i.e., Clovis Online School) and his ...
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• Texans Can, Inc.: Another Charter Chain "Innovation" Story

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 132
  Photo from Texans Can website : The Dallas chapter of the Texas Association of Business (TAB) honored Richard Marquez, CEO of Texans Can !, as the 2009 Distinguished Business Leader in Education at a November 12 luncheon at the Renaissance Hotel in Dallas (11/19/09). Here is the summary of Texans Can, Inc.s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Opal Museum School Early Kindergarten

  
  urbanMamas School Connections — Authority: 119
  The guiding principles of Opal Museum Schoo l are influenced by the work of the early childhood schools in Reggio Emilia, Italy, neuroscience research, and best practices in early childhood education in the U.S. and beyond. Our mission is to inspire imagination, creativity and the wonder of learning by providing ...
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• Grab bag — Saturday morning version

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 503
  * The Errington Thompson show will be streaming live at 9 AM. My special guests are Linda Monk , constitutional scholar and author of the fabulous book, The Words We Live by . We’ll talk about the new Supreme Court ruling and what this means to campaign finance and free speech. I will also talk with Patrick ...
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• Oxford Charter School Approved (By Chino)

  
  Mission Viejo Dispatch — Authority: 140
     Oxford Preparatory Academy’s application to create a charter school was unanimously approved last night by the Chino Valley Unified School District Trustees. Oxford also applied to the Saddleback Valley School District for a charter school in Mission Viejo, but was denied last month on a 3-2 vote after ...
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• Kermit the Frog Shuts Down School

  
  Blippitt.com — Authority: 593
  "Hi ho! Kermit the Frog here with a Muppet news flash!" Peak to Peak Charter School in Colorado was shut down on Wednesday morning after a duffel bag containing a Kermit the Frog doll (which looked like it had blood stains on it) was discovered on the schools campus. A school employee called local police at ...
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• The Lottery

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 587
  The Lottery , a documentary due out May 7, follows four New York City families hoping to win the lottery to enroll their children in a Harlem charter school. 
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• Making foreign language a top priority, merely lip service in U.S. schools

  
  The Leading Source — Authority: 127
  Sigh. There is something inherently disappointing in the tendency of American policymakers to talk about what needs to be done—and then fail to do it. Latest case in point: We all know of the need to teach more students a foreign language before they enter tomorrow’s global economy. Yet, over the past decade, ...
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