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• Your Lunch Money - unwisely spent on spent hens

  
  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 153
  December 10, 2009 Your Lunch Money: USDA Spends Millions on Spent Hens I’ve ...
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• Bright & Early: Cuddly As A Cactus Edition

  
  Nashvillest — Authority: 474
  Good morning, Nashville. It’s the holiday season and the sound of Christmas music fills the air downtown thanks to those giant speaker-boxes on every street corner. The extra dose of holiday flavor makes just about everyone a little more cheerful–everyone, that is, except for the state workers in the Rachel ...
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• 14 students injured in Tulsa school bus crash

  
  JusticeNewsFlash.com | Legal News | Lawyer Press Release — Authority: 481
  Legal news for Oklahoma automobile accident attorneys. Two school buses collided, injuring over a dozen students. Automobile accident lawyers alerts- Two school buses crashed from Jenks Public Schools, which left over a dozen students with injuries. Tulsa, OK—Two Jenks Public Schools buses collided on Tuesday ...
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• AFT’s Randi Weingarten: Schools, Unions Best Agents for ‘Social Justice’

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  AFT President Randi Weingarten may have inadvertantly put her finger on one of the major problems with public education today. During an Oct. 28  forum at the Center for American Progress, Weingarten told the assembled panel that teachers unions, along with the general labor movement and the nation’s public ...
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• Ann Arbor Public Schools

  
  Business and Technology — Authority: 124
  Ann Arbor Public Schools Ann Arbor Public Schools - : My impression about this unfortunate incident is that the students attending Ann Arbor Public Schools are not fully aware of the problems being faced by school children in other parts of the world. They should know about the enormous Security Tightened At ...
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• Condoms & Kids

  
  folkbum's rambles and rants — Authority: 470
  by folkbumThe news is out:After an hour and a half of spirited public testimony late Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning, a Milwaukee Board of School Directors committee voted in favor of a proposal that would allow for the limited distribution of male condoms in many of the citys public high schools.The ...
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• The Earmark King of Iowa: Senator Tom Harkin

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 139
  Senator Tom Harkin’s (D-IA) office just announced a bunch of earmarks for education, health care, job creation and flood recovery in the FY 2010 Labor, Health and Human Services Omnibus Appropriations bill.  Over $9 million for Eastern Iowa , $9 million for Central Iowa , and $2 Million in Western Iowa (I’m ...
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• School reforms have been a community process

  
  eLetters — Authority: 508
  When the Denver Board of Education voted Nov. 30 on our recommendations for turn-arounds and new-school locations, it was the culmination of a community process that began last spring and has had in Northwest Denver alone more than 40 public meetings and community conversations. There were also multiple Board of ...
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• The Education Wars IV--Killing Off Traditional Public High Schools

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 147
  The war against public education continues unabated, and New York City Public Schools is the guinea pig in the effort to destroy public schools nationally . There is no longer any pretense on what Mayor Michael Bloomberg nd Chancellor Joel Klein wants to do with the large traditional high schools in New York City. ...
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• Standardized test math scores are latest indictment of Detroit public schools

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 598
  Back in January and March, a sample of Detroit Public Schools 4th and 8th graders performed very poorly on a standardized math test. Yesterday, as the results were released, a press conference held by the school district’s emergency financial manager Robert Bobb featured sweeping condemnations of the entire ...
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• Detroits public schools post worst scores on record in national assessment

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The Detroit Public Schools posted the worst scores on record in the most recent test of students in large central U.S. cities. The scores came on the Trial Urban District Assessment, a national test developed by the Governing Board, the National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of Education and ...
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• Attracting home-schooled children back would stop closure of schools

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 147
  Westcoaster.ca – December 3, 2009 Woo Home-Schooled Kids Back: Parent By Keven Drews UCLUELET — Attracting home-schooled children back into the public system would stop the closure or amalgamation of West Coast schools, says the superintendent. Cam Pinkerton made the comments Wednesday night while under ...
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• Washington Times Hits Kevin Jennings as ‘Obama’s Buggery Czar’

  
  Americans For Truth — Authority: 580
  Mainline conservatives finally catch up in exposing GLSEN’s extremist agenda WARNING: OFFENSIVE DESCRIPTIONS In the GLSEN-recommended book "Queer 13," a 13-year-old boy graphically describes sexual "tricking" (prostitution) with adult men. Folks, as one who has worked for more than 15 years with other ...
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• Mayor calls for new ideas in speech devoid of them

  
  Universal Hub - All Boston, all the time — Authority: 613
  In his first major speech since his election to a fifth term, Mayor Thomas M. Menino issued a rousing call for new ideas - apparently including such out-of-the-box notions as actually building something ( anything !) on the old Filenes site, reviving the proposal for a Business Improvement District in Downtown ...
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• What Would Community Organizer Barack Obama Do?

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 745
  Imagine if 20 years ago on the south side of Chicago two thousand low-income, predominantly African-American families were given an opportunity to take their children out of failing and violent schools and send them to a school where they had a chance to graduate and attend college. What if this program had numerous ...
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• A Message from the Contemplative Tulsan

  
  Bounded Rationality — Authority: 424
  Trait has a terrific and intelligent blog post on the importance of School Boards and a challenge. Trait and his family are an asset to our community. I dont need to quote him, Ill let you read the entire post over at Contemplative Tulsan . Incidentally, his blog would make a fine addition to anyones blog roll.
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  WORDPRESS-TEMPLATES-PLUGINS-RSS — Authority: 152
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• Moving to Syracuse, have snowblower need house.

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 625
  Relocating. Destination: Syracuse, NY. Prefer to buy a house in the city, no suburbs need apply. What can you tell us about Syracuse neighborhoods? Public schools? Were looking primarily at the Near Eastside, Westcott, etc not far from the University, and the Strathmore neighborhood although there are other ...
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• Prep Sports Notebook for Monday, December 7

  
  Howie Blog — Authority: 142
  It’s still early in the 2009-10 prep winter sports season, but not too early to hand out report cards for the Duluth Public Schools teams:BOYS HOCKEYDuluth Central — Grade: A — The Trojans have an excellent opportunity to begin 4-0, if they are able to take business in winnable games ahead against Silver Bay, ...
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• Dec. 7 — Tonights Jackson Public Schools board agenda

  
  Taking Notes — Authority: 103
  Here is what is up for discussion/action at tonights JPS board meeting at 6 p.m. at T.A. Wilson Academy (310 West Morrell Street). 12-7-09.pdf The paraprofessional contract is not an agenda item, but the district plans to address the issue at...
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