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• Tuesday Morning Open Thread

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 142
  Whats up? Sorry for the very paltry post, but today is a hectic day. I am trying to tie some loose ends before our 6-hour road trip to Orange County. DH, the kids and I will be spending Thanksgiving with Erikas family. We cant wait! In the meantime, here is a news item from the Lonestar state that caught my eye. ...
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• "Give me night, or give me Blucher"

  
  California Greening — Authority: 129
  The failure of state government is that it failed to govern, failed to administrate and failed to establish sound budgetary principles underlying each and every budget for the last thirty years. Greens for our part need to address these fundamental issues of accountability, fiscal responsibility and ...
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• Neighborhood Schools a Corporate Option! Bottom Line Decides Whether they Stay or Go.

  
  Democurmudgeon — Authority: 508
  Lets start with the premise that privatizing public education will reap huge profits while serving up a substandard corporate menu of subjects parents will have no choice but to except. Their kids will have to get an education. No options. The conversion is happening now. From thenewsstar.com: DePaul University ...
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• Student protesters and armed police as fees top $10,000

  
  The AnswerLady — Authority: 125
  Yeah its California, but as the president of the UC American Federation of Teachers, Bob Samuels describes how the State and public education are broken, NYS/SUNY frequently comes to mind ; overpaid administrators, unsustainable athletics spending, research driven by corporate self interests... Democracy Now Nov ...
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• Californication, Part 2

  
  chtodelat news — Authority: 424
  We got this through the grapevine. Thanks to the comrade who sent it. This week, 2000 students and workers from across the state converged on UCLA’s campus to demonstrate against 32% tuition increases imposed by the UC Regents. Students and workers from at least 8 UC schools, various Cal State universities, ...
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• CA State Education Budget Cuts and the Governors Race

  
  California Greening — Authority: 129
  The recent upsurge of student strikes and rallies surrounding the CA budget cuts and education cutbacks are significant in their scale and scope. Our task as Greens is to focus their political impact and develop campaign strategies, such as the one in Orange County that increased voter support for Greens. The ...
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• California Dreamin’

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  John and Michelle Phillips wrote “California Dreamin’ ” in the middle of one night in New York when presumably all the leaves were brown and the skies were grey and Mackenzie was still too young for that papa to hit on.  I have no clue as to what the Phillpses had been smoking but their dream centered on ...
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• No Child Left Behind. Because They ALL Need to Be Watching Television at School.

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 429
  This article is from Michelle Mitchell’s blog Scribbit . Check it out. It has a lot of interesting items. My daughter came home from high school on Friday. “How was your day?” I asked. “Fine. We had another substitute so we didn’t do anything.” “What do you mean?” “Whenever we have a ...
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• The Education Wars

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 149
  The Obama administrations "Race to the Top" bribery program, which is from the bottom of the barrel and dealt with from the bottom of the deck, is designed to completely ruin public education , once a jewel in the crown of our democracy: These blackmail tactics are already having the desired effect. A number of ...
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• We’re All Right-Wing Bastards Now (Please pardon the old NEA’s top lawyers French)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  We’re All Right-Wing Bastards Now—that is, if the NEA’s logic is to be believed. 20 November 2009 On the last day of the National Education Association’s convention this summer, its outgoing general counsel, Bob Chanin, gave a speech for the ages. After sharing fond recollections of his 41 years as the NEA’s top ...
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• Design Competition Launching for New Dunbar High School Building

  
  Housing Complex — Authority: 568
  View Larger Map Dunbar Senior High School in Shaw has always been one of the best examples of the worst in D.C. public school architecture. Built in 1977, it has that geometric, jailhouse-type look, much like the recently destroyed Bruce Monroe Elementary on Georgia Ave. This morning, the D.C. Office of Public ...
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• Could an IEP be What Your Child Needs?

  
  EmpoweringParents.com — Authority: 119
  As a parent of a special needs child, one often does not know where to begin. It all can depend on how old the child is when he or she is diagnosed. If a child is age 3 or older, one of the first things a parent should do is to request his or her child to have an individualized education plan (IEP) . Even if a ...
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• University of Calif. OKs 32 percent hike

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 473
  University of California leaders approve a 32 percent hike in undergraduate fees, arguing the increase is crucial because of the state’s budget crisis. Excerpt from:  University of Calif. OKs 32 percent hike
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• Who Are The U.C. Regents and Why Are They Billing Me 32 Per Cent More Than Last Year?

  
  ::Broadcatching:: — Authority: 131
  CNNLos Angeles, California (CNN) — Despite intense student protests, the California Board of Regents on Thursday approved a 32 percent undergraduate tuition increase over the next two years.Hundreds of students marched and chanted outside UCLA, where university officials were meeting. School officials argued that a ...
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• Nerd News: University of California Raises Tuition By 32%; Student Strikes Continue

  
  Mad Minerva 2.0 — Authority: 484
  Oh, my! I have to say, though, that even in the midst of justifiable anger, some of the student protesters are exhibiting a form of empty-headed silliness that only far-left campuses can produce. Look at this blurb from the news story: At Berkeley, students at Sproul Plaza at noon were greeted by feisty pickets ...
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• University of Calif. OKs 32 percent hike

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 473
  University of California leaders approve a 32 percent hike in undergraduate fees, arguing the increase is crucial because of the state’s budget crisis. See original here: University of Calif. OKs 32 percent hike
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• The Education Wars II

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 149
  Bill and Melinda continue with their scheme to destroy public education, something of which they know nothing about: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Thursday a $335 million investment in teacher effectiveness, with major grants for experiments in tenure, evaluation, compensation, training and ...
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• “Not fit for combat,” my article in Forbes

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 644
  It’s not exactly what Pogo meant when he said , “We have met the enemy and he is us.” But it works out that way. The greatest threat to our national security isn’t terrorist groups, rogue nations with nukes or China. It’s an inability to stock our armed forces with top-quality men and women because too many ...
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• Message About Education from a sixth grader to President Obama

  
  The Liberal OC — Authority: 525
  The following video was sent to us by Mike Matsuda, Trustee of the North Orange County Community College District. His son Ethan Matsuda is a pretty smart kid and Mike and his wife Susie have taught Ethan to speak his mind. Eleven year old Ethan tells the president about the horrific cuts to public education and how ...
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• The Education Wars II

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 149
  Nevadas governor Jim Gibbons should have REJECTED the blackmail money by the federal government in order to destroy teachers careers with the "Race to the Top" crock of shit funding, but he didnt . Nevada teachers are going to find their jobs further deskilled, while the administrators will continue to get away with ...
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