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• Obama’s Single Mother Education Grants – Free Federal Funding for Moms to Return to School

  
  Prepare For College — Authority: 154
  Obama wholeheartedly believes that if you want to succeed, you can succeed. That’s why there are stimulous grants for college. There are funds for college students, there is minority aid and academic aid, and there are scholarship grants so there’s nothing stopping you but your own will power. Click Here For ...
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• shoot me

  
  kitchen table math, the sequel — Authority: 127
  highest ever (current per pupil spending: $28,291)
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• Box Tops for Education is a win-win

  
  The Integrated Mother — Authority: 118
  I have a few ( okay, maybe more like 10-12 ) great passions in life – books and education are two of them. I love books. It’s a crazy love that forces me to spend an extraordinary amount of time at my local book retailer or library. I arrive home with stacks of books for myself and my children. I’m also ...
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• Education Funding Protection Act HB318 - Are you sure?

  
  State of Ohio Education Blog — Authority: 425
  The candles are burning bright tonight in Columbus. Senators and Representatives are still debating Sub HB 318. Im listening to the debate online at the OhioChannel.org. The Internet is a wonderful thing....... I wish I was there listening to the debate live, but watching it streaming live on the Internet is the ...
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• Today’s Quotable and Notable

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 599
  Quotable : “When I go back to my school district and meet with the kids in classrooms, the questions they’re asking me are, ‘Dr. Robinson, will we still have this? Will we still have sports? Will we still have music? Will we still have robotics?’” -L. Oliver Robinson, president of the New York State ...
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• Healthy school dinners for the chop?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Five years after the outcry over Turkey Twizzlers, school food campaigners are worried that progress could stall if budgets for ingredients are cut Five years ago this month Education Guardian "named and shamed" the infamous Turkey Twizzler as the unhealthy scourge of school dinners, putting the spotlight on the ...
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• Free schools offer political rewards | Toby Young

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Those parents, like me, eager to set up a new state school should know that theres no need to wait for a Tory government As the leader of a parent group in Acton trying to set up a new state school , I was delighted to read in the Guardian about how many other groups are planning to do likewise . According to the ...
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• Will free schools open the gates to all? | Oli de Botton

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Michael Goves plans for parents and charities to run schools dont address the important issue of equal access to education Depending on whom you speak to, Michael Goves plans for parents and charities to run new schools are either "radical" or "ruinous". There are supporters and detractors from left and right . ...
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• Testimony of John A. Charles, Jr.Before the Oregon State Land BoardRegarding The Elliott State ForestDecember 8, 2009

  
  Cascade Policy Institute - Oregon Public Policy — Authority: 117
  My name is John Charles, and I am President of Cascade Policy Institute. I am here to urge the Board to sell or lease the Elliott State Forest.Read the entire testimony and the analysis, Future mangement of the Elliott State Forest, Providing Adequate Returns for Oregon’s Schools.
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• Plummeting Private School Enrollment May Increase Strains on Public Schools

  
  California Budget Bites — Authority: 116
  What does the recent drop in California’s K-12 private school enrollment mean for the state’s public schools? Private school enrollment fell by 5.0 percent in 2008-09, the largest year-to-year decline since at least the early 1990s. This precipitous decline is likely due, at least in part, to the economic ...
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• Granholm pauses school aid payment reduction to school districts

  
  River Country Journal — Authority: 149
  LANSING – Governor Jennifer Granholm announced Thursday (December 10th) that the $127 per-pupil reduction in school aid payments to school districts is being paused.  The decision is due to school districts spending less than authorized in 2009 and because of an unexpected increase in non-homestead property tax ...
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• Our academies are raising standards. These accusations dont stand up

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 155
  With the help of sponsors, these schools are breaking the link between poverty and low attainment Your article on the value and success of academies and their sponsors overlooks their achievements ( A ludicrously expensive con-trick , 1 December). Far from being a "con-trick", they are one part of the governments ...
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• The latest Ohio Education Gadfly is here!

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 599
  The holiday season has arrived - and here at Fordham Ohio we’re feeling pretty darn generous.  We’ve decided to bestow upon you this week not one, but TWO Ohio Education Gadflies! Hot on the heels of Monday’s Special Edition , the regular Ohio Education Gadfly returns and you won’t want to miss it! ...
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• Justice Michael Kirby, you’re my hero!

  
  LisaHillSchoolStuff's Weblog — Authority: 106
  I hope the ABC doesn’t mind me quoting from their report about what Justice Michael Kirby had to say about the inequitable funding of government schools, because I’m fed up too.  I am more than fed up with the lack of funding for kids who need extra help, money for which is smeared as money for teachers to ...
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• Another Superintendent Speaks Out Against Evidence-Based Funding

  
  State of Ohio Education Blog — Authority: 425
  Yes, its true. Yesterday Columbus NBC Channel 4 ran this story. Dont forget to scroll down to watch the video. UPPER SANDUSKY—The governor’s evidence-based funding model isn’t yet fully implemented, but Upper Sandusky Schools Supt. Ken Doseck says when it is, his district could go bankrupt. ...
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• Productivity in schools stalls

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Education quality has risen just slightly, despite huge investment, statistics show Labours multi-billion investment in education has produced an average increase of just one GCSE at grade C per pupil every five years, statisticians revealed today. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) analysed whether schools ...
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• Are academies just a ludicrously expensive con-trick?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Sponsors have failed to provide the cash pledged to academies, new information reveals, so the taxpayer is left footing the bill It has always seemed a struggle. The government and its Conservative predecessors have fought what has often appeared a losing battle for 20 years to persuade private sponsors to pump their ...
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• Letters: School budgets

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  So Ed Balls is to claw back £750m a year from schools ( Report , 27 November). Will there be similar cuts at the banks? Will lights dim at Canary Wharf? Will senior bankers posts be trimmed? Will banks be told how much they can keep in reserve, pay in salaries, hand out in bonuses or gamble on investments? In other ...
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• New Op-Ed

  
  The Freire Project - The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy — Authority: 124
  Here is a new Op-Ed I had in a local paper: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20091128/OPINION/911280311/1016/...
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• St. Joseph County ISD endorses Save Our Students, Save Our Schools, Save Our State resolution

  
  River Country Journal — Authority: 149
  In the wake of budget cuts affecting schools in Michigan, the St. Joseph County Intermediate School District (ISD) Board of Education has adopted a Save Our Students, Save Our Schools, Save Our State (SOS) resolution in support of funding for education. Endorsement of the resolution came during the board’s ...
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