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• Pursuing Career as Medical Assistants, Worth to Try

  
  IBS Pro! — Authority: 131
  Pursuing a career in medical field is getting promising nowadays. There are lots of job openings in medical field and those job openings can be your future career. What you need to do to be able to have good career in medical field is equipping yourselves with adequate knowledge and skills. This simply means that [...]
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• In Central-Northeast Wichita, government is cause of problem, not solution

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 475
  From the November 2007 archives. Since then, the Wichita schools have a new superintendent, and Kansas has raised its minimum wage. An article in The Wichita Eagle “Plan offers hope for city’s troubled heart” (November 14, 2007) reports on the development of a plan named New Communities Initiative, its goal ...
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• Idaho charter school denies public records request

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 507
  The Olympian: “Nampa Classical Academy declined the public records request from the state Public Charter School Commission because attorneys advised it could jeopardize an ongoing lawsuit, said Michael Moffett, the school’s acting board chairman.”Related ADF Media Information page
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• Arne Duncan, Secretary of Wheel Reinvention

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  The final guidelines for the Administration’s “ Race to the Top ” education reform program have now been released. It’s a system that stimulates competition between the states to produce results that the customer (Secretary Duncan) wants, using financial incentives. Déjà vu , anyone? It’s as though Arne ...
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• As The Dems Turn (To School Choice)

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  We’ve been writing a fair amount over the last several months about increasing support for school choice among members of the Democratic Party. The focus has typically been on legislators, but a new report from the Center for Education Reform give a glimpse into possible widespread support among ...
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• Follow the Important Decision on Colorado’s Social Studies Standards

  
  Ed is Watching — Authority: 123
  Update: I’m still hanging out over at Twitter. Social studies standards were slated for 10:40 (not 10:20, my bad) — but not surprisingly the State Board is already behind on its agenda. Stay tuned…. A couple months ago I told you about the new social studies standards Colorado is seeking to adopt. Well, ...
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• The Other Side Plays Dirty

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  On the day that we honor veterans for defending our freedom, I read this : Community groups and Los Angeles Unified officials on Tuesday condemned an anonymous flyer handed to Latino parents that threatened them with deportation if they supported plans to convert their neighborhood school to a charter. Calling it ...
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• Misspent money at FCI Academy

  
  The E-Team — Authority: 432
  A state audit released today of FCI Academy, a Columbus charter school, issues the following "findings for recovery," or public money that the school misspent and needs to get back: - During fiscal 2008, FCI overpaid an employee $1,745.94. Part of it was a miscalculation for money owed while the employee was on leave ...
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• American Public Education !

  
  . . . With Both Hands — Authority: 431
  I doubt very much that the manager of this Gary Burger King was a graduate of Bishop Noll Institute, Andrean High School, or La Lumiere School in the Gary Diocese. That is too bad. Were School Choice a Reality, the Sign Might be less Amusing . . .yet Sad. Hat tip to Detective Shaved of the Chicago Police ...
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• Denver, Help This Smart Kid See What You Plan to Do with Charters

  
  Ed is Watching — Authority: 123
  Look, I’m not going to mess around with you: I know I’m an exceptionally smart kid. I pay attention to the education reform and policy debates more closely than most big people I know. So when I see the Denver Public Schools talking about draining the choice out of charter schools , as in the Denver Post , it ...
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• Governor Jeb Bush Equips Georgia Lawmakers with Lessons for School Reform

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 765
  There’s nothing like competition to get people to focus on a goal, whether that’s on the gridiron or in education. And on the eve of a match-up between one of college football’s biggest rivalries – the Georgia Bulldogs vs. the Florida Gators – Governor Jeb Bush decided to walk into rival territory and ...
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• Who is a Jew? Court ruling in Britain raises question

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 507
  New York Times: "By many standards, the JFS applicant, identified in court papers as M, is Jewish. But not in the eyes of the school . . . Because M’s mother converted in a progressive, not an Orthodox, synagogue, the school said, she was not a Jew — nor was her son. It turned down his application . . . In an ...
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• Just Say “No” to Competition

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  The Democrats who still control the Virginia State Senate (which wasn’t on the ballot this week) say they want to work with the new Republican governor. “I won’t be like the House Republicans were, where anything they propose is bad,” said Senate Majority Leader Richard L. Saslaw (D-Fairfax), who like many ...
  6 days ago

• Watch The "Let Me Rise" Video

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 140
  Make some time to watch this video.  It’s not short but it’s powerful.  Juan Williams ( Fox News contributor and NPR host) guides the viewer through a powerful and factual case for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program and rightfully shames the NEA and members of Congress hell-bent on holding children ...
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• Three Different Election Results in Colorado’s Largest School Districts

  
  Ed is Watching — Authority: 123
  Earlier this week there were some elections. A bunch of big people in Colorado voted, though not nearly as many as voted last year for President. One of the issues many of them had to decide was who would serve on the local school board. That part sure interests my friends in the Education Policy Center . Click the ...
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• Vouchers in Australia Linked to Loss of Higher Socioeconomic Students in Public Schools

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 507
  Columbia U. National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education , Occasional Paper No. 181 by Louise Watson and Chris Ryan: "Beginning in 1974, Australian students received vouchers worth 15 to 85 percent of total student costs to attend private schools. Until 1999, the voucher system allocated funds per ...
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• Ed Gillespies spin, and McDonnells real opportunities

  
  Tertium Quids — Authority: 584
  Theres no harm in patting yourself and your candidate on the back after a win. There is harm, however, when in the process of applying those love taps, you willfully ignore circumstances that contributed to said victory. Such is the case with Ed Gillespies piece in the WaPo. There are truths here, of course, There is ...
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• One-Two Research Combination Shows Positive Effects of NYC Charters

  
  Ed is Watching — Authority: 123
  Chalk up another gold star for public charter schools as an education reform success. What am I talking about? The second half of a one-two research combination punch, released in late October but just reported by the smart people writing opinion for the Wall Street Journal : Mr. [Marcus] Winters focuses on New ...
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• Controversy over ‘Attendance’ at Church Schools

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 507
  CNSNews : "A memorandum from the Alabama state superintendent of education to all city and county superintendents dated September 24, 2009, has sparked a controversy regarding the church school option employed by parents providing home instruction to their children. The memorandum from Dr. Joseph B. Morton reiterates ...
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• Families’ Power to Choose a High School or Middle School in Denver

  
  Ed is Watching — Authority: 123
  As reported in yesterday’s Denver Post , more and more Denver families are becoming smart education shoppers and taking advantage of the choices available to them — even sometimes opting for different schools within the same household: The chaos begins in the Black household on weekday mornings around 6 ...
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