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LA unveils $578M school, costliest in the nation
August 22, 2010
CHRISTINA HOAG | Yahoo News
LOS ANGELES – Next month’s opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic presidential contender was assassinated in 1968.
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Making the Grade
| MSNBC
E3 Executive Director Derrell Bradford, Founder of the American Indian Public Charter school Ben Chavis, and Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, talk education reform with MSNBC’s Tameron Hall and Hill Harper.
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On education policy, Obama is like Bush
August 15, 2010
Dana Milbank | The Washington Post
The Education Department kicked off its first ever “Bullying Summit” this week with a speech by Secretary Arne Duncan about the need “to break the cycle of bullying.” But if Duncan really wants to stop the biggest bully in America’s schools right now, he’ll have to confront his boss, President Obama.
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Who’s teaching L.A.’s kids?
August 14, 2010
Jason Felch, Jason Song and Doug Smith | Los Angeles Times
A Times analysis, using data largely ignored by LAUSD, looks at which educators help students learn, and which hold them back. The fifth-graders at Broadous Elementary School come from the same world — the poorest corner of the San Fernando Valley, a Pacoima neighborhood framed by two freeways where some have lost friends to the [...]
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Pay raises for new N.J. teachers contracts are smallest in at least 30 years
Lisa Fleisher | New Jersey Real-Time News
TRENTON — As Gov. Chris Christie campaigned against teacher raises during his first six months in office, unions and school districts agreed to the lowest pay hikes in more than three decades, according to a survey released Thursday by the New Jersey School Boards Association.
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tags: 30 years, Chris Christie, Contracts, Governor, Pay Hikes, Salary, Teachers, Teachers Union
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