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The Civic Importance of Public Education: Valuing What We Take for Granted | janresseger
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The Civic Importance of Public Education: Valuing What We Take for Granted. August 14, 2015. How can we learn to value what we take for granted? Seeking Common Ground: Public schools in a Diverse Society. The Race Between Education and Technology. Of course, such responses are theoretical; they miss the heart of the matter. There is one book, however, that explores public schools in a very different way. Last week in the. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of. Education Is Not a Race.
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You Get What You Pay For: Taxes and the Public Schools | janresseger
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You Get What You Pay For: Taxes and the Public Schools. August 13, 2015. Slashing income taxes will not grow your state’s economy, but it will very likely destroy your public schools. If your state rolls back income taxes, your public schools will inevitably have fewer guidance counselors, and class sizes will be bigger—that is unless you can pass extra taxes locally to make up for the cuts in state revenue. It is an old maxim: You get what you pay for. Chris Suellentrop, a writer for the. Hanging over t...
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Refuting the Myth of the New Orleans School Miracle: Children Lost after Hurricane Katrina | janresseger
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Refuting the Myth of the New Orleans School Miracle: Children Lost after Hurricane Katrina. April 8, 2015. The dominant narrative about the New Orleans school transformation has come from annual reports released by the Cowen Institute at Tulane. In the years since 2005, we’ve had glimpses into other points of view. A year after Hurricane Katrina, in the fall of 2006, Leigh Dingerson, edited Dismantling a Community. In 2010, Teachers College Press published. Pedagogy, Policy, and the Privatized City.
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Education Law Center | Preschool
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SEARCH EDUCATION LAW CENTER. Please enter a search term to begin your search. Bacon v. NJDOE. Maisto v. State of New York. Lopez v. Schwartz. Litigation in the States. Abbott v. Burke. GOVERNOR TO OVERTAXED TOWNS: RAISE TAXES EVEN HIGHER OR CUT SCHOOLS. STATE RESPONDS TO ELC DEMAND FOR EMERGENT PROJECTS FUNDING. GOVERNOR CHRISTIE'S UNFAIR SCHOOL FUNDING PLAN: PART IV. ELC relies on the generous contributions of individuals, corporations and foundations to support our work. SFRA) The Abbott preschool prog...
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OTL Campaign Blog: June 2011
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About the OTL Campaign. Thursday, June 30, 2011. Striving for better educational opportunities for our children. Molly A. Hunter, Esq. In a tempo that harkened to the days of the Civil Rights Movement, the young and dynamic NAACP President Benjamin Jealous. Recently urged a captivated audience to fight for better educational opportunities as if America’s children’s lives depend on it. To fulfill the promise of Brown v. Board of Education. Jealous said – as he delivered the annual Education Justice. 8220;...
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Lead Poisons Children, School Test Scores and Neighborhoods In Vicious, Tragic Cycle | janresseger
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Lead Poisons Children, School Test Scores and Neighborhoods In Vicious, Tragic Cycle. May 13, 2015. The Rev. John Thomas, the former General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ and now a professor and administrator at Chicago Theological Seminary, blogged last week. Report on alarming lead poisoning of children in Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods due to reduced public investment in programs to test children for lead poisoning and in abatement programs. Equity and Opportunity to Learn.
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Advocacy
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Advocates across the country partnered with the authors of the National Report Card to call attention to the condition of the school finance systems in their states. Below are links to the advocates' press releases, their websites, state press coverage of the Report Card, and the individual state page on the Education Justice website. Where detailed information is available about state level litigation and education issues. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights' Education Fund Press Release.
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