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DOE Adds Two More Schools To List of Closings
Three months after the Department of Education announced plans to close more than two dozen struggling schools, two more schools have been added to the list. Bronx Academy High School and Pacific High School in Brooklyn are the most recent additions to the DOE’s list of 28 schools that it’s tried to shutter this year. […]
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Bloomberg’s Budget Surpluses
March 9, 2011
by Glenn Pasanen Given a 10th chance to continue his serial budget cuts, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, at least on the surface, pulled back. The mayor’s preliminary budget for fiscal year 2012 and four-year financial plan, released Feb. 17, is something of a surprise. It is a remarkably cool, even complacent document. No big new cuts. […]
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The Myths Behind the “budget crisis”
March 9, 2011
MYTH # 1 “States and cities have budget deficits that must be solved by cutting expenditures, i.e. public sector worker wage freezes, layoffs, closing of schools, hospitals and firehouses, cuts in state and municipal workers’ wages, pensions and other benefits, raising tuition at city and state colleges and cuts in medicaid to the poor.” True, […]
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The End of Public Education
March 9, 2011
By Matt Meyer Though we may not like to admit it, the U.S. commitment to publicly supported teachers and students is coming to an abrupt end. The global corporate penchant for privatization, commoditization, and enclosure is having chilling effects on policies that scholar Henry Giroux suggests “seek nothing less than the total destruction of the […]
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Parents Across America – Diane Ravitch
February 16, 2011
Parents Across America – Diane Ravitch from Grassroots Education Movement on Vimeo.
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Students Lose Fight to Save JFK High School
February 15, 2011
Say goodbye to John F. Kennedy High School. In the wee hours of Feb. 4, the Panel for Educational Policy voted in favor of phasing out JFK, which opened in 1972, by 2014 starting next fall. But before the PEP voted, more than half of the attendees expressed their opinion on the closure process by […]
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What is a Charter School?
February 15, 2011
What Is a Charter School? The basic difference between a traditional public school and a privately run charter school is that with a charter school there is complete control of the school by a private enterprise within a public school district. Although taxpayer-funded, charters operate without the same degree of public and district oversight of […]
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Stop School Closings and Charter Takeovers 
March 9, 2011
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