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News New York Police Arrest Lime-Green Marker Menace
02-08-2010
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Jonathan Turley
The New York authorities have finally caught up to Alexa Gonzalez, who saw her open life of crime end with an arrest in her junior high school in Queens. Gonzalez was caught doodling on her desk with erasable marker and promptly cuffed and taken down
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News Ten Good Reasons To Keep Your Child In Public School (If You Hate Your Child)
02-07-2010
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Joel Turtel, author
Ten reasons why public schools are a disaster for your children
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News Public Schools, Public Prisons
07-23-2009
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Joel Turtel
Why public schools are education prisons for our children
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Joel Turtel
News Obama to Seek Sweeping Change in ‘No Child’ Law
01-31-2010
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NY Times
Obama is proposing a sweeping overhaul of President Bush’s signature education law, No Child Left Behind, and will call for broad changes in how schools are judged to be succeeding or failing, as well as for the elimination of the law’s 2014 deadline
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News “Race To The Top” is fixed: just say No!
01-20-2010
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Derek Sheriff
The Obama administration’s “Race To The Top” (RTTT) stimulus grant program should really be called the “Race to Nationalize Education”. Like the Bush administration’s “No Child Left Behind” program, it is nothing but another measure designed to enabl
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Michael Boldin
News Boy's Science Project Prompts School Evacuation
01-17-2010
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AP
A San Diego middle school was evacuated when a 11-year-old student's science project was mistaken for a bomb. An arson team took photos and x-rays of the empty plastic bottle with wires and determined it was harmless. The boy was building a motion de
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News Texas school board keeps ban on boy's long hair
01-12-2010
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AP
Boys' hair must be kept out of the eyes and cannot extend below the bottom of earlobes or over the collar of a dress shirt. Fads in hairstyles "designed to attract attention to the individual or to disrupt the orderly conduct of the classroom or camp
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News Twin towers shirts get Mich. students in trouble
01-06-2010
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Detroit Free Press
At least nine Detroit area high school juniors are in trouble for wearing sweat shirts bearing a design that evokes the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center's Twin Towers.
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News Parents arrested for failing to register home-schooled kids
01-05-2010
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www.cbs6albany.com
A Montgomery County couple has been arrested on child endangerment charges for failing to register their children with the school district as they were home-schooled, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said Monday.
Richard Cressy, 47, and
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News Ariz. tuition-credit practices may violate federal tax laws
12-27-2009
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Arizona Republic
This month, as the tax year nears an end, thousands of Arizonans are expected to donate money to private-school tuition groups and claim a tax credit that reduces what they owe the state.
Many taxpayers will recommend that their money go to specif
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News Turning children into Orwellian eco-spies
12-15-2009
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Spiked
There is a long and sordid tradition of trying to socialise children by scaring them. The aim of such socialisation-through-fear is twofold: firstly, to get children to conform to the scaremongers’ values; secondly, to use children to influence, or a
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KDK Klein
News Holocaust Denier Multiculturalism Teacher in Progressive Las Vegas High School: Parents Outraged
12-18-2009
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Ginn
According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, Jewish students at a progressive High School Academy have been taunted and sent a threatening text message after a teacher, in class, denied the Holocaust.
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News Teacher who took students to Hooters is put on leave
12-17-2009
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Arizona Republic
A Paradise Valley High School music teacher whose students performed at one of President's Barack Obama inauguration events has been put on administrative leave after taking 40 students to eat at a Hooters in downtown Phoenix.
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News School goes ballistic when 2nd-grader draws Jesus
12-17-2009
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World Net Daily
Boy, 8, said to gets psych evaluation after sketch of Christ on cross called 'violent'
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News Texas parents, school tangle over boy's long locks
12-17-2009
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AP
Taylor's locks , long on the front and sides, covering his earlobes and shirt collar , violate the school district's dress code. He has been punished with in-school suspension since late last month.
His parents say the boy plans to eventually cut
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News Mass. school denies suspending student for drawing
12-15-2009
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AP
A Massachusetts school district on Tuesday night denied a father's claims that his son was suspended for drawing a stick figure of Jesus on a cross.
The Taunton School District said in a written statement that the second-grade student was never s
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News Board tables action on home-school, online course restrictions
12-11-2009
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www.azcentral.com
The Gilbert Public Schools governing board on Tuesday tabled discussion on two proposals that would have imposed new restrictions on students who are home-schooled but take a few GPS courses, and junior high and high school students who take online c
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News Arizona School Superintendent Has SETI Space Alien Reseach Experts Up in Arms
12-07-2009
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Ginn
A story out of Arizona has SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) experts “up in arms” over a school district superintendent’s comments. The story: a former worker fired after the school discovered he’d been running SETI’s Home program on th
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News Twelve-Yr-old Texas Girl Arrested for Making Bomb Threat at School
12-05-2009
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Ginn
Police haul in a 12-year-old girl questioning her for 4 hours--before calling her mom. It all started when 3 other girls said they saw the girl write a bomb threat on the restroom wall.
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News Breaking: Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Is Promoting Child Porn in the Classroom– Kevin Jennings and t
12-04-2009
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Gateway Pundit
Exactly what kind of books Kevin Jennings and his organization think American students should be reading in school [?]...our team chose a handful at random from the over 100 titles on GLSEN’s grades 7-12 list, and began reading through. Obama's ped
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KDK Klein
Opinion
Meet the New Animal House: Arizona’s Republican Legislators (Part 3)
11-28-2009 Dave Hodges
Having announced my retirement, I no longer have an issue in the legislature’s education funding and teacher protection practices, except that I still care for the children and those that attempt to better their lives.
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Meet the New Animal House: Arizona’s Republican Legislators (Part Two)
11-28-2009 Dave Hodges
After my last editorial regarding the legislature’s handling of the funding for public education, those people (e.g., Eric New and Judy Murphy) that would sacrifice the future of our children have come out of the woodwork
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Meet the New Animal House: Arizona’s Republican Legislators
11-25-2009 Dave Hodges
Who can forget John Belushi’s now famous question, in the classic movie Animal House, when he was attempting to rally his fellow fraternity members to keep the Dean from shutting down their frat house for it nefarious activities? “Did America give up
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News Groups sue to reverse changes in state policy
11-24-2009
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Mary Jo Pitzl
Groups representing Arizona teachers, cities and towns went to the state Supreme Court on Monday, arguing that the Legislature stretched a budget-cutting session to also ax unrelated policies.
In separate lawsuits, the Arizona Education Associatio
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News New law on how teachers contract with districts
11-24-2009
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Alex Bloom
The Arizona Legislature made sweeping changes to state teacher contracts earlier this year, removing seniority, salary and contract guarantees.
Changes under House Bill 2011 mean that school districts will be prohibited from using tenure or senior
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News ACLU Sues Florida School District Over “Islam is of the Devil” T-shirt Rule
11-23-2009
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Ginn
The ACLU, known for taking sides which are unpopular has taken up the cause of several students in the state of Florida who were banned from wearing a “Islam of the Devil” t-shirt.
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News Ten-year-old refuses to recite pledge until gays allowed to marry
11-17-2009
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Rawstory
"I eventually, very solemnly -- with a little bit of malice in my voice -- said, 'Mam, with all due respect, you can go jump off a bridge," Will explained.
Seated next to the boy, his father covered his face, smiling.
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News Texas Law: Corporal Punishment For Elementary Kids Okay as Long as it Doesn’t Cause Death
11-14-2009
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Ginn
As a former teacher--and rowdy kid--capital punishment works. We never got close to worrying about whether it "caused death" or not, though.
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Headlines: New York Police Arrest Lime-Green Marker Menace -- Ten Good Reasons To Keep Your Child In Public School (If You Hate Your Child) -- 1.6 Million Dollars of Tax Payer Money Being Spent to POISON CHILDREN! -- Public Schools, Public Prisons -- Obama to Seek Sweeping Change in ‘No Child’ Law -- “Race To The Top” is fixed: just say No! -- Boy's Science Project Prompts School Evacuation -- Minor benefits of 45-year old, $7B Head Start program erased by 1st grade -- Texas school board keeps ban on boy's long hair -- Twin towers shirts get Mich. students in trouble -- Parents arrested for failing to register home-schooled kids -- Ariz. tuition-credit practices may violate federal tax laws -- Turning children into Orwellian eco-spies -- Holocaust Denier Multiculturalism Teacher in Progressive Las Vegas High School: Parents Outraged -- Teacher who took students to Hooters is put on leave -- School goes ballistic when 2nd-grader draws Jesus -- Texas parents, school tangle over boy's long locks -- Mass. school denies suspending student for drawing -- Board tables action on home-school, online course restrictions -- Arizona School Superintendent Has SETI Space Alien Reseach Experts Up in Arms -- Twelve-Yr-old Texas Girl Arrested for Making Bomb Threat at School -- Breaking: Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Is Promoting Child Porn in the Classroom– Kevin Jennings and t -- Meet the New Animal House: Arizona’s Republican Legislators (Part 3) -- Meet the New Animal House: Arizona’s Republican Legislators (Part Two) -- Meet the New Animal House: Arizona’s Republican Legislators -- Groups sue to reverse changes in state policy -- New law on how teachers contract with districts -- ACLU Sues Florida School District Over “Islam is of the Devil” T-shirt Rule -- Ten-year-old refuses to recite pledge until gays allowed to marry -- Texas Law: Corporal Punishment For Elementary Kids Okay as Long as it Doesn’t Cause Death --
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