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Koch-funded curricula vs Seinfeld et al.

September 12, 2014 By baba-bumazhka 1 Comment

The Koch-funded 'The EDvantage' group is using extracted clips from popular film and TV as examples for its libertarian and right-wing lesson plans. This has been written up at the Center for Public … [Read more...]

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Suit Aims To Block Charter

June 29, 2010 By jamesdowd Leave a Comment

The Globe today reports on the suit to stop the charter in Gloucester. http://tinyurl.com/28j8psz Updated article from the Gloucester Daily times with more details. http://tinyurl.com/2689f4w … [Read more...]

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Gloucester Parents Group Sues over Charter

June 28, 2010 By jamesdowd 1 Comment

From the Gloucester Daily Times: http://tiny.cc/a0fxh A group of Gloucester public school students' parents today filed a lawsuit aimed at overturning what they allege was an illegal approval of a local charter school that will harm the … [Read more...]

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Sharon Guzik: A Much Needed Progressive Runs for Medford School Committee

October 30, 2009 By jimkiely1960 13 Comments

This year Medford finally has an opportunity to elect a progressive candidate to its school committee.  Since July, Sharon Guzik and her supporters have been walking the breadth of Medford to listen to residents' thoughts on the state … [Read more...]

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Shutting down the school to prison pipeline – what can we do?

May 28, 2008 By AmberPaw 7 Comments

Here is the bibliography:http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/05/28/problem_students_in_pipeline_to_prison/ School to prison pipeline:  http://www.naacpldf.org/conten... NAACP Legal Defense … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: crime, discrimination, disproportionate-impact, education, naacp, prison, racism, school, special-education, volunteerism

Secret Ballot

September 23, 2007 By shack 9 Comments

Also new is a proposal not to have classes on three Tuesdays when city voters will go to polls - September 25, November 6 and March 4.Kaiser said that principals requested the change as some schools host polling sites and the presence of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: civic-education, elections, polling-places, school

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For @TheAtlantic, I wrote about how we’re facing a doom loop of minority rule by white conservatives and the next two years may be our last chance to avoid slipping into it forever. Our leaders must treat this as the crisis that it is and act with urgency. https://trib.al/X0NAofi

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1/ Today, we revealed a new banner at the compressor site that reads, "Out of Order". The compressor station is currently not operational, after Enbridge experienced it's third accident is just 8 months. #NoCompressor

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Transforming our commuter rail system into a ā€œregional railā€ system would make it more equitable, modern, and faster, write @transitmatters’ @jarjoh and @BosIndicators’ @lucschuster. https://trib.al/0EMk2mV

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Public summary execution for dangling air fresheners.

Police racism is stochastic terror.

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Massachusetts now has a commitment to 5600MW of wind power, equal to nearly 187 Block Island projects.

Better write those contracts pretty pretty tight.

David Abel@davabel

The money National Grid earns from a transmission line for the nation's first offshore wind farm is ā€œappalling,ā€ ā€œunconscionable,ā€ and amounts to ā€œripping off ratepayers,ā€ RI regulators say.

A cautionary tale as we ramp up offshore wind power. #mapoli

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