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AP: Drinking water at many schools contains lead, pesticides, other toxins

Posted on September 28, 2009 by kwilder

Drinking water at schools contains lead, pesticides, other toxins: study The Associated Press / Friday, September 25th 2009 CUTLER, Calif. – Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins. An Associated Press investigation found […]

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Obama: Are children natural learners? Or, must they be forced to pay attention?

Posted on September 9, 2009 by kwilder

KW: Jerry Mintz is the Director of the Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO), based in Roslyn Heights, Long Island, New York. AERO has many functions, including being a national gathering place for information about co-operative schooling, alternative schools, democratic schools and homeschooling. Jerry wrote a Letter to the Editor about Obama’s school speech and sent […]

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Random thoughts on Obama’s school speech

Posted on September 8, 2009 by kwilder

The full text of the speech, as released by the White House previously, is: here. Kimberly writes: In my house, we are just not amused by status quo politicians. So, I tried not have a lot of hot feelings either way about Obama making a speech for school children, or the right wing response to […]

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Policy & Politics of Climate Change 9/4/09

Posted on September 3, 2009 by iwilder

School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences FALL 2009 PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES 7:30 p.m. DUKE LECTURE HALL, Chancellors Stony Brook campus at Southampton SPEAKER: Dr. Sultan Hameed, Professor of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences TOPIC: “POLICY AND POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE”

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at age 88: Founded Special Olympics

Posted on August 11, 2009 by kwilder

First: An excellent and hard-hitting post about Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her sister Rosemary Kennedy: here. At the bottom of this post is a beautiful message to the Special Olympics community by Eunice’s son. Also, a wonderful web-site devoted to remembrances of Eunice Kennedy Shriver at www.eunicekennedyshriver.org/ (excerpt from) Reuters Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at […]

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Confronting those who justified torture: John Yoo

Posted on July 24, 2009 by kwilder

– Above video: Author of Torture Memos Pranked in Classroom A former [U.S.] Justice Department official who wrote controversial memos authorizing the Bush administration to conduct torture was the object of a prank by an Australian comedian during one of his recent law class lectures. John Yoo, a former deputy assistant attorney general who has […]

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Charges to be dropped against Harvard professor

Posted on July 21, 2009 by kwilder

Dear Reader: Thanks for any energy/prayers/phonecalls/e-mails you added to the mix to help support this positive outcome! – KW (excerpt from) The Boston Globe Charges to be dropped against Harvard professor By Tracy Jan and Andrew Ryan / July 21, 2009 12:42 PM The Middlesex district attorney’s office plans to drop criminal charges against Harvard […]

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Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. wrongly arrested at his home

Posted on July 21, 2009 by kwilder

Update! Tuesday afternoon: Charges dropped.* Note from KW: On studying the story in various news reports, it appears that when the police officer arrived, Professor Gates was inside his home already. But, the policeman was demanding that Professor Gates come outside his home, which I believe was the beginning of the heightened conflict in this […]

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NYC City Schools: Can there be a balance with “Mayoral control” and parent participation?

Posted on July 20, 2009 by kwilder

KW: I find it suspicious and worrisome that the Mayor wants ultimate control and authority with the whole citywide school system, and that he sees a potential parent-training center as a threat. Even if the people running that center are “the opposition” or “the dissent”, it seems only fair to have a group or groups […]

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Interesting Voting Rights Act decision in Ohio

Posted on July 15, 2009 by kwilder

from Ballot Access News Federal Court in Ohio Approves Limited Voting for Euclid School Board Elections July 15th, 2009 On July 13, U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen O’Malley ruled that the city of Euclid, Ohio, should use Limited Voting in its school board elections. The decision, USA v Euclid City School Board, is here. Euclid […]

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NY State Senate and Mayoral Control of NYC Schools

Posted on June 30, 2009 by kwilder

KW: I, personally, do not like the idea of Mayoral control of schools. But, some people do. And, Bloomberg is chomping at the bit for the NY State Senate to approve the measure by a stated deadline of today. Elizabeth Benjamin’s blog at the Daily News has a good review of the situation. Including a […]

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NY State Regents Exam gives Mayor Bloomberg free publicity…

Posted on June 22, 2009 by kwilder

h/t to Elizabeth Benjamin at the Daily News political blog (excerpt from) NY Post Mike gets ed. test mileage By Angela Montefinise / June 21, 2009 Mayor Bloomberg got some free publicity on the state-created English Regents exam this month, scoring a positive mention in a reading-comprehension passage.

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Police officer tasers high school student in cellphone incident

Posted on June 5, 2009 by kwilder

Law professor and blogger Jonathan Turley gives excellent coverage of this story, including links to similar incidents. Very worth going to his post. (excerpt from) the blog of Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley Can You Hear Me Now? Police Officer Tasers High School Student In Dispute Over Use of Cellphone Published June 5, 2009 A […]

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North Babylon Schools: Budget, Elections, Proposition

Posted on May 20, 2009 by kwilder

KW: Voters in the North Babylon School District had three big items to vote on: Elections for school board; the annual budget/taxes; and a proposition about how to elect board members in the future. The results were: The budget passed by 1,496 YES to 800 NO. Three board members were running unopposed, and will be […]

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