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W/Video: Huffpo: Chicago School Board Votes To Allow 35 Per Classroom, 2,700 Teacher Layoffs Possible

Despite protests from students, parents and teachers, the Chicago School Board voted unanimously to allow Chicago Public Schools CEO Ron Huberman to make major changes to the system Tuesday.

The board approved Huberman's emergency budget plan, which could lead to 2,700 teacher layoffs and give district officials the power to raise class sizes to up to 35 students.  Read more »

Ben Jarovsky: Huberman’s Miracle A sop to angry parents—and a slap at the teachers' union

Huberman's Miracle

by Ben Jarovsky

I gotta give a shout-out to Ron Huberman for a masterful performance at his June 28 press conference.  Read more »

George Lakoff: Disaster Messaging: How Dems Are Losing the Messaging Wars

Disaster Messaging - Not a winner for Dems

by George Lakoff

Democrats are constantly resorting to disaster messaging. Here's a description the typical situation.  Read more »

Chicago Reader: What Else You Should Know About Walmart

It's not just the low wages or the near-scientific union busting. It's the preference for poverty, the business model built on turnover, the manipulative PR. Is this really the best way to bring jobs and food to the south and west sides?    --Chicago Reader


What Else You Should Know About Walmart

By Max Brooks  Read more »

Bob Koehler: Beyond Petroleum

 

 

BEYOND PETROLEUM

By Robert C. Koehler

You couldn’t call it a dialogue. It was more like a momentary rip in the global power continuum, a spill of outrage on the stage of a major oil conference in London.  Read more »

Washpost: Diane Ravitch education book best seller - Ravitch to Obama: 'Change course before it is too late"

Published on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 by The Washington Post


Ravitch to Obama: 'Change course before it is too late'

by Valerie Strauss  Read more »

Don Rose: Obama on an upswing? This week in the Observer [written before McCrystal event]

With Enemies Like These…

  

By Don Rose  Read more »

W/Video: Karen Lewis on Chicago Tonight: A different look at the school budget

Here's the video: More story to come.

http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=42,8,80,3&player=LKuixhzDPK&rel=NtLNDnKU62p8zx_nDTd_7h4IN15ww4vl

League of Women Voters endorses Medicare for All - cites Suffragettes

League of Women Voters endorses Medicare for All

June 14th 2010 – Atlanta, GA – Rededicating themselves to the fight for single-payer health care, the League of Women Voters US (LWVUS) passed a resolution with a wide majority at their national convention “to advocate strongly for bills that legislate for improved Medicare for all.”  Read more »

w/Video: Warning Signs - Rainforest Action Network Artists take on Pilson coal-fired plants

Please visit Just Seeds blog to see the video: http://www.justseeds.org/blog/2010/06/warning_signs_awareness_campai.html