A new study finds that students who attend under-performing schools actually do even worse on math and reading tests after a district shutters their school and moves them into another classroom. Closing persistently failing schools is one of the key reforms supported by the Obama administration. School closure “may seem like surrender, but in some
Continue reading …A new study finds that students who attend under-performing schools actually do even worse on math and reading tests after a district shutters their school and moves them into another classroom. Closing persistently failing schools is one of the key reforms supported by the Obama administration. School closure “may seem like surrender, but in some
Continue reading …Police say someone threw a chemical bomb fashioned from a Gatorade bottle at Occupy Maine protesters in Maine on Sunday morning. Protesters told Maine Today that they think a group of people who shouted “Get a job” and “Communist” at them from a car earlier that day were the culprits. No one was hurt.
Continue reading …A majority of the children of illegal immigrants from Mexico in Los Angeles do not graduate from high school, according to the findings of a new study, the Los Angeles Times reports. Adults with parents who were legal immigrants averaged about 13 years of education, but those whose parents were illegal immigrants went to school
Continue reading …A majority of the children of illegal immigrants from Mexico in Los Angeles do not graduate from high school, according to the findings of a new study, the Los Angeles Times reports. Adults with parents who were legal immigrants averaged about 13 years of education, but those whose parents were illegal immigrants went to school
Continue reading …The American Civil Liberties Union is suing immigration agents and Nashville police officers for allegedly busting into two apartments without a warrant last year in order to round up illegal immigrants. One of the plaintiffs said he asked the agents if they had a warrant and one of them responded, “We don’t need a warrant,
Continue reading …Goldman Sachs contributing thousands to help honor Occupy Wall Street? It sounds like some kind of dystopian dream. But it nearly happened… Earlier this month, the People’s Federal Credit Union, a small lender serving the poor of New York City, sent out an invitation for a fund-raising dinner to mark its 25th anniversary. One of
Continue reading …Occupy Wall Street actions continue in cities across the United States–in New York, protesters last week invited parents to bring their children to a sleepover in Zuccotti Park, while in Washington, D.C. demonstrators released balloons in Union Station to disrupt a gala dinner. The largely liberal uprising has even garnered the attention of the tea party–which
Continue reading …Occupy Wall Street actions continue in cities across the United States–in New York, protesters last week invited parents to bring their children to a sleepover in Zuccotti Park, while in Washington, D.C. demonstrators released balloons in Union Station to disrupt a gala dinner. The largely liberal uprising has even garnered the attention of the tea party–which
Continue reading …Though Occupy Wall Street protesters have staked out workers in the nation’s financial capital for weeks, a 2010 study suggests that most of the people in the “1 percent” don’t actually work in the financial industry. Financial professionals make up 14 percent of the top 1 percent of American earners as of 2005, CNN Money
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