Please read and circulate!   http://timeoutfromtesting.org/nationalresolution/ This resolution is modeled on the resolution passed by more than 360 Texas school boards as of April 23, 2012. It was written by Advancement Project; Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund; FairTest; Forum for Education and Democracy; MecklenburgACTS; Deborah Meier; NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.; Nationa ...

The liberal center has folded.  Anyone who had any illusions about Democrats and a politics of resistance, you can forget it.  The issue that faced both Governor Jerry Brown of California and Governor Kitzhaber of Oregon was the same: whether to tax the rich of both states to offset the state deficits caused by the Great Recession.  The public sector labor unions already had legislation at the ready but the ...

  On April 19, 2012 Reuters news service reported the Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating certain Apollo Company share sales by company insiders. Apollo is the parent company of the for-profit college, University of Phoenix . The insiders being investigated were not named. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/19/us-apollogroup-idUSBRE83I12C20120419   As reported at Dailycensored.com, John ...

On January 23 the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU), the trade “ union” group for for-profit colleges in the United States, announced that former president George W. Bush would be the keynote speaker at the lobbying group’s annual conference on June 22, 2012 at Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.  It is telling that private for-profit, Wall street traded companies wou ...

   Picture of Harrison Wills, student body president of Santa Monica College   On April 6, Santa Monica College trustees voted to cancel this summer's pilot two-tiered fee plan after student protesters were pepper-sprayed at an earlier board meeting on April 3, 2012.  The two-tiered plan would have had the public college compete with for-profit colleges by setting up a misguided pay-for-play syste ...

 On April 18, 2012 US Senators Tom  Harkin and Kay Hagan introduced a bill to prohibit all colleges  from using money from federal student assistance programs, including Title IV student loans and grants, Veterans benefits and the GI Bill, to pay for marketing, advertising and recruiting (http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-04/D9U7I8580.htm). The bill was precipitated by aggressive and misleading recruiting ...

From Larry Miller's Blog: The following is from Larry Miller's blog out of Wisconsin. You can readmore about Howard Fuller and his insidious plans for Wisconsin schools in an article entitled:  "Welcome to Wisconsin: Taking away ‘public choice’ in education, abdicating reasoning and critical thinking as necessities for creating the new neo-feudal economic arrangement" at: Welcome to Wisconsin: Taking away ‘ ...

From: Larry Miller's blog Dateline: Wisconsin Again April 15, 2012 By Brendan Fischer – Originally posted on the Center for Media and Democracy’s PRwatch.org Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker asked members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) for “help” and “support” in his upcoming recall election in a speech at the organization’s annual meeting on April 13, where he received an award for signing into law ...

Published on Apr 15, 2012 by YourWorldNewsMedia These college students from the University of Maryland sit down for an extremely candid interview regarding a range of social issues society is plagued with, including institutional racism, sexism, white supremacy, the military industrial complex, prison industrial complex, the American political scam of a two party system, and the mind altering corporate medi ...

  10.  militarization of domestic police force   9.  internment of Bradley Manning   8.  mass incarceration of undocumented residents   7.  Guantanamo Bay detention camp   6.  military tribunals   5.  secret overseas prisons   4.  HR347   3.  NDAA   2.  targeted killings of Americans   1.  Drone strikes against civilians ...