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Obama, ever the cynical politician (I know that is redundant), panders to the immigrant youth.
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There is considerable competition for the dubious honor of the worst state for teachers and education, thanks to the Race to the Bottom and similar education "reforms," but Louisiana is certainly a strong contender.
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It's happening quicker than I thought it would:
Huge and his team, Jim Huge & Associates, have received between 18 and 25 applications from candidates that Huge feels best match the characteristics and qualities expressed by the board and by the public.
During the weekend, the board was able to review the candidates Huge has collected in notebooks designed to prepare the board for their interview process, which Huge said will be a rigorous one.
“All the interviews will be recorded on video, whether they are done in front of (the board) or in a separate room,” Huge said. “They will be seeing multiple candidates each day, which may seem exhaustive but it is the best way to see the best candidates in a short time period.”
Huge & Associates is closely tied in with the Eli Broad Superintendents Academy.
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Mitch McConnell will use the most crazy excuses to justify legalized bribery.
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More about that sneaky trade deal Obama and his ilk were trying to pull until info was leaked last week.
This was just unbelievable:
“The TPP model is fundamentally flawed: It’s hard to imagine who in this country would support it if they knew that it banned ‘Buy American’ procurements, limited Internet freedom a la SOPA (the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act) or created a two-track judicial system privileging corporations with a new ticket to raid our tax dollars,” said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. “Adding more countries just expands the potential threats of corporate attacks that the TPP poses to people here and now also poses to Mexicans.”
“Via closed-door negotiations, U.S. officials are rewriting swaths of U.S. law that have nothing to do with trade, and in a move that will infuriate left and right alike, have agreed to submit the U.S. government to the jurisdiction of foreign tribunals that can order unlimited payments of our tax dollars to foreign corporations that don’t want to comply with the same laws our domestic firms do,” Wallach said. “U.S. trade officials are secretly limiting Internet freedoms, restricting financial regulation, extending medicine patents and giving corporations a whole host of other powers.”
Opposition to the TPP is growing. Last month, 69 members of Congress sent a letter to President Barack Obama in response to revelations that TPP actually bans “Buy American” procurement rules.
How about impeaching anybody having anything to do with this?
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A couple of municipalities in Michigan no longer have a public education system as we know it.
This of course is a "test" case for charter systems nationwide. There's not enough outrage out there.
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Is there any doubt at all the United States Senate is a confederacy of dunces?
No wonder this country is fucked.
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The Lance Armstrong story gets more and more curious:
The Wall Street Journal reports that Levi Leipheimer, George Hincapie, Christian Vande Velde and David Zabriskie all asked for their names to be removed from the list of hopefuls before it was announced on Saturday.
In a statement, USA Cycling said: “USA Cycling will not speculate on the reasoning behind their requests and will not have further comment. Any questions related to their decision should be directed to the individual athletes.”
The four all worked as teammates of Armstrong at various times while he was in the US Postal team, under the management of Johan Bruyneel, who is also implicated in the scandal by the US Anti-Doping Agency.
Oops.
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