Ten minute drawing. Boehner’s words of wisdom.
January 2, 2013
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- Retired delegates elected to IEA RA.- Fred Klonsky, SORE President The Illinois Education Association was founded in 1853. It became an affiliate of the National Education Association in 1857. In 1966 the NEA and the African American American Teachers Association merged. We also merged in Illinois. The NEA essentially removed administrators from leadership and became a union in 1970. Over the […]
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- Rep. Elaine Nekritz: The Audacity of…(well, ...the audacity)
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- Tim Furman
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- Three candidate forums next week, more laterPEORIA, IL -- Three candidate forums sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria are are scheduled for next week, for candidates in the April 7 municipal elections. The first is on March 7, for candidates for the...
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- @NJSBA and PARCC: Going Along to Get Along?
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- Diane Ravitch
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- Gary Rubinstein Writes a Candid Letter to “the Amorphous TFA Blob”
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- Waiting for a Super Man
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We know that a group of lions is called a pride. A group of cattle is called a herd. Know what a group of baboons is called? A congress. A congress of baboons. How fitting.