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Wake bars NAACP leader from school property

Posted Thu, 07/15/2010 - 03:46 by QPE
If the NC NAACP had spent this much time in Wake School Board meetings over the past 20 years maybe Wake's minority students wouldn't be in such dire straits today. Seriously, if only as much thought and passion went into looking at the data.
Web Site: 
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/07/14/581834/wake-bars-naacp-leader-from-school.html

Global Citizen Year - A Key for America's Future Leadership

Posted Mon, 07/12/2010 - 19:23 by Demian Dellinger
Global Citizen Year offers fellowship abroad opportunities for young people between their senior year of high school and freshman year of college. This kind of exposure & opportunity should be more broadly available to American high school grads.
Web Site: 
http://www.globalcitizenyear.org/

North Carolina’s “Charter Schools Lite” Plan? Stand on Street with Sign “Will Trade Asinine School Reform for Federal Dollars”

Posted Wed, 05/26/2010 - 04:21 by Demian Dellinger

North Carolina’s “Charter Schools Lite” Plan: “Will Trade Asinine School Reform for Federal Dollars”
North Carolina, please, stop. You’re killing me. So desperate for Race to the Top Funds, so unwilling to innovate, and so focused on the dollar that you’re ignoring the real needs of our schools and our kids.

North Carolina Proposes Dropping School Buildings Full of Children from the Sky.

Posted Sun, 05/23/2010 - 18:19 by Demian Dellinger

No really, imagine school buildings full of children falling from the sky and crashing to earth and exploding into balls of fire.

It's a little less dramatic and a lot less fun to watch those same kids suffer through 13 years of terrible North Carolina education but in the end the result is the same, a bunch of kids burned by North Carolina politics and with no future.

The Lottery - A Documentary Film about Charter Schools and Public Education

Posted Sat, 05/15/2010 - 03:48 by Demian Dellinger

North Carolina Fails to get "Race to the Top" Grant Funds

Posted Mon, 03/29/2010 - 16:37 by Demian Dellinger
As I predicted in the Fall, North Carolina's failure to use charter schools as part of its strategy to improve public education has cost the state hundreds of millions. http://qualitypubliceducation.com/blogs/north-carolina-scores-f-innovation
Web Site: 
http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/7321383/

North Carolina Democratic Party Risks Much in Wake County Neighborhood Schools Fight

Posted Wed, 03/10/2010 - 17:25 by Demian Dellinger

The battle being fought in Wake County, North Carolina between neighborhood school advocates and busing advocates could prove to be an extremely damaging miscalculation by the Democratic Party in North Carolina.

Wake County Schools Face Tough but Necessary Changes

Posted Thu, 03/04/2010 - 04:05 by Demian Dellinger
John Tedesco talks a length about the changes the new new school board want to adopt. Accusations of racism and legal threats by the NC NAACP muddy what should be a serious discussion about the future of Wake Counties struggling students.
Web Site: 
http://news14.com/triangle-news-30-content/top_stories/622801/in-depth--tedesco-details-plan-for-wak...

South Carolina Lt. Governor Stirs Controversy by Equating Poor Families to Stray Animals

Posted Tue, 01/26/2010 - 15:39 by Demian Dellinger

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