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Fluxed Up World: The Juxtaposition of How It Should Be and How It Is
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You cannot step into the same river twice, for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you. - Heraclitus. Tuesday, April 17, 2012. The Juxtaposition of How It Should Be and How It Is. Former Costa Rican President Óscar Arias, 1987 Nobel Laureate, speaking for. The Global Day of Action on Military Spending. On April 17, 2012, your 2011 federal income tax return is due to the IRS. Where did the federal government spend your income taxes during fiscal year 2011? Click for larger image. About the Bush-era tax ...
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Educating South Carolina: May 2012
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Where educators and others can share ideas about the past, present and future of public education in South Carolina, as well as programs and policies impacting the lives of South Carolina's children and their educators. Friday, May 4, 2012. Educators defeat massive charter expansion bill*. Ah, Alabama.*. You give us hope. If only you were nearer, so we might see more easily the lessons you offer. With a bill restricting the impact area and attaching a more rigorous approval process. A charter school coul...
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Educating South Carolina: Is Ware Shoals cutting educators' pay?
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Where educators and others can share ideas about the past, present and future of public education in South Carolina, as well as programs and policies impacting the lives of South Carolina's children and their educators. Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Is Ware Shoals cutting educators' pay? A note was published last week in the Greenwood Index-Journal. About a proposal to cut educators' salaries to help balance the local district's budget, but I haven't heard whether the issue has been resolved, or how. Sprouse s...
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Educating South Carolina: Zais's plan to discard public schools inches ahead
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Where educators and others can share ideas about the past, present and future of public education in South Carolina, as well as programs and policies impacting the lives of South Carolina's children and their educators. Thursday, May 3, 2012. Zais's plan to discard public schools inches ahead. Let's see: It's a proposal that brings back segregation - by gender, this time, but the die is cast - and opens public school athletic programs to students who are not enrolled in those public schools. 8220;It̵...
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Educating South Carolina: Beaufort mourns loss of student leader, musician
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Where educators and others can share ideas about the past, present and future of public education in South Carolina, as well as programs and policies impacting the lives of South Carolina's children and their educators. Thursday, May 3, 2012. Beaufort mourns loss of student leader, musician. This is a beautiful note and worthy of sharing statewide, by Island Packet. When Craig Washington talked, everyone listened, his brother Charles said. It was the same when he played his guitar. Their father, Charles,...
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Educating South Carolina: Sumter still churning, 'right-sizing,' changing
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Where educators and others can share ideas about the past, present and future of public education in South Carolina, as well as programs and policies impacting the lives of South Carolina's children and their educators. Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Sumter still churning, 'right-sizing,' changing. Ask Jay Schwedler, president and CEO of the Sumter Development Board, how his community earned accolades recently from Southern Business and Development. But while we accentuate the positive, let's not completely ign...
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Educating South Carolina: Lawmakers seek to punish unemployed educators
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Where educators and others can share ideas about the past, present and future of public education in South Carolina, as well as programs and policies impacting the lives of South Carolina's children and their educators. Thursday, May 3, 2012. Lawmakers seek to punish unemployed educators. Let's begin with vocabulary. Means having a job, and working. Means not having a job, and not working. So they seek to punish the unemployed - for being unemployed. Is it a vestigial tail of the Upstate's old mill villa...
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Educating South Carolina: Because Spartanburg needs a Texas-based charter school
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Where educators and others can share ideas about the past, present and future of public education in South Carolina, as well as programs and policies impacting the lives of South Carolina's children and their educators. Thursday, May 3, 2012. Because Spartanburg needs a Texas-based charter school. I read it more closely and discovered that the people initiating this charter school in Spartanburg aren't from North Carolina, they're from Texas. High Point Co-Executive Director Lori Manning describes the pr...
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Educating South Carolina: Leventis speaks truth to entrenched power
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Where educators and others can share ideas about the past, present and future of public education in South Carolina, as well as programs and policies impacting the lives of South Carolina's children and their educators. Thursday, May 3, 2012. Leventis speaks truth to entrenched power. Sen Phil Leventis has many fans and many detractors, and that's likely because he's been in office many years. Tell it, Senator. We’re not broke. The problem is that narrow political ideology has trumped statesman...In 2010...
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Educating South Carolina: South Carolina: Where the rubber meets the road
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Where educators and others can share ideas about the past, present and future of public education in South Carolina, as well as programs and policies impacting the lives of South Carolina's children and their educators. Wednesday, May 2, 2012. South Carolina: Where the rubber meets the road. And we - we, here in South Carolina - we've been so proud to let our tourism industry do the heavy lifting on the coast, and to help BMW build monuments to itself in the Upstate, that we neglected to notice how our o...