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Better use of time. Is a news site covering educational change in Indiana schools. Senate education leader: More funding needed for after-school programs. Before- and after-school programs that serve nearly 45,000 Indiana children each day aren’t a funding priority in Indiana, but an influential state lawmaker said today that it’s time for that to change. Apr 13, 2015. After-school programs seek recognition as more than an after-thought. Apr 10, 2015. Aug 20, 2014. Jul 30, 2014. Indianapolis Mayor Greg B...

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Better use of time. Tag Archives: After-school learning. Senate education leader: More funding needed for after-school programs. Before- and after-school programs that serve nearly 45,000 Indiana children each day aren’t a funding priority in Indiana, but an influential state lawmaker said today that it’s time for that to change. Apr 13, 2015. After-school programs seek recognition as more than an after-thought. Apr 10, 2015. Stagnant funding hurts after-school programs, survey finds. Mar 30, 2015. Effor...

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Better use of time. Tag Archives: Longer school day. Traditional schools increasingly adopting longer school day, year. For the first time in the U.S., more district schools than charter schools are expanding the school day or year, according to a recentreport. But the national trend does not appear to be catching on in California. Apr 17, 2015. 94 struggling NYC schools will get extra support and tutoring time, but could still close. Nov 03, 2014. Jul 31, 2014. Jul 30, 2014. As the city scurries to make...

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Better use of time. Is an independent, non-profit news organization that serves as a watchdog and resource for urban school improvement. Teachers: More prep for PARCC. Teachers say the new PARCC is an improvement over the previous Illinois state tests, but they want more time to prep for it and say not all of their students are ready for its level of academic challenge. Mar 10, 2015. Latino Studies curriculum will make CPS a pioneer. Mar 09, 2015. Computer science becoming a high school staple. A new stu...

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Better use of time. Tag Archives: Better use of time. Specifics vary widely as ‘competency-based’ learning gains steam. May 01, 2015. Testing time shuffles schedules, impacts instruction. As close to half of the state’s school districts wrap up their first week of standardized testing and the rest prepare to start, school and district leaders have mixed feelings about how state standardized tests affect instructional time. Mar 06, 2015. Later school start times slowly gain traction in Colorado. Hayward s...

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Better use of time. Monthly Archives: April 2015. Adams 50 gets grant to explore Pay For Success financing. Adams County School District 50 won a $120,000 grant this month to explore the use of the Pay For Success financing model to expand early childhood programming. Apr 24, 2015. With pre-K applications almost due, parents’ phones keep ringing. With names culled from birth records and child-care centers, workers have already dialed up more than 135,000 parents of four-year-olds. Apr 23, 2015. Senate ed...

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Advance Indiana™: OmniSource Buys Its Way Out Of Criminal Case

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011. OmniSource Buys Its Way Out Of Criminal Case. 300,000 into an. Unspecified fund and will [not] be allowed to once again employ your public safety officers at its scrap yards doing security work. Fox 59 News' Russ McQuaid had these details about this deal that stinks to high heaven. Which have apparently been revised substantially after the details were first aired earlier today:. OmniSource buys scrap metal at six locations around Indianapolis. Now, a source indicates the cops wil...

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Lives or Money? | citizen worker

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A place for the things that unite us. February 13, 2014. This week brought news. That the U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit against Ohio Bell for violating OSHA’s rule prohibiting retaliation against workers who engage in activity to protect safety and health in their workplace. This caught my eye because the alleged facts are nearly identical to those brought in Indiana by the Indiana Department of Labor last summer as reported by the Indianapolis Business Journal. What’s really going on?

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Post-mortem on Tennessee | citizen worker

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A place for the things that unite us. February 16, 2014. The media is full of post-mortems on the outcome of the union representation election at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee this week.Here is a review of some of the most interesting points revealed. Delivers a very thorough review of the factors which may have been at play in the vote at VW. Those factors cited include;. The massive GOP campaign waged against the UAW. Failure of the union to build or even coordinate with a community campaign. Does ...