Remainders: Coffee and a snack on election day

by Anna Phillips, at 9:31 pm

Bloomberg bought “coffee and a snack” from a school bake sale after voting today.
Matthews says Arne Duncan (and all ed secretaries) did more good out of office than in it.
China ousted its minister of education over anger about school quality and jobless graduates.
Middle and high school students can get the swine flu vaccine for free beginning this Saturday.
Using test scores to evaluate teachers will lead to constant turnover in schools, Ravitch writes.
Ed in the Apple writes there are many missteps that Mulgrew could make in contract negotiations.
There is such a thing as too much parent involvement, one teacher writes.
Mayoral control is well and good, but we need more Joe Clarks writes Eduflack.
Norm Scott wonders how he would have fared with a former student in the current system.
Weingarten said a new report on attracting and developing good teachers is “disrespectful.”
LA students mourn a classmate who was shot after leaving a homecoming football game.
And it’s okay to scream at students, maybe even necessary, just not a lot.

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For ninety million bucks and counting, Bloomberg seems to have bought more than just coffee and a snack.

Despite some tense confrontations between protesters and police, nothing ever got physical and a lieutenant just said there were no arrests. 37 mins ago
He's been frozen in that stoic position all night MT @lisafleisher: A protester speaks with his middle finger. http://t.co/xLar4NRU 39 mins ago
Last of the occupy protesters just walked out together, shouting expletives and insults on their way out. #toughcrowd 43 mins ago
Frank Thomas, DOE spokesman just told me no arrests have been made tonight at PEP despite confrontation between protesters & police earlier. 1 hr ago
RT @leoniehaimson: It's been shown repeatedly that as one schl closes another overwhelmed w/ high needs kids that small schls won't take 1 hr ago
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