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Why Is Public Education Being Outsourced to Online Charter Schools?

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Rania Khalek - Jan. 09 (News Report) - Virtual charter schools, which offer classes online instead of in a classroom, have become the fastest-growing segment of the charter school industry. And while data on their effectiveness is scarce, state legislators across the country are passing laws to expand cyber schools at the behest of privatization advocates and online education companies at an alarming rate, with little regulation.

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"Get It Done": Urging Climate Justice, Youth Delegate Anjali Appadurai Mic Checks U.N. Summit

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Dec. 09 (News Report) - A number of protests are being held today at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban to protest the failure of world leaders to agree to immediately agree to a deal of binding emissions cuts. Anjali Appadurai, a student at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, addressed the conference on behalf of youth delegates. Just after her speech, she led a mic check from the stage -- a move inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests. "It always seems impossible until it's done," Appadurai said. "So, distinguished delegates and governments around the world, governments of the developed world: Deep [emissions] cuts now. Get it done." [includes rush transcript]

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SWAT team's shooting of Marine causes outrage

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Amanda Lee Myers - Nov. 27 (News Report) - Jose Guerena Ortiz was sleeping after an exhausting 12-hour night shift at a copper mine. His wife, Vanessa, had begun breakfast. Their 4-year-old son, Joel, asked to watch cartoons.

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Report: Thousands of U.S.-Born Kids Languish in Foster Care As Immigrant Parents Detained, Deported

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Nov. 10 (Special Report) - A new report looks at how thousands of U.S.-born children are being sent to foster care when their non-U.S. citizen parents are detained or deported. The Applied Research Center investigation, "Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System,” finds there are at least 5,100 children currently living in foster care — who are prevented from uniting with their detained or deported parents. If nothing changes, researchers found some 15,000 more children may end up in foster care in the next five years. We speak with Seth Freed Wessler, the principal investigator of the report. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Protesters Are Seeking Change in the Streets Because It Won't Come From the Ballot Box

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Naomi Klein - Oct. 06 (News Analysis) - Among the thousands at last night's Occupy Wall Street protest here in New York City was award-winning journalist and author Naomi Klein. She is the author of the bestselling book, "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” She also wrote "No Logo," a book that has become a cultural manifesto for critics of unfettered capitalism worldwide. Klein joins us to discuss the Occupy Wall Street movement and why it is being belittled in the corporate media. “My biggest fear was that the Obama presidency was was going to lead this generation of young people into political cynicism and political apathy,” Klein says. “But instead, they are going to where the power is. They are realizing the change is not coming in Washington because politicians are so controlled by corporate interest, and that that is the fundamental crisis in this country.” [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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A real Wall Street takeover threat

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By David Talbot - Sep. 19 (News Report) - The hundreds of young people who converged on the New York Stock Exchange this weekend are calling their demonstration against Wall Street greed an "American Tahrir Square." While they have a long way to go before they create the tremors that brought down the Mubarak regime, their passion was clearly on display on a sunny Sunday afternoon in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. The protestors were gathered in the square at the corner of Broadway and Liberty Street, after police blocked them from the epicenter of American finance a couple of blocks away. Many had spent the night in sleeping bags and insisted they were prepared to spend many more to make their point. "This country is in decline," said Jack Laxson, an 18-year-old Hampshire College student who was carrying a sign that read, "Corporations Run This Country -- Let's Do Something About It."

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Michele Bachmann says HPV vaccine can cause mental retardation

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson - Sep. 16 (Fact Check) - After criticizing Texas Gov. Rick Perry for mandating a vaccine for school girls, Rep. Michele Bachmann added some scary charges: She claimed to have just met a woman whose daughter suffered mental retardation from the vaccine, that it has "very dangerous consequences" and that it puts "little children's lives at risk." In the CNN/Tea Party Express debate in Tampa on Sept. 12, 2011, Bachmann blasted Perry for mandating a vaccine for school girls to guard against human papilloma virus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer. The vaccine can prevent the virus, but the virus is sexually transmitted, which makes ...

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How a 13-Year-Old Revolutionized Solar Cell Efficiency

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

solar.calfinder.com - Aug. 26 (Special Report) - “Collecting sunlight is key to the survival of a tree. Leaves are the solar panels of trees, collecting sunlight for photosynthesis. Collecting the most sunlight is the difference between life and death.”

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Breivik's Fundamentalist War on Politics, and Ours

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

truth-out.org - By Henry A. Giroux - Aug. 03 (News Analysis) - by using the clip from "The Town," it appears that Republican leaders used gratuitous images of mind-crushing violence and retribution as a legitimate, even inspiring, framework for motivating support for legislative practices that will have deleterious, even violent, impacts on vulnerable populations in the United States, especially children. This is not merely barbarism parading as political reform - it is also a blatant indicator of the degree to which sadism and a theater of cruelty have become normalized at the highest reaches of government.

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The Ten States Running Out Of Children

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

247wallst.com - Jul. 04 (News Report) - The problems of the young are are not discussed much as the focus of the press and Washington policy has been on those people who are elderly now and the generation of Baby Boomers who are just behind them. The federal debt and increases in the deficit have put the retirement support of these people at risk. The credit crisis and state and municipal deficits have spawned an austerity movement that is unprecedented in U.S. history.

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Woman Catches Toddler After 10 Story Fall Reports Claim

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Jul. 03 (News Report) - BEIJING -- State media report a toddler is in critical condition in east China after surviving a 10-story fall by being caught by a passing woman. Media reports say the 2-year-old girl Niu Niu was left unattended Saturday in the family's 10th floor apart

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Syrian Troops Pursue “Scorched Earth” Policy; Videos Document Children Tortured to Death

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman; Razan Zaitouneh - Jun. 13 (News Report) - The Syrian army has taken control of the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour following what state media has described as heavy fighting by "armed groups," who residents say are mutinous soldiers defending the town. Our guest Neil Sammonds, Syria researcher for Amnesty International, is interviewing refugees who have fled the violence by crossing into Turkey. They tell him Syrian military forces have destroyed houses, burned crops, slaughtered livestock and contaminated water supplies. We speak with Razan Zaitouneh, a lawyer and human rights activist based in Damascus. She has documented that children are among those killed by snipers, or kidnapped by security forces, tortured and killed.

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'Go The F*k To Sleep' Hits Parents' Raw Nerves

Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Leanne Italie - May. 16 (News Report) - Playing dress up or running around the park, kids can be so darn cute. Until it's 3 a.m. and they won't go the (bleep) to sleep. The F-bomb plea on the minds of every parent at one point or another is the title of a buzz magnet of a book parody written in kid-friendly rhyme. Beware, parents, it's decidedly unworthy of a bedtime readaloud.

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Is Scholastic Selling Elementary School Kids on Coal?

Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kate Sheppard - May. 13 (News Report) - Environmental groups are going after the world's largest publisher of children's books for teaming up with the American Coal Foundation to produce "The United States of Energy," a lesson plan designed for fourth-graders. The foundation, online at Teachcoal.org, is devoted to creating "coal-related educational materials and programs designed for teachers and students."

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Response to legal threat to coalcares.org from Peabody Energy

Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

theyesmen.org - By Andy Bichlbaum - May. 13 (Other) - As even you may agree, the root of the problem is not Peabody, but rather our system of subsidies, regulations, and lobbying that lets your whole industry continue its lethal work. To make this clear, we have changed every instance of the word “Peabody” on www.coalcares.org to a rotating selection of the names of other large U.S. coal producers who, like Peabody, also need to be stopped from killing kids.

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GOP Budget Would Leave Up To 44 Million More Low-Income Americans Uninsured: Report

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Ricardo Alonso Zaldivar - May. 10 (News Report) - The House Republican budget would leave up to 44 million more low-income people uninsured as the federal government cuts states' Medicaid funding by about one-third over the next 10 years, nonpartisan groups said in a report issued Tuesday. The analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Urban Institute concluded that Medicaid's role as the nation's safety net health care program would be "significantly compromised ... with no obvious alternative to take its place," if the GOP budget is adopted.

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Paul LePage Voices Support For Loosening Maine's Child Labor Laws

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Amanda Terkel - Apr. 25 (News Report) - Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) is backing changes to the state's child labor laws, arguing that starting work young paid off for him. "I went to work at 11 years old," he said at a town hall meeting on Friday in Topsham, Maine. "I became governor. It's not a big deal. Work doesn't hurt anybody."

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10 States With the Most Shocking Anti-Woman Legislation

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Amanda Marcotte - Apr. 07 (News Analysis) - Sadly, this is just a sample of the number of bills that have cropped up across the country in a nationwide attempt to wipe out women’s right to abortion--and in some cases, contraception--once and for all.

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Waking Up to a Nuclear Nightmare

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Barbara Rose Johnston - Apr. 04 (News Analysis) - As Japan's nuclear disaster continues to unfold, a growing number of its citizens and residents are beginning their transition, becoming the newest members of the world's radiogenic community. Like the hibakusha, downwinders, uranium miners, atomic vets and the many who live in towns and cities that hosted the nuclear enterprise, they find their lives profoundly altered by a hazardous, invisible threat, where the fear of nuclear contamination and the personal health and intergenerational effects from exposure colors all aspects of social, cultural, economic and psychological well-being.

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Where Are the Obama Youth? Busy Building Their Own Futures

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ColorLines - By Jamilah King - Oct. 29 (Special Report) - There’s something intangible that makes this year’s election different than most. For many, Barack Obama’s candidacy brought to the forefront a new, more accessible form of democracy. There was a massive communications network that engaged voters online, on the phone, and on their blocks. And there was Obama himself: a man of color who seemed to code switch his way from Chicago’s South Side to Harvard, who talked openly about racial profiling and boasted having Jay-Z on his iPod. He was a well-packaged newcomer who looked, talked, and presumably saw the world through the same eyes as many young people of color. And those eyes weren’t accustomed to the view from the White House.

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Vatican Moves To Block Questioning Of Pope In Abuse Lawsuit

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Dylan Lovan - Jun. 25 (News Report) - The Vatican is asking a federal judge to reject an attempt to question Pope Benedict XVI under oath in a Kentucky sex abuse lawsuit on the grounds that there has been no evidence of a link to church officials in Rome. The arguments filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Louisville also say that forcing Benedict, a head of state, to give a deposition would violate international law. The U.S. considers the Vatican to be a sovereign nation.

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Vatican 'Outraged' Over Police Raid Of Archbishops' Graves In Sex Abuse Probe

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Alessandra Rizzo - Jun. 25 (News Report) - On Thursday, police raided the home and former office of former Archbishop Godfried Danneels, taking documents and Danneels' personal computer. Police and prosecutors did not say if Danneels was suspected of abuse himself or simply had records pertaining to allegations against another person. He was not questioned. Investigators also opened the graves of archbishops in the St. Rombouts Cathedral in Mechlin, north of Brussels, looking for possibly incriminating documents, said Jean-Marc Meilleur, spokesman for the Brussels public prosecutor.

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Belgian Catholic Offices Raided Amid Sex Abuse Allegations

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Robert Wielaard - Jun. 24 (News Report) - Police raided the home and office of the recently retired archbishop of Belgium on Thursday, carrying off documents and a personal computer as part of an investigation into the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests, officials said. Police and prosecutors would not say if former Archbishop Godfried Danneels was suspected of abuse himself or simply had records pertaining to allegations against another person.

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New Springfield Bishop Thomas Paprock Once Blamed Devil For Sex Abuse Lawsuits

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Christopher Wills - Apr. 21 (News Report) - The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests said it was disappointed with Paprocki's promotion. "It says to us that the Vatican is more interested in doctrinal purity than child safety – or at least that child safety isn't the No. 1 priority," said David Clohessy, SNAP's executive director. Paprocki, 57, said three years ago that the principal force behind the waves of abuse lawsuits was "none other than the devil."

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Pope Urges Catholic 'Repentance'

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Apr. 16 (News Report) - The main U.S. victims group immediately dismissed his comments, saying they are meaningless unless Benedict takes concrete steps to safeguard children from pedophile priests. ... "Factual disclosures are not 'attacks' and 'penance' protects no one," said Mark Serrano, a spokesman for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, the U.S. group.

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