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		<title>Washington lawmakers absent on school support</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special to The Seattle Times &#8211; by Jesse Hagopian http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009167556_opinb04jhagopian.html &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- NO one ever said teaching middle school would be easy. Last week, however, truly tried my patience. You&#8217;d think, by this time in the school year, they&#8217;d know not to fabricate elaborate excuses for incomplete work. No, I am not ranting about unruly students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Global Teachers&#8217; Anthem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jesse Hagopian &#8220;Raise the threat level to a code red,&#8221; they cry out. From Baghdad to D.C., a growing chorus of a-tonal anti-union executives around the world (the only choir that may be left after all the public school budget cuts) are asserting that the teacher union menace must be neutralized. In Iraq, Paul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;I&#8217;m Changing the School&#8217;s Name to Chrysler&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special to The Seattle Times &#8211; by Jesse Hagopian http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008547554_opin22hagopian.html &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- I am going down to Washington, D.C. to ask for a handout. My industry is falling on hard times and needs at least $34 billion to cover basic operating costs—but I assure you the emergency aid isn&#8217;t just for me and my associates. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schools not Jails</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published in Real Change News &#8211; by Jesse D. Hagopian http://www.realchangenews.org/2009/2009_01_07/Education_v16n02.html &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; A new chapter has been added to the American historical record. By electing the first Black president in a country founded on slavery, millions of people re-wrote the American history textbook—italicizing the word hope and underlining the phrase new direction. Deleted from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So there is money that could have helped schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seattle Post-Intelligencer &#8211; by Jesse D. Hagopian http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/382408_bailoutschool09.html &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; The secret is out. Like a note confiscated by the teacher and read aloud to the class, there can no longer be any doubt about the message being sent. With the passage of the bailout bill for Wall Street, everyone now knows that the government can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private firm gets failing grade</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jesse Hagopian and Vicky Jambor Special to The Seattle Times &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; POP quiz: (We hope you&#8217;ve been paying attention because this is a high-stakes test; wrong answers may lead to the dismantling of our schools.) What is ailing public education in America? Chronic underfunding of public education; Diversion of public monies away from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Eve of School Superintendent Evaluation, ESP Vision opposes Pay Raise for Superintendent During Fiscal Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parent and teacher group also asks Superintendent Goodloe-Johnson to return last year’s 10 percent pay increase in a show of solidarity with district children and teachers whose schools are being closed or jobs lost through SPS budget measures &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; SEATTLE &#8211; On Weds. March 11, the Seattle School Board will meet in an executive session [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dog Eats Its Tail: Oversized Classes, Overpopulated Prisons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Common Dreams (3/7/09) &#8211; by Jesse D. Hagopian http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/07-2 &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; One in thirty-one. As a public school teacher I am quite familiar with this figure—it’s a typical teacher to student ratio in the classroom. But now that proportion has taken on new significance: A report released on March 2nd by the Pew Center on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t hang a closed sign on Seattle Public Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special to The Seattle Times &#8211; by Jesse D. Hagopian and Andre Helmstetter http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008722355_opinb09hagopian.html Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson and five School Board members have enrolled the city&#8217;s schools in a course titled &#8220;Closing Schools for Excellence.&#8221; We have been instructed that the closures of five schools and disruption or discontinuation of eight additional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ESP Vision in the News</title>
		<link>http://espvision.org/2009/02/esp-vision-in-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seattle Times (6/4/09): &#8220;Seattle school layoffs denounced at rally&#8221; http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2009298324_schoolrally04&#8230; Eat The State (1/22/09): &#8220;Madness to their Method?&#8221; http://eatthestate.org/13-10/Madnesstotheir.htm Seattle PI (2/26/09): &#8220;Seattle parents, NAACP cry racism over school closures&#8221; http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/401643_naacp27.html King 5 (2/26/09): &#8220;March, rally against Seattle school closures&#8221; http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_022609WAB-school-closure-rally&#8230; Kiro News (1/30/09): &#8220;Battle isn&#8217;t over for Seattle school closures&#8221; http://www.kirotv.com/video/18608599/index.html Seattle Times: &#8220;Don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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