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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>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special to The Seattle Times &#8211; by Jesse Hagopian
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009167556_opinb04jhagopian.html
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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 in my third period.
I&#8217;m referring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Global Teachers&#8217; Anthem</title>
		<link>http://espvision.org/2009/04/the-global-teachers-anthem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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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 Bremer (as former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;I&#8217;m Changing the School&#8217;s Name to Chrysler&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://espvision.org/2009/03/im-changing-the-schools-name-to-chrysler/</link>
		<comments>http://espvision.org/2009/03/im-changing-the-schools-name-to-chrysler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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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 truth is my industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schools not Jails</title>
		<link>http://espvision.org/2009/03/schools-not-jails/</link>
		<comments>http://espvision.org/2009/03/schools-not-jails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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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 the glossary of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So there is money that could have helped schools</title>
		<link>http://espvision.org/2009/03/so-there-is-money-that-could-have-helped-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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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 come up with a gazillion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private firm gets failing grade</title>
		<link>http://espvision.org/2009/03/private-firm-gets-failing-grade/</link>
		<comments>http://espvision.org/2009/03/private-firm-gets-failing-grade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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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 public schools in the form of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Eve of School Superintendent Evaluation, ESP Vision opposes Pay Raise for Superintendent During Fiscal Crisis</title>
		<link>http://espvision.org/2009/03/on-the-eve-of-school-superintendent-evaluation-esp-vision-opposes-pay-raise-for-superintendent-during-fiscal-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://espvision.org/2009/03/on-the-eve-of-school-superintendent-evaluation-esp-vision-opposes-pay-raise-for-superintendent-during-fiscal-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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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
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SEATTLE &#8211; On Weds. March 11, the Seattle School Board will meet in an executive session to conduct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dog Eats Its Tail: Oversized Classes, Overpopulated Prisons</title>
		<link>http://espvision.org/2009/03/the-dog-eats-its-tail-oversized-classes-overpopulated-prisons/</link>
		<comments>http://espvision.org/2009/03/the-dog-eats-its-tail-oversized-classes-overpopulated-prisons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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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
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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 States found that one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madness to their Method?</title>
		<link>http://espvision.org/2009/03/madness-to-their-method/</link>
		<comments>http://espvision.org/2009/03/madness-to-their-method/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Madness to their Method? &#8211; by Sue Peters
Originally published at http://eatthestate.org/13-10/Madnesstotheir.htm
The day before the Thanksgiving break, my son came home with a letter from his school. It announced that the school district was going to close his school, cut his program in half and move it to two other schools, and scatter the school&#8217;s special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t hang a closed sign on Seattle Public Schools</title>
		<link>http://espvision.org/2009/02/dont-hang-a-closed-sign-on-seattle-public-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://espvision.org/2009/02/dont-hang-a-closed-sign-on-seattle-public-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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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 programs are fiscally [...]]]></description>
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