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MPS Board's second hearing and possible vote to remove Invocation (prayer) from the regular meeting agenda is set for this Tuesday, 2/25/14.

This email was sent from Chandler district to several school districts. In turn, the district supervisor who sent it to me, also sent it to a couple hundred other teachers in my district. I clicked on the link and the website is telling teachers to fight to save Common Core at tomorrow's vote. Are we supposed to do this on taxpayer dollars?



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http://www.educationnews.org/ed_reports/97307.html





- There are over 200 handwriting programs in the USA. And one of them wants to outlaw the other 199. A handwriting program called "Handwriting Without Tears" (at http://www.hwtears.com -- see model-samples at… Continue

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A video posted on YouTube shows LA social studies teacher Jose Lara interviewing teachers and students on May 28 at the headquarters of an organization calling for a Mexican revolution on U.S. soil. Soon after he shot the video, many in the group left for an overnight "freedom ride" to Phoenix to protest what Lara tells the camera is a "racist and outrageous" law.



Four days later, the school board president implored the… Continue