The Jacksonville Regency Square Regional Library, Friends Of The Library, will be meeting on the second Wednesday of each month beginning today, August 14, 2013, at 6:30pm. Please be there and bring suggestions about how to make our library better and more responsive to the needs of the community. What: Friends Of The Library –…
Florida Political Cartoon Of The Week By Jim Moran On August 2, 2013
What: Organizational Meeting – Friends Of The Library – Regency Square Regional Library When: 6:30 PM On Tuesday August 6, 2013 Where: 9900 Regency Square Blvd, Jacksonville, FL 32225 Agenda: An organizational meeting to collect suggestions and ideas in an effort to help our regional libraries. Please bring your friends and suggestions.
Alternet: Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act and Obama’s Race to the Top grant program means testing giants are raking in the dough. A few months ago, fourth-grader Joey Furlong was lying in a hospital bed, undergoing a pre-brain surgery screening, when a teacher walked in the room with a standardized test. Shocked, Joey’s father, who…
Maddow Blog (photo from tampabay.com): Maddow talked on Tuesday about a rather shocking scandal out of Indiana, where the former schools chief Tony Bennett allegedly manipulated state standards to boost a charter school operated by a major Republican donor — a donor who happened to contribute $130,000 to Bennett directly. Bennett was rejected by Indiana…
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