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	<title>Andrea Merida, Director, District 2, Denver Board of Education &#187; Board of Education</title>
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		<title>DPS parent speaks out against school privatization and the Dell principal training grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the Dell Foundation paying DPS $800,000 to teach principals how to weed out students at CSAP/TCAP time?]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Luther King, Jr. on education</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]]></description>
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		<title>2011&#8242;s Top Five Best and Worst Edu-Events</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to recap what I consider to be the top five events in public education in Denver...both the best and the worst, in descending order.]]></description>
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		<title>New school grading website ignores the hard-won progress of English learners</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In nearly every case, our schools that are classified as “yellow” (accredited on watch) all have high numbers of English learners that are below the “safe linguistic threshold” of a CELApro level 4 or 5.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Are SW Denver&#8217;s English learners ready for CSAP?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video evaluates whether southwest Denver's charters bring any value to our large population of English learners.  Please watch and pass it on.]]></description>
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		<title>Kepner&#8217;s kids deserve a well-rounded education</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All parents deserve the basic respect and appreciation for their tax dollars, and low-income families have a right by federal law to fully benefit from the portion of Title I dollars earmarked toward community engagement to become active partners in their children’s education.]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re now streaming on the Internet!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love it when my ideas pay off.  I&#8217;m very excited about  the fact that we&#8217;re now live streaming our video feeds on the Internet for all board meetings.  Now you don&#8217;t have to be chained to Comcast to watch! For those of you that do have Comcast, it&#8217;s on channel 22. Woo hoo! Broadcasting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to tonight&#8217;s winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may have heard by now, we&#8217;ve had a changing of the guard to represent certain areas of town, as well as what appears to be the retention of the incumbent. Congratulations goes to Director-elect Anne Rowe in southeast Denver, Director-elect Happy Haynes and current Vice President Arturo Jimenez in northwest Denver. I congratulate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some movement on changing the school year start date</title>
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		<comments>http://andreamerida.com/some-movement-on-changing-the-school-year-start-date/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you recall, I introduced a resolution to the board last month to direct the district to begin the process of making a recommendation to change the school year start date to after Labor Day, as a way to relieve the heat in the buildings in August. ]]></description>
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		<title>Which college or career for DPS students?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spend a lot of time talking about "college preparedness," but with the skyrocketing costs of attending a four-year college and with shrinking PELL grants and scholarship opportunities, we'd better be proactive about ensuring our students are ready for the economic realities they will face. ]]></description>
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