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Rape farm named NCLB blue ribbon schoool

Tue, 09/23/2008 - 5:50am — DCblogger

We don’t care if you practice polygamy, indenture women or force your young girls into marriages with old men, you raised your test scores!

In what has to be the strangest story of the myopic vision that is No Child Left Behind, a charter school located in the polygamous community of Centennial Park, Arizona has been named a “blue ribbon school” for their efforts to raise test scores.

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What is St. Hope Inc.?

Thu, 05/01/2008 - 6:23pm — DCblogger

St HOPE is one of private companies Michelle Rhee wants to have take over some DC public schools. She was formerly on the board of St HOPE:

SACRAMENTO BEEAfter a Sacramento High School teacher's report last year that a 17-year-old student told him she was inappropriately touched by Kevin Johnson, Johnson's personal attorney and business partner investigated the complaint for the campus.

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