January 21, 2010
Patrick trumpets education legislation
The Boston Globe
By Brian MacQuarrie
1/19/10
Sitting on a child’s stool at the Children’s Museum, Governor Deval Patrick signed a sweeping education bill yesterday that will greatly increase the number of charter schools, grant superintendents the power to overhaul failing districts, and make the state eligible for up to $250 million in federal stimulus money. Read full text.
A New York Volunteer Effort Will Soon Spread to 10 Cities
The New York Times
By Diane Cardwell
1/17/10
…“We see this as an urban innovation,” said Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, which is providing the grants. “It really brings the mayors and the city leadership together with the volunteers in a much more organized way that, we think, has the opportunity for much greater leverage and much greater impact.”
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Clinton-Bush fundraising team says donations safe with them
Los Angeles Times
By Mark Silva
1/17/10
The bipartisan team of former Presidents Clinton and Bush, recruited by President Obama to spearhead private fundraising for the relief of Haitian earthquake victims, promised today to ensure that the money they were raising would be well-spent in a nation now reeling in chaos. Read full text.
