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		<title>Thompson Receives National PTA Congressional Voice for Children Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recognition of Outstanding Leadership Related to Child and Education Advocacy   Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Glenn &#8216;GT&#8217; Thompson recently received the National PTA Congressional Voice for Children Award.  Thompson was recognized for the award, along with U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), on Thursday, March 8, 2012, during National PTA’s Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asking Peter to Stop Robbing Paul, Year After Year…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[House Committee Rejects All Children are Equal Act Democrats Say Change is Needed, But Not Now.   The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Education and the Workforce debated the All Children are Equal Act (ACE) for 28 minutes on Tuesday, February 28, then voted against adding it as an amendment to the Student Success Act.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Children are Equal (ACE) Act to be Voted On in House Education &amp; the Workforce Committee &#8211; Action Likely Week of February 27</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The All Children are Equal (ACE) Act which addresses inequities in the formula for distributing Title I funds to public schools, will be considered as an amendment to a bill that will be “marked up” (amendments considered and a vote taken on whether to send the bill to the full House).  The bill to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Children are Equal (ACE) Act in House Education &amp; the Workforce Committee Considered as an Amendment to the Student Success Act  Action Likely Week of January 23</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Urge Your Member of Congress on the Committee to Support ACE The All Children are Equal (ACE) Act which addresses inequities in the formula for distributing Title I funds to public schools, will likely be considered as an amendment to a bill that will be before the committee sometime during the week of January 23. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressman Tim Bishop Co-Sponsors All Children are Equal Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democratic Congressman Tim Bishop of New York&#8217;s 1st congressional district has added his name to the list of co-sponsors of the All Children are Equal (ACE) Act (H.B. 2485). ACE would change the way federal funds for the education of disadvantaged children are distributed to public schools by reforming a part of the formula that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prominent Title I Newsletter Gives Top Coverage to Formula Fairness Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thompson’s Title I Monitor, the most widely read and respected newsletter covering issues involving the federal education program for disadvantaged students, has featured the Formula Fairness Campaign in a special report.  Normally available only by subscription, this special report was posted on Thompson’s open-site Blog because the firm anticipated a lot of interest in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Representative Phil Roe, Tennessee First Congressional District, Co-Sponsors All Children are Equal (ACE) Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressman Phil Roe (R-TN), representing Tennessee’s First Congressional District, is the latest Member of Congress to add his name as co-sponsor of the All Children are Equal (ACE) Act (H.R. 2485). ACE addresses the unfair discrimination against small rural and urban school districts that is part of the formula for distributing funds for the education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Title I Number Weighting Discriminates Against Even The Largest Districts – If They Have High Poverty Percentages</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Background:  The formula for distributing federal funds to school districts to help meet the educational needs of disadvantaged students contains a weighting system that artificially inflates the disadvantaged student count in districts with high percentages (“percentage weighting”) or large numbers (“number weighting”) of eligible students. But the number weighting system, as designed, is so mathematically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana Rural Education Association Joins Formula Fairness Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest co-sponsor of the Formula Fairness Campaign (FFC) is the Montana Rural Education Association (MREA).  This brings the co-sponsor list to 27 organizations.  You can see the entire list by clicking here. FFC is a national campaign to end discrimination against rural and small districts, including small urban districts, in the federal formula for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Formula Fights &#8211; Success Invites Misunderstanding</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thompson Publishing Group, a large publisher of educational handbooks, periodicals, and technical manuals including the encyclopedic two-volume Title I Handbook, ran a story in one of its email alerts to subscribers that got my attention last week.  Chuck Edwards, the Executive Editor of the Title I Handbook mailed an alert (and also posted the same [...]]]></description>
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