EdVisions Cooperative – worker-coop charter schools

permaculturetv — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:43:01 +0000

EdVisions Schools, Inc. is a Minnesota non-profit educational development organization affiliated with EdVisions Cooperative, the first public school teacher cooperative in the nation.

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EdVisions Schools help create and sustain a network of small, innovative high schools across the U.S. using the EdVisions Model. Our organization has two divisions; one focuses on school development, including ongoing school coaching, and two, the EdVisions leader center, supports school development through best practice dissemination, institutes, research, and a variety of technical assessment tools.

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The belief is that teacher leadership is not about power, but about mobilizing the largely untapped attributes of teachers to strengthen student performance by working collaboratively in a shared capacity. Cooperatives are about working collaboratively and sharing in planning, action, and in results. Cooperatives are democratically owned and managed. The founders of EdVisions Cooperative believe in teacher voice and teacher empowerment. They also believe in modeling democratic action as a means toward teaching adolescents how to live in a democracy.

Source: EdVisions Cooperative

First US corporation runs for congress, as a Republican

niccolo — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:15:51 +0000

First corporation runs for congress with slogan Corporations are people too

Murray Hill, Inc. is a Maryland corporation and a public relations and advertising firm that announced at the end of January, 2010 that it intends to run as a Republican for Maryland’s 8th Congressional district. The company’s announcement that it will run for office came after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark January, 2010 ruling in the Citizens United case that corporations have the same political and free-speech rights as U.S. citizens. The company is selling mugs and T-Shirts with the political slogan, “Corporations are people, too!”

Source: Sourcewatch

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First US corporation runs for congress, as a Republican