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		<title>It’s the Right Time to Do the Right Thing</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/08/it%e2%80%99s-the-right-time-to-do-the-right-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got used to pulling out my wallet for my school kids. The same shopping trip for the shot glasses, my own little boy asked if he could have something-or-another. I remember telling him, “Sweetie, we can’t afford that.”]]></description>
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		<title>42 Things to Get Your Kid Ready for School</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are different rituals for different families at this season of the year. When I was little, I got a new pair of shoes and a new “outfit”. My brothers got new “clothes” because, as they explained to me with a sneer, boys don’t wear “outfits” after the age of two. Mom took her six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take a Deep Breath</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/07/take-a-deep-breath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Net is about connecting. It’s about reaching.

It’s an electronic whisper in an ear that wants to know. And then wants to know more. And then wants to reach out to others. It’s about making a whisper a shout and giving form to the shout so it becomes a mighty chorus working in harmony to do something to help]]></description>
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		<title>Netroots Nation Unite!</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/07/netroots-nation-unite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t write what somebody tells me to write. I don’t write about something that someone voted on. I write about something that matters to me.]]></description>
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		<title>National Teachers’ Day vs Pink Slip Week</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/05/national-teachers%e2%80%99-day-vs-pink-slip-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 19:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[this is the week that perhaps up to 250,000 teachers and vital support staff will be receiving pink slips telling them that due to the financial crisis, there is no money to pay them next year.]]></description>
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		<title>Keep our Educators Working!</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/04/keep-our-educators-working/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) proposed the “Keep our Educators Working Act of 2010” bill that would provide $23 billion to extend the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. ]]></description>
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		<title>These Dreams&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/04/these-dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children with a dream are counting on all of us. ]]></description>
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		<title>March to the Census</title>
		<link>http://lilysblackboard.org/2010/02/march-to-the-census/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m a teacher.  I know what counts.  And in the month of March, what counts - literally - is the Census.]]></description>
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