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Teacher Cooperative Schools

Schools that are run democratically and cooperatively by the teachers, who share administration tasks, budgeting, curriculum development and engage in peer review processes.

Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives launches public appeal

Inventive new resource turns to the public to raise funds and awareness
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Mondragon Diaries: Day Four

Most new small businesses fail. That's a fact, whether they are in the Basque Country or in the U.S. Or anywhere else. Yet the Mondragon Coops, which all started as small worker-owned businesses, have hardly ever failed. Why? The key is in Father Jose Maria Arizmendi's original founding conception of cooperatives as the interlocking of school, factory and credit union.
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Notable Quotes heard at the USFWC conference in Berkeley Aug. 6-8, 2010

 There was so many rich quotes from the national worker cooperative conference that took place in Berkeley last weekend.  Many got lost in my unreadable handwriting.

Here are only a few that I was able to capture: 

 

hilary abell

"This isn't for everyone.  Co-ops are awesome."

--Hilary Abell, WAGES Executive Director.

 

patricia Feraud Toxic soil busters

"They say that young people are the future, but they don't treat us like that.  It's like we're a burden. ...We're the leaders of today, not just tomorrow."

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