One returning speaker is Vincent Gassetto, the principal of a high-performing public middle school in a tough area of the Bronx who urged those in attendance last year not to overlook his diverse and enthusiastic talent pool as arts funding shrivels.

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Instead of taking on the public sector workers and public school teachers, we should be demanding a better middle class for all Americans.

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Zuckerberg based his newly-public stance on personal experience with the middle-school entrepreneurship after-school class he started teaching earlier this year.

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This Northwest Cluster event was sponsored by Great Seneca Creek Elementary School PTA, Matsunaga Elementary School PTA, Kingsview Middle School PTA and Roberto Clemente Middle School PTA. The PTAs in the Northwest Cluster of Montgomery County Public Schools are also looking to pilot a curriculum on bullying prevention through the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County.

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Starting in middle school, and especially in high school, public school children commute to a school that is outside their neighborhood.

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Winchester has a large liberal-minded public-sector middle-class: Hampshire County Council, the Winchester School of Art, King Alfred's College, and the genteel types round its ancient cathedral and public school.

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Ms. Shin, a Brooklyn artist who has created public works for the Long Island Rail Road and a Battery Park City elementary and middle school, has designed pieces in mosaic and glass for the 63rd Street station, which will be expanded to accommodate the Second Avenue line.

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