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Democracy, Davis concluded, was at odds with effective population control and stability in Asia; the only political system for the continent's mushrooming megacities was a "strong government that stands in contrast to the populace in skill as well as power...

The school did not have the facilities, teachers or technology to accommodate the 315 students the state approved them to accept. New Living Word was accepted in compliance with the state's approval, which did not include site visits. Questions to the department and an email obtained by The News-Star support the department's initial statements...
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Editor's Note: This post originally appeared July 1, 2011.

cross-posted at The G Bitch Spot

Bear attacks. Shootings. Stabbings. Airplane crashes. Rapes. A lot of rapes. Kidnappings and hostage situations. Random violence and planned lunacy or evil. Horrific child abductions. Serial killers. Leftist guerillas. I am addicted to Read More »

Before you go… Sloganza(TM) 3 from B2 L2 on Vimeo.
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Costas: Are you a pedophile?

First off, who would answer yes on national television when there's a criminal case against him .

cross-posted at The G Bitch Spot This is totally out of character for me but I love this laundry detergent. For most of my life, I’ve had various forms of rashes, mostly on my face, occasionally on my shoulders or arms. Once I started doing my own laundry and tried different detergents, I realized some...
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Just like New Orleanians need to repeat that it was LEVEES, not Katrina, that devastated New Orleans, we need to keep repeating that the public school system was shattered, not "rebuilt"...

We are still not OK, six years later.

crossposted at The G Bitch Spot State education department asks board to yank Abramson’s charter–nola.com/Times-Pic In a written recommendation to the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, or BESE, acting state Superintendent Ollie Tyler said an investigation launched last month has uncovered evidence that Abramson has failed to comply with state law, board...
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My mom asked me what I like about taking violin lessons.

41 signs your school district might be infected by a privatization virus (2 are joke-y so really 39 but still)

Schools have big budgets and get millions of dollars from the federal government and state governments, an amount of money that can tempt the most sincere and well-meaning person. It can seem so easy to cut a teeny corner there and plump this account over here. Or to hand out enormous contracts...
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I am addicted to "I Survived..." on Biography, sneaking in bits and chunks and back-to-back episodes when no one else is home.

No caps on education superintendent and college leader salaries in THIS state.

"But education, since it deals in the first place with human organisms, and in the second place with individualities, is not analogous to a standardizable manufacturing process. Education must measure its efficiency not in terms of so many promotions per dollar of expenditure, nor even in terms of so many student-hours per dollar of...
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Does KIPP have success? Yes. What is the cost, though?

crossposted at The G Bitch Spot I took down a recent post on efforts by a group of parents and neighbors to create a neighborhood school at the Colton site. An email birdie sent me information, told me to disseminate, then almost immediately corrected the info in 2 pseudonymous comments. When I realized the...
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I was an 8 o'clocker, on one of the first few busses over to the Fairgrounds. Impressions essentially in chronological order:

I had a chair. Zulu umbrella. The usual Jazz Fest-y things in the bag I bought at Jazz Fest several years ago. And a big fat book for the waiting.

cross-posted at The G Bitch Spot Times-Picayune/nola.com, Artist colony at Colton school to disband; Matt Damon to help relocate rooftop garden, June 10, 2009. T-P/nola.com, KIPP charter school’s tentative hold on Colton school site is challenged, January 18, 2011. And see the comments on this post, January 19, 2011. Opinion article from The Lens, How about real choice for neighborhoods close...
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5 Years Later

• The opening prayer oddly asked God to still or help instill "self-control" and "punctuality" in the students under discussion, and he was not talking about Holy Name or Lusher.
• Asher's teacher-blaming started from her opening words--that the children haven't failed, it's that "adults have failed to teach" them.
• Guttierrez calling the...
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cross-posted at The G Bitch Spot See Teachers’ Unions or Teachers’ Unions? for Canada’s answer to Colbert’s question. from Ultimate $uperpower: Supersized dollars drive Waiting for Superman agenda Board of Trustees, HARLEM CHILDREN’S ZONE Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO Stan Druckenmiller, Chairman, is the President, CEO, and Chairman of Duquesne Captial , which he...
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