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The press reveals a shocking truth: The Maine Heritage Policy Center does not support left-wing causes! Further, it will not associate with left-wing politicians! And it gets funding from individuals and foundations, but it won’t reveal the names! They’re outraged, our opinion-shapers, and they’d like to find some legal way to curb MHPC’s actions. And [...] The Thursday New York Times has a series of letters reacting to this earlier piece: One Classroom, From Sea to Shining Sea by Susan Jacoby (NYT, 3/18/10). Jacoby had argued for full-bore nationalization of education: Our lack of a national curriculum, national teacher training standards and federal financial support to attract smart young people to [...] The article title reads “Shorter school days could be next budget cut“. Here’s an excerpt: Members of the Legislature’s Education Committee on Thursday began assessing their options for filling in their part of that budget hole, and trimming a few days from the academic year surfaced as an option. A single school shutdown day could [...] |
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