Trade the liquor for the children…

or something like that.

Mitchell’s plan includes extending pre-kindergarten services to every school district in Maine; providing grants to high school graduates to help pay for their first year of college; reducing Maine’s high school dropout rate by expanding the Jobs for Maine Graduates program; and raising standards for public schools with a set of [...]

Public Pension Funds Double Down…

… and start behaving crazy!

Here’s the pattern: Many public pension funds were mismatched on funds (not enough) and liabilities (lots and lots).  Then came the fiscal crisis, market downturn, real estate crash, etc. and they were so far behind that, had they been private entities, they would have been put into receivership.

Now they’re [...]

Be True to Your School (dateline: Washington)

You just know that this is going to make some people — younger people and older people — unhappy.

We really can’t have people just working without being paid!

The thought of her students taking to the road to get to school prompted Karen Kenna, principal of Cardinal Forest Elementary in Springfield, to issue a [...]