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You may recall a peculiar situation in SAD 27, the school district centered on Fort Kent, in which, rather than voting on their school budget on June 8, Primary Day, the school board chose to have a separate referendum date of June 10. The explanation for this timing was fascinating, demonstrating to this reader that [...] …but you knew that already. Some numbers, just to clear away the fog: The Department of Education was created as a straight political payoff to the teacher’s unions by President Jimmy Carter (in return for their 1976 endorsement). According to the National Center for Education Statistics, DE’s original budget, in 1980, was $13.1 billion (in [...] Here’s a little insight into the White House’s sanitizing of O’s schoolkid speech: When critics lashed out at President Obama for scheduling a speech to public school students this month, accusing him of wanting to indoctrinate children to his politics, his advisers quickly scrubbed his planned comments for potentially problematic wording. They then reached out [...] until you’ve lived with it.” So says the Chancellor of the New York City School system. The article it’s from, The Rubber Room (New Yorker, 8/31/09), is causing quite a stir. We learn that in New York City, there are seven rooms, at least one in each borough, where over 600 teachers spend their time [...]
It’s a pretty basic idea, very American, don’t you think, to reward merit with extra pay? Who could possibly be opposed? The NEA, for one. (You knew that, of course, but Mike Antonucci pegs it in “NEA on Merit Pay, Without the Sugar Coating“.) But here’s another reason [...] |
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