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Weekend reading: I got a-plenty of friends who’ve taken all they could get and were honest in figurin’ they had it comin’ to them. They’ve paid taxes for years and seen other people take the benefits. Now at least they’re gettin’ a little of it back. That’s the whole point, though, that’s what’s wrong. There [...] Alone among the governors, the governor of South Carolina says no to the “stimulus” as presently constituted. He’s rejected $700 million in federal education stimulus money. Why? He has rightfully made the case that it makes no sense to spend this one-time stimulus money on the creation of new jobs and new programs [...] Barak Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan of Chicago, seems to be well thought of by a variety of personages and publications across the political spectrum. He’s been praised at the New Republic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and by a number of folks at the National Review. We’re told in [...] The head of a national teachers union — the other one, the AFT (American Federation of Teachers) — gave a significant speech the other day. The aspect of her speech that got the most attention (NYTimes article, HuffPo post) was a new receptiveness to merit pay for teachers and a willingness to discuss the future [...] There are hundreds of Woody Guthrie “songs” — words without written music — in the Guthrie Archives, never seen, never heard, probably never sung, and certainly never recorded since their writing In 1995, Nora Guthrie asked Billy Bragg and Wilco to take a look. The result was the Mermaid Avenue albums. Here is a Woody [...] As we come down to it, the money…isn’t there! It isn’t there in a couple of ways. First, the State is not delivering the “savings” back to the districts. The greybeards among us might recall that way back in, say, ought six, this was the very reason for “administrative consolidation.” But now the savings, where [...] |
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