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Sherman Dorn
William McKeen and me
On Sunday, the St. Petersburg Times published a bizarre column by University of Florida journalism chair William McKeen, who started off by asserting that UAH killer Amy Bishop is somehow presenting a case against tenure and then headed off into the mythical nethersphere of a world where all professors are tenured sloths. My response will […]
Title II proposal: TNTP, meet Florida’s “Ippy-Dippy”
The New Teacher Project has a new advocacy brief out proposing changes in ESEA’s Title II, which is supposed to focus on personnel development. Some of the observations and proposals make sense (let’s stop paying money for 90-minute drive-by “professional development”). Some are essentially using Title II as a vehicle for pushing other agendas (teacher […]
I cannot take credit for Sansom’s departure
Apparently Ray Sansom’s lawyer Gloria Fletcher has blamed bloggers for the downfall of her client. Since I was pretty active in writing about the Sansom affair in late 2008 and early 2009, maybe Ms. Fletcher means me… except that almost all I did was refer people by links to news stories written by Alex Leary […]
The cliff, layoffs, and another stimulus/state rescue
Andy Smarick’s analysis is correct: Arne Duncan and Barack Obama are talking this week about pending teacher layoffs to lay the groundwork for more stimulus/state-budget-rescue discussions. I suspect I have one analytical and one policy disagreement with Smarck, though. First, it’s not a “second stimulus,” because we’re moving into a period where there will be […]
Ray Sansom resigns from Florida House of Representatives
It’s been 412 days since Ray Sansom resigned as Florida House Speaker after allegations that he had swapped millions of dollars funneled to Northwest Florida College for a job at the college. Since then, he’s been a member of the chamber without a committee assignment, facing ethics charges in the chamber and criminal charges in […]