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More on so-called “side deals”
Andy Rotherham has responded to my blog entry early this morning. Let me skip for now the question of why he was the sole person quoted in the article and address the local MOUs in Florida on Race to the Top. Rotherham wrote in part, “If these agreements have no bearing on the state’s application […]
Correcting the facts on so-called RTTT “side deals”
In Wednesday’s paper, St. Petersburg Times reporter Ron Matus relied on the sloppy language “some say” to spin a mountain out of a molehill about county-specific MOUs between school boards and local FEA affiliates. In the article as well as two blog entries Wednesday and Thursday, Matus stated that there were a number of counties […]
Dorn reviews Ravitch
My review of Diane Ravitch’s new book is now up at the Education Review website. I should have finished it a few weeks ago, but the fragmentation of my time this spring has interrupted all sorts of usually-short-term projects, such as book reviews. If there is one benefit to the delay, it was my ability […]
Misinterpretations of Crist’s veto, and where to go next
I suspect that a number of observers will spin Charlie Crist’s veto of Senate Bill 6 to the point where the representation doesn’t come close to reality. By a quirk of timing, I was in Tallahassee today talking with legislators and staffers in the morning. In other words, I was at Ground Veto. Yep: I […]