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Odds and ends
On the good side, it’s Bastille Day, and I survived my biweekly killer workout. ((This does not mean I’m in good shape but that I’m in better shape than if I had stayed home.)) On the other hand, I’m depressed about virtually everything involving the prosecution of George Zimmerman, and not concentrating well as a result. […]
Florida civil rights groups statement on “parent trigger” bill
The “parent trigger” bill has surfaced again in the Florida legislature this session. Yesterday, LULAC Florida and the Florida NAACP sent the following joint letter to Governor Scott, the Florida House Education Committee, and the legislative delegations from Miami-Dade County and Broward County: Joint Statement: Equity Issues and the Parent Trigger Bill LULAC Florida and […]
FL Court: “Okay, legislature, you get a pass… but it’s not blanket approval”
A quick note on today’s decision of the Florida Supreme Court that the legislature has the authority to set tuition for the state’s public universities. In 2002, voters approved a state constitutional amendment that created the Board of Governors as a constitutional body to manage the state’s universities. Several key supporters of that amendment were […]
Non-profit as trade association? (Bush foundation allegations)
If anybody had time yesterday to browse the In the Public Interest collection of emails from the Foundation for Excellence in Education, it wasn’t me. I’ve read a few accounts, such as the one on Valerie Strauss’s blog, so the following is a short, initial impression based on someone else’s summary of a few items […]
Teacher ed reform: short, cynical version
I’ve been having some troubles finishing a blog entry on remedial education–there are multiple moving pieces in my head, and explaining how they fit together is partly a matter of taking them apart and rearranging them. I had intended to finish it Friday, and then Saturday, and now sometime this year apparently. But since there’s […]