Florida vouchers amendment dead
This evening (about 7:30 pm), the Florida state senate failed to place a vouchers-related referendum on the ballot for this November. The vote was 23-16, one vote shy of the necessary three-fifths supermajority. Democrats who voted yes: Lawson, Pruitt Republicans who voted no: Argenziano, Jones, Lynn, Villalobos (Original tip: an AP story at the Miami […]
Do or die for Florida vouchers
Today or tomorrow is do-or-die day for the Florida voucher policies, I think. The Florida senate will be voting on whether to put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would authorize the legislature to create voucher programs. Without a constitutional amendment, there is a real possibility that Florida’s courts will use the January […]
On writing tics and mental kits
I’ve written before on writing tics, such as the horde of whereases that used to appear in my student writing. (I wonder how many of them knew that the conjunctive whereas is a contronym, a fact that caused a few problems in their essays.) Tics are easy problems to solve: you point them out, and […]
Florida ed news: Class-size cap repeal killed
Surprisingly, the Florida senate vote on the Republican leadership’s attempt to repeal or soften the constitutional class-size cap failed to muster even a majority, let alone the three-fifths supermajority needed in each house to go directly to the ballot. More Florida ed politics on the jump…
John Kenneth Galbraith
By Sherman Dorn on April 30, 2006
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith died last night in a Boston-area hospital. He was 97. I started reading him as a teenager, one of my aunts became an economics major because of his writings, and we will miss the voice of one of the best public intellectuals in the U.S. in the 20th century. He was […]
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