A+ Plus Plan corrections will have to wait…
For those waiting for me to correct my description of the final A+ Plan bill, you’ll have to wait a little longer. I’ll have to make sure I find the final form (an interesting challenge) and go through it again, double-checking against the analysis I received from a friend in Tallahassee. I’m just not up […]
Summer tasks
As Profgrrrrl has noted, the space between terms can be odd for rhythms, and May is like that for me, even when I’m not teaching in the summer. This morning, I’m one student’s late-final tech-glitch away from finishing grading, and then I will see what’s on my data-recovery disk, and then the May crash hits […]
Florida ed news: Vouchers, high-school majors, school-year schedules, trips to Cuba
It’s the second-to-last day of the regular Florida legislative session, so this is when a lot of business gets done, as well as other political flux (i.e., Bush’s defense against Senator Mandy Dawson’s claims of political arm-twisting on the voucher votes). Too much to really cover comprehensively, so I’ll start with a list of bullet […]
Why teacher union democracy and process matters
The ed-blogule spat over who represents teachers is expanding, from Leo Casey’s original criticism of a NewSchools Venture Fund meeting (held without an actively-serving union officer) to Andrew Rotherham’s carping, with rebuttals on each side in the original entries and in another Leo Casey entry. The gist: the NSVF meeting (with the description, “As the […]
Data recovery…
By Sherman Dorn on May 8, 2006
Grades are in, mother and mother-in-law have left town, and so it’s time to see about that data recovery… Update (5:30): So far so good. Almost all of the data is safe and transferred. I’m worried about my Outlook files, as anyone who uses Outlook can probably attest. I have too many things hidden in […]
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