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 […]
Federal bill would require open-access publishing for funded research
The Washington Post has reported on a Senate bill that would require free online publishing of research results within six months of refereed publications for research from 11 federal agencies (those that have $100 million or more in funded projects). Groups with various interests in publishing are lining up on the expected sides—open-access advocates in […]
More Florida voucher-politics strangeness
If yesterday saw the parliamentary resurrection of the referendum proposal that would authorize voucher programs in the state constitution, today had retaliatory maneuvers that slowed the state senate to a crawl for an hour, as the Democrats forced the word-for-word reading of two otherwise-uncontroversial bills. Fort Lauderdale Democratic Senator Mandy Dawson then accused the governor […]