Will Charlie Crist threaten a budget veto if the legislature won’t go along with using ARRA funds?
Mark Sanford’s political ambitions might cost 7,500 South Carolina teachers their jobs because he doesn’t want his state to accept federal ARRA funds. Charlie Crist’s political ambitions might save thousands of Florida teachers their jobs because he does want Florida to accept federal ARRA funds. There are some legislators in Florida who agree with Mark […]
Joel Klein as DM
John Thompson’s blog entry today, God Does Not Play Dice, is in response to Charles Barone’s Ed Sector report on value-added or growth models used for high-stakes accountability. (It’s on my to-read list along with the IES/Mathematica study on teacher ed programs and various other things.) Thompson describes a number of caveats and then says, […]
Inconsistency illustrated
From an Andy Smarick blog entry yesterday afternoon: I can’t imagine how sad and frightened thousands of DC kids and parents are today…. The scuttling of this program will have a swift and severe influence on about 1,700 low-income boys and girls. From Smarick’s blog entry about 10 hours earlier: The schools chief in Baltimore […]