I cannot take credit for Sansom’s departure
Apparently Ray Sansom’s lawyer Gloria Fletcher has blamed bloggers for the downfall of her client. Since I was pretty active in writing about the Sansom affair in late 2008 and early 2009, maybe Ms. Fletcher means me… except that almost all I did was refer people by links to news stories written by Alex Leary […]
The cliff, layoffs, and another stimulus/state rescue
Andy Smarick’s analysis is correct: Arne Duncan and Barack Obama are talking this week about pending teacher layoffs to lay the groundwork for more stimulus/state-budget-rescue discussions. I suspect I have one analytical and one policy disagreement with Smarck, though. First, it’s not a “second stimulus,” because we’re moving into a period where there will be […]