Fake education year in preview: 2012 highlights, Part II
As promised in my previous entry, here’s the second half of the year-in-preview for 2012: July 2: An alternative weekly newspaper uncovers a scandal at a charter-school educational management organization (EMO), documenting fraud that cost that state more than $10 million in 2011-12. July 3: Friends of an executive of the accused EMO in turn […]
Fake education year in preview: 2012 highlights, Part I
I miss Howard Troxler, former columnist of the St. Pete Times who retired in June and moved out of the state. We have lost a good columnist here, which hurts us in two ways: Troxler was the last second-section public-affairs columnist for the St. Pete Times, which will be changing names to the Tampa Bay Times […]