Dear Deval, My family hosted the first event in Gloucester for your campaign back in the spring of 2005. Back then you had to promise Nancy Stolberg that you could muster a dozen people to hear you speak if you wanted to host a house … [Read more...]
EDUCATION conference, that is
Got to go back to headline writing school... … [Read more...]
Conference Oct. 16 of interest to BMG-ers (and others) concerned about public education
CITIZENS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ISSUES CONFERENCE: "Taking Back Our Schools: Promoting Equity and Excellence in Public Education." Rep. Carl Sciortino, Melissa Colon, (Gaston Institute), Jose Lopez (co-chair Boston Coalition for Quality … [Read more...]
Education lobbist against teacher $ bill
Here's a pair of messages from Marc Kenen, the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Charter School Association. posted 07/16/2010 Early next week The United States Senate will debate an appropriations bill that includes a new $10 billion … [Read more...]
Alabama GOP and charter schools
Cross-posted at Red Mass Group. This is an interesting twist. Dr. Robert Bentley won the GOP nomination for governor tonight, beating the establishment candidate. In his web biography, here's how he describes himself: He is a … [Read more...]
“ROUNDING THE GLOBE’-22: Five lonely figures
ROUNDING THE GLOBE-Critical analysis of Boston Globe education coverage Five Figures Yesterday and today's Globe and Times carred five interesting figures. 1) In yesterday's NY Times, the JP Morgan Chase Co, took out a full-page ad … [Read more...]
Is the Globe Still Round Without Bill? Statistics 101
I know Bill is on vacation, so I will do my level best on this latest from the Globe, 'though it appears the Herald jumped on this one, too. Cross-posted on who-cester, with a Worcester connection The new study put out by the Boston … [Read more...]
Why build charter schools
In addition, this is a tax credit on money that their lending, so they're also collecting interest on the loans as well as getting the thirty-nine percent tax credit. They piggy-back the tax credit on other kinds of federal tax credits like … [Read more...]
Education Commish: Rules? What rules?? We make the rules…
So the response to a situation where you're caught red handed ignoring the impartial, professional advice of your own advisory committee and reviewers to satisfy a political agenda is to rewrite the policies and regulations to make sure … [Read more...]
NYT Charter Article – Good Read
Challenges in Replicating Charter School Success - NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05... Good read on this issue -- points out that yes there are successful charters - far fewer than the pro-charter lobby would have one believe -- … [Read more...]