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“rigorous evaluation over several years demonstrates that the D.C. program has not yielded improved student achievement by its scholarship recipients compared to other students in D.C.,” – White House “the DC OSP has accomplished what few educational interventions can claim: It markedly improved important education outcomes for low-income inner-city students.” – Patrick J. Wolf (Investigator [...]
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If you have listened to the radio in Houston over the last few days you have undoubtedly heard the latest commercial bashing the cuts that are going to be made in Texas. The commercial has a young teacher (with valley girl accent) saying that we should dip into the rainy day fund to avoid cuts [...]
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“a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable.” - FDR letter to a public union But [...]
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Better late than never I guess. I gave my overall impression of Obama’s State of the Union address in a very simple story last week. Here are my other thoughts on the speech. First, I would say that he never gave an accurate state of the union. The numbers show we are in bad shape [...]
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I went to a Veterans Day program at Angleton Christian School yesterday (a very nice program I would add) and I couldn’t help but think to myself that this is what the founders envisioned schools should be like. A healthy dose of english, math, and science along with a healthy dose of the Bible. Many [...]
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