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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: November 2014
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014. Irrational, Arbitrary or Capricious". In 1993, the Campaign for Fiscal Equity began a thirteen-year march toward a fair and equitable school funding formula. The march for fairness culminated in a lawsuit which wended its way through the NYS court system a la Bleak House,. The state now has twenty days in which to appeal the ruling or go to trial. Rebell expects the state to delay the case as long as possible. Wednesday, November 12, 2014. Flash from the Past. For Cornell...
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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: Still Fighting the Same Old Fight: Reauthorizing the ESEA
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Saturday, July 18, 2015. Still Fighting the Same Old Fight: Reauthorizing the ESEA. And for the first two decades of the ESEA, we saw progress in shrinking the achievement gap. Yet by moving away from federal oversight, the ECAA opens us up again to civil rights violations, and that's where the Leadership Conference gets up in arms. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A FEW LOCAL BLOGS/SITES. Alliance for International Women's Rights. Beer, Chocolate, Waffles. Five Month Pub Crawl. My Blog About Me.
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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: Not Pearson, but Still
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Saturday, July 11, 2015. Not Pearson, but Still. It's a little surprising to see how pleased the unions are. At NYS's move from Pearson to Questar. The teachers themselves seem a bit more cautious, at least on the UFT's FB page, recognizing, as one person posted, that this might represent the "same crap, different company." It helps that the new commissioner is promising that teachers will have significant input into the new tests. So what are we celebrating? Here's what we've lost by scapegoating the te...
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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: Creating/Rejecting a Monster
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Friday, July 10, 2015. To witness the effects of the Republicans' toxic brand this year, all you need to do is look at the Party running as fast as it can away from its own creation. Donald Trump is the spawn of reality TV crossed with talk radio, and even though they created him, the Party leadership can't stand what they have wrought. If I Cannot Inspire Love, I Will Cause Fear! In Trump world, the only truth worth speaking is the bottom line. Meanwhile, Back in the Village. My town of Dryden was once ...
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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: Random Thoughts from Rural Schools
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Random Thoughts from Rural Schools. Back from the Rural Schools Conference in Cooperstown, where leaders from impoverished districts live it up for a couple of days at the pricey Otesaga. A few random thoughts:. 1) Whatever the theme, we end up talking about poverty. 2) Even as we talk about poverty, we don't completely get it. 3) A flipped Senate won't help upstate schools. 4) Teachers as Regents? Not the greatest plan. Her self-comparison to Susan B. Anthony and Hillary Clin...
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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: Some Troubling Stats from Rural Schools
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Thursday, July 16, 2015. Some Troubling Stats from Rural Schools. I learned a handful of surprising-to-me things at this year's Rural School Conference. 1) Over four years, the tax cap has cut voter turnout at school elections by 30 percent. 2) Despite the horrendous participation rate, NYS voters still rate education their #2 issue. This one came from Steve Greenberg of Siena Research. I guess education's important, but not important enough to do anything about. This contributes to the district's below-...
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DRYDEN DAILY KAZ: The Regents
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Friday, May 27, 2011. Well, why the heck are you so polite to them? Which got me wondering- who are those Regents that run education in the Empire State? I know that they're political appointees, and I know that they're unpaid, and I know that they wield a rather alarming amount of power. Is actually pretty fascinating, especially the part about the history of school oversight in NYS. But the Regents themselves? They're high-powered and highly educated and fairly diverse (a gay man! A Puerto Rican woman!
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Five Wells: The Most Beautiful Stove in the World
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010. The Most Beautiful Stove in the World. All summer this space silently weighed on my mind and tugged at my heart.My beloved thirty year old Waterford cookstove was missing. I joked that it was spending the summer at rehab camp. But it wasn't funny to me. It was a bit like my house was in a coma - lacking any life energy and seriously in danger. Six months and $5,000 later, it's back! It was truly like watching the house awakening from a coma. And I was thankful. Awesome Inc....
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Five Wells: Everyday Things
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Friday, November 19, 2010. Years ago I read a cool book The Design of Everyday Things. In a modest way, it changed my life. I learned, among other things, that on doors in public places horizontal handles push out and vertical handles pull. It's hard to describe how much that simple concept has simplified my life. And that this would lead to " World Usability Day. I want to know more about this. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Building my own Eden, one weed at a time. View my complete profile.
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Five Wells: Wardrobe
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Thursday, July 15, 2010. I dragged a few bags of stuff out of my "hoarding" room to Salvation Army last week. My reward for this virtuous recycling was a chance to browse in the Salvation Army store. I scored a summer jacket, a pair of camel colored Ralph Lauren jeans and four shirts, including a perfect color and fit linen shirt and a beautiful silk shirt with a twill stripe accent - all for $20! Here's the favorite peach colored linen ready for work. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
