State officials in Maryland, including Gov. Martin O’Malley, are promoting a proposal to make environmental education a requirement for high school graduation in that state, according to an article in Education Week. If the idea is adopted by the Maryland State Board of Education this fall, it apparently would be the first time a state […]
Some education supporters may have breathed a little easier this spring when Marsha Farney of Georgetown, a former teacher and school counselor, defeated Brian Russell for the Republican nomination for the District 10 seat on the State Board of Education. Russell clearly was a rightwinger, eager to join in the ideological mayhem that ultraconservative board […]
Having returned to the real world from a few days’ worth of vacation in San Francisco – still chilly out there, still hilly, still beautiful I am still trying to clear out a bit of the fog. But only a cursory reading of the news clips is enough to find Gov. Perry still dancing around […]
When you don’t have a solution to a problem, propose a study. Sometimes, a study can be a legitimate, productive approach to problemsolving. At other times, though, a study is simply a way to continue dancing around a problem, and that is the approach the Texas Republican Party is taking to one of the biggest […]
