It didn’t take long for the selfanointed education “experts,” many of whom haven’t darkened a classroom door since graduation day, to jump all over the real experts – teachers – for criticizing President Obama’s “blueprint” for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Obama may want to retire the “No Child Left Behind” name, but, […]
There has to be a better way. In fact, there probably are several better ways to write public school curricula than the slapstick routine performed (once again) this week by that preposterously misnamed creature, the State Board of Education. Trying to rewrite history to fit your own narrow, ideological view of the world is not […]
Yesterday’s blog item encouraging votes against Republican legislative candidates who support school vouchers prompted one teacher, Betsy, a voucher supporter, to ask me for a nonpolitical, “issuesbased piece” on my antivoucher position. This may not be what she is looking for, but, for me, the bottom line is this. The vast majority of Texas children […]
With the Legislature facing a shortfall next January that has been projected (so far) at anywhere between $11 billion and $15 billion, wasting precious tax dollars on private school vouchers should be one of the last things on any politically reasonable mind. The key word here, though, is reasonable. In four key (for teachers) Republican […]
