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A long nap on the job

In catching up on my weekend clips, I noticed that Rick Perry, our accountability dodging governor, has been waxing colorful, although not particularly insightful, about state government’s budgetary problems. “You’d have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to understand that we have a major financial crisis on our hands,” he said, as reported by […]

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Wanted: An education in civility

Remember what happened about this time last year, when a large number of fearful parents and nervous school administrators – egged on by rabid rightwing pontificators were predicting the end of Western civilization? Well, maybe the furor wasn’t quite that bad, but it was bad enough when President Obama decided to use the Internet to […]

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A virtual disappointment

The Texas Connections Academy, a hightech replacement for the traditional classroom, may fancy itself the wave of the future, but its lessthenimpressive performance for the Houston Independent School District has left about 800 students high and dry. The academy is a forprofit company that contracts with HISD to run a virtual campus for 1,000 students […]

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Playing games with $830 million

As you may have heard by now, the state of Texas’ application for $830 million in federal education jobs money has been rejected by the U.S. Department of Education because Gov. Perry tried to change the rules. Specifically, the application, submitted by Education Commissioner Robert Scott, didn’t provide the assurances required by federal law that […]

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