Marc Comtois
Melissa Clouthier called attention to this from Ethel Fenig at the American Thinker: In August, 2009, as he was extolling the virtues of his proposed Obamacare, President Barack Obama (D) famously promised “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” And if you’re a union member you certainly can;…
I covered initial reactions to Governor Chafee’s new Board of Regents appointments yesterday, so I won’t repeat myself. The ProJo has more info and reaction, including the info that Central Falls School Board of Trustees Chair Anna Cano-Morales, lawyer Amy Beretta and school reform advocate Angus Davis were the Regents NOT re-appointed by Chafee. The…
According to ProJo : Governor Chafee has in recent days asked former House Majority Leader George Caruolo to chair the state Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education….a knowledgable source has confirmed that the governor asked Democrat Caruolo, 58, of East Providence, to come out of political retirement to chair the board, subject to…
NBC 10’s Bill Rappleye tweets:”Chafee names 5 new education regents today. Gist cancels presentation to Senate. 2+2 ?” We know that the former head of the Board of Regents, Robert Flanders, is out and moving over to the position of Central Falls receiver. Governor Chafee has 8 slots to fill and the ProJo identifies former…
From the Mercatus Center at George Mason University: Since 1975, manufacturing output has more than doubled, while employment in the sector has decreased by 31%. While these American job losses are indeed sobering, they are not an indication of declining U.S. competitiveness. In fact, these statistics reveal that the average American manufacturer is over three…
In an earlier post I looked at Rhode Island’s 4th grade student demographic data for the 2009 NAEP Science assessment and how it compared to national results. Now let’s take a look at how the average 4th Grade scores compare based on various teacher qualification factors. First up are results based on whether kids are…
The ProJo reported on the results of the lates NAEP Science (for 2009) results for RI and it wasn’t pretty. I went over to the NAEP website and dug deeper into the data. What follows are some of the things I found related to the 4th grade results (all I’ve got time for, I hope…
So what were my impressions of President Obama’s State of the Union speech? Don’t have any. Didn’t watch it and had a pleasant night. These things have way jumped the shark and long-ago devolved into an inside-the-beltway circle jerk dominated by the post-game spinmeisters trying to tell you what it all “really” means. It took…
As Ed Fitzpatrick wrote about last week, Governor Chafee is taking a “thoughtful pause” on considering whether or not Rhode Island should allow more charter schools to open up. According to Chafee spokesman Mike Trainor, the Governor …strongly believes Rhode Island needs a deep and healthy debate on the issue of charter schools because it…
The idea of “teaching to the test” is something that is viewed undesirable by just about everyone. But a new study shows that there may be something to it. The research, published online Thursday in the journal Science, found that students who read a passage, then took a test asking them to recall what they…