Education
Gary Ezovski, Chairman of the North Smithfield School Committee, offers these thoughts in a recent ProJo editorial: I can comfortably say that I have yet to hear a suggestion that will solve the schools-budget challenge in our community or throughout the state… The business of education is nearly 80-percent labor. Payroll and benefits are where…
I stand behind my original solution to the problem posed by Providence residents like Maria Hernandez who send their children to school in Cranston. Instead of focusing on action against Ms. Hernandez, Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey should take the battle directly to the real source of the problem — the Providence school system. Mayor Laffey…
Representative Paul Crowley (D-Newport) has introduced legislation lifting Rhode Island’s moratorium on the establishment of new charter schools (House bill 6850). If the moratorium is not lifted, no new charter school can open in Rhode Island until the 2008-2009 school year.
According to the Wall Street Journal: If we told you that an organization gave away more than $65 million last year to Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Amnesty International, AIDS Walk Washington and dozens of other such advocacy groups, you’d probably assume we were describing a liberal philanthropy.…
An editorial in Saturday’s Projo compared the poor performance of Rhode Island’s public schools to the better performance of those in neighboring Massachusetts, then listed a number of reform proposals for closing the gap…Impose high-stakes testing. Create performance incentives for teachers, through pay — rewarding those who do a great job, and especially those who…
Somehow this bit of biography of the man who recently performed a “75-minute one-act, written by Howard Zinn, [that] engaged the audience by shedding light on the theories of philosopher Karl Marx” at the University of Rhode Island is almost too predictable to notice: Jones is a high school teacher in New York and is…
Andrew has just posted the results of the vote on the Cranston teachers’ union contract. [Read the first comment to that posting for an interesting perspective from someone who attended the meeting.] Steve Stycos, a School Committee member, was quoted in the referenced ProJo article as saying that board did not have sufficient information about…
Thanks to Andrew for the heads-up about a posting in today’s kausfiles: Test Scores Improving, NEA In Full Damage-Control Mode! Want to know what to make of those recent encouraging NAEP test score results, which the Bush Administration promptly hailed as “proof that No Child Left Behind is working.” As usual, Eduwonk is the place…
The North East Independent and the East Greenwich Pendulum, our two local newspapers, carried two stories this week that reinforce, yet again, why public schools are structured in a way where neither teachers nor bureaucrats act in ways that lead to a level of excellence necessary to provide our children with a superb education and…
Michelle Malkin has a wonderfully effective way of being quite direct. Consider this posting entitled Shut Up and Teach: The National Education Association recently had its annual convention, where it called for President Bush to withdraw our troops from Iraq, vowed to defeat the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and resolved to educate about the…
