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    Best Blog Posts Of The Day (So Far)

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    73 days ago in This Week In Education · Authority: 80

    Best Blog Posts Of The Day (So Far) Education Spending and the Candidates Campaign K12 One of my beats here at Education Week is the federal budget. And this year, Congress has been unusually sluggish (even for Congress) at getting going on education spending bills. McCain’s education team Shoofly Were you wondering who’s advising the presumptive GOP presidential candidate on education? We were. Now we know. And a pretty distinguished, if slightly predictable, group it is. What Will the Tough Liberals in the UFT Do? Ed Notes Online With a UFT Delegate Assembly coming up this week, it will be interesting to watch how Randi plays the Obama/Clinton issue, if she does so at all - we don't see how she can ignore it. Corporate Vouchers Victorious in Florida Education Policy Blog Nevertheless, a growing number of legislators in Florida have seen the light at the bottom of their vortex. They have convinced themselves that they are not voting for vouchers--they are voting for scholarships. Soft bigotry further hardens Liam Julian We know that the best schools “sweat the small stuff”; they do not overlook untucked shirts, they do not permit poor posture, they do not deign to hold different students to different standards ... PLUS: Social promotion exposed. Virtual Morality Web Watch Teacher-in-training Stacy Snyder brought suit against Millersville University, alleging that she was denied her teaching credential because of a picture of herself as a “drunken pirate” on her MySpace page. An Unlikely Pair Finds Common Ground on NCLB The Hoff You wouldn't expect Charles Murray and Richard Rothstein to agree on anything. Meet Jake Teaching In The 408 Let's hope like hell, cuz Jake or someone like him will be in room D2 next year, teaching my kids. I resign on Monday.

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    Corporate Vouchers Victorious in Florida

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    74 days ago in Online Education Guide · No authority yet

    When state legislators in Florida offer children and parents either a rundown, under-funded, segregated testing factory or a tax-supported corporate voucher to a Christian school, the school choice has already been made–and it hasn’t been made by the parent or the child. Nevertheless, a growing number of legislators in Florida have seen the light at the bottom of their vortex. They have convinced themselves that they are not voting for vouchers–they are voting for scholarships. They are not giving up their civic commitment to provide for citizens in order that corporations may be relieved of their tax burden–they are saving children, even if it is from their own legislative and moral failure to provide for those children. The amount of democracy within a society is directly proportionate to the amount of civic space remaining there. Oh, well. Clips from St. Petersburg Times: In 2001, Democrats in the Legislature pounded Republican plans to start a private school voucher program for poor and predominantly minority kids. They said it was unconstitutional, a drain on public schools, even un-American. In the end, all but one Democrat voted against it. Times have changed. This year, a bill to vastly expand the same program passed by large margins. And this time, a third of the Democratic caucus was on board. “I’m a strong advocate for public school education, and I’m not necessarily a strong advocate for vouchers,” said Rep. Bill Heller, D-St. Petersburg, one of four Tampa Bay-area Democrats to vote yes. But “the bottom line has to be the child. If good things are happening for the child, then you can justify it.” . . . . The legislation increases the amount of each scholarship to $3,950, up $200 from this year. The average cost per student in public school is about $7,000. Some Democratic supporters say they back the program because unlike Opportunity Scholarships, the state’s first voucher program — which the Florida Supreme Court struck down in 2006 — the money for tax-credit scholarships doesn’t come directly out of state coffers. Some offered what critics call a semantic defense. “I don’t think I’m voting for a voucher,” said Rep. Betty Reed, a Tampa Democrat who has 13 private schools in her district that accept tax-credit scholarships. “It’s a scholarship.” . . . . Source: Jim Horn