Posted in Why Timmy can't read on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
After you read this, you will want to barf on a liberal.
The state’s largest school employee union hired a Washington, D.C., consulting firm to craft a public relations strategy for limiting the expansion of charter schools in Delaware.
The firm represents some of the most extremist statist groups: Open Society Institute, National League of Cities, and [...]
Posted in Sweet on Apr 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Education columnist Jay Matthews highlights KIPP’s success:
The report reveals that Barth [CEO of KIPP] has set a goal of expanding KIPP’s network to 100 schools serving 24,000 students by the year 2011, slightly ahead of the KIPP average of nine new schools a year since it began to expand in 2001 from Feinberg’s and [...]
Posted in This is bullshit! on Mar 28th, 2008 No Comments »
My good friend Paul Jacob made a great observation on Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley.
Years ago, Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley voted against Oregon’s charter school legislation. He lost.
Later, he and his wife applied to send two of their kids to a newly forming charter school. The school was late in starting up, so he [...]
Posted in Sweet on Mar 4th, 2008 6 Comments »
A picture is worth a thousand words!
100 Texan families camped outside a charter school for two days because parents want to enroll their kids in River Oaks rather than their traditional public school.
Milton Friedman’s dream is coming true. Parents want liberty.
Check out the Dallas Morning News article.
Posted in Fair Enough on Feb 29th, 2008 3 Comments »
From the Hoover Institution:
States with large Hispanic populations and high numbers of college-educated adults are more likely to pass supportive charter school legislation, as are states with weak academic performance as measured by students’ [...]
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