Much progress has been made in race relations in the last generation. And,, I suspect, more progress will YET be made as my children have children.
It’s the nature of human nature. We adjust, albeit slowly, to injustice and build a more noble character.
But sometimes the simple and slow march of time isn’t satisfying enough. We find that we must do more. And do it now.
So, well, so we do. And we sometimes find that what we get isn’t what we want.
Question:
Why is the state of New Jersey laying of so many teachers?
Answer:
Teachers.
Posted in Education, Elections 2010, Lobby/PAC
Tagged Abuse of Power, Leftist, Unions
I was reading through the Star Tribune today, The Minneapolis newspaper, when I came across this nifty and exciting headline:
Mpls. school board tries bonus as a carrot for accountability
Excellent. A start! Not the end, but a start.
There are things that people say. And then there are things people do.
And you can tell their priorities by one of em’.
You can “tell” me all flippin day long that you CARE about educating America’s youth. That you CARE about teaching.
But when you don’t DO anything that shows you care about educating and teaching, forgive me when I call bullshit.
To be honest, I don’t know why we elect people to government positions. I mean, in the larger sense I know that we NEED Senators and such; Nationally and on the State level.
But why do we elect that guy to the job?
I have zero idea.
Maybe because we hate him and want to condemn his life to one of a meaningless suffering?
It certainly is not, simple CAN NOT be, that we think he is smarter and more able to lead and govern than us.
Right?
Wake County Schools is huge, massive. It ranks in the top 50 districts in the country and may be in the top 45 this year. Compounding the challenge is the fact that the district encompasses the entire county; it’s large in terms of population and in terms of geography.
When faced with such a challenge, it’s the savvy manager that will set aside all preconceived notions of “how” and investigate all potential tools in the tool box.
And so it is that WCPSS embraced the “Diversity” policy.
Posted in Education, Politics: North Carolina
Tagged Busing, Race, Wake County, WCPSS
We continue to pour more and more money into public education and we get worse and worse results.
If this were a business, it would go out of business.
At some point, we are going to have to stop and make a decision between ideology and results.
Dollars per Year — UP
Graduation Rate — DOWN
The advocates of the Diversity 
policy in Wake County have lost an advocate.
Since I became interested in the debate, I have sided with the folks who were in favor of using socio-economic diversity when planning assignments in WCPSS. I am pretty much in favor of using any tool in a tool box to fix a problem. And I think the data supports the fact that when a school is becomes “too poor” it tips.
And achievement suffers.
Posted in Education, Politics: North Carolina
Tagged Bussing, Diversity, NAACP, Wake County, WCPSS
Then why would you fund your worst performing school? 
Consider a business owner with 3-4-5 stores. Every year, she evaluates her business in an effort to determine which store is doing well and which is under performing. I can see her ranking her stores, best to worst.
Now imagine if she were to take that list, identify the worst performing store and reward its manager with a raise.
That’s what we do with our public schools.
I have been so wrong for so long. It turns out that embracing Liberalism has its perks:
There will be no valedictory speech at Jericho High School’s graduation on Sunday.