Once again, the truth about Big Education is revealed: it’s about protecting the system. From the LA Times:
The union representing Los Angeles teachers filed a lawsuit Monday to block the potential hand-over of new campuses to charter schools under the district’s groundbreaking and controversial school-reform strategy.
Charter-school advocates defended the plan’s [...]
Imagine what would occur if the U.S. Postal Service lost its government supplied monopoly on first class mail service. I suspect there would be less of this kind of thing if expenditures really impacted the organization’s life or death. Nothing is more effective than competition at making business [...]
The state lottery commission is switching ad agencies.
The commission, sensing that the economic climate might make for a little healthy competition, decided to see if it could get a better deal than it was getting from Charlotte-based Wray Ward, which was receiving a fee of 10 percent for every [...]
What critics term “busing” in Wake County — or sometimes “forced busing” — is in reality a web of policies mixing neighborhood schools, year-round schools, and magnet schools with a limited number of assignments (usually for kids from low-income neighborhoods) to somewhat distant schools for the purpose of maintaining socioeconomic [...]
Governor Bev Perdue is making a trip to Washington, DC today to petition for more federal funds for North Carolina. Instead of working to find better ways to cut spending, target waste and inefficiency in government, and provide tax relief for North Carolinians struggling in the recession – our Governor [...]
Proponents of the federal government’s push to further politicize the delivery of medical care in this country have continuously touted that part of their ”reform’s” benefits will be choice and competition for health insurance, and that nobody will lose their current coverage if they like it.
This WSJ article exposes that lie. [...]
This story is a perfect example of the power of competition in a free market to reduce costs and expand options for consumers. My favorite store, WalMart, is taking on an up-and-coming rival, amazon.com. Guess what is happening? Yes, prices are dropping and we consumers are in the driver’s [...]
It's hard to imagine that there is another NC Congress-person with wackier (and more dangerous) ideas than Virginia Foxx, but Sue Myrick is ratcheting up the Crazy.
The former mayor of Charlotte who once tried to have Rock and Roll concerts banned from the Charlotte Coliseum and who claims to' [...]
Like most of you on this blog, I would expect, I get a minor mountain of email every day, proffering petitions to sign urging action on timely causes that I support, or begging for more money to fight the good fight for yet another day.
I try hard to sign what [...]
If you sign the Credo petition, they'll send Bob Etheridge a coathanger. See http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/send_a_coathanger/
Also see the SFGate article on what Bob and his pals really voted for (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/13/EDAM1AJ8NV.D...)
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