From the Herald Times of Bloomington, IN. Letter: Voucher programs LETTERS October 26, 2011 To the editor: Recently the Chamber of Commerce hosted an education forum that will showcase the aggressive policies of profiteering implemented…
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New After School Program Should Be Full Day Model
This is a “local” post, but don’t dismiss it–think how it might apply to the schools in your community. What follows is, in full, an article from today’s Herald Times intended to “color in” some…
Tony Bennett’s Barbarians of Profit Breach the Walls of Public Institutions
Yesterday the Bloomington Chamber of Commerce hosted a kind of dog and pony show they called an Education Forum that featured the salesmanship of one Tony Bennett (aka T.B. Sheets*), Indiana’s Minister of Public Deception. …
Errant Eye 8/28: Battle for Most Corrupt – ExxonMobil, Dick Cheney and IU’s Haydn Murray
Title Correction: “Haydn White” should be “Haydn Murray”. (Update to #6 below) This morning’s news round-up from the across the Web: 1) One can only hope Dick Cheney travels outside of the country and is…
Errant Eye 8/27: Hispanics and Education – The Great Dream of a Debtor Nation
Our local paper is chock full of less than stellar news today. Let’s just post all that brings me way down. 1) The front page is nearly entirely committed to a murder of a 28…
Sunday Round-up: “NO!” to National Bloviators; Local Call to Stasi Collaborators
A few news items and editorial pieces in the HT drew the urge to comment and so instead of trying to sound the depths of one story or one topic culled from our local paper…
Vouchers as Feint–Subsidizing Free Market Ideology
Today’s HT front-page story by Bethany Nolan detailing an informational meeting about the state’s expansive voucher program is titled “School Vouchers Praised for Adding Options,” while the online edition changes its title somewhat to “School…
Unrepresentative–HT Sides with GOP While Our Community Suffers
Opening the Herald Times this morning brought frustrating political and fiscal news as well as a deeply wrong-headed editorial. Where to begin? Local Income Tax Revenue to drop in ’12: well, there’s a shocker though…
(Lack of) Sustainability Articles in HT
Today’s HT has much to recommend it, particularly as it offers many articles that focus on the issue of sustainability, notably the entire “Down to Earth” section. The Errant applauds this and wants to highlight…