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Re: Burr heads west for recess

bkrueger — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:59:20 -0400

I have deleted GiggleBox's comment.

Re: Burr heads west for recess

PaulTerrell — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:11:53 -0400

I am still waiting for the moderator on this blog to ban gigglebox. But I doubt that will happen. It seems that journalism is dead and his blather just proves it.

Re: Burr heads west for recess

lpetrou — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:06:15 -0400

GiggleBox, I don't think I have read a nastier piece of work in a long time. Can't you just comment on the actions of Sen. Burr without bringing his wife into it in a vile manner? And they say that Republicans are the party of personal destruction; after reading what you write I am even more convinced that it is the leftwing liberal Democrats that practice personal destruction. Grow up and try to frame an argument on logic rather than on knee jerk leftwing liberal democrat talking points. Did your mother not teach you manners?

Re: Obama's Rural Tour coming to N.C.

GiggleBox — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:26:32 -0400

I hope no dumb people show up.

Re: School grants competition on

PaulTerrell — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:15:12 -0400

June Atkinson was asked that very question at a Wake County Taxpayers meeting in Raleigh and she again said she was against lifting the ceiling on charter schools. She said she was fearful of creating failing charter schools. Apparently she is not afraid of creating failing public schools.

Re: Charter cap could cost N.C.

MattM — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:43:07 -0400

The primary concern of public schools should be the students, not teacher's jobs. Opening up the cap will force the administrators to be smarter with their decisions and I don't see that as a bad thing. The public schools and charter schools can then learn from each other.

Unless you just want to continue making the actual education of young people the second, third, fourth, or fifth priority. Even Obama recognizes the valuable role charter schools can play as an addition, not a replacement.

Re: Charter cap could cost N.C.

PaulTerrell — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:23:58 -0400

Hey Mr. Protzman, where is your statement on failing public schools. I think we need to put a cap on public schools until they are all awesome. I mean come on how ridiculous is both your statement and that one? I do not hear from you about closing failing public schools or limiting the number of public schools.

Overall Charter Schools outperfom public schools with less. Per student public schools get much more than Charter Schools per student. And the Charter Schools do much better.

Measured Investment? Oh come on Mr. Protzman, come clean and say how you really feel about Charter Schools. The statistics prove Charter Schools are overall superior to public schools. What are you afraid of, some real competition?

Re: Charter cap could cost N.C.

factsversefallacy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:59:46 -0400

Because the current system of accountability in place for public schools is resulting in such great results...

Do Charter Schools Perform Better Than Traditional Public Schools?
EdSource Study Says…It Depends

This study shows that Charter schools DO perform better on the middle and high school level...

NC's Charter School Report Card

This shows that our charter schools face strong accountability standards and over 30 schools have closed because of poor performance!

Boston's Democratic Mayor even recognizes the need for MORE

factsversefallacy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:55:58 -0400

Tom Menino, the longtime Democratic mayor of this city, is not known for rocking the boat or for eloquence. But earlier this month he stunned many in the city when he gave a powerful speech about school reform.

Charter Schools Win a High-Profile Convert

Re: Charter cap could cost N.C.

factsversefallacy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:40:54 -0400

NCAE, whose parents organization is NAE, is a union - plain and simple - semantics semantics!

Union representing teachers in the state. Affiliated with the NEA.

This is what it says when you do a Google search and the results pop up!

Re: Charter cap could cost N.C.

PJLofWake — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:31:19 -0400

NCAE's position paper on Charter Schools:
http://www.ncae.org/Images/Users/7/Charter%20School%20Position%20Paper.pdf
BTW, "A" stands for Association not "UNION"

PS

James_Protzman — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:52:16 -0400

I forgot to mention, I am a supporter of measured investment in charter schools, though I oppose increasing the cap. We already have plenty of under-performing charter schools in North Carolina. Until we have a system to make sure there's accountability, we shouldn't raise the cap. Legislation that would increase the cap by 6 schools is silly.

Charters perform no better

James_Protzman — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:50:14 -0400

According to a recent report by the leading advocacy group for charter schools, they performed no better than public schools.

Re: Charter cap could cost N.C.

factsversefallacy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:25:08 -0400

Considering our teachers are being fired and we are facing tax increases to "save the teachers," then this should be an easy sell to allow more charter schools...

Does anyone know if kids perform better in public schools or charter schools?

I wonder if the teachers union will support this idea to expand the number...I think I know the answer...

Re: Education secretary to visit Cary

kmisegades — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:51:10 -0400

This must be an oxymoron:

"James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy"

Most of the problems and corruption in this state can be traced to Hunt's behind-the-scene string-pulling and cronyism.

What a joke - who wants to bet that the basic theme will be "we need more money"?