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Maybe he/she is a fan of Lady Gaga and likes her new release, Judas.
You know what they say about South Carolina: Too small to be a country, too big to be an asylum
Adam Urbanski is using the same reference here in Rochester to justify reneging on incentive pay and new teacher evals.
@Political Observer: an ad hominem that does not counter Zais’ opinion. There have been several other states who see the writing on the wall: the conditions for winning RTTT money favor certain ways of structuring and administrating educational programs that are not efficient, effective, or feasible for some states or locales. The initiative has been biased in favor of urban districts and environments from the start, and largely rural states just don’t like the result of that cost-benefit calculation.
“too big to be an asylum” ! Love it!
RTT is little different from NCLB. Will evangelical self-righteousness improve SC’s test scores?