I have been in bed with the flu since – what day is it? – Monday evening. The flu, in case you have not had it lately, really, really bites.
I feel like I was run over several times by a golf cart or other small vehicle that would cause a lot of pain, but [...]
Speaking of education, did you catch that article in the Free Press, or some other Vermont news source, about the NECAP results? (That’s the standardized test VT students take.)
You have to see it to believe how abysmal they are.
So, while the state is concerned that home schooled children are not getting a good enough [...]
I mentioned last week that homeschoolers in Vermont have been wrestling with the State Department of Education’s new interpretation of the recently revised Home Study statute.
I have been trying to think of a way to make this a story that is relevant to someone other than the small sub-set of Vermont homeschoolers who insist on [...]
A school superintendent in Georgia plans to separate the students throughout his entire district by gender, in an effort to save his failing schools.
“At the rate we’re moving, we’re never going to catch up,” Superintendent Shawn McCollough told parents in an impassioned speech last week. “If we’re going to take some steps, let’s take some [...]
This morning, the Burlington (VT) Free Press had an article about the state’s standardized test scores.
Vermont public school students in grades three to eight improved slightly in reading, dipped slightly in math and continued to struggle with writing, according to standardized test results published Tuesday by the Vermont Education Department.
But the real issue [...]
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The Rutland Herald ran a commentary today, by Paul Krugman, that began with the following imaginary scenario.
Suppose, for a moment, that the Heritage Foundation were to put out a press release attacking the liberal view that even children whose parents could afford to send them to private school should be entitled to free government-run education.
They’d [...]
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Still super pissed off extremely unhappy about having to prove that I am educating my children because it takes me so long to get all of the paperwork together with three kids under foot, I have one more post about homeschooling laws for you.
I just learned that New Jersey does not require anything from homeschooling [...]
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Since it is the unnecessarily burdensome annual reporting process the state requires for homeschooling that is keeping me from dazzling you all with my political insights, I figured that now is as good a time as any for one of my semi-annual rants against homeschooling laws.
A couple of weekends ago, my husband and I [...]
I’m sorry for the link posting, but I am yet again (what is this the tenth time this season?) battling a stinking cold.
Wondering what the legislature has done to fix education spending (and property taxes) this session – one of their campaign promises?
Vermont Tiger has the low down and it’s not pretty.
As one of my [...]
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There is a story in the Free Press this morning about the legislative hearings on property tax.
Jim Stevens, 67, is retired, but works two part-time jobs as a mail carrier and bus driver to supplement his retirement income. He said he and his wife live on less than $24,000 a year in a home they [...]
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