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If America is Teh Greatest Country Evah, why don't the 1%-ers want to pay for it and invest in it?
New Orleans has eliminated its public school system in favor of charter schools. Here is a link describing this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/in-new-orleans-traditional-public-schools-close-for-good/2014/05/28/ae4f5724-e5de-11e3-8f90-73e071f3d637_story.html?hpid=z1
Unfortunately this (see linked article) is the case pretty much universally, whether we're talking about conventional public schools, charter schools or voucher systems that act as nice discount coupons for the affluent to use toward private schools, the entire cost of which are nowhere near covered by the vouchers. The New Orleans public school system was so awful long before Katrina that what this new system does or does not achieve there will have little relevance in reference to school districts, such as Colorado's Douglas County, where public schools are highly rated in the first place.
The New Orleans experiment has relevance for Colorado in a number of ways.
Denver Public Schools is moving toward a system of charters. The New Orleans model may or may not be the ultimate goal. Minority students do well in some of the DPS Charter schools. The candidate slate that emphasized revitalizing DPS neighborhood schools lost in the most recent DOS election. None of the board members, or the losing candidates, were conservative, but rather billed themselves as "progressives."
There are those who would argue that the goal of the charter movement is not merely to improve education but also to greatly weaken the power of the teacher unions. If the latter is true, then the quality of education in a District is not that important. Douglas County has an excellent school system as does Jefferson County. It may be that if there is a negative effect of the conservative take over of thise school boards, it will not be immediately apparent. The latest test scores are due out at the end of July or early August, it will be interesting to see if there are changes in Douglas County. The turmoil of the last year in JeffCo could result in lowered test scores simply because of those tensions; this has been true in DPS.
Still contend that New Orleans is a poor example for extrapolating for the purpose of addressing the issues you list, very real and important issues, in our schools because it has been such an exceptionally dysfunctional system for so long. Few systems, including Denver, have ever approached the level of dysfunction that has been the norm in New Orleans for decades. It is simply too special a case to be very instructive in a general way.
It's quite likely that any new system, no matter how misguided in a general way for other systems, will result in some improvement in New Orleans. Like the police force and everything else in the way of municipal services, it would be hard to get worse or more corrupt than the pre-Katrina, much less post-Katrina New Orleans starting point.
Correction: Not DOS, but DPS
In the computer world, DOS is Denial Of Service (among other things). So, it might be appropriate depending on what they end up doing to the school system…
@ross Cunniff
LOL
also, wasn't DOS an ancient operating system???
Uh, no.
Ancient is EXEC II.
IBM 360 DOS (circa 1964) wasn't much newer than Univac's EXEC II (circa 1962), although dwyer might be thinking of the PC operating system Bill Gates snapped up for $50k and got billions in return 🙂
more ancient was CP/M . Also, a bit of a stretch to call DOS an operating system. Most computer people thought of DOS as a single entrant program loader.
I still have an old CP/M machine out in the garage. Just can't bring myself to have it recycled.
I still use Lotus.
(This is anonymous, right?)
Hallelujah!
http://www.sgvtribune.com/government-and-politics/20140528/sriracha-hot-sauce-factory-no-longer-considered-a-public-nuisance-in-irwindale
I have been following this and thatt is good news. No need to escalate.
Just had Sriracha mayo (Lee Kum Kee) for the first time last weekend. Pretty awesome.
Try this one sometime. It's great.
Sweet and Spicy Cucumber Salad
-2 large cucumbers or 1 English cucumber, thinly sliced (and peeled if you prefer)
-1 teaspoon flax oil or olive oil
-1 teaspoon rice vinegar
-1 tablespoon sriracha
-1/4 teaspoon sea salt
-1 teaspoon sugar
Place the cumcumber slices in a bowl.
Whisk together the other ingredients and pour over the cucumbers. Serve almost immediately (the salt will draw liquid out of the cucumbers and make the dressing watery if you wait too long.)
That looks like a great summer dish Ralphie. Already cut and pasted; going to try it and will report back !
My favorite way to eat an avocado involves Sriracha also. Slice the avocado in half, remove the seed but leave the flesh in the skin. Fill the depression in each half left by the seed with Sriracha. Eat the avocado by scraping it out of the skin with a teaspoon, mixing a little Sriracha with each bite.
Your mouths lined with Kevlar, right?
It's not THAT hot. It's made with jalapenos, not habaneros.
jalapeños
You gonna make me drag out the Windoze character map?
Ralphie, do you mind posting that on the JDB Facebook page? It'll be much easier for me to find there than here when I decide to make this.
Here's a link. You can bookmark it.
http://fitnessista.com/2013/08/sweet-and-spicy-cucumber-salad/
Just had a dab of Sriracha on my burrito in Trinidad – after traveling the backroads from Wray -> Lamar -> Trinidad Hwy 350 a/k/a/ BFE. Things were a little slow in Sheridan Lake, Bronson, Hasty & Timpas – but the hills are beautiful today.
I hope that Republicans don't object to some science on this site. Here's a quick vid about Sriracha from the American Chemical Society:
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I hope that Republicans don't object to some multi-culturalism on this site, because here's an excerpt from Vice about a woman who markets her own whiskey-barrel sriracha sauce:
AG John Suthers considering run for Colorado Springs mayor
Read more at http://gazette.com/ag-john-suthers-considering-run-for-colorado-springs-mayor/article/1520699#B5kvAELV6PPAJyfx.99
Would John Caldera move there to vote for him?
No. But he might pretend to move there to vote.
No. He would pretend to move there to NOT vote.
actually, as seriously, Suthers is about as sane a GOPer as you can hope to find nowadays in Colorado. I think he'd be agree fit as Colorado Spirings mayor. (It's gonna be an R anyway . . . ).
I kind of wish this were true, but I'm thinking that as a career public servant that Suthers could do a great deal for himself, now, in the private sector. God knows he's way more valuable than what he's being paid in this State.
as = and
agree = a great
(A pox on both autocorrect and on this freakin' site . . . )
A match made in…some righty church in C. Springs. Suthers and that town deserve each other.
In another predictable GOP Head-Up-Their-Ass move, the House budget proposes extending $300 billion in tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations with no payfor, so it is added directly into the deficit!
But then we know according to Moddy and AC, the deficit is all Obama's fault, anyway.
Oh yes, and the GOP budget also includes a lump of coal for the middle class, especically if you're dumb enough to lose your job in a recession.
Congress's own financial analysis is that the tax cuts have done little or nothing to stimulate growth or add jobs.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/29/republican-tax-cuts_n_5412865.html
The GOP (ok, and the Libertarians) is the party with an incoherent ideology. Their primary goal is to keep the base fired up to vote for more wealth for billionaires. Their beady eyed focus on God, guns, gays and sex leads to contradictions and contortions that distort any relationship to valid political theory, not to mention any relationship with reality. They have become cynical opportunists who fleece the people who elect them. They even vote to underfund the VA while they clamor for war and shed crocodile tears for veterans. Cory Gardener backs away from personhood when here in Colorado, while he sponsors it in Congress. They are conmen, shyters and grifters. They have abandoned their sense of honor and are adrift in an amoral sea.
But, of course, y'all know that. I speak to the choir.
Standard Republican policy: tax breaks magically pay for themselves through increased production of pixie dust and unicorns which accrue to the Federal treasury.
More jobs created…somewher in Asia. Which brings up a question. When did "Made in the U.S.A" stop being a Rupublican thing? Weren't THEY the isolationists since, forever?