Twigmore » california http://www.twigmore.com Branch Out Sat, 15 May 2010 15:54:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Gov. Paterson: Where Is Your Education Strategy? http://www.twigmore.com/2009/10/gov-paterson-where-is-your-education-strategy/ http://www.twigmore.com/2009/10/gov-paterson-where-is-your-education-strategy/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:28:48 +0000 Peter Baer http://www.twigmore.com/blog/?p=124 headshotA Huffington Post piece by the President of the Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability on the troubled New York State school system.  It highlights Governor Paterson’s inability or unwillingness to lead on educational issues.  Obviously, there are many contributing factors to the sorry state of affairs, but it he does seem to be part of the problem.

]]> http://www.twigmore.com/2009/10/gov-paterson-where-is-your-education-strategy/feed/ 0 Time for Schwarzenegger the Action Figure to Emerge on Education http://www.twigmore.com/2009/10/time-for-schwarzenegger-the-action-figure-to-emerge-on-education/ http://www.twigmore.com/2009/10/time-for-schwarzenegger-the-action-figure-to-emerge-on-education/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:07:32 +0000 Peter Baer http://www.twigmore.com/blog/?p=89 headshotA piece from the Huffington Post on how California’s future, and the nation’s, are tied to the quality of the state’s education system.  And things do not seem to be going well.  A 2007 state-requested set of studies from scholars across the ideological spectrum agreed that California’s public school funding system is irrational, inequitable, and hopelessly convoluted.

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