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"If not now, then when?" |
Jun 2020
I wrote the piece below, about the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., almost six years
Historical Amnesia: Schools don't need that money, do they? |
Aug 2011
Talk of an ever-growing flow of money to schools is, like many such things, wildly exaggerated. But...
Open letter to Sec. Arne Duncan |
May 2013
We released this open letter on the occasion of US Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s visit to...
We had hoped that the redrawn legislative districts would encourage moderation and compromise on education spending and policy issues. Evidently, we will need to keep waiting. So far, this year’s budget process consists of more posturing than governing, and there is no question that the costs of division and gamesmanship will continue to mount. In one of their first acts upon retaking control of the state House of Representatives, Republican leaders revealed their intended governing style: confrontation.