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Commentary
11.5.2008

Change

Michael J. Petrilli

Commentary
11.4.2008

School boards must be better stewards of hard-earned urban tax dollars

Passage of all the school levies on the ballot in Dayton, Columbus, Toledo, and Youngstown is a good sign of increasing support for education where it's needed most. The Gadfly knows that school districts don't always spend wisely or frugally but we also know that, in Ohio's largest and most economically depressed urban areas, public schools are getting hammered financially.

Commentary
11.4.2008

You 'bet'ter vote!

As the country decides who'll be the next president, Marylanders may take a gamble for even more ???change??? ??? quite literally. They're deciding whether to legalize slot machines!

Commentary
11.3.2008

Of tertiary education graduation rates

Stafford Palmieri

The recent NCLB regulations focus on high school graduation rates. Mark Schneider (as in former Bushie and now at AIR Mark Schneider), however, wants to know??the stats on college graduation rates.

Commentary
10.31.2008

Halloween princesses at Fordham but alas, no Gadfly

(Left to right): Fordham staffers in costume: Alice takes a peek through the Looking Glass, Sleeping Beauty catches some Zs, Snow White hums to the birds, Concert Goer #1 chills and a Wake Forest track star stretches.

Commentary
10.30.2008

Gadfly: hot off the press

Stafford Palmieri

This week, we start off with a double header on the education system's economic woes--and what to do about them. First Checker explains why districts have so much trouble cutting the fat. Enlightening, surely, but not too surprising.

Commentary
10.30.2008

H is for hummus...S is for salmon

Stafford Palmieri

You gotta love California. Seems the Golden State, worried that their wee toddlers' arms are too short for proper tree-huggery, will inculcate them with the prerequisite environmentalism another way: through their stomachs.

Commentary
10.29.2008

In the name of love

It's hard to miss the media firestorm over Chicago's latest educational innovation, the School for Social Justice Pride Campus. The school would cater to gay students who are teased and bullied at their current schools.

Commentary
10.29.2008

Why school systems cannot lose weight

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

There's plenty of evidence that state and municipal budgets are strapped these days, due to shrinking tax revenues from a faltering economy, declining property values, etc. It's also clear that a number of school systems are feeling the pinch.

Commentary
10.29.2008

Windbag city

Chi-town, home of deep dish pizza, The Band, and an education reform powerhouse? That's John Simmon's take.

Commentary
10.29.2008

The three R's (recession, reform, and results)

Dreading the pinch of a tight economy on your state's budget? You're not alone. According to the Center on Budget & Policy Priorities, nearly every state experienced flat or declining revenues in the first half of 2008 compared to last year, and 39 states have developed "budget shortfalls"--gaps between expected revenue and planned expenditures.