19 October 2008 - Granite Grok

October 19, 2008

And they keep kvetching about bake sales…

Yeah, America is really STARVING education: The L.A. Daily News on its city’s seeming unshrinkable downtown education bureaucracy:     [A] Daily News review of salaries and staffing shows LAUSD’s bureaucracy ballooned by nearly 20 percent from 2001 to 2007. Over the same period, 500 teaching positions were cut and enrollment dropped by 6 percent. Also …

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“Little Murders”

This speech given by Archbishop Charles Chaput Friday evening at a dinner sponsored by ENDOW (Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women) contains some of the best words I’ve heard uttered by an American Catholic leader in a long time. It’s fitting it makes the news cycle rounds today, as I walked out of my …

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