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Uniform Nonsense

I just finished listening to a webinar by the School Funding Fairness Project. Their whole approach to ‘funding’ (which focuses on fairness in spending while totally ignoring fairness in education) is based on two misconceptions.

Pay-and-Pray Funding

Imagine that you go to a mechanic because you have a problem with your car. He says:  Give me several thousand dollars up front, and leave your car.  And when you come back for it, maybe it will be fixed.  Maybe it will be in worse shape, although that doesn’t usually happen.

Frank Edelblut at the Belknap County Republicans

Frank Edelblut Should Get Back in the Race

In September, Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut spoke to the Brentwood Republican Committee. I don’t hang out there, but Frank had just announced his non-candidacy for Governor, and a neighbor and fellow Grokster was aching to understand the skullduggery behind the move and offered me a ride to the event.

School Bus Photo by Austin Pacheco on Unsplash

Political Accountability Isn’t

Recently, I came across yet another in a long line of calls for ‘holding accountable those who are supposed to serve us.’  In this case, the writer was talking about public schools. Yes, we should definitely do that.  We should hold accountable the people who operate our public school system.

Where Talking Llamas Teach Kids the “F” Word

In September 2021, the voters in the district for Windham Elementary School narrowly voted to close the school, which only has a little more than a dozen students, allowing those students to instead participate in Vermont’s “tuitoining” school choice system.