Three over coffee.
We’re in the deep freeze again this morning. High of 10 today. About the same tomorrow. Okay. We can move on to Spring now.
For the Republicans you have to say it slowly and enunciate it clearly.
Obama invited the Republican and Democratic leaders to the White House yesterday, reported the NY Times. But the Republicans acted like there was a miscount last November.
For the first time as president, Mr. Obama also met with the leaders of both parties in Congress, in keeping with his campaign promise of bipartisanship.
Yet in a polite but pointed exchange with the No. 2 House Republican, Eric Cantor of Virginia, Mr. Obama took note of the parties’ fundamental differences on tax policy toward low-wage workers, and insisted that his view would prevail.
At issue is Mr. Obama’s proposal that his tax breaks for low- and middle-income workers, including his centerpiece “Making Work Pay” tax credit, be refundable — that is, that the benefits also go to workers who earn too little to pay income taxes but who pay Social Security and Medicare taxes. Republicans generally oppose giving such refunds to people who pay no income taxes.
“We just have a difference here, and I’m president,” Mr. Obama said to Mr. Cantor.
Thirty years after Chicago’s desegregation decree.
Even by the standards of Chicago’s bureaucracy, this is pretty weak. Students and parents testified this week about the failure of the 28 year-old Chicago school deseg decree to produce real diversity. The Sun-Times:
Parents complained about the confusing and seemingly uneven admission practices at magnet schools, which were created to promote diversity in a system in which less than 10 percent of students are white.
Wanda Hopkins of Parents United for Responsible Education said she got one child into a magnet school, Andrew Jackson Language Academy, by complaining to CPS about a long list of rejections.
At Jackson, she said, she sees so many elected officials and police officers drop off their kids every morning that “sometimes I think I’m in Springfield . . . [or] the Chicago Police Department.”
Up the down staircase.
What teacher couldn’t write this from the blog, It’s not all flowers and sausages?
Since we do use a math program, there are also pre-made tests for us to give to our students. They are OK. However, since we have been rocking math lately, we decided it might be better to tailor the tests to match the more authentic work we have been doing as well as specifically address our particular math standards. Sounds fabulous, right? A bunch of teachers who are willing to put in extra work and create new assessments rather than make a trip to the photocopier…utopia! But no, in OUR world, we have to “know our place” and “stick to the chain of command.” All this means that the Bacon Hunter needs to present this to the administration and ask for permission.
Sweet.
The answer was no. Just no. Like we’re a bunch of five year olds begging to go to the bathroom or something.
