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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: How to Debate Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee

Jersey Jazzman: How to Debate Michelle Rhee:


How to Debate Michelle Rhee

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The best way to debate Michelle Rhee is to make the topic her own record of failure: her record as a teacher, as a superintendent, as a proponent of testing, as a "reformer," and as arecruiter.

The reason this woman is allowed to continue to dominate our nation's conversation about 

Vouchers Won't "Save" Anyone

Former New Jersey Governor Jim Florio has been making the rounds, speaking out against school vouchers... sorry, "taxpayer funded private school scholarships." More commonly known as... vouchers!
The financing of vouchers under pending proposals would authorize businesses to write off their state taxes, dollar for dollar, tax credits to pay for such vouchers. They would be creatively labeled “scholarships.” At a time of record deficits, each tax dollar lost to the state would make a very bad situation worse. You don’t have to be an economist to understand that tax credits are tax expenditures and, thus, revenues lost to be made up by someone else.
We should all be intellectually honest enough to label a business tax break as such and not call it an educational funding mechanism — especially when it