News Roundup
Today, yes today, is the last day to register to vote for the August 7th primary. Here's a link to do it online. The deadline for the General Election is October 8th.
Well, as one grass-roots group put it, sometimes the little guy does get heard. Check out this graph of the dropoff of "likes" at Michelle Rhee's Students First Facebook page. Looks like the word got out about her use of signing people up for her organization by luring them to sign petitions at Change.org. That or she's not getting much interest via Facebook anymore.
Also in the category of the little guy speaking up, here comes a story from the NY Times about a teacher, Harris Lirtzman, who spoke up for Special Education students. It's classic because after he spoke up, he was denied
Well, as one grass-roots group put it, sometimes the little guy does get heard. Check out this graph of the dropoff of "likes" at Michelle Rhee's Students First Facebook page. Looks like the word got out about her use of signing people up for her organization by luring them to sign petitions at Change.org. That or she's not getting much interest via Facebook anymore.
Also in the category of the little guy speaking up, here comes a story from the NY Times about a teacher, Harris Lirtzman, who spoke up for Special Education students. It's classic because after he spoke up, he was denied
