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Sunday 09 January 2011
by: Rachel Levy, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
I agree that it was the economy that doomed the donkeys' midterm election results this past November, but something rang true for me in the descriptions of last week's voters as resentful of Obama's tin ear for the common person. I used to think that claims of Obama's elitism were baloney. As Jon Stewart quipped about "arugula-gate": "He's an elitist! He eats … slightly more bitter green leafy vegetables than I do."
But now, given the comments Obama made on NBC's Today Show while talking about why he and the first lady don't send their children to DC public schools, I'm not so sure. Obama's alleged elitism may not deter his ability to govern, but it does undermine his legitimacy in the face of growing populist sentiment (and not just of the Tea Party), and it furthe
Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposes additional deep cuts to California’s university systems and would also mean higher fees for those attending community college.
Brown proposed to reduce funding for the University of California and California State University systems by $500 million each, which he said was "a very difficult cut."
For Cal State the reduction represents an 18% cut in funding from the state general fund, according to CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed, who predicted it will "have serious impacts on the state's economy,
Posted: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:35 am
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Michelle Rhee, who gained national attention as the chancellor of schools in Washington, D.C., called Monday for giving students government-funded vouchers to attend private schools, rating principals based on student achievement and getting rid of teacher tenure.
The release of the blueprint was the first formal action of Ms. Rhee's new advocacy group, StudentsFirst, which she launched in December, after leaving her job heading D.C. schools in October. Ms. Rhee said she was in discussions with the governors of Florida, New Mexico, New Jersey, Tennessee, Nevada and Indiana to adopt part, if not all, of the agenda.
In an interview Monday, Ms. Rhee said she recognized her platform would be controversial and
Less than one week after being named to the state Board of Education, Bill Honig has withdrawn his name from consideration, according to the governor's office.
Honig, who served on the state board during Brown's first tenure as first governor and went on to be elected state superintendent of public instruction three times, was among the governor's most controversial early appointments. Honig resigned as state superintendent in 1993 after being convicted in a conflict-of-interest case involving state education payments received by his wife'
A new study of admissions at 30 highly selective colleges found that legacy applicants get a big advantage over those with no family connections to the institution — but the benefit is far greater for those with a parent who earned an undergraduate degree at the college than for those with other family connections.
According to the study, by Michael Hurwitz, a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of
