education

On Society and the State (in Education)

May 19, 2012 On Big Government

One of the regular knocks on libertarians is that we are cruel bastards who want children, the poor and aged to just go away and die. According to our detractors, this view is “proved” by our seeking dramatic reductions in taxes because we are greedy and just want to keep our money to ourselves. Unfortunately, [...]

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Introductions at the Plano ISD PTA Candidate Forum

March 20, 2012 News

Here is the first of series video from my appearance at the Plano ISD PTA Candidate Forum. I will post two videos in each subsequent post. This first will be my response to the question and the second will feature the responses of all of the candidates. This first video is the one minute introduction. [...]

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Video from the Plano ISD-PTA Candidate Forum

March 4, 2012 News

Over the next few weeks, I will be breaking this up into multiple videos. I am thinking two videos per question: one with just my reply and another with the reply for all the candidates. That said, for those of you who might want to watch the whole shabang, I am posting it today in [...]

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Candidate Forum–March 1

February 29, 2012 News

I just got word that I will be participating in a Candidate Forum sponsored by the Plano ISD Council of PTAs in partnership with the Plano ISD Key Communicators. The forum will take place, tomorrow, March 1, 2012 at the Sockwell Center, 6301 Chapel Hill Blvd. in Plano. A candidate meet and greet will take [...]

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More Governor Christie

September 10, 2010 Old News

Until Kathie Glass wins in the great State of Texas, Chris Christie is my favorite governor. We need more frank conversations like this!

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Vouchers Doing Wonders in New Orleans

August 26, 2010 On Education

My question is why wouldn’t this work in Texas? Do we have to wait for as disaster to give this a try? Oh, wait, we (the state of Texas) are $15 billion in debt, I would count that as a disaster.

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On School Measurement

August 2, 2010 On Education

Last week Melissa B. Taboada reported the following in the Austin Amercan-Statesman: For the second consecutive year, more than two of three schools statewide earned top academic honors exemplary and recognized ratings Texas Education Agency officials announced Friday. But even as he lauded the numbers, state Education Commissioner Robert Scott defended the special formulas used [...]

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Amen! Governor Christie! Amen!

July 30, 2010 Old News

While not a Big L – Libertarian, Governor Christie of New Jersey (R) certainly earned his small-l libertarian stripes with his response to a question about funding education on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this week. New Jersey was facing an $11 billion budget shortfall, Texas faces and $18 billion one. Unfortunately in Texas we seem to [...]

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Stop the games with our kids and our money!

July 26, 2010 On Education

Last week, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas 25th) and his cronies in Congress attempted to usurp the sovereignty of the people of Texas by amending what was a bill to fund operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti to include a provision forces Texas not to reduce spending on education or risk losing federal money coming back [...]

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One Cheer for Senator Shapiro

July 6, 2010 Old News

A story by Holly K.Hacker entitled Charter schools spread across Texas with goal of newer, better teaching was published in The Dallas Morning News on Sunday, July 4, 2010. I quote from the article: State Sen. Florence Shapiro, R-Plano, said legislators should respond to parent demand and lift the “arbitrary” state cap. “You’ve got 40,000 [...]

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