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Former Newark schools chief indicted in Georgia cheating scandal
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Posted on 03/30/2013 6:12:15 AM PDT by SMGFan

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To: SMGFan
it deserves to have it's picture posted...

21 posted on 03/30/2013 7:57:53 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: GladesGuru

FWIW, a considerable majority of scientists are politically liberal.

Engineers, not so much, but even they are not as conservative as you might expect.

I do not personally understand this phenomenon, but I suspect it’s related to people who are intensely focused on their narrow field of knowledge, and take their political and social cues from the environment around them. In their case this environment is 8 to 12 years of post-secondary education in a liberal setting.


22 posted on 03/30/2013 8:13:43 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: GladesGuru

67% of scientists consider themselves to be liberal or very liberal, as opposed to 25% of the general population.

9% of scientists classify themselves as conservative, versus 37% of the population.

FWIW

http://www.people-press.org/2009/07/09/section-4-scientists-politics-and-religion/


23 posted on 03/30/2013 8:20:11 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Salvey
LOL. I wonder if she has to give back her big medal.

She apparently won't have to give back the more than half a million bucks she got in bonuses tied to the fraudulent improvement.


24 posted on 03/30/2013 8:22:34 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (So?)
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To: SMGFan

Some of us warned about this kind of crap when state and municipal governments began tying school funding and teachers’ salaries to student performance. Much as we like to think that performance-based compensation is a good idea (and it is, in most industries), there is a huge moral hazard associated with it. This case is a perfect example of it.


25 posted on 03/30/2013 8:56:52 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I am the master of my fate ... I am the captain of my soul.")
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To: Hotlanta Mike

So these highly educated black Public School leaders evidently do not believe the students are capable of learning and thus they must cheat. So the smart educators may just be telling the truth, these children really are not capable and if that’s so we need to confirm it in order to find better solutions than the extremely expensive public school systems.


26 posted on 03/30/2013 9:51:00 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: SMGFan

Hahahaha—this is going to cost the Atlanta school district millions more. I believe her contract had a little clause stipulating they would pay attorneys fees. You get what you vote for and Atlanta has been run by fools for years by the nitwits that keep electing them. My gut tells me this chic will walk instead of Atlanta spending the big bucks.


27 posted on 03/30/2013 10:12:22 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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So these highly educated black Public School leaders evidently do not believe the students are capable of learning and thus they must cheat. So the smart educators may just be telling the truth, these children really are not capable and if that’s so we need to confirm it in order to find better solutions than the extremely expensive public school systems.


The reason is evdient for all to see....most black children are born to single parent mothers which means they are impoverished and dependent on the state. As a result there is no family nucleus, they live in areas where most of the kids are in similar situations, and there is no discipline or pressure for the kids to excel at learning, as Asian kids do.


28 posted on 03/30/2013 11:00:22 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great natiorn is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Any news on what’s happening with several suburban communities attempting to separate from the Fulton County School District?


29 posted on 03/30/2013 12:46:31 PM PDT by ken5050 (My tagline has mysteriously vanished...)
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Any news on what’s happening with several suburban communities attempting to separate from the Fulton County School District?


I’m in Forsyth County for a reason...


30 posted on 03/30/2013 2:25:45 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great natiorn is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

So how is that Public Education doing for all these po’ oppressed minorities in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Haiti, downtown Baltimore, Birmingham, etc. I think it is time to WAKE the Hell UP and stop waiting for Superman. BTW the scumbags in the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce tried to cover-up this cheating scandal...wonder why they don’t get even a mention????


31 posted on 03/31/2013 9:47:17 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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