I'm still masking where asked, and at the grocery store and Lowe's. Too many people, too much exposure possibility since Mississippi MIGHT cross 50% fully vaccinated this spring.
Emanuel's eligibility for office was challenged on the basis of his lack of residency in Chicago for one year prior to the election. This was the period when Emanuel was in Washington serving as the White House chief of staff. The Board of Elections and the Cook County Circuit Court affirmed his eligibility. A divided Court of Appeals reversed the Circuit Court, holding on January 24, 2011, that residency for purposes of a candidate is different from residency for purposes of being a voter.[92] A further appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court resulted in a unanimous decision reversing the Court of Appeals and affirming Emanuel's eligibility.[93][94]
written by 46 of 50 state education secretaries so it also started out bipartisan . . . . The standard is fine, its the implementation - which is also school board and state ed department controlled - where it fell apart.
Its all about distraction Greg. If you can convince the good conservative white folk of Davenport IA or Bougaloosa LA that electing democrats will turn their cities into infested hellscapes, no one will notice you aren't bringing coal back, or that tax cuts aren't trickling down, or that industry bosses aren't paying enough to live on.
NO, we can't. Schools in Maryland, school sin Mississippi, schools in Oregon all have differing communities, with differing needs and differing constituencies. There are things kids in schools down here need - like really need - that would be a waste in Maryland. And vice versa.
Look at Common Core. 46 of 50 state Secretaries of Education participated in writing that set of standards. They did their professional best, as did their staff, to produce a national minimum set of standards. Once the U.S. Department of Education adopted that set verbatim, all the red states started running around yelling about federal over reach - on standards they helped write. Then the curriculum publishing houses got involved, and now 50 states teach to the standards 50 different ways, when they teach to them at all.
That's a lot of backing away from a unified approach. and while it probably hurts education nationally, it doesn't always hurt the kids in each state. But it is illustrative of how hard it is to identify a unified foundation.
you can read the process they use - its documented on their website - and decide for yourself how effective it is. They do seem to be the only one at least trying to do this openly and honestly.
However I’m not sure where he’s even supposed to go.
Trump is demented, a grifter, a one man band, and an extreme outlier.
My take on Trump is he was born into the right column, and thanks to his father's mental abuse always felt he was in the left column, while being taught to disdain both the left and middle columns. Perfect despot material.
Somehow he encountered ideas and encouragement to make that move. It wasn't de novo. And every other story you read about someone moving from the left column to the middle and even right columns is peppered with people - teachers, preachers, aunts, cops, judges - who gave direction, assistance, encouragement. I suspect your friend - and even you - are no different.
So first - good solid analysis and clearly written article. I'll take more of this Jaybird please.
Second, both of those analyses miss a larger point, which InMD sort of hints at - school boards are one of the few elected bodies in America whose members have to listen directly to their constituents. So its a great place to vent a lot of frustration at, whether its deserved or not. Once you get above the county or parish level, the connection is much less direct, and so its how you get Republican politicians ignoring their base for 40 plus years and suddenly being beholden to Trump because the base is done being ignored. We will see more of this, but contra InMD, it won't stop the insane legislation that is running the traps in Texas, Florida, and elsewhere.
A process that allows for a single individual to appeal and thus delay a project seems flawed and rife for abuse. Maybe that is a bug, maybe a feature.
Corporations are well known for shooting the messenger, backing over the corpse and then burying it in the Meadowlands . . . this is not really any different then any other "they should have known better" thing for any corporation in the last 20 years or so.
now, in that framing, imagine you are a young black man in an urban neighborhood. You are two generations removed form the end of legal redlining, but your neighborhood still has the ethnic make up that redlining created. Your mom supports your family working two jobs, both of which require extensive commutes out of the neighborhood because the plant that your grandfather worked at closed before you were born - sent to Mexico and then Vietnam by corporations that considered Black Americans too expensive as a labor force. Your Father moved away years ago to try and find work, and while he sent money for your first few years he had to stop because he lost his job in a small air conditioning plant in Indiana that moved to Mexico as well. Your school has been steadily declining because property tax values are going down, which mean tax receipts are going down. You have no car, and public transit still operates on 1960's era routes that were established to reinforce the redlining that created your neighborhood.
Do you have any of the resources at your disposal to move from the left to the center column? If you don't, is the lack of resources cultural, generational or racial in its base?
you had an external input of time and talent - resources that only a small percentage of the folks in the left column receive. Had you not had those would you have been able - with the resources you had - to make the same move?
On “Thursday Throughput: The Trailing Edge of Omicron Edition”
I'm still masking where asked, and at the grocery store and Lowe's. Too many people, too much exposure possibility since Mississippi MIGHT cross 50% fully vaccinated this spring.
On “An Interesting Development in the San Francisco School Board”
Yep sure was - especially since his typo got caught and corrected before he figured out he'd made it.
I suppose you mean your own glass house is rock proof then?
On “Nicholas Kristof, We Hardly Got To Know Ye”
Come now CJ, he's just asking questions and seeing where they go . . . .
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well, except, ya know, he wasn't:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel#2011
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So many pundits, so few offices to run for.
On “An Interesting Development in the San Francisco School Board”
I still have no idea what you are talking about. Whatever you did you did so quickly I never saw it.
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That's the same article Jaybird initially linked to
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huh?
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we don't know about the boards though. We know about two dissimilar controversies involving school boards. that's it.
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written by 46 of 50 state education secretaries so it also started out bipartisan . . . . The standard is fine, its the implementation - which is also school board and state ed department controlled - where it fell apart.
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Apples and ice cubes man, apples and ice cubes
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Its all about distraction Greg. If you can convince the good conservative white folk of Davenport IA or Bougaloosa LA that electing democrats will turn their cities into infested hellscapes, no one will notice you aren't bringing coal back, or that tax cuts aren't trickling down, or that industry bosses aren't paying enough to live on.
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NO, we can't. Schools in Maryland, school sin Mississippi, schools in Oregon all have differing communities, with differing needs and differing constituencies. There are things kids in schools down here need - like really need - that would be a waste in Maryland. And vice versa.
Look at Common Core. 46 of 50 state Secretaries of Education participated in writing that set of standards. They did their professional best, as did their staff, to produce a national minimum set of standards. Once the U.S. Department of Education adopted that set verbatim, all the red states started running around yelling about federal over reach - on standards they helped write. Then the curriculum publishing houses got involved, and now 50 states teach to the standards 50 different ways, when they teach to them at all.
That's a lot of backing away from a unified approach. and while it probably hurts education nationally, it doesn't always hurt the kids in each state. But it is illustrative of how hard it is to identify a unified foundation.
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you can read the process they use - its documented on their website - and decide for yourself how effective it is. They do seem to be the only one at least trying to do this openly and honestly.
On “Suspicious Persons, Fed Ex drivers and White Entitlement”
it is heavily recognized at the HBCU's, or so my colleagues teaching and researching there tell me.
On “An Interesting Development in the San Francisco School Board”
Well, you know, its how Jaybird rolls
On “Suspicious Persons, Fed Ex drivers and White Entitlement”
My take on Trump is he was born into the right column, and thanks to his father's mental abuse always felt he was in the left column, while being taught to disdain both the left and middle columns. Perfect despot material.
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Somehow he encountered ideas and encouragement to make that move. It wasn't de novo. And every other story you read about someone moving from the left column to the middle and even right columns is peppered with people - teachers, preachers, aunts, cops, judges - who gave direction, assistance, encouragement. I suspect your friend - and even you - are no different.
On “An Interesting Development in the San Francisco School Board”
conservatives LOVE performative displays from their side. That's how they currently define patriotism.
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So first - good solid analysis and clearly written article. I'll take more of this Jaybird please.
Second, both of those analyses miss a larger point, which InMD sort of hints at - school boards are one of the few elected bodies in America whose members have to listen directly to their constituents. So its a great place to vent a lot of frustration at, whether its deserved or not. Once you get above the county or parish level, the connection is much less direct, and so its how you get Republican politicians ignoring their base for 40 plus years and suddenly being beholden to Trump because the base is done being ignored. We will see more of this, but contra InMD, it won't stop the insane legislation that is running the traps in Texas, Florida, and elsewhere.
On “Wednesday Writs: DNA, Databases, & Incriminating Sexual Assault Victims”
much like the Blue Slip procedure in the Senate.
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Corporations are well known for shooting the messenger, backing over the corpse and then burying it in the Meadowlands . . . this is not really any different then any other "they should have known better" thing for any corporation in the last 20 years or so.
On “Suspicious Persons, Fed Ex drivers and White Entitlement”
now, in that framing, imagine you are a young black man in an urban neighborhood. You are two generations removed form the end of legal redlining, but your neighborhood still has the ethnic make up that redlining created. Your mom supports your family working two jobs, both of which require extensive commutes out of the neighborhood because the plant that your grandfather worked at closed before you were born - sent to Mexico and then Vietnam by corporations that considered Black Americans too expensive as a labor force. Your Father moved away years ago to try and find work, and while he sent money for your first few years he had to stop because he lost his job in a small air conditioning plant in Indiana that moved to Mexico as well. Your school has been steadily declining because property tax values are going down, which mean tax receipts are going down. You have no car, and public transit still operates on 1960's era routes that were established to reinforce the redlining that created your neighborhood.
Do you have any of the resources at your disposal to move from the left to the center column? If you don't, is the lack of resources cultural, generational or racial in its base?
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you had an external input of time and talent - resources that only a small percentage of the folks in the left column receive. Had you not had those would you have been able - with the resources you had - to make the same move?