The Austin Chronicle has an excellent look at No Child Left Behind and its effect on Austin schools. Most specifically, Anderson High, as that is where a large number of transfer students from low-performing schools are heading. Here’s a taste:
It all boils down to whether NCLB’s remedies - the five-stage school improvement plan [...]
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So whaddya do if you’re a down-on-his-luck, convicted felon from East Texas with outstanding warrants? Well you make up a story about losing family in New Orleans and use a fake name to apply for federal assistance for Katrina victims.
From AAS: “Walter Ray Stall, 43, of Palestine was arrested Tuesday after telling a Tyler [...]
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A state district judge has ordered a 17-year-old drug offender barred from sex
Note to self: Don’t become a drug offender.
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Yesterday Michael Crichton spoke in front of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee about “the facts” of climate change. We like Jurassic Park as much as the next guy (well, honestly, we don’t even like it that much), but how does writing science-fiction books on climate change make you an expert? At [...]
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After lunch we couldn’t help but stop at the newspaper rack outside and take photos with our mobile phone of the headlines in the rack. Just thought we’d post them. Funny, not one headline screaming “Tom DeLay Is A Dickhead.” Guess the print media has a ways to go to catch up to PinkDome.
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MyWay: Senate Confirms Roberts As Chief Justice
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“[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down”
Personally, we think aborting old white men would be a much better alternative.
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