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	<title>Comments on: The &#8220;Failure Collaborative&#8221; Adds Twenty-Five Schools</title>
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		<title>By: Earl Capps</title>
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		<dc:creator>Earl Capps</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BIN, politics and education go hand-in-hand.  Go down to Sanfordville, see the Democratic party operatives and candidates and tell me they&#039;re not politicizing education.

I&#039;ve always supported vouchers as one of a number of approaches to try to give our children a better education.  Your argument that if we screw the families just one more time to put a few more bucks into our schools, we&#039;ll finally see some change, is bankrupt.

But unlike the Kool-Aid drinkers on the right, I don&#039;t see it as the only option.  Allowing public schools to customize their instruction to meet the needs of their communities, giving schools more freedom to remove troublemakers, and more charter schools are among the ideas I would like to see.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BIN, politics and education go hand-in-hand.  Go down to Sanfordville, see the Democratic party operatives and candidates and tell me they&#8217;re not politicizing education.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve always supported vouchers as one of a number of approaches to try to give our children a better education.  Your argument that if we screw the families just one more time to put a few more bucks into our schools, we&#8217;ll finally see some change, is bankrupt.</p>
<p>But unlike the Kool-Aid drinkers on the right, I don&#8217;t see it as the only option.  Allowing public schools to customize their instruction to meet the needs of their communities, giving schools more freedom to remove troublemakers, and more charter schools are among the ideas I would like to see.</p>
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		<title>By: BIN News Editorial Staff</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/09/the-failure-collaborative-adds-twenty-five-schools/#comment-51464</link>
		<dc:creator>BIN News Editorial Staff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Earl, we expected better. Frankly, we are ashamed of you now for making this a political issue. How shameful that you interject politics into education.

Why everyone knows if there is one thing the republicrats and democrublicans can work together on it&#039;s educating all of our chilrens. Right? :)

sic(k) willie&#039;s solution to public education&#039;s problems is advancing one of the voucher scams (what&#039;s the latest scam named?) using our hard earned tax dollars to fund private business. Tax dollars for private business! Scream!

Everyone knows the voucher scams would only leave those who need help the most even further and farther behind.  But voucher clowns don&#039;t care.

Besides, everyone knows vouchers are dead. Particularly in this economy.

BIN News Editorial Staff
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Earl, we expected better. Frankly, we are ashamed of you now for making this a political issue. How shameful that you interject politics into education.</p>
<p>Why everyone knows if there is one thing the republicrats and democrublicans can work together on it&#8217;s educating all of our chilrens. Right? :)</p>
<p>sic(k) willie&#8217;s solution to public education&#8217;s problems is advancing one of the voucher scams (what&#8217;s the latest scam named?) using our hard earned tax dollars to fund private business. Tax dollars for private business! Scream!</p>
<p>Everyone knows the voucher scams would only leave those who need help the most even further and farther behind.  But voucher clowns don&#8217;t care.</p>
<p>Besides, everyone knows vouchers are dead. Particularly in this economy.</p>
<p>BIN News Editorial Staff<br />
Flair and Balanced</p>
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		<title>By: Earl Capps</title>
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		<dc:creator>Earl Capps</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Takeover as a means of forcing change was never seriously tried.  It turns out that the school districts that would have been taken over were in Democratic areas.  The reason why Democratic School Superintendents wouldn&#039;t take them over is the same reason a shark won&#039;t eat a lawyer - professional courtesy.

This route is much more to everyone&#039;s liking - a Democratic Superintendent channels more pork money to Democratic areas with no strings or accountability attached.  It&#039;s a pretty sweet deal, unless you&#039;re a parent who has dreams of a better life for your kids, or a child in those schools who is about to be given a life sentence by the virtue of an inadequate education.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Takeover as a means of forcing change was never seriously tried.  It turns out that the school districts that would have been taken over were in Democratic areas.  The reason why Democratic School Superintendents wouldn&#8217;t take them over is the same reason a shark won&#8217;t eat a lawyer &#8211; professional courtesy.</p>
<p>This route is much more to everyone&#8217;s liking &#8211; a Democratic Superintendent channels more pork money to Democratic areas with no strings or accountability attached.  It&#8217;s a pretty sweet deal, unless you&#8217;re a parent who has dreams of a better life for your kids, or a child in those schools who is about to be given a life sentence by the virtue of an inadequate education.</p>
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		<title>By: No Voucher Left Behind</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/09/the-failure-collaborative-adds-twenty-five-schools/#comment-51402</link>
		<dc:creator>No Voucher Left Behind</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s not very difficult to understand how this works.

Failing schools turn out stupid students who become ignorant voters who then believe all the crap that comes out of Jim Rex&#039;s Department of Non-Education.

Lather, rinse, repeat.   The neverending cycle of stupidity is maintained while the educrats line their own pockets.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s not very difficult to understand how this works.</p>
<p>Failing schools turn out stupid students who become ignorant voters who then believe all the crap that comes out of Jim Rex&#8217;s Department of Non-Education.</p>
<p>Lather, rinse, repeat.   The neverending cycle of stupidity is maintained while the educrats line their own pockets.</p>
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