The New Class Meets the Ruling Class
The chief visible product of leftism is a feigned egalitarianism. While Marx and his disciples claimed to create a classless society, the reality was of course quite different. There are […]
Read More →Texas vs. EPA
Pat Caddell recently opined that the American peoples’ mood – after being repeatedly shoved by the radical left – is ‘pre-revolutionary’. Ordinarily, I’d be inclined to dismiss Pat’s comment as […]
Read More →MHPC Files Suit Challenging Maine’s Clean Election Law
On August 5, MHPC, together with the James Madison Center for Free Speech, filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Portland, challenging Maine’s Clean Election Law and in particular […]
Read More →Maine’s Race to the Top application doesn’t make the cut…
According to Education Week, we’re out. More later…
Read More →Maine’s Race to the Top Application – the Final Analysis
So after 12,000 words of analysis spread over 14 blog entries, what is my bottom line on Maine’s Race to the Top application? We’ll evidently find out Monday whether we […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 14
The last section of the Race the Top application describes “Competition Priorities,” which appear to be issues that the U.S. Department of Education wants to see addressed in the applications […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 13
As we near the end of the state’s Race to the Top application – only 10 pages remain that we have yet to review – my sense is that we […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 12
Part F of the state’s Race to the Top application is a catch-all section touching on school funding, charter schools, and other school reform approaches that may not have been […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 11
Section E of the state’s Race to the Top application deals with “turning around the lowest-achieving schools,” and is divided into two sections. In the first section, the state must […]
Read More →Libby Mitchell responds to Cutler op-ed…
Yesterday, I suggested that gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler’s recent Bangor Daily News op-ed raking Sen. Libby Mitchell and the Maine Education Association over the coals might be an indication that […]
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