The Education Wonks

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Has anyone out there also noticed that Hillary, (She who gets to break the law at will.) NEVER wears a United States Flag on any of her outfits? Is she ashamed of our country's flag ????? That's ...

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President Obama has finally promised to give us his vision of a plan to increase employment in this country. Only problem is... his vision will not be forthcoming until the end of summer. The que...

http://educationwonk.blogspot.com/2011/08/where-are-jobs.html

Well, the good people arrogant yokels of Iowa, who feel like it's their God-given right to be first in the presidential nominating process each and every four years, have murdered the candidacy o...

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Have you heard about Leroy Fick?A Michigan man who won $2 million in a state lottery game continues to collect food stamps 11 months after striking it rich. And there's nothing the state can do a...

http://educationwonk.blogspot.com/2011/05/lottery-winner-gets-food-stamps.html

Even though my take-home pay as a public school classroom teacher has gone down for each of the past four years, (soon to be five) Time Warner Cable continues to increase their fees every six mon...

http://educationwonk.blogspot.com/2011/03/time-warner-cable-sucks.html

Once again, the wingnut birther conspiracy idiots are hollering about President Obama's alleged foreign birth.Isn't it funny how these same birthers never have anything to say about the fact that...

http://educationwonk.blogspot.com/2011/01/birther-hypocrisy.html

So. Here we go yet again.While working folks all over our country are experiencing losses of income not seen since the Great Depression, the world's bankers, financiers, Wall Street types, and ot...

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In our latest instance of Political Correctism run amok, we have the government of the People's Republic of California outlawing the dear old traditional 100 watt light bulb.This needless new reg...

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Did you hear the one about the school where the students are in charge and the parents pay $6000 for the privilege? The thing about students not taking standardized tests kinda hit me right betwe...

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A train has set a world speed record in --- you guessed it--- China:BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese passenger train hit a record speed of 302 miles per hour (486 kilometers per hour) Friday during a tes...

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Amen!

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President Obama has indicated that Federal Employees will now have a two-year wage freeze.Apparently, the freeze also includes the traditional "automatic" cost-of-living increase that was to have...

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*Sniff*Sometimes, when I go over and visit the Almighty Federal Website, I miss checking out the hijinks (and low jinks) of former U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings...We had soooo much ...

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In yet another sign that our country is in serious trouble, some municipalities are turning-off street lights while others are allowing paved roads to revert to gravel:The lights are going out al...

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Now we've seen it all.A jet-powered school bus that can reach speeds of 367 mph.Will the Wonders of this Modern Age never cease?

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The California Teachers Association, which forcibly withholds money from each of my paychecks, now has an authorized website to help me invest gamble what remains of my ever-declining teacher sal...

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CNN has a little story about how a variety of people will be spending this year's bonus. Including this clown who's getting somewhere between $50,000 - $70,000.Meanwhile, your EdWonk, who has spe...

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When it comes to rightwing militia movements, some folks make it a family affair.

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The other day, we received a letter from Citibank. Their latest missive read, in part, as follows:Dear Ms. Wonk,We are making changes to your account terms.These changes include an increase in th...

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Half of all kids in the United States will be on food stamps at one time or another in their young lives: Half of American kids will live in households receiving food stamps before age 20, accord...

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And now President Obama is going to Wisconsin, of all places, to talk-up public education. ABC News has the story: Tomorrow, on the anniversary of his election, President Barack Obama heads to Ma...

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This just in from our Upstate New York Bureau: when, thanks to the interference of outsiders such as Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson, Tim Pawlenty, and Glenn Beck, Republicans fight among themselves, ...

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"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success." -Henry FordIndeed.

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Heh.Secretary Arne Duncan of The United States Department of Education says "Colleges of Education must improve for reforms to succeed." U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today called for A...

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