Monthly Archives: March 2012

“Chartering Equity”

Mead, Julie, and Preston Green. Chartering Equity: Using Charter School Legislation and Policy to Advance Equal Educational Opportunity. National Education Policy Center, U. of Colorado, Feb. 21, 2012. PDF. Charter schools are not panaceas—they can expand educational options or replicate … Continue reading

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Did a Saints Player Do This?

No. I’m a Saints fan, not a sports follower. I have been told that no career-ending injuries have been linked to any money changing hands. So why is the team losing the coach for an entire season? Am I incorrect? … Continue reading

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hctiB G: Pregnancy Revealed, OR If It’s So @#$%! ‘Beautiful,’ YOU @#$%! Do It!

originally posted March 16, 2006 ______ Adrienne Rich said “The child I carry for nine months can be defined neither as me or as not-me” and now science finally has started to understand what pro-lifers cannot conceptualize (for sociopolitical-religious reasons)–that … Continue reading

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#*@*%^#*@*%^!!: Fibromyalgia Edition, Part 1

I tried to write a post yesterday. I couldn’t. I had 12, 15 tabs open, searching, linking, sniping, connecting, verifying. Then I felt weepy, confused and tired, like I’d blown 4 fuses. I couldn’t make sense of the tabs or … Continue reading

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hctiB G: Wisdom

originally posted March 10, 2008 ____ Wisdom is experience with long-term memory for and ability to often predict the stupid and wrong behavior of your age cohorts and others. Just one of the tidbits Mister and I try pass on … Continue reading

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“Fuck those people!”

Peggy Lipton [of The Mod Squad] tried to interest her boyfriend, Elvis Presley, in Scientology, according to one of Presley’s associates, Lamar Fike. “One day, in L.A., we got into the limousine and went down to the Scientology center on Sunset, and … Continue reading

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hctiB G: Desegregation

originally posted March 9, 2007 _____ Segregation and isolation from the mainstream might be manifest in her [teacher Gladys Hernandez]  students’ low test scores–she didn’t contest that–but segregation, she said, also constricts their lives and misshapes their sense of the … Continue reading

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hctiB G: #*@*%^#*@*%^!!: Schools Edition: The Application

The OneApp is not the first manifestation of a “single” application. Just the most recent version. originally posted March 2, 2008 _____ This is The Application: Not an all-in-one application but one form you can use to apply to “most” RSD, OPSB … Continue reading

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