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Thursday, February 20, 2014

2-20-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida ALL Week

Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education:











Broward Has to Finance Mavericks’ Charter Schools $1.5 Million in State Fines

Just over two weeks ago, Mavericks Charter School president Frank Biden was talking smack to charter school opponents that “we are going to take you down.” While the rogue brother of the vice president was proposing to “look his enemies in the eyes” through another billionaire-funded 501(C)(4), he didn’t mention that three of his schools were scamming taxpayers and failing kids. Writes Sun-Sentine


2-19-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida ALL Week
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: Florida BOE Faces the Music; Passes Common Core AnywayFlorida’s unelected Board of Education, long serving as reliable cronies to rubber stamp Jeb Bush’s education agenda, finally had to face critics in yesterday’s public hearing on Common Core. Not that there ever any d