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From: Dan Lawlor: Time to Drop Dominick Ruggerio Like a Hot Potato
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i saw a film clip of david cicclini at a senior center in north providence a few weeks ago..the senior citizens fell all over him and said that he was doing a great job and would vote for him again. ( living in subsidized housing, free health care, and never paid much in taxes in their lives)
this is another example of whats left in the state.. people feeding off the system that dont want any change.
this is not only a problem in ri but the entire country. half of americans wnat the country to take care of them and any hardships they have should be paid for by the government.
From: Rhode Island’s Best & Worst Public Schools
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beagle is correct..i did hear of one study which indicated that the only program that works with the poor minority demographic group is going to school at 730am and staying at school until 730pm.
the school provides all meals,etc....
basically, the schools are doing what the parents are supposed to be doing.
so why bother spending more money on the traditional model.
From: Rhode Island’s Best & Worst Public Schools
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Lets all face reality. School districts with a higher percentage of of poor and minority students have never been able to keep pace with schools districts with low percentages of poor and minority students. No new fangled tests will ever level the playing field, no amount money thrown at the problem will ever make things better. Too many minorities don't have education at the top of their priority lists. No amount of deck chair reshuffling will make a difference, hasn't history shown this?From: Should General Assembly Members be Term-Limited?
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We should limit the amount of Democrats we have until we fixthe problem. You keep the same people in power you have the same
problems.
Same people who gave the unions the sweat heart deals will
be the same people who will take it away when the State goes broke.
The best part is even if they taxed everyone 100% there still
isn't enough money! I hope the State along with all the Cities in the hole go bankrupt and start over hopefully smarter. Other wise
the greedy unions will loose it all. No Obama bail outs!
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From: Rhode Island’s Best & Worst Public Schools
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"there are lies, damn lies and statistics" President Ronald ReaganFrom: Dan Lawlor: Time to Drop Dominick Ruggerio Like a Hot Potato
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Dan nothing has changed but the names of the players. The basis of oursociety is corruption. We can not Fire them they have to be voted
out, and thats hard to do when they run unopposed. The republican party needs to find people to run and win against the "big-deal politician.
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From: NEW: Tea Party Opposes National Popular Vote Bill
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Oh, brother. Why do I care what the Tea Party says about this?From: Rhode Island’s Best & Worst Public Schools
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I'm sure we all agree parents have a huge role to play, however this article is about measuring school performance. Here's a novel idea - why not measure how well a given student would do in each school as opposed to measuring the caliber of the students in a given school.From: Should General Assembly Members be Term-Limited?
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The only question I have is when the 4 year terms would be for the senate. Would they coincide with the presidential election, or the governor election. I think that might be an important factor in swing districts. If you decided to stagger them, then you have half the state running with higher voter turn out and more volunteer support because the state offices aren't on the ballot. Other races could benefit from being "under the radar" being on the ballot off years. Aside from that problem, I'm all for the changes.From: NEW: RIC to host Operation Clean Government Candidate School
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This class is easy to teach.If you want to run you need to.....
1) register as a democrat
2) kiss the union ass and promise them the world
3) once you have the union backing, you're in
once you're in, assuming you want to STAY in, you'll have to vote for ridiculous union contracts. No biggie.
From: Rhode Island’s Best & Worst Public Schools
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Which schools have the best art and music programs? What's that, you can't use measure that on a bubble sheet? Never mind then. Must not matter.From: Rhode Island’s Best & Worst Public Schools
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I'm with Pearl Fanch on this one. As a society we have an obligation to offer a basic education, as parents and students you have a responsibility to take it.For parents education of your kids is your responsibility. Have you taken your kids to a museum? We have lots of them here in the state. Some even have free days. Have your kids been to the library? It's a great resource and free. If you and your kids don't have a library card, you're wrong.
From: Audit Reveals Dozens of Flaws in State Financial Reporting
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Michael: Your guess at its meaning is as good as mine. I challenge you to use any standard grammatical method, like the sentence diagram method you should have learned in elementary school, to demonstrate that is what those words say. The written language is different from (or, in more contemporary word usage, than) the spoken language. People like journalists, who earn their livelihoods communicating, have an obligation to master their tool...English in this case.From: Rhode Island’s Best & Worst Public Schools
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What this press release doesn't seem to mention is that these scores are based entirely on one year's data. I guess nobody at RI-CAN ever took an intro-stats class, in which they would have been told that basing anything on a single-year's data is really, really dumb and misleading. My only hope is that people will take a bit of time off from laughing at how absurdly stupid their methodology is to actually ask themselves what a ranking system--even one with a modicum of credibility, which this farce does not have--really accomplishes.From: Rob Horowitz: Here’s Hoping For Mike Huckabee’s Radio Success
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Rob....to compare Fox News to Olbermann is so deceptive. Olbermann was even kicked off Current TV. He was so over the top. Fox news is actually fair and balanced with a slight tilt to the right. I regularly switch between Fox, CNN, and watch NBC nightly news. CNN and NBC (just caught editing a tape to exploit a death in Sanford, remember, that NBC)are much more biased than Fox.From: Rhode Island’s Best & Worst Public Schools
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If you believed this analysis, you'd be very opposed to Mayor Taveras's education policy, as the bottom schools are ones that were substantially reorganized last year. Of course, if you have any interest in accuracy, you know that this measure of "performance gains" is invalid for a school that has seen a significant change in population or reorganization over the past year.If you believed this analysis, you'd be opposed to Deborah Gist's education policy, as her turnaround schools are still at the bottom (many with declining scores, e.g., Central Falls HS). You would also blame her and Tom Brady for sending Hope Arts high back to the bottom after their reading scores went up almost 50 points a few years ago after an expensive and successful turnaround.
Or maybe this is all just for show and everyone will go on believing exactly what they believed before.
From: Should General Assembly Members be Term-Limited?
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Dan, you're right again.However, this will never happen. It is the GA that would determine themselves to have term limits. Do you seriously think they're going to limit themselves? They actually think they're doing a good job.
From: Dan Lawlor: Time to Drop Dominick Ruggerio Like a Hot Potato
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Dan, you're right.However, they are DEMOCRATS. They will win. They will probably run unopposed.
Rhode Islanders are STUPID. They will continue to keep electing DEMOCRATS, because of the unions that support them.
And so it goes........
From: Rhode Island’s Best & Worst Public Schools
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Stop with all the agenda talk. The blame here goes directly to the parents and the students. If they don't want to be in school, we as a society, need to stop forcing them to go.As tax payers, we spend millions upon millions of dollars to get these types of test scores, only to have the students go on to be part of the state's largest crime rate.
If you limit the students to just those who want to be there, I guarranty that the scores will be higher.
From: Rhode Island’s Best & Worst Public Schools
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This is disgusting.From: Rhode Island’s Best & Worst Public Schools
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Exactly, Shannah! What is the point of this?From: Dan Lawlor: Time to Drop Dominick Ruggerio Like a Hot Potato
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4 BULLET POINTS, 6 PARAGRAPHS...WASTED SPACE & PRINT...BOTH WIN IN LANDSLIDEFrom: Rhode Island’s Best & Worst Public Schools
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Geez, we needed a study to tell us that schools in rich white communities pull down higher standardized test scores than schools in low income communities of color? That's what happens when school funding is based on property taxes - more money for rich kids while our kids make do with what's left. And then they make the problem worse by sucking off dollars into charter schools which serve a tiny, tiny number of kids (and an ever-growing number of stockholders) instead of trying to actually rethink how to save public education for everyone.It's also ridiculous that everything is based on standardized test scores. They are already so damn focused on test scores in the schools they waste millions on ridiculous consultants that give a new screwed up curriculum every few years. Makes me want to go back to the practice of not allowing my kids to take the damn NECAPS.
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sign me upFrom: Rhode Island’s Best & Worst Public Schools
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Why aren't you reporting that one of the Directors of RI-CAN is Anna Cano Morales who is also the President of the CF schools' Board of Trustees (no conflict of interest here.) Both the middle and high schools are listed as poor performing schools. Despite her collusion with Gallo to fire all the teachers 2 years ago, force out seasoned teachers to hire newbies, bring in 6 figure administrators (at last count 6 for 800 students), bring in highly-paid consultants like Julia Steiny, pour millions of taxpayer dollars into the high school, the high school NECAP scores actually went down.Who's to blame Ms Morales when you and Gallo do nothing but criticize the public school teachers whom you are supposed to represent and push your charter school agenda? Where are the civil rights of the CF children to a great education under your watch. That's right, only those who go to charters.
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