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July 16, 2009
Remainders: Senate amendments won’t get a Bloomberg signoff
- The Wonkster is reporting that Mayor Bloomberg won’t sign any governance bill that has amendments.
- Former public school teacher and noted author Frank McCourt is reportedly near death.
- Data show that the achievement gap is lower at schools that serve military families.
- Joanne Jacobs’s mechanic tells her that customers need help figuring out how 3/8 relates to 1/4.
- Individual donors have so far given Insideschools.org two thirds of the money the site needs.
- Arizona got caught trying to use school stimulus money for other budget gaps. No go, said USDOE.
- A teacher who thought she had found the perfect pen found an even better one: It doesn’t bleed!
- Rather than negotiate a new contract in a bad budget year, Baltimore teachers extended the current one.
- Seniors in Kentucky are lobbying for more support for preschool programs.
- Alexander Russo can’t get Arne Duncan’s daily schedule, and he’s not happy about it.
- Work was stopped on the Achievement First school going up in Brooklyn because of an unsafe crane.
- A call for preserving, and funding, successful faith-based private schools.
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July 17th, 2009 1:56 pm
Philissa,
I have to take issue with your use of the phrase “faith-based private schools.” Just because the story you link to uses the phrase, that does not excuse your use of a euphamism for what we already have well understood terms for. These are “religous schools” or “religiously affiliated schools.” (You know, catholic schools, espicopal schools, jewish day schools.)
Words and phrases matter. When proponents or opponents seek new phrases for old term, they have a reason. Usually, they either are trying to hide something or to highlight something. Which is going on here?
The blog’s term “faith-based private schools” does not make its story or your or your squib more clear than using “religiosly affiliate schools” or some other phrase that included the work “religion”. It’s too bad that you adopted it.
I am honestly quite surprised that you have made this mistake. I do not think that it is typical of your work here on Gotham Schools.
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