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Over at the Matter of Opinion blog, we get beyond the nuts and bolts of Gov. Ted Strickland’s education plan and ask a simpler question: Is it smart politics?
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By davidss2
February 8, 2009 4:57 PM | Link to this
After watching Fingerhut and the state superintendent make eyes at each other during the speech it’s clear they both got what they wanted—more money and power. BUT strickland ran on reducing costs to local tax methods and increasing payment from general state funds. He lost sight of his promise. He’s raising overall costs with full day kindergarten and silly teacher prep requirements that will benefit college armchair know-it-alls and he’s increasing costs at the higher education level by freezing tuition. When the media reporters get over their Obamalike love affair with his speech, reality of higher costs will come home. Who pays them after the fed and tobacco money run outBy Oldprof
February 7, 2009 8:42 PM | Link to this
Unlike many Fordham Foundation staff and several members of the local Democratic Party, some think that politics should not be what drives education. But if you want to talk politics, OK—it’s smart if it gets implemented and it works and the opposition (the Limbaugh types who want it to fail regardless) doesn’t get to dominate the conversation. DDN can help by refusing to publish any more moronic self-serving editorials by Terry Ryan.