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Johnny Data
Is the ink dry on the $260,000 contract? No official word but a biographical picture of Jonathan Raymond emerges.
In 1996, Raymond secured a contested Republican nomination to run in Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional District, challenging the seven-term Democratic incumbent, Barney Frank. Raymond has been an associate with the law firm of Cushner & Bloom in Boston, served as legislative counsel to the U.S. Trade and Development Agency and worked on Capitol Hill for Congressman Tom Lewis and Senator Orrin G. Hatch.
Before becoming ...Continue reading this story at the
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From the SCUSD Observer
Saturday, May 16, 2009
You can call them Ray...and Associates.
Standing With The Smallest!
By Leo Bennett-Cauchon
There are alternatives...
...to bringing children to tears and parents to anger,
to ripping the social fabric of our neighborhoods,
to making the lives of our lower income families even harder
to increasing the carbon footprint of education.
One is called the sustainable (walkable and community-centered) neighborhood schools that already grace our unique and diverse urban neighborhoods. Over the years these schools have managed to protect themselves from ...Continue reading this story at the SCUSD Observer
Time to Really Think Outside the Box
By Mike Simpson
It is time for each of us in leadership roles to look in the mirror.
While the current state of crisis is directly related to the recession, there are structural reasons that this crisis is so desperate. The leadership of our education establishment suffers from inbreeding and groupthink. When Einstein described insanity, he had the educational establishment in mind. BIG districts and BIG unions have not served the best interests of our children. While we continue to do amazing things for ...Continue reading this story at the
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SCTA Calls for Parcel Tax
Classifed Union Calls for Parcel Tax
Jerry Houseman’s pro-tax rant
Posted April 17, 2009 at 9:35 AM by CoolDMZ in Schools/Education (15 comments)
At last night’s SCUSD board meeting, during which the board voted to close 4 schools, the thing that really caught my attention was member Jerry Houseman’s comment on the proposal for school closures. He took the opportunity to rail against the Tax Day Tea Party protests and Fox News, yelling at the assembled school parents and other taxpayers that the reason the district is in such dire straights is that people in California don’t want to pay taxes. The prospect of an elected official — charged with spending millions of taxpayer money — browbeating his constituents to cease their resistance to higher taxes while they have the gall to take advantage of a public service like education, is pretty frightening. I think perhaps he was out past his bedtime.
I’ll grab the video and post it as soon as I can, because IIRC Houseman literally wagged his finger at the parents and teachers who had come down to the district’s office to plead their case to keep their beloved schools open. This is especially offensive given that California consistently has one of the highest tax burdens and worst performing school systems in the country. I would also like to ask Houseman how he supposes the state’s various tax regulations have led to the mass exodus of students from SCUSD — a trend that is actually directly responsible for the current situation his board is facing.
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Jerry Houseman,
SCUSD Board Member
From the SCUSD Observer
Houseman's Tax Harangue Goes Viral
Out of the mouths of (seemingly unnoticed) elected officials...
Jerry Houseman's tax tirade apparently has gone viral with the anti-tax-tea-party crowd. The video has been posted by Blogger Joshua Trevino who describes Houseman this way:
Per Dr. Houseman: “They don’t want to pay for kids — your kids!” Well, no: the low-tax movement, and small-government ideology in general, is not actually about “not pay[ing] for kids” so much as it’s about being able to pay for one’s kids. We shouldn’t be much surprised at his outburst: in addition to being a lifelong education bureaucrat, and thus prone to the hammer/nail problem...Continue reading this story at the SCUSD Observer
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