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KEATING: A ‘Pretzel Palace’ of Benefits
by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. Gov. Jerry Brown refers to the California state budget, riddled with earmarks and creative accounting, as a “pretzel palace of incredible complexity.” If a governor is challenged by the complexity, what hope does the ordinary resident have in getting a handle on state revenue? There will be a cost, however,…
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NEAL: Questions Surround ‘Common Core’
(For release June 20 and thereafter, 661 words) by Andrea Neal A battle is brewing on the education reform front over Indiana’s embrace of Common Core — a set of Math and English standards being implemented across the country to govern what is taught and tested from Kindergarten to Grade 12. The debate is half…
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‘Lost’ Letters to the Indy Star
A Change of Guard The tour of duty of the earring-wearing, socially hip, corporately charmed editor of the Star is over. Indications are that his replacement, Jeff Taylor, understands that it has become easier, not harder, these past few years for government to lie to a newspaper’s readers. (April 10) — That politicians are liars…