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K12 Reformer - Mike Reno: Academic Achievement Deserves More Recognition, not Less!
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K12 Reformer - Mike Reno. The personal observations of an elected school board trustee who is dedicated to education reform in Michigan. Email: reno@rcs-reno.com. Sunday, May 20, 2007. Academic Achievement Deserves More Recognition, not Less! This takes the award for the best article of the day! Eccentric: Valedictorians vanish as schools honor several top scholars (05/20/07). This, from a high school junior, shows the “culture of education” in Michigan:. Two problems. First, an “A” in gu...I’ve al...
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K12 Reformer - Mike Reno: Risky Bonds and Lazy School Boards
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K12 Reformer - Mike Reno. The personal observations of an elected school board trustee who is dedicated to education reform in Michigan. Email: reno@rcs-reno.com. Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Risky Bonds and Lazy School Boards. Most people don't know that school boards can raise your taxes without a vote of the people. In Michigan, we are protected from large tax increases by the Headlee Ammendment, passed in 1978. But taxpayers have no protection against school boards. What can you do about it? For years t...
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K12 Reformer - Mike Reno: July 2011
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K12 Reformer - Mike Reno. The personal observations of an elected school board trustee who is dedicated to education reform in Michigan. Email: reno@rcs-reno.com. Thursday, July 7, 2011. The Diane Ravitch / Alter / Brooks Debate. Education Historian Diane Ravitch is at the center of a dust-up that has been swirling around for a month now. I've collected a series of articles that can help to give a flavor of the reform debate. For a better taste. follow this on Twitter (I'm on as @K12Reformer). Washington...
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K12 Reformer - Mike Reno: MEA contractual “firewall” blocks assessment data
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K12 Reformer - Mike Reno. The personal observations of an elected school board trustee who is dedicated to education reform in Michigan. Email: reno@rcs-reno.com. Sunday, August 2, 2009. MEA contractual “firewall” blocks assessment data. Interesting article from the left coast:. LA Times: Obama chides California for not using test scores to evaluate teachers (07/25/09). This debate has been escalated by a new federal program called “Race to the Top”, which is described in The Economic Times:. In a world ...
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K12 Reformer - Mike Reno: Two Steps forward, One Step Back.
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K12 Reformer - Mike Reno. The personal observations of an elected school board trustee who is dedicated to education reform in Michigan. Email: reno@rcs-reno.com. Thursday, July 7, 2011. Two Steps forward, One Step Back. Here's a follow up to a post I made in May, 2010, (found here). That addressed my concerns with dropping the Valedictorian / Salutatorian awards. The video tells it all; people comment to the school board, and the board responds in muted silence. I write about that here:. This does not j...
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K12 Reformer - Mike Reno: Michigan Schools & MEA prefer tax hikes over $600 million in Federal Money.
http://k12reformer.blogspot.com/2009/11/michigan-schools-mea-prefer-tax-hikes.html
K12 Reformer - Mike Reno. The personal observations of an elected school board trustee who is dedicated to education reform in Michigan. Email: reno@rcs-reno.com. Sunday, November 8, 2009. Michigan Schools and MEA prefer tax hikes over $600 million in Federal Money. Michigan parents are being bombarded with “call your legislator” messages from school boards and superintendents, asking them to pressure the state for more money. Here are a few recent articles on the issue:. Here’s an interesting test...
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K12 Reformer - Mike Reno: "Public Education Inc" Software Bugs
http://k12reformer.blogspot.com/2010/11/public-education-inc-software-bugs.html
K12 Reformer - Mike Reno. The personal observations of an elected school board trustee who is dedicated to education reform in Michigan. Email: reno@rcs-reno.com. Friday, November 19, 2010. Public Education Inc" Software Bugs. I know. it's been a while. But after watching the Rochester school board emulate Nancy Pelosi and her "We need to pass the bill first, so that you can see what's in it" approach, I had to allow myself this distraction:. Just look at an all too common story that is happening in Roch...
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K12 Reformer - Mike Reno: Sports: The 3rd Rail of School Politics
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K12 Reformer - Mike Reno. The personal observations of an elected school board trustee who is dedicated to education reform in Michigan. Email: reno@rcs-reno.com. Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Sports: The 3rd Rail of School Politics. In school politics, athletics is a third rail, and some local school boards recently tested voltage. Sparks flew. and the boards backed down. I wrote this piece a few weeks ago:. Detroit News: Bloated costs hurting schools (06/03/10). June 3, 2010 http:/ detnews.com/article/...
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K12 Reformer - Mike Reno: Why do we ignore school spending?
http://k12reformer.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-do-we-ignore-school-spending.html
K12 Reformer - Mike Reno. The personal observations of an elected school board trustee who is dedicated to education reform in Michigan. Email: reno@rcs-reno.com. Wednesday, October 28, 2009. Why do we ignore school spending? Everyone seems to have an opinion on government spending at the federal, state, county, and even city level. I don't understand why parents will get involved in the school FUNDING debate, but ignore school SPENDING. You can imagine the conversations that took place… all design...