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Loome distorted facts about Florida foundation
In her Dec. 17 column "Is public education for sale?," Nancy Loome of The Parents' Campaign included misleading statements about Florida and the Foundation for Excellence in Education.
After noting Florida's strong academic gains, Loome writes, "Yet, rather than promote the achievement-based initiatives responsible for its improvements, Florida's most vocal 'edcation reform' advocates, the Foundation fr Excellence in Education, attribute Florida's success to school choice."
As the Foundation's CEO, I'm baffled.
At no time has the Foundation promoted choice as a cure-all for public education. In fact, we support a comprehensive reform agenda.
School choice is important. But so is a strong focus on early literacy, rigorous academic standards and coursework, strong accountability measures, an expansion of digital technology in the classroom, and policies that attract the best and brightest to the teaching profession.
This isn't a nefarious plot to promote a corporate takeover of public education. During the Foundation's multiple trips to Mississippi, our policy experts have testified at sessions, attended by Loome, where they discussed literacy and accountability reforms, not school choice.
Loome's selective data also distorted Florida's charter school performance. These schools serve a greater proportion of at-risk students (i.e., low-income, minority or students with disabilities). Consequently, many schools start out failing, but most quickly improve. They must; Florida law states charters rated as low performing for two consecutive years can be closed – a policy not applied to traditional public schools.
Loome neglected to mention that between 2002-03 and 2010-11, the percent of high performing charters jumped from 53 to 73 percent while the percent of failures dropped from 16 to six percent.
Outside research says Florida's Tax Credit Scholarship Program has improved public schools, and that poor-performing students using the scholarship perform as well or better than their public school peers. Also, the program will save Florida about $58 million this year. Perhaps Loome forgot to mention this.
We support high-quality options because they work.
Loome notes that we take funding from for-profit providers. In fact, more than 90 percent of the foundation's budget comes from family foundations or philanthropic organizations dedicated to improving students' educational success. We advocate for policies that benefit students, not the interests of one particular non-profit or private entity.
And I can promise you that these policies will very much benefit the children of Mississippi.
Patricia Levesque
CEO , Foundation for Excellence in Education


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Hopefully the broader community as a whole receives some benefit from the project, or it at least raises the awareness amongst developers of Open Source with respect to employment contracts and who actually owns the I.P. of the work.
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2 other threads got me thinking and I know there are folks here that have the skinny so....
How many and who - FC, AFC, etc from litters where dam and sire had achieve no more that qaa, MH, HRCH status.
2 other threads got me thinking and I know there are folks here that have the skinny so....
How many and who - FC, AFC, etc from litters where dam and sire had achieve no more that qaa, MH, HRCH status.
More than one could count....but these two off the top of my head because they belonged to friends of mine
FC AFC Misty Morning Teal- O/H George Wilson: she came from untitled parents, but her grandsire was NFC Mi Cris Sailor and NFC AFC Butte's Blue Moon on her dam side
1972 NFC AFC Royal Moose's Moe- O/H William D Connor : had NFC AFC Cork of Oakwood on his sire's side and NFC Dual Ch Shed of Arden on his dam's side
I often think of the breeding game and how many potential NFC dogs may be sitting on the front seat of some ones farm truck right now or catching an afternoon breeze on an old front porch. One Good Example I often think about is one of the most commonly known dogs in history Ebnostar lean mac. According to Hunting lab pedigree.com lean mac had 4 brothers and sisters. Correct me if I am wrong but I don't see where any of his siblings titled in anything higher than SH. Was this due to the homes of Mac's siblings or that Mac was just a super dog? What if Mr MacLean had chosen one of mac's brothers would it have had the same potential? People have paid some serious money to carry on Mac's genetics over the years while his sibling who possibly carry the same genetic DNA get over looked because they were either not placed in a competitive home? I haven't done much research on the topic but i would like to know if there are any AFC or FC or possible NFC that come from entirely Non-title pedigrees... Creating a Similar situation to the Baseball movie Money Ball for the retriever game. I know the when it comes to picking pups everyone looks for the stats and stats don't lie which has proven many of successful NFC and FC. But i bet there has been some No names that carried that same NFC genetic make-up that may have come from siblings to a NFC that were overlooked due to its home placement.
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St. Thomas, the great doctor and theologian, warns about the proper use of animals, lest they appear at the final Judgment against us: and God himself will take vengeance on all who misuse his creatures.
& the Lean Mac story is not as posted on this thread. Sherwin had nothing to do with the dog until he was out of the Derby, but a pro Dennis Robbins, in Canada did. Ask Doug Grant for the whole story, he posts on here on occasion.
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Thanks Marvin and Bon, I do not know the full story of Mac but i just used him as an example that one of the most widely known studs in the retriever world was not born into a one pup litter...
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