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In Response to Re: Week Three NFL Picks and "Game of the Week":
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Week Three NFL Picks and "Game of the Week" : LT has yet to show he's lost it.
RESPONSE: Surely you jest. I understand that its' a hard fact to accept...but he's another Shaun Alexander, and is injury prone. The Bolts are clearly a better team with Darren Sproles in the line-up.
Health at the beginning of the post season is the goal. Merriman, like Brady, is coming back from serious injury. Both are showing flashes of past success, but, are not there yet- especially Brady. Anybody can see he's off.
RESPONSE: Merriman's problems aren't so much physical as they are mental. The guy is a primadonna, and a nut job. Is there any wonder why the Bolts used last years' #1 pick on DE/OLB Larry English? GM Smith can't wait to be rid of Merriman. It was telling that he was not selected as a team captain.
Sproles will tagged or long term tendered, period.
RESPONSE: No telling how long Sproles will last. The Bolts must rid themselves of LT, and get a compliment for Sproles. Clearly, Jacob Hester is not the answer.
Gates we'll see.
RESPONSE: Gates is getting old, and injuries seem to slow him down every year.
Williams is a concern.
RESPONSE: Williams appears to be done...except perhaps as a spot player.
I would much rather have SD, then, an inexperienced for/in the postseason Patriot roster. Wilhite is proving to be Hobbs like. To say things over and done with after just 2 games for either SD or NE is Jet lingo.
RESPONSE: The Pats have nothing to do with this discussion. They started to rebuild their team gradually. I feel much more confortable with the direction of the Pats with BB in charge, than I do with the direction of the Bolts, coached by Norvice. Remember, the topic being discussed is whether the window of opportunity on the Bolts has closed, or is close to closing.
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Sorry Bolt. But if your boys don't get it done this year, it doesn't look real good thereafter. Keep in mind, that I haven't even scratched the surface talking about their problems on the OL.

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It's our annual fave, and the other local comics shops should not take offense; when you've experienced the prosecutorial hell Keith's Comics has been through of late ("Comic Appeal," August 14), you deserve at least honorable mention and then some. But Jeremy Shorr's place on Bachman Lake, twixt a dollar store and a karate classroom, rings up this annual accolade because it's a pure comics shop--back issues that go wayback to the Golden Age take up most of the space, ringed by walls of new stuff from the majors (DC and Marvel) and the minors and dang near every indie this side of Hoboken. Shorr, aided by a knowledgeable and friendly staff, has also taken to carrying an estimable library of comic-book histories, in addition to boxes full of old mags about comics; it's a history lesson in here, as well as a sneak peek at the bright future of a once-accursed medium that now provides the movies with endless source material.


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Professional sports have given us the Fighting Irish, the Washington Redskins, and the Minnesota Vikings. Conspicuously absent from the roster are teams with such as the Jumping Jews and the Vicious Israelites. The Jewish culture, as a whole, is not known for producing kingpin athletes (excluding, of course, Greenberg, Koufax, and Green). Eh, such is life. The title of the Chosen is a nice consolation prize.
At the upcoming XXVII Annual Maccabi Games, 1,600 Latin-Jewish athletes will converge upon Miami Beach. Representing immigrants from 10 nations throughout Latin America, these athletes will join forces to break records and blow stereotypes. Marriages have even resulted from the games giving hope to any Nana whose granddaughter has ever fancied gentile men. See the action beginning at 7 p.m. Opening ceremonies will take place at the Sanford L. Ziff Campus.
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Windy Kelley joined the UW Extension office in Sublette County Dec. 17, 2012.
Kelley, a sustainable management of rangeland resources educator, is based in Pinedale and serves Lincoln, Sublette, Sweetwater, Teton and Uinta counties.
Kelley has a bachelor's degree in natural resource recreation and tourism and a master's degree in rangeland ecosystem science from Colorado State University.
"Kelley will continue UW Extension's long history of outstanding educational outcomes for landowners, natural resource managers, energy companies and cooperating agencies in western Wyoming," noted Susan James, federal relations and staff development coordinator with UW Extension.
Prior to joining Extension, Kelley was the agricultural program coordinator for the Wyoming Department of Agriculture in the Jonah Interagency and Pinedale Anticline Project office.
"Windy's technical expertise combined with her demonstrated success in addressing complex natural resource management issues in western Wyoming provide her an exceptional foundation to develop and deliver relevant, objective and impactful educational programs," said James.
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Anything You Ask For Lyrics - The Game
Somebody bout to get knocked the fuck out tonight man
[Verse 1:]
Niggas think they got The Game sold
Yeah right I'm air tight
Fresh in them Air Nikes
If the navvy outside
I might be there
Black hoodie, black nine, black white v Airs
Like Caddy trunks keep a spare
You see the lump under the ice berg fleece and yeah
And when the beef cooks I'm a put the piece through your hair
And if you see a white truck that mean the sheets is there
Then I'm goin goin back back to the block
To dump the bucket and jump in the drop
Niggas know I'm good with the glock
They call me chick herns cause The Game or not I'm calling the shots
I wear a shiny suite 4 em and they like them alot
They get gangsta with a SWAT me bag and a Jordan box
So when I die, bury me with the glock and a bucket of shells
In case niggas want drama in Hell
I'll give you anything you ask for
Money over bitches!
Tell me what you blast for
We don't fuck around with snitches!
What you have the smash for
This bitch tried to play me man!
Anything you ask for
It's all about the bank Game!
[Repeat twice]
[Verse 2:]
First things first
Money over bitches
Swore say my name in vain watch main
Brake the bones in your nose
I'm a flick time rida
Inner city flipper
Watch who try to flip more like their neighbors want digger
Sergeant at arms who playin, I'm a General
So draw your fire arms when you in the presence of criminals
And motherfuckers subliminal metaphors or adjectives
I come to where you live and send 60 rounds inside your crib!
Killer by instinct
Murderer by nature
Killer Cali earth quakes ya
Ain't nothin but bone brakers
Is nothin like puffin on this justall ass pound
Became in my turner
Have your mouth twisted just like Bobby Brown
Fuck what you might of read
Fuck what your people said
Back in this bitch and o 6 is The Game in lead
Highly anticipated the day has finally came
I slap a patch of meat off a nigga head for Game
Fer real!
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The Hold Steady presents a pragmatic stylistic relapse on 'Teeth Dreams'
Album review: The Hold Steady's 'Teeth Dreams'
Published: April 9, 2014
The Hold Steady
Teeth Dreams
Razor and Tie
★★★ (out of 5 stars)
Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn recently made his own custom craft beer, Clear Heart, named after his 2012 solo album. That's pretty fitting, considering the Hold Steady's fondness for rollicking bar anthems. Following an entirely too polished and carbon-copy album (2010's Heaven Is Whenever), Teeth Dreams becomes the Brooklyn group's sixth official full-length, largely steeped in what the band was originally cherished for: talk-singing narratives; muted riffs that lead to open-strung, sing-along choruses; and a rhythm that keeps a listener's toes tapping. It's another of many recent so-called return-to-form albums, but the Hold Steady's regression is more pragmatic. These dudes have seen their fair share of American midlife crises, so when these bar anthems begin to electrify with their inebriated buzz, they're tempered by a heavy-but-persevering heart – exactly what you want to hear from a band at this stage.
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This island is like a natural inspiration with the lofty mountains spilling onto lush plains, the land gleaming in multicolor and shimmering white sands bordering the bright blue seas. Add this to the beautiful people with brash, bubbly and bold personalities coming all over the world to give a gamut of customs, traditions and skin tones. The rich heritage and culture of this country provides an overabundance of untold stories, images and ideas.
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The proposal for the original design of the flag was said to have included some reference of Union Jack, supposedly with blue color, but this had caused some concerns in parliament and therefore was not adopted. The colors of Jamaica was said to be adopted from the African Congress in the year of 1925, but is believed that it existed in Jamaica long before that time. So, what resulted after all these proposals and sketches was a contest that was held publicly for the design of the flag in 1962.
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I made the regrettable mistake of looking at myself in the mirror when my boyfriend Max was over and saying out loud that I felt like I was getting fat. That's when Max jumped all over me. He said he hates when women make comments like that because they have no intention of doing anything about it and just expect any guy within earshot to tell them how thin they are – whether it's true or not. Maybe that's partly true – that I was hoping Max would tell me I was beautiful. But instead, he just started yelling at me to do something about my weight if I didn't like it and we never talked about it again. Do you think it was a bad idea for me to voice that I thought I was gaining weight? Was he right to yell at me like that? How do I bring this up to him without starting the whole thing all over again?
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Obama's NCLB waivers: are they necessary or illegal?No Child Left Behind Act The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-110), commonly known as NCLB (IPA: /ˈnɪkəlbiː/), is a United States federal law that was passed in the House of Representatives on May 23, 2001 (NCLB NCLB No Child Left Behind (US education initiative) ), conditional on their willingness to embrace certain reform proposals sketched out in the administration's March 2010 proposal "A Blueprint for Reform: The Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act "Title I" redirects here. For other uses of "Title I", see Title I (disambiguation).
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) (Pub.L. 89-10, 79 Stat. 77, ) is a United States federal statute enacted April 111965. " State leaders have cheered the president's decision to offer them much-needed relief from onerous requirements. Key Republican leaders, including Senators Lamar Alexander Andrew Lamar Alexander (born July 3, 1940) is the senior United States Senator from Tennessee and a member of the Republican Party. He was previously the 45th Governor of Tennessee from 1979 to 1987, U.S. Secretary of Education from 1991 to 1993 under President George H.W. (TN) and Marco Rubio Marco Rubio (born May 28, 1971, Miami, Florida) is the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives for the 2007 and 2008 Legislative sessions. He was first elected to the Florida House as a Republican on January 25, 2000, from the 111th district. (EL), and Texas governor Rick Perry James Richard Perry (b. March 4, 1950) is a Republican politician and the Governor of Texas. He assumed office in December 2000 when then-Governor George W. Bush resigned to prepare for his inauguration as President of the United States. Gov. , have blasted the move as overstepping executive authority. Is the president right to issue conditional waivers? Are the conditions themselves a good idea? In this forum, Martha Derthick and Andy Rotherham weigh in. Derthick is professor emerita Emerita is a honorary title retained corresponding to that held immediatey before retirement. (associated with retired from service) --Kabir4you2002 11:55, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
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Martha Derthick: When the framers of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Constitution wrote that it is a duty of the chief executive to "take care" that the laws be faithfully executed, they can hardly have imagined a law so freighted with perverse and destructive consequences as No Child Left Behind. And if they had imagined any such thing, they would likely have assumed that the legislature would be quick to correct its work.
But that is not the case in our time, and the Obama administration, confronted with a train wreck train wreck Medtalk A popular term for a multiproblem Pt in critical condition , has responded with an offer to waive the most onerous provisions of the law. The offer is conditioned, however, on the state governments' acceptance of a set of "principles" put forth in a document titled "ESEA ESEA Elementary and Secondary Education Act
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ESEA Eurocopter South East Asia Flexibility." Flexibility is the new watchword at the Department of Education (ED), though the administration promises that it implies no sacrifice of "accountability," which has been the watchword for roughly two decades.
It is hard to see what else the administration could have done, given the failure of Congress to make corrections itself, the manifest impossibility of carrying on with the law as written, and the protest that would have come from Democrats in Congress and the army of education reformers if the administration had simply settled for waivers. It enjoys broad waiver authority under the law, and waiver provisions in federal law have repeatedly been upheld in court. On the other hand, nothing in the law authorizes it to craft new conditions--in effect, to attempt making law itself--even if the new conditions are not called law or rules or conditions or standards, but merely "principles."
Forty years ago, in regard to public assistance rather than education, I wrote as follows of intergovernmental relations in the United States:
Federal enforcement is a diplomatic process. It is as if the terms of a treaty, an agreement of mutual interest to the two governmental parties, were more or less continuously being negotiated. ... The function of intergovernmental diplomacy in a federal system, like that of international diplomacy, is to facilitate communication and amicable relations between governments that are pretending to be equals by obscuring the question of whether one is more equal than the other. ... That this be clone is important primarily to the federal government, for it is the aggressive, the states the defensive, actor in intergovernmental relations. It has the greater interest in seeing that change is facilitated. But perhaps the principal advantage of a diplomatic style to federal administrators ... is that this mode of behavior makes the best possible use of the technique of withholding funds. It enables federal officials to exploit, without actually using, this basic resource. --from The influence of federal grants: public assistance in Massachusetts (Harvard University Press, 1970)
Much of what I wrote about federalism 40 years ago needs revision, but I think there is still truth in this passage. And what strikes me in reviewing intergovernmental relations in education is that the federal government has had a very hard time getting the hang of it. It has wavered (that is not meant to be a pun) between administrative passivity, as with the Clinton administration's prolific granting of waivers following the Improving America's Schools Act (IASA IASA IETF Administrative Support Activity
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The Clinton-era approach perhaps made due recognition of the fact that the origins of the accountability movement lay in the states. Federal law, after all, typically builds, as the IASA did, on state precedents. But the successor regime of Bush, in an overcorrection o·ver·cor·rec·tion
An adjustment that surpasses a set criterion, especially of a desired behavior. , reacted sharply against the perceived fecklessness feck·less
1. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
2. Careless and irresponsible.
[Scots feck, effect (alteration of effect) + -less. of federal education policy, was indifferent to what the states had in place, and demanded impossibilities. Just how this happened has always puzzled me. How could an elected legislature, traditionally thought to be locally oriented, err so grievously by attempting to improve the public schools by punishing their teachers and administrators? The short answer lies, I think, in the hubris Hubris
An arrogance due to excessive pride and an insolence toward others. A classic character flaw of a trader or investor. typical of a freshly elected president, the passionate commitment of the liberal lions Kennedy and Miller to social justice (that is, closing the achievement gap), and the pride that John Boehner took in collaborating with these titans. Others who should have known better went along in ignorance of the consequences. Eugene Hickok's account in Schoolhouse of Cards mentions Senator Judd Gregg Judd Alan Gregg (born February 14 1947) is a former Governor of New Hampshire and current United States Senator serving as ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee. He is a member of the Republican Party, and was a businessman and attorney in Nashua before entering politics. , "who harbored serious misgivings about the whole enterprise, having for years argued for local control in education ..." but who wanted to help a new Republican president and presumed that the new federal initiative would not have much of an impact in his state of New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). , which he believed to have very good schools. Little did he know.
Now the Obama administration is on the rebound from its predecessor, attempting its own correction and searching for what 1 take to be a diplomatic middle ground. State intergovernmental cooperation is made the foundation for the promise of flexibility and better federal-state cooperation. But after one gets beyond the lofty principles, which begin with "college- and career-ready expectations for all students," there is a lot of prescription woven in among the principles.
In announcing the new plan to chief state school officers (CSSOs), Secretary Arne Duncan points out that 44 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). have adopted the Common Core standards prepared under the auspices of the National Governors Association with financial support from the Gates Foundation. Forty-six states and the District of Columbia are "developing high-quality assessments aligned with these standards." According to Duncan, "Over 40 states are developing next-generation accountability and support systems," guided by the CSSOs, and "many states are moving forward with reforms in teacher and principal evaluation and support, turning around low-performing schools, and expanding access to high-quality schools." As happened early in the Progressive Era, the expansion of national government activity has prompted states to work more closely together, but that effort is not all embracing. Six states, including Virginia and Texas, have yet to adopt the Common Core standards.
Given the uncertain legal ground on which its new regime of not-quite-regulation rests, the department could face some unusual dilemmas if it attempts to bring federal power to bear against dissenters dissenters: see nonconformists. . Most states will undoubtedly apply for waivers, but what if some just stop complying with NCLB and drag their feet on the waivers? If some of the half dozen or so "outliers" apply but offer much less in the way of conforming principles than ED would like, what then? Withholding funds is never easy, and the legal ambiguities present in this new demarche dé·marche
1. A course of action; a maneuver.
2. A diplomatic representation or protest.
3. A statement or protest addressed by citizens to public authorities. will not make it any easier. Yet in the absence of a penalty against a state, withholding presumably pre·sum·a·ble
That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. , no court is likely to be engaged in a legal resolution. The Congressional Research Service The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is a branch of the Library of Congress that provides objective, nonpartisan research, analysis, and information to assist Congress in its legislative, oversight, and representative functions. U.S. (CRS CRS Course
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CRS Consumer Relations Specialist ), asked by a House committee for a legal analysis, replied that the secretary of education has broad authority to grant waivers, but hedged on the question of whether these waivers could be made conditional. "Given the novelty of the question," it said, "it is unclear how a reviewing court would rule on such an issue." Courts have been applying a "clear statement" rule for federal grant-in-aid conditions: a federal agency cannot withhold funds unless states have been told their obligations in plain language. If that were the test, the Department of Education would be heading into court with a weak hand.
The case raises a concern that extends well beyond the field of education. Just how far is the United States going to take governmentby-waiver? Waivers began to make a significant appearance in public policymaking pol·i·cy·mak·ing or pol·i·cy-mak·ing
High-level development of policy, especially official government policy.
Of, relating to, or involving the making of high-level policy: in the 1980s and 1990s, when they were the precursors of welfare reform and the instruments for major revisions of Medicaid. These waivers had a foundation in law, and after a great deal of experimentation and intergovernmental negotiation conducted by executive officials in the two levels of government, they resulted in new law. The CRS memo cites court cases involving waiver provisions in the Real ID Act of 2005 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Pub. L. No. 90-202, 81 Stat. 602 (Dec. 15, 1967), codified as Chapter 14 of Title 29 of the United States Code, through (ADEA), prohibits employment discrimination against persons 40 years of age or older in the United States (see ). . Undoubtedly, there are many others. Perhaps to its credit, Congress recognizes with waiver provisions the limitations of its own ability to tailor national laws to the needs of a huge, diverse, and constantly changing society. For it to include waiver authority in law is just a realistic acknowledgment that it is in over its head.
But waivers threaten to get out of hand, and to undermine the rule of law. What the Obama administration just did with education would be a mild case, in which waivers are combined with new requirements lacking a basis in law, but the more serious case is the Affordable Care Act, under which, without any warrant that I have been able to find in the law itself, the administration granted more than 1,400 waivers to labor unions and small businesses that were offering less insurance coverage than the law requires. If Mitt Romney is to be believed and is elected, he will abolish the whole law by waiver, as if a president has the right to do any such thing.
Andy Rotherham: It is impossible to discuss the Obama administration's waiver plan without also discussing and understanding the general political and governmental dysfunction plaguing Washington. The administration is proposing to use waivers to give states, school districts, and schools flexibility under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, not because waivers are President Obama's or Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's favored way to make policy, but rather because they are the policymaking tool of last resort.
Even casual observers of government have probably noticed that little gets done in Washington these days. The budget process has become an ongoing game of political brinkmanship brink·man·ship also brinks·man·ship
The practice, especially in international politics, of seeking advantage by creating the impression that one is willing and able to push a highly dangerous situation to the limit rather than concede. , with government shutdowns regularly threatened. Legislation moves in fits and starts and often only under special expedited rules. In education, the flurry of policymaking since 2009 has come exclusively under special circumstances special circumstances n. in criminal cases, particularly homicides, actions of the accused or the situation under which the crime was committed for which state statutes allow or require imposition of a more severe punishment. and not through the regular legislative process. Race to the Top, i3 (Investing in Innovation fund), and School Improvement Grants, for example, were all folded into the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The administration's victory on student loans came courtesy of special legislative rules related to the health-care bill. Its "gainful gain·ful
Providing a gain; profitable: gainful employment.
gainful·ly adv. employment" rule for for-profit colleges and universities came through the regulatory process.
This dysfunction matters because when NCLB was passed in 2001, no one involved imagined the law would run for at least a decade without a congressional overhaul. On the contrary, longtime Washington hands were surprised that it took until 2001 to reauthorize the 1994 version of the law. And the 1994 law was not as complex or timetableladen as the current version. Notwithstanding a few waiver programs and some clever waivers states managed to secure for themselves, the core of the law remains intact almost 10 years after President George W. Bush, Senator Ted Kennedy, and Congressmen George Miller and John Boehner barnstormed the country to celebrate its overwhelmingly bipartisan passage in the House and Senate.
That s why hardly anyone argues with Secretary Duncan's decision to grant waivers as a way of modifying the policies. Congress tried--and failed--to overhaul the law in 2007, and current efforts to do so still seem a long shot. Yet revisions are long overdue, and the secretary of education's authority to grant waivers is clearly spelled out in the law. Previous secretaries have issued a variety of waivers; The criticism of the secretary's plan, which he and the president rolled out September 23 at the White House, stems from two issues: 1) the secretary's strategy of making receipt of the waivers conditional on states agreeing to maintain or adopt a series of reforms, and 2) the effect of the waivers on efforts to hold schools accountable for results.
Let's take the two concerns in order.
Waivers are a common strategy for policymaking. After all, with 50 states and urban, suburban, and rural communities covered by the same laws, it is almost impossible to craft laws that fit every situation without some mechanism for modification. We see waivers on a variety of policy issues to accommodate implementation challenges, state-specific statutes or constitutional requirements, or to encourage innovation and new ideas.
Yet in September in its regular monthly survey, consulting firm Whiteboard Advisors asked a bipartisan group of policy and political insiders whether they thought Secretary Duncan's waiver plan would be challenged in court, and 63 percent said yes. I am copublisher of that survey, and the figure reflects the substantial discontent on the political right and left with Secretary Duncan's specific strategy in this case. On the left, groups like the United Farm Workers The United Farm Workers of America (UFW) is a labor union that evolved from unions founded in 1962 by César Chávez, Philip Vera Cruz, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itliong. This union changed from a workers' rights organization that helped workers get unemployment insurance to that of challenged the secretary's authority to issue waivers that would curtail parental rights. Other special-interest groups felt the waivers should be unconditional and not predicated on any specific reforms or commitments. On the right, conservatives complained that the administration was not merely waiving aspects of the law but rewriting it unilaterally.
Actually, waivers with conditions attached are also a common practice. A cabinet agency can require that a state be in compliance with various laws and regulations to be eligible for a waiver. Or an agency can sponsor pilots and let states propose their own ideas and conditions. The Department of Education has issued waivers under both of these scenarios in recent years.
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, for instance, conditioned waivers in her "growth model" pilot on state plans to ensure student growth to proficiency on state tests within three years. Such a requirement did not exist in federal law, and many of the same individuals and organizations now apoplectic ap·o·plec·tic
Relating to, having, or predisposed to apoplexy.
apo·plec about Secretary Duncan's waiver plan raised no objections to Spellings's approach at the time.
Where Secretary Duncan's waivers get complicated is the hodgepodge of Jaws, regulations, and initiatives that comprise federal education policy today, again because of congressional inaction. The federal goals of improving teacher evaluations, adopting college- and career-ready standards, and turning around low-performing schools trace their legislative provenance to congressional authorizations permitting the secretary of education to allocate federal funds Federal Funds
Funds deposited to regional Federal Reserve Banks by commercial banks, including funds in excess of reserve requirements.
These non-interest bearing deposits are lent out at the Fed funds rate to other banks unable to meet overnight reserve based on priorities he determines rather than specific laws passed by Congress.
Politically, the secretary is on firm ground citing the precedent of his predecessors' waivers, and his critics' temporal concerns about executive power and federalism seem to owe more to which party controls the Oval Office than any underlying theory of government. But the courts will care less about political precedent than statutory precedent, and could read the law and the secretary's authority more narrowly.
Unfortunately, all the attention to the legality of these waivers (as well as a lot of questionable rhetoric about NCLB itself) has obscured the second question: While the need for revisions to the law and its timetables is inarguable, are these specific waivers a good idea?
There are a number of sensible (and often broadly supported) provisions in the administration's waiver package, but there are problems, too. Who could argue with getting rid of NCLB's "highly qualified teacher" rules? States have gamed them to the point of meaninglessness. Flexibility for rural local education agencies is sensible policy as well. However, the lead-up to the announcement of the waivers was unsettling un·set·tle
v. un·set·tled, un·set·tling, un·set·tles
1. To displace from a settled condition; disrupt.
2. To make uneasy; disturb.
v.intr. to supporters of a strong federal role in school accountability. In spring 2011, the president visited a suburban school (with notable achievement gaps) to argue that without substantial changes more than 80 percent of the nation's schools would not meet NCLB performance targets this year. In fact, the actual figures are much lower. But more to the point, given our dismal educational outcomes, why should we be surprised that an accountability system would find a lot of schools underperforming?
Meanwhile, some states proposed, and in some cases were approved for, wholesale departures from efforts to hold schools accountable. Virginia, for instance, sought to retroactively set its accountability targets, and until the proposal became public the administration seemed to be onboard. Idaho and Montana demanded flexibility while announcing that they would not enforce the law, and the administration acquiesced to some changes.
The waiver proposal itself opens the door for suburban schools with achievement gaps to evade accountability. The plan commits states to concentrate on the poorest-performing 15 percent of schools in exchange for flexibility in setting school accountability targets. Yet data clearly show that some groups of students, poor and minority students in particular, do not fare appreciably better in schools that are higher performing overall. In those schools, such challenges are often lost in seemingly respectable averages. Whether the administration can maintain real accountability for all schools remains to be seen. In that same Whiteboard Advisors survey, 75 percent of policy insiders did not think that the administration could maintain a high degree of accountability throughout the process.
The No Child Left Behind law changed the unit of analysis for educational performance and accountability from schools to students. What happens to students within schools, not only differences between schools, became the focal point focal point
See focus. . This was a major policy shift and reflected the obvious truth that different students can have very different educational experiences in the same school. Laying that reality bare discomfited comfortable suburban communities and upset the traditional education establishment. Complaints about "labeling" schools drowned out hard conversations about the reality of educational performance today.
So while the law clearly needs fixes and updates to a variety of its policies, it does not need a rollback of this bright and often uncomfortable light. The 1994 predecessor to No Child Left Behind had a muted effect in most states precisely because of this issue. Data and transparency alone do not move public policy in a sector like education, which has powerful special interests and unclear outcome goals.
That's why, assuming that Congress fails to act to reauthorize the law, in the end the same problem that has vexed the law since 2001 seems likely to plague the waiver process as it grinds on over time: how to give states flexibility yet ensure that they hold schools accountable for results. The federal government is not good at the former, and despite a few compelling state examples to the contrary, there is plenty of history to make one worry about the latter. Forget the first few states that have a solid commitment to reform, strong leadership, and will be approved while everyone is watching the peer review process. It's the ones that come onboard later where a rollback is most likely.
Bottom line: As with No Child Left Behind (and most broad federal legislation), execution and implementation matter as much as the letter of law and regulations. The administration is betting that the education conversation and education politics have changed enough that rollback is politically untenable. Given the track record and the way the past decade unfolded in terms of the conversation about NCLB, that seems like a bad bet, whether a judge ultimately upholds or strikes down this waiver plan.
The federal government has wavered between administrative passivity, as with the Clinton adm in istra tio n ys prolific granting of waivers, and the grant-no-waivers approach adopted by Congress and the Bush administration in 2001-02.
Congress recognizes with waiver provisions the limitations of its own ability to tailor national laws to the needs of a huge, diverse, and constantly changing society.
The Obama administration is proposing to use waivers to give states flexibility under ESEA, not because waivers are President Obama's or Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ys favored way to make policy, but rather because they are the policymaking tool of last resort.
While the law clearly needs fixes and updates to a variety of its policies, it does not need a rollback of the bright and often uncomfortable light of accountability.
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The National Committee for Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention, through a consensus development process, identified specific steps to minimize agricultural injuries among children (see Chapter 5). Among the recommended steps were a variety of educational initiatives ranging from a national public-education campaign to the incorporation of agricultural health and safety curricula in classrooms from kindergarten through high school. The committee also called for the rigorous evaluation of educational materials and methods.
Although education is a key part of preventing workplace injuries and illnesses, it cannot solve the problem alone. A comprehensive prevention strategy will require education, engineering modifications, and the rigorous enforcement of both child labor laws and health and safety laws. Also needed is increased research, based on sound scientific principles, to identify successful approaches to intervention.
Current regulations and standards do not reflect the changes in technology, industries, and hazards that children and adolescents encounter in contemporary workplaces in the United States. Nor do these standards adequately protect children and adolescents, who are more vulnerable than adults to certain health and safety hazards on the job. Child labor standards have not kept up with contemporary research on the psychosocial, health, and safety implications of work and school for teenagers.
Connecting education more closely with work is a promising strategy for improving the health, safety, and quality of young people's work experiences. Instruction in health and safety at both the school and the workplace and attention to reducing hazards in the workplace should become a larger part of vocational education, school-to-work, and related initiatives that try to strengthen connections between education and employment.
Everyone with a role in the employment of young workers needs more and better knowledge and the ability to use it effectively. They need to have: (1) knowledge about the basic legal issues (e.g., regulations that limit the number of hours minors may work); (2) access


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