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Van Jones: Glenn Beck trumps the NYT
Mickey Kaus asks some good questions today regarding the NYT Van Jones coverage:
Amazingly, many New York Times print readers still don't know why Van Jones resigned! Here's how the paper's John Broder describes his situation:
The adviser, Van Jones, a controversial and charismatic community organizer and "green jobs" advocate from the San Francisco Bay Area, signed a petition in 2004 questioning whether the Bush administration had allowed the terrorist attacks of September 2001 to provide a pretext for war in the Middle East. [E.A.]
Reading that, would you realize the petition was a Truther petition?
Obviously not. (Incidentally, Jones has claimed he signed the petition by accident when someone waved a clipboard in front of him. But if you look at the list of signers, his full organization name and role are also there. Oh, well, I guess they could have filled that in for him.)
Kaus goes on to reference the earlier Sarah Wheaton report from the Times website that was straight forward about the Truther petition. I had read that report almost immediately after it was published on their site and was pleased to see that, at last, the paper was acknowledging the story. Of course, there was no explanation of why they had ignored the story for months, anymore than there is explanation even now about why the paper published Walter Duranty's whitewash of Stalin's mass starvation of Ukrainian peasants in Thirties when other publications were reporting the atrocity that murdered millions. (I could go on – and have.)
But what fascinates in the Times/Broder article is the role of Glenn Beck: Chief among those keeping the story alive was Glenn Beck, the conservative host of a Fox News Channel program. Mr. Beck began criticizing Mr. Jones in July, first in segments on his syndicated talk radio show and then, on July 23, on his Fox News program, said Christopher Balfe, the president of Mr. Beck's production company.
There's some reference to Beck's advertising woes (a subject with which the Times should be familiar) due to Beck's having called Obama a "racist." But the substance is that Beck got the scoop. His numbers are going up and NYT's continue to go down as the Newspaper of Record searches for a new economic model.
Part of the reason for this is pretty obvious. People trust Beck and they don't trust the NYT. Beck may be biased, but he's honest about it. The NYT persists in the illusion of even-handed reporting, even when, in a case like the Van Jones scandal, they clearly decided not to run the story for political reasons, but don't have the cojones to admit it. Or is there another reason? We're waiting.
98 Comments, 98 Threads
1. Steve
You didn't mention that PJM co-founder Charles Johnson dissembled on Van Jones behalf. Van Jones signed a petition by an organization called 911truth.org. How CJ could think that Van Jones didn't know it was a truther petition is beyond belief.September 7, 2009 - 10:29 am Link to this Comment | Reply
2. Charlie (Colorado)
Steve, I've got to say, Roger didn't mention unicorns, cream cheese, or the speed of light either. Why? you might ask.
Maybe because they don't have anything to do with the topic of the article.
Think on it.September 7, 2009 - 10:46 am Link to this Comment | Reply
3. Minerva
He signed the petition on the clipboard without reading it? Did he think it was for an autograph? Do we have that on videotape too? We are in this mess because many signed loan papers or signed off their approval on same loans without reading them.September 7, 2009 - 10:57 am Link to this Comment | Reply
4. Calvin Ball
Incidentally, Jones has claimed he signed the petition by accident when someone waved a clipboard in front of him.
Howard Dean has said a couple of interesting things:
1) Jones is a Yale Lawyer, and
2) He didn't read what he signed.
What's wrong with this picture?September 7, 2009 - 11:16 am Link to this Comment | Reply
5. Calvin Ball
Steve, CJ is no longer (and hasn't been for a long time) associated with PJM. And I agree, he's really gone over the deep end in the past year. The guy is bordering on nutcase right now. I used to go there frequently. Now, I occasionally go there for the links bulletin board. I don't bother with CJ's articles. I don't need the 87th article on the "nirthers", or the 349th article on the creationists. It's not as if there aren't any important issues to to be writing about.
He's obsessed, and bordering on pathological.September 7, 2009 - 11:23 am Link to this Comment | Reply
6. Moon Yee
Will Michelle Obama and Joe Biden be asked questions concerning Jones?
Reports are that they BOTH lobbied on his behalf…………particularly Michelle.
Perhaps the odious Diane Sawyer or the sickening Katie Couric can ask Michelle some questions in between kissing her ass and feeling her biceps.September 7, 2009 - 12:11 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
7. myna
I don't go there anymore. CJ has been obsessing with creationists and birthers. He sounds more like Bill Maher lately.September 7, 2009 - 12:21 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
8. Roy Lofquist
Careful, folks. This is an artful conjurer's trick. Now they get to throw people under the Van instead of the bus.September 7, 2009 - 12:28 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
9. Calvin Ball
7, you're right. It ain't pretty when a van goes under a bus:
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/media/multimedia/2009/01/30/media/01302009_BusAccident_1_t_w600_h600.jpgSeptember 7, 2009 - 12:33 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
10. Professor Guvinoff
Glenn Beck and the New York Times, a 21st century replay of David and Goliath, in slow motion, high definition, surround sound, and virtual reality, only this time the virtual reality is morphing into the other kind, the one that will knock you down for good, not merely clear your socks for take-off from the hope-and-change runway.
More drama is coming, of the train wreck variety. The dramatic tension between the messianic pronouncements of the candidate and the ill-inspired fumbles of the grumpy president provided the latent energy for the collision that has just begun.
Van Jones is merely one of the early red-hot fragments shooting out of the fracas, with the high velocity of a previously unrecognized sub-atomic particle exiting sideways out of the tax-payer-funded neutron smashing machine.
I propose that the particle be named the "Hyperlefton", with the following attributes: high spin, negative electoral charge, zero mass and 6-month half-life. The good news is that the kinetic energy of the Hyperlefton can be converted into green energy, so you may enjoy a bit of parsley on your potatoes, including the hot potatoes falling into the press secretary's lap, just to be fair.
I would not feel so proud if I was the science czar. May the laws of Quantum Physics come to the rescue of the LUI (legislating under the influence) clowns on the hill, signing bills so they may be read later, by future generations.September 7, 2009 - 12:39 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
11. myna
Glenn Beck should run a background of all these czars and closely watch these shadowy people. There is an explosion of Czars in this adninistration. Worst attached to this jobs are billion of dollars with no accountability.September 7, 2009 - 1:12 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
12. Daisy
The only way I would pick up The New York Times is when I run out of toilet paper.September 7, 2009 - 1:58 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
13. Kate Rafferty
Next up for Glenn Beck–Cass Sunstein.September 7, 2009 - 2:38 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
14. Roger L Simon
Kate Rafferty, going after Cass Sunstein in the same manner as Van Jones would be a mistake on Beck's part. You may not agree with Sunstein ideologically, but he is not the type to sign on with Truthers or use obscenities on television to describe Republicans. The concept of Czars may be wrong, but Sunstein himself is a qualified person.September 7, 2009 - 2:49 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
15. myna
If you want easy money and amassed millions, first become a race hustler or a community organizer or union boss or ambulance-chaser then run for congress and not pay taxes. Ask Rangel.September 7, 2009 - 3:33 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
16. Jeff Perren
The things people choose to focus on are sometimes beyond understanding. There's a big outcry because he's a 'truther' (a very silly set of beliefs, to be sure), but must less outrage over the fact that he's a communist, a rabid environmentalist, and a Black Liberationist – and he was hired by the Administration to put his beliefs into practice using Federal power?
Weird.September 7, 2009 - 3:39 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
17. Victor Erimita
Why do we need the thousandth lamentation about, gee whiz, the New York Times isn't an objective newspaper? We have all known that for at least 15 years. We still complain because they supposedly do so much to set the agenda for debate in the country. But doesn't this episode demonstrate that that is increasingly no longer true? The Times was completely irrelevant to this issue. Isn't that a good thing? Most of us stopped reading the Times a long time ago. It's time we stopped caring about it, or at least obsessing about it. It's like high schoolers without a prom date gossiping about what the prom queen said the other day. Time to move on.September 7, 2009 - 3:54 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
18. zhombre
I'm sure Jones graduated from Harvard when someone waved a diploma in front of his face, and he had no real understanding of what that meant either.September 7, 2009 - 4:43 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
19. Calvin Ball
14. Roger L Simon,
In that same vein of thinking, while he isn't a 'czar', John Holdren is plenty odious. I'm not sure, but I don't think his position involved ratification, making it politically similar to a czar position.
If Beck has any sense, he'll be preparing the voodoo doll for Holdren right now.September 7, 2009 - 6:11 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
20. Calvin Ball
And for the record, I'm no fan of Sunstein, either. His "philosophy" amounts to the government selling papal indulgences. A pox on him and his obscene ideas.September 7, 2009 - 6:13 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
21. Brian
It's getting to look like Charles Johnson's role model is David Brock. He's taking that career path.September 7, 2009 - 6:19 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
22. Santiago
"Beck may be biased, but he's honest about it."
Plus, he does not comment without presenting facts that can be confirmed elsewhere.September 7, 2009 - 6:28 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
23. Insufficiently Sensitive
Victor Erimita:
Why do we need the thousandth lamentation about, gee whiz, the New York Times isn't an objective newspaper? We have all known that for at least 15 years.
If the NYT were NOT one of the mainstays of the 'progressives-uber-alles' universe, including the MSM, the universities and public employees large and small, it could be laughed off. But the Times is not irrelevant to this issue – it has directly nurtured it by its selective omissions of proper vetting of Jones, and of Obama himself.
And it still enjoys enormous influence over the politics of this country, sufficient to place an overloaded thumb on the scales of national elections.
Every time it is publicly demonstrated beyond a doubt, with evidence close at hand, that the NYT is viciously biased left and that the veracity and completeness of its 'news' are deliberately corrupted, there's a little better chance that its influence over US politics will diminish. One day the sum of these evidential straws will break the camel's back.
We may consider the Obama administration a heaven-sent incubator supporting constant bits of evidence exposing that NYT corruption.September 7, 2009 - 6:32 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
24. Steve
The NYT does not need a new business model. They need to drop the narrative. That seems unlikely, and by continuing to ignore important stories they are giving their business to alternative news outlets. I say let them. Why not? It is a gift that keeps on giving.September 7, 2009 - 7:42 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
25. Godzilla
Well, we've got Patterico fact-checking the LAT, we probably need a blogger dedicated to filling in the gaps of the NYT. Call it the New York Times Black Hole Blog, or something…all the relavent news that the NYT doesn't see fit to print.September 7, 2009 - 8:53 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
26. Mike_K
I would like to know why these people are so angry. It is disturbing to see how many prosperous blacks, with Ivy League educations, are so angry and so willing to trash the society that has given them such opportunities. I can understand the anger of those who are struggling but why are the people who have every advantage to prosper in our meritocratic society so determined to tear down the institutions that make their lives better than 98% of the world's population?September 7, 2009 - 9:54 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
27. Ronnie Schreiber
I agree, going after Sunstein could be painted as a fringer kind of thing. I think the next domino to be given a push is the person who hired Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett, Obama's right hand woman since the early Chicago days.
There's already the video of her crowing about recruiting Jones and knowing all about his past. Because Jones' beliefs are commonplace on the left, the White House is tone deaf to how the great middle finds those beliefs odious.
Let's start looking for Valerie Jones' videos.September 7, 2009 - 10:25 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
28. mik
is glenn beck on drugs?? he seems nuttier these days…September 7, 2009 - 11:48 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
29. Blue Swan
This story amazes me because Obama was elected with everyone knowing full well about Bill Ayers. Even John McCain made it an issue — and nobody listened that the best friend of the candidate was a bomb-thrower!
Now suddenly everyone is amazed at Van Jones?
What did you expect?September 8, 2009 - 12:51 am Link to this Comment | Reply
I think that Cass Sunstein's ridiculous ideas (like animals having standing to sue in court) should be fully exposed.
I also think that the NYT, absent a federal bailout, won't exist a year from now.September 8, 2009 - 2:17 am Link to this Comment | Reply
31. rob
7 – just a couple of days ago i finally unsubscribed my rss from charles johnson's little green footballs site after following it for 6+ years. just couldn't take it anymore. the site has become more and more self-absorbed, bitter and, therefore, uninteresting. he seems to want some of that dan rather martyrdom complex action, or something. weird.September 8, 2009 - 2:18 am Link to this Comment | Reply
32. pedro
mik R U on some jiggaboo crack or somethin?September 8, 2009 - 3:07 am Link to this Comment | Reply
33. Last Man
Speaking of Charles Johnson and Little Green Footballs, My account has been blocked on LGF not because of any comment I posted on this entire Van Jones issue, in fact I made no comments at all, but because I voted no on comments Charles and others made on various political aspects of the Jones story. I did vote in favor of Zombie's posts, He reflected My views. I think Charles is being sucked back down the Democratic party black hole that 9/11 ejected him from.September 8, 2009 - 3:09 am Link to this Comment | Reply
34. Emma
"I don't go there anymore. CJ has been obsessing with creationists and birthers. He sounds more like Bill Maher lately."
If it's allowed on here, could you tell me what site you mean? I'm just wondering if it's the one I stopped reading after one too many creationist pieces. I have no idea who runs it.September 8, 2009 - 3:15 am Link to this Comment | Reply
35. LeighB
Congratulations to Beck for raising the issue. What sunk Anthony "Van" Jones was his words, there could be no "walking back" from many of his outrageous statements delivered on camera, nor could the WH claim they did not know who this guy was. More birds of a feather.September 8, 2009 - 3:47 am Link to this Comment | Reply
36. Ed Wallis
Please give credit where credit is also due: Jim Hoft of
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/September 8, 2009 - 3:56 am Link to this Comment | Reply
37. adam
Just keep exposing–I'm sure there's plenty behind each of these "czars" to disturb mainstream Americans. There's no need to count scalps, or get caught up with "victories" over the Administration. The larger victory will come when the Administration, the Democrats and the leftmedia are left with the trust of 30% of the population as more and more of reality slips out of their grasp.September 8, 2009 - 3:57 am Link to this Comment | Reply
38. Don
The NYT not the "Newspaper of Record"? Thank Pinch Sulzberger and his coterie of free riders for destroying the reputation and revenues of what was (arguably) the best newspaper in the world. My father and grandfather worked for the Times and up until recently my father could not say anything but good about an institution that built his career . . . now, he feels betrayed. When will the shareholders demand accountability from the divergent son (Pinch)? When will the advertisers demand a change (so circulation can finally rise instead of precipitously drop)? When will the readership demand a change? Perhaps it is time that the paper of record, becomes one.September 8, 2009 - 4:17 am Link to this Comment | Reply
39. Samizdat
You know you are credible when all a lefty critic has for retort is a juvenile ad hominem attack. See the weak, fact less, and pathetic lamentation of mik at 28 above.
Glenn gets overly emotional at times, but I can't fault the facts he uncovers. Van Jones was hung by his own words and actions exclusively. David Sirota of Huffpo has only one rejoinder, the admission that Van Jones was an authentic, far left, radical and that his resignation marks a regretable recentering of the administration. Sirota is wrong about any recentering.
The MSM is in a death spiral of nonreporting. When you can no longer get news from them there is no reason to purchase their product or view their advertising. This small point of capitalism is lost on the scions of the MSM. Their eventual Chapter 11 status is inevitable.September 8, 2009 - 4:29 am Link to this Comment | Reply
40. Poor Citizen
The whole jones thing? A very small storm, in a very small teacup.September 8, 2009 - 4:32 am Link to this Comment | Reply
41. George S.
ROGER why in the world would you put "Beck may be biased" in your piece.
please show me the bias. if you cann't you should not have put it there …trying to pander ?? you write a piece on intergety and then fail to apply it.September 8, 2009 - 4:49 am Link to this Comment | Reply
42. Mike2
16. Jeff Perren:
Excellent point and I too wonder why. I would add to your points that, based on his words on the CD he produced while head of the Ella Baker Center, he might be an anti-semite as well. Focusing on his "truther" signature ignores the bigger picture of his real beliefs and what he has said and done to promote those horrific ideas. Weird indeed.September 8, 2009 - 5:19 am Link to this Comment | Reply
43. bibio44
5. Calvin Ball: "Steve, CJ is no longer (and hasn't been for a long time) associated with PJM. And I agree, he's really gone over the deep end in the past year. The guy is bordering on nutcase right now."
Sounds like a perfect PJM associate.
44. Spider79
#5 Calvin
Thats the first time I've read anyone else mention the decline of LGF. I quit reading him 5 or 6 months ago. Something strange going on there.
45. Paul in MI
Don't forget Beck also broke the big "John Rockefeller was a communist" story too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywolrIaQjH8&feature=related
Beck is schizophrenic. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally, though.September 8, 2009 - 5:47 am Link to this Comment | Reply
46. Dan Rampage
Does anyone know how we can find out what the various Czars are getting paid?September 8, 2009 - 6:34 am Link to this Comment | Reply
47. Banjo
The NYT is written and edited for the the rest of the MSM, Washington, D.C., residents of Manhattan, Boston, New Haven, Madison, Hollywood, the Bay Area and faculty lounges everywhere. The rest of us don't even appear on its radar.September 8, 2009 - 6:42 am Link to this Comment | Reply
48. gracie
Beck got it first and right because he was paying attention and he investigated it..and then he actually reported it to the American public. He gave us Jones' own words….
Reported the actual facts to the American public…wow!! what a concept.
Van Jones' own words were his downfall…NOTHING that Beck said..Beck merely played the man's words back to us and let us decide. Something no one else in the media would do.
Jones is a communist, Obama knows this fact. So, who else has Obama appointed to a place in our government that has such a background? Beck had a whole program on the czars, and it is not pretty what we have allowed to happen to our government.September 8, 2009 - 6:46 am Link to this Comment | Reply
49. Lightnin' Hopkins
Roger, I enjoy your blog but ever since the "hate speech" disclaimer a good number of my comments have failed to appear once they have been submitted. I'll admit that this last one was mostly about my "hate" for communists but I said it in a nice way, I swear. Actually, I DO occasionally swear in private life, but not on this blog….I swear!September 8, 2009 - 6:59 am Link to this Comment | Reply
50. Lightnin' Hopkins
It figures, that one made it.September 8, 2009 - 7:01 am Link to this Comment | Reply
51. Steve Sampson
Jeff wrote,
"The things people choose to focus on are sometimes beyond understanding. There's a big outcry because he's a 'truther' (a very silly set of beliefs, to be sure), but must less outrage over the fact that he's a communist, a rabid environmentalist, and a Black Liberationist – and he was hired by the Administration to put his beliefs into practice using Federal power?"
Jeff, these are my feelings as well, our concern should focus on why this administration wants to hires these radicals, Communists, degenerates, and America haters. There are probably hundreds if not thousands of Van Jones types that are being hired by the administration, most of whom are in positions that allow them to fly under the radar. Although many of these Marxist America Haters will continue to infect the administration for decades, the real danger is the malignancy that has colonized the Oval Office. Of course this wee weed man has locked all his incriminating records from the public eye; there must be material available that can start the destruction of this phony president and his Marxist Visions of Dystopia for the US.September 8, 2009 - 7:15 am Link to this Comment | Reply
52. Billie Hunter
Glenn Beck gave us the TRUTH, he loves this country, so if he is biased or on drugs
who cares-WHAT HE SAID IS TRUESeptember 8, 2009 - 7:24 am Link to this Comment | Reply
53. tanstaafl
I don't see the "troofer" thing as the essential element of the presence of a Van Jones inside the Obama administration, except as an indication of Jones being an Idiotlogue, in the spirit of Michael Moore.
But what about the man's intent inside the Obama administration to further communist ideas ? What about the fact that Van Jones and Bill Ayers share a nearly identical philosophy of life ? And who else is in there, advising this President ?
If the NYT didn't get it, it's because that paper hasn't wanted (for a very long time) to get anything that doesn't fit with its editorial staff's pro-Obama meme, to which the newspaper of record clings as it declines.
The NYT and its spin on nearly every article that appears on its newspages…hardly seems like the story anymore.
We need more examination of the entire Jarrett/Obama/Jones (and who else?) nexus and who has facilitated Barack Obama's rise. One thing everybody should accept, at the very least, said rise is not accidental or simply fortuitous, or based simply on the man's finely honed talent to BS his way out of a paper bag.September 8, 2009 - 7:27 am Link to this Comment | Reply
54. adam
If Charles Johnson were to spend 1/10 as much time linking to the words and backgrounds of Obama associates and appointees as he does "exposing" creationists and "nirthers" then we might not need Beck so much–so, Johnson would be fulfilling yet another of his current hobby horses, which is to run Beck out of town somehow.September 8, 2009 - 7:38 am Link to this Comment | Reply
55. mbabbitt
No one mentioned Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, who broke the Truther story, which many, including Charles Krauthammer, believe was the straw to break the Van Jones back. Let's give Jim the credit he deserves: a blogger.September 8, 2009 - 7:56 am Link to this Comment | Reply
56. Bozzio
57: "No one mentioned Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, who broke the Truther story…"
While Hoft, et al. deserve much credit for their contributions on the Truther angle, apparently the initial expose of Jones' worst affiliations came at the hands of a New Zealand blogger, Trevor Loudon:
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/ckincaid/2009/ck_09081.shtmlSeptember 8, 2009 - 8:10 am Link to this Comment | Reply
57. M aurice
Funny how these clowns say the thing, then deny that they said it because they know it will be construed by most people as ding-a-ling, then muster up the audacity to be outraged that somebody calls them on it. Van Jones is a weasel who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. He strikes me as a radical student leader. Good riddance. Go back to campus and all the liberal white kids who wait on every word you say. This is the f*$!ing White House, my man.
As for Charles Johnson, he can follow his own agenda but his site is just plain boring now. He seems content to not be seen as piling on with all the anti-administration stuff going on elsewhere on the web. Okay, but that leaves us without a lot to talk about. It seems like many of the old-timers have either lost interest or been banned for not bowing to the Cult. The Birth Certificate people are nuts. Okay, I got it the first 57 times. As they say, move along. Nothing to see here.September 8, 2009 - 8:15 am Link to this Comment | Reply
58. frank grimes
57.mbabbitt:very true.i usually avoid watching TV news,having read the story days before on a blog.September 8, 2009 - 8:26 am Link to this Comment | Reply
59. garyj
We also forgot to mention that Jones is a blatant racist, and eerily similar to Jeremiah Wright.September 8, 2009 - 8:42 am Link to this Comment | Reply
60. Conservative Mom
#48 I was wondering the same thing, but not just their salaries, what about their offices, staff, etc. The total cost for each Czar should be published. Including benefits such as health care, cars, equipment. All of it.September 8, 2009 - 8:54 am Link to this Comment | Reply
61. Dale
Roger Simon writes: "Part of the reason for [Beck's numbers going up and for The New York Times' to go down] is pretty obvious. People trust Beck and they don't trust the NYT. Beck may be biased, but he's honest about it."
Wow, silly me for thinking that there was a brain under that silly hat, Roger.
Firstly, Glenn Beck relentlessy attacked Van Jones for the simple reason that Jones' previous gig, Color of Change, humiliated Beck by organizing a very successful boycott against his show after he called the President of the United States a "racist" with a "deep seated hatred of white people". And dishonestly, Beck has never once made mention of the boycott as a motive for attacking Jones; instead he presented his smear of Van Jones as a completely unrelated, good old fashioned commie witch hunt.
Secondly, The New York Times is a news gathering organization. Glenn Beck is a rodeo clown. Your baseles observation that people trust Glenn Beck more than The Times is laughable. Perhaps your readership – i.e. far-right conservatives who hate the president, who subscribe to "birther" and "death panel" conspiracy theories and who are keeping their kids home from school to avoid listening to the president's speech – trust Beck more than the Times, and frankly, however, to quote Tom Freidman, these people are "flat-out stupid", and the fact that it is these folks who make up your readership says a lot about you and your values.
Thirdly, there is no real story here other than the story about a "recovering" alcoholic, ex-addict charlatan who has built himself a lucrative little niche out of being this century's answer to Father Coughlin and disgraced Sen. Joseph McCarthy -viciously and personally attacking political opponents while simultanously, hypocritically and endlessly playing the role of the victimized white conservative Christian male – complete with close-ups on his manufactured tear-filled on-creen breakdowns.
And this will end the way it always ends in America – a rabid right wing fascist, boldly overstepping his boundaries, takes his crusading witch hunt too far and is met with a backlash so severe that his career and reputation are ruined, to the point that his cause is ultimately parodied and scorned.
I can only hope that when the egg finally drips down Glenn Beck's face; when he inevitably is exposed for who he really is – as the worst kind of craven, hateful opportunist, and when he gets his own "Have you no sense of decency, sir"-moment, that some of that egg ends up on your silly hat as well.September 8, 2009 - 9:02 am Link to this Comment | Reply
62. Shyannie
I'm glad to see Mickey Kaus over at Slate getting his due. I think he's the most perspicacious blogger on the internet!September 8, 2009 - 9:38 am Link to this Comment | Reply
63. ic
Minerva, Calvin Ball: He signed a clipboard petition without reading it was entirely credible. How many lawmakers, most of them are lawyers, have read the "stimulus" bill, the cap-and-trade, and the Obamacare bills before they signed on to support them?
Anyway, he didn't have to read the clipboard because he has already known what was on it.
64. marc
Charles Johnson has been exposed as a rather wishy-washy lefty with certain anti-jihadi tendencies. CJ has fallen in love with all things Obama, and has started to act like the MSM in protecting him.
65. Samizdat
After reading Dale at 63 I guess we can add his name to the troll list of people's comments to skip over.
Dale, did you bother to research what Jones believes and asserts? He is a truther going back to January of 2002. He is also an admitted communist, his words not mine. He is also a racist. He didn't belong in the Whitehouse.
What you say about Jones is incredible, given the mans own words.September 8, 2009 - 10:05 am Link to this Comment | Reply
66. redmonkey
#63 Dale. You are wrong in timing. First, Beck exposed Jones and only after it this radical organization(Jones was founder of ColorOfChange) started boycott call (using "Obama racist" comment)September 8, 2009 - 10:08 am Link to this Comment | Reply
67. Delia
I hope Beck continues to expose the communist underbelly of the b00bama administration. Beck was hardly off the mark in calling Bambo a racist [DUH].
"It is disturbing to see how many prosperous blacks, with Ivy League educations, are so angry and so willing to trash the society that has given them such opportunities."
Black Democrats are not 'authentic' unless they are angry and identify with a 'victim mentality' no matter how successful they are/become. It's the destructive mindset of the left and it is set in stone, to waver or question such beliefs is to be considered a 'race traitor'.September 8, 2009 - 10:30 am Link to this Comment | Reply
68. Bozzio
@63 "…this century's answer to Father Coughlin…"
Except Father Coughlin was a man of the LEFT, not the Right. When he criticized FDR's New Deal policies, Coughlin did so claiming they weren't socialistic ENOUGH, not because they were anathema to his supposed "right-wing" sympathies (which he didn't have).September 8, 2009 - 10:41 am Link to this Comment | Reply
69. genghis
The New York Times did not want the 'scoop'. They're working for Obama, and not for us. That should be pretty obvious by now. Official apologist, propaganda ministry, but certainly not the newspaper of record. Just another yellow dog rag.September 8, 2009 - 11:15 am Link to this Comment | Reply
70. paul_unalaska
Poor Citizen, comment #42: 'The whole jones thing? A very small storm, in a very small teacup.'
That's right, folks. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Wow…September 8, 2009 - 11:58 am Link to this Comment | Reply
71. C D Clayton
Jeff Perren:
The things people choose to focus on are sometimes beyond understanding. There's a big outcry because he's a 'truther' (a very silly set of beliefs, to be sure), but must less outrage over the fact that he's a communist, a rabid environmentalist, and a Black Liberationist – and he was hired by the Administration to put his beliefs into practice using Federal power?
I AM WITH YOU 100% ON THIS! IT IS SO OFFPUTTING HOW SO MUCH FOCUS IS ON THE LESSER IF THE EVILS. THIS CROPS UP IN SO MANY "SCANDALS" THAT HAVE COME FROM THE bo ADMIN… OVER & OVER. PEOPLE! YES..TRUTHERS WAY OUT THERE! BUT PLEASE! LET'S KEEP OUR FOCUS ON WHAT IS IMPORTANT!!!September 8, 2009 - 2:50 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
72. Bohemond
Dale: "Firstly, Glenn Beck relentlessy attacked Van Jones for the simple reason that Jones' previous gig, Color of Change, humiliated Beck by organizing a very successful boycott against his show after he called the President of the United States a "racist" with a "deep seated hatred of white people"."
FAIL. Beck exposed Jones first; only then did the Jones-founded Color of Change attempt to retaliate against Beck.
Mr Simon- it strikes me that trees are crowding out the forest here: it's less significant that Jones is/may be a Troofer, or uses bad language, or is even a 'Free Mumiyah" loon- the point is that Van Jones is A FRICKIN' COMMUNIST. One who declared his Cazrdom to be a platform from which to destroy "gray capitalism" and tear down the "oppressive and racist structure" of America.
Van Jones is the walking, trash-talking proof that Obama really is the hard-left radical we all knew he was, the Left mendaciously denied he was and the Center refused to believe he was; and that Obama really does share the beliefs of his old buddies Ayers, Wright, Pfleger, Rashidi, Abunimah and co.September 8, 2009 - 2:53 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
73. Bohemond
That "very successful boycott" exists only on Color Of Chang's website. Thae actual advertisers and FNN deny having pulled anything.September 8, 2009 - 3:38 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
74. Dave Surls
"Have you no sense of decency, sir"-
LOL. That little trick isn't going to work this time. It worked for Welch in the 1950s, but Welch isn't around anymore, and nothing's going to save Van Jones' federal job. His commie past has been exposed…and, he's already out the door.September 8, 2009 - 3:49 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
75. goy
Hey Roger I'm just curious -
Is it you or someone else who keeps moderating away my comments here?
I'm curious why yours are the only comment threads on all of PJM where that happens?September 8, 2009 - 4:16 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
76. Calvin Ball
"Have you no sense of decency, sir"-
Indeed.September 8, 2009 - 4:28 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
77. Calvin Ball
77, same thing has happened to me in different threads in the past. I think there are gremlins in the system. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme nor reason to it.September 8, 2009 - 4:29 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
78. Aureliano
There doesn't seem to be any rhyme nor reason to it.
If you include HTML tags that aren't supported by the system, it will ignore the post.
In some cases it will ignore the post if the HTML tags you use are supported but there is a typo of some sort in one of the tags, depending on the type of error (at least, I'm pretty sure that has happened to me in the past).
Then again, maybe it's just gremlins … or a new Democrat moderator!September 8, 2009 - 4:48 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
79. goy
I see – so italics and bold aren't supported… only in comment threads on blog posts (as opposed to articles)?September 8, 2009 - 4:54 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
80. goy
Not a moderator, because short posts are appearing immediately. A longer post, from which I removed ALL formatting, links, etc., still disappears.
Guess the comment system here is still inconsistent (i.e., crap).September 8, 2009 - 5:01 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
81. Sallie
We truly appreciate Beck and people like him. If not for these people, we would be wearing brown shirts and wearing jackboots. Thank goodness for trouble makers like Beck, Rush, Hannity etc… We need more of them!!
Have y'all heard of the "john Adams project"??? Disgusting crappy group, like ACORN and the whole bunch of commies..out to destroy our country.
I hope we can save our country. I would love to see my kids, grand kids grow up in the same country I did.. I don't recognize America at this point.September 8, 2009 - 5:10 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
82. Calvin Ball
No, no. Tags are fine. When it happens, it happens serially. Oddly, it seems to be thread specific; i.e. everything posted to a particular thread gets eaten.September 8, 2009 - 5:53 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
83. Mike2
55. tanstaafl:
Excellent link to "Tangled Webs"! Thanks.September 8, 2009 - 6:59 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
84. Now and Then
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/20090908049September 8, 2009 - 7:11 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
85. Now and Then
83. Sallie:
"Thank goodness for trouble makers like Beck, Rush, Hannity etc… We need more of them!!"
More Beck? You got it:September 8, 2009 - 7:47 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
86. MisterH
I would think that by now -for reasons which should seem all too obvious- most people would conclude that the NYT did not cover the story simply because they did not think there was anything particularly disagreeable or controversial in all of Mr. Jones past statements or activities. Therein lies your great ideological divide.September 8, 2009 - 9:05 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
87. ThumperNM
Let's talk about Beck's family history of mental instability instead of Van Jones. Beck's mother and bother committed suicide, now its no stretch to acknowledge that Beck himself isn't playing with a full deck. It's only a matter of time until he bites it.September 9, 2009 - 12:13 am Link to this Comment | Reply
88. Pragmatist
NOW NOW "Now and Then" you trolls are supposed to comment on WHY Van Jones resigned not attack the messenger. Oh wait I forgot Van Jones is beyond redemption so why not get a bit of so called NeoCon bashing in while you can hey. You moonbat 'libtard' trolls are so predictable.September 9, 2009 - 12:33 am Link to this Comment | Reply
89. Delia
88. MisterH,
-And, that truly is the scary part!
@89., Let's also talk about DohBama's mother's skanky, nude pictures and his deadbeat, alcoholic dad…
*wink-wink*September 9, 2009 - 7:29 am Link to this Comment | Reply
90. kasper
Beck simply introduced information readily available to anybody who might be curious about Van Jones.
The story is that the NYT does not consider a man with a history like Van Jones' of any interest. They're baffled. What's the problem? It's all good, so what's to report?September 9, 2009 - 9:22 am Link to this Comment | Reply
91. gm
Don: i feel the way your father feels, the NYT was once the paper of record, dull, serious but respected, but it's now on a par with the hardleft Nation and won't report any news that might tarnish their god, obama. Hey Delia, where are Obama's mother's skanky pics?September 9, 2009 - 1:38 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
92. Delia
@93. gm
Well, you asked!
Here you go [NSFW]:
I hope I didn't ruin your dinner.September 9, 2009 - 4:08 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
93. Proud Canuckistani
Beck isn't biased. He's nuts.September 9, 2009 - 6:05 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
94. Now and Then
Let's examine something a bit more current, like from today:
Hey, I have some pics of Barbara Bush wound up in Saran Wrap. Interested?September 9, 2009 - 7:14 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
95. Now and Then
A little more color for ya.
Mmmm, family values strikes again.September 9, 2009 - 7:22 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
96. Delia
What, N&W? No pictures? *yawn*September 9, 2009 - 9:34 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
97. Now and Then
98 Delia:
Onword, Krischun soljer!September 10, 2009 - 7:36 am Link to this Comment | Reply
98. Delia
That's 'Sista' soldier to you, Pally!September 10, 2009 - 9:37 am Link to this Comment | Reply
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Thanks Buddy, got everything wired and working but I am getting a open probe error?
Your right I should completely understand this but I guess i don't, why do I need to wire into the original thermostat? I thought that is what the controller and prob are for? My buddy who does wiring for a living is wondering if we can just completely get rid of the original thermostat.
On the original thermostat should I have it turned all the way up or down?
After you have it wired up and do the first test run, should the freezer kick on right away if the set point is at 45? Or because of some of the settings, will it take a few minutes to turn on?
Thanks for all your help. I got my collar mounted yesterday and wired up the controller. I checked the connection for the temp probe but I am still getting that same error. If I put that probe in a glass of ice water and it reads 32 degrees, that error will go away. When I take it out of the water and it's just measuring the temp of the air, the error comes back on.
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Also, what I ended up doing was completely removing the thermostat.
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Filtrona Plc (FLTR), a maker of price labels for Wal-Mart Stores Inc., said first-half earnings fell 1.6 percent on costs to close a U.S. factory and the effects of a stronger British pound.
Net income dropped to 18.1 million pounds ($36.4 million), or 8.2 pence a share, from 18.4 million pounds, or 8.3 pence, a year earlier, Milton Keynes, England-based Filtrona said today in a statement. Sales declined 4.5 percent to 257.2 million pounds.
Filtrona shut a plant in Virginia and added factories in Mexico and China to reduce expenses, boost profitability and meet rising demand for plastics in emerging markets. The British currency's gain against the dollar reduced sales by about 16 million pounds, the company said. North America is Filtrona's biggest market, generating about 39 percent of annual revenue last year.
``It's quite a significant impact,'' Chief Executive Officer Mark Harper said in an interview. The company has translated its U.S. earnings at a rate of $1.97 per pound so far this year, compared with $1.79 last year, he said.
Filtrona fell 3.75 pence, or 1.6 percent, to 226 pence in London trading, making it the third-biggest decliner in the FTSE 250 Index today. Earlier, it dropped as much as 5.6 percent, the most since the company was spun off from U.K. packaging maker Bunzl Plc in 2005.
Operating profit was equal to 13.5 percent of sales, compared with 11.8 percent a year earlier, Filtrona said.
The company, which also makes trim for Boeing 777 airliners, is ``pleased'' with first-half results and `looks forward to the rest of the year ``with confidence,'' Harper said.
Filtrona's plastics division, the world's biggest maker of self-adhesive tear-tape used to open compact-disc wrappers, also produces parts for refrigerators and nets that catch falling rubble on building sites. Its fibers unit is the world's largest maker of wicks used in pregnancy testing.
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(WSCR) When new Illinois basketball coach John Groce makes his debut for the Fighting Illini on Friday Night in Champaign, he'll be met with a rather quiet crowd.
That's because "Orange Krush," the student-body cheering section at Illinois, has asked the crowd to remain silent until the Illini score their 10th point of the game as part of the "Orange Hush," a tribute to Groce's alma mater Taylor University.
Each season, Taylor fans choose one game to remain silent at until the team scores its 10th point.
According to a news release, fans are encouraged to cheer after that point.
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For many high school baseball teams in Arizona, the best way to prevent opponents from rallying is to simply keep scoring runs.
With metal bats, shorter fences and more simplistic pitching approaches than at higher levels, scoring outbursts are typical.
Hamilton, though, is built in reverse, which could play out well come state tournament time — if those pitchers can live up to their potential.
The Huskies may have the deepest pitching rotation in 5A Division I, as regular starters Zak Johnson and Jake Andrews are flanked by Forrest Vanlandingham, Derek Hill and Parker Gallegos.
Last year, Johnson went 8-1 with a 2.73 ERA, Andrews 10-3 with a 3.24 ERA and Vanlandingham 4-0 with a 1.31 ERA. Hill was mediocre in limited innings last season, but already has a complete game one-hitter to his credit this season and hasn't allowed a run in 10 1/3 innings.
Hamilton's team ERA this season is 2.75.
"Pitching's everything," Johnson said.
Hamilton is in the midst of the Big League Dugout Invitational, one of the most prestigious high school baseball tournaments in the country.
The setup is similar to the state tournament — particularly if a team drops to the loser's bracket — because it consists of several games in one week. During region play, teams usually don't play more than three times per week.
"It forces you to throw more guys," Hamilton coach Mike Woods said. "You need four starters, usually five starters. It gives some guys some opportunities that they usually don't get."
Hamilton won the tournament last year, and the deep rotation was key.
The setup paid off for Vanlandingham last season, who up to that point didn't have much of a chance to show his pitching prowess.
"He came out and threw a shutout against a team from Utah, and then he closed out the Rocky Mountain game in the championship," Woods said. "He became our No. 3 guy, and he may not have had that opportunity if we weren't in a tournament like this."
Johnson said having capable starters beyond the top two is key once the playoffs roll around.
"It's very important, especially if we drop into the loser's bracket," he said.
Numerous preseason rankings had Hamilton at the top this season because of its pitching. Even though the Huskies lost several potent bats from last year's 28-5 squad, the return of the frontline starters was enough to make them the preseason favorites in 5A-I.
Johnson pitched in the state championship game as a sophomore, and all four of the starters have been in several meaningful high school games in their careers.
Hamilton has started this season 11-4, although it was on a two-game skid heading into action on Tuesday against Brighton, Colo.
Johnson was beaten by Mesquite last week, and Andrews gave up a walk-off home run to Las Vegas Bishop Gorman, the top-ranked team according to Maxpreps.com, in a 4-3 loss on Monday.
Woods said he is still confident in his pitching, but he knows it's all about production in the end.
"It's what have you done for me lately?" Woods said. "We told them it's a new year. What you did in the past is great, and you learn from it, and it gives you a little bit of confidence. But they still have to go out and do it."


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State representative Andy Thompson today introduced House Bill 237, which seeks to void the State Board of Education's June 2010 decision to adopt the Common Core academic standards in English language arts and math. The bill would effectively prevent any Ohio public school from implementing the Common Core, standards that offer a clear description of the skills and knowledge that students should acquire at each grade level to stay on course toward college or gainful employment. The bill has 13 co-sponsors—all Republican—whom it appears have caved into the political charms of tea-party-like interest groups who have vociferously criticized the Common Core standards in the recent months, not on the basis of the standards' content but on the basis of politics and ideology.
As House Bill 237 is debated in the legislature, members of both parties ought to cut to the chase and judge the Common Core by its merits. And, here are but a few of the Common Core's merits: In Fordham's 2010 comparison of the Common Core against Ohio's outgoing standards, the Common Core was rated superior in both English and math. In another study of the math content of Common Core, William Schmidt of Michigan State University found that the Common Core was closely aligned with the math standards of the highest-performing countries in grades K-8. And, if the members of the legislature want to listen to their own local educational professionals, they should know that two out of three Ohio district superintendents believe that the Common...
More than 100,000 students in Ohio attended a public charter school during the past school year. Most of these students come from urban areas, as state law requires that a start-up charter school locate within the boundaries of either a "Big 8" urban district or a low-performing district. The charts below show the decade-long growth of charter schools, as well as the current percentage of students attending charters within Ohio's urban areas.
Chart 1 shows the charter school growth in Ohio's Big 8 urban areas over the past 10 years. None of the 8 cities' charter sector has declined in enrollment (by way of contrast, all of these cities' traditional districts have declined). The growth rates, however, vary across the cities. Columbus' charter school sector has exploded, nearly quadrupling in student enrollment size. Cleveland and Toledo's charter sectors have also expanded at a brisk pace, both more than doubling their enrollment. Meanwhile, Youngstown and Dayton's charter schools grew at a considerably slower pace than their counterparts.
Chart 1: City's charter schools grew at a varying pace in past decade – Percent change in charter school enrollment, 2003-04 to 2012-13.
SOURCE: Ohio Department of Education - Enrollment Data, and District & Community School Payment Reports NOTE: Charter school enrollment includes students whose home district is the city's main traditional district (e.g., Columbus City Schools).
Chart 2 shows the share of each city's public-school student population that charter schools serve, as of 2012-13. Three Ohio...
This summer in Ohio has been oppressively hot and (for some reason) rainy. So for those who want to stay cool in the AC, or are looking for beach reading, here are several timely and insightful pieces that relate to education. Read on for our review of these reports and articles, and click on the links to access the entire article! -Angel Gonzalez
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We've seen the reports: the 22-year old, newly-minted college graduate—steeped in debt—who's working at the corner coffee shop. But are these anecdotal reports worst case scenarios or are do they illustrate an emerging trend for college grads? In a few charts, Richard Deitz from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York looks at what the U.S. Census Bureau and Labor Statistics data say about recent graduates and their employment. Deitz shows that while unemployment rates for recent grads are at a 25-year high, the unemployment rate of recent graduates (roughly 6 percent) remains lower than that of the general working-age population (8 percent). Now, when it comes to underemployment, recent graduates are in dire straits, depending on their major. Nearly half (46 percent) of recent graduates are presently underemployed, a considerable increase compared to 2000 when roughly one in three recent grads were underemployed. Deitz also disaggregates un- and underemployment by college major. Those with leisure & hospitality and agricultural degrees were the most likely to be either unemployed or underemployed. And, yes,...
After twelve productive and happy years of working for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in Ohio, I am moving with my family to Boise, Idaho to lead that state's charter school network. I have loved working for Fordham in Ohio and am confident that the Institute is well positioned to thrive in the months and years ahead, both nationally and in the Buckeye State. I have also enjoyed the many friendships that I've developed in Dayton, Columbus, Cleveland and elsewhere around the state. Ohio is blessed with some fantastic educators and committed school reformers. These people do what they do for the sake of their communities and their kids, not for personal gain. It has been a privilege to live and work with so many dedicated leaders from across the political spectrum. Education reform in Ohio is too important—and too challenging— to be just a Republican or Democrat thing, and it has worked best when it has enjoyed bipartisan support. This is just one of the things I have learned during my dozen years in Ohio.
Here are twelve more personal lessons and conclusions, offered in no particular order that others might want to consider:
1) Ideas matter over the long haul, but campaign cash and raw interests carry the day in the near term. I've participated in policy debates around education in Ohio under three governors, four House Speakers and five state superintendents. These leaders have all struggled to balance ideas with realpolitik. Ohio has pushed some important initiatives...
Passions are high around the Common Core, but Ze'ev Wurman zoomed past the point of the ridiculous when he commented on a recent blog post by my colleague Jeff Murray "where did you learn this style of 'reporting'- from the Soviet politruks." The post that offended Wurman can be seen here, but it was a pretty straight forward report on a debate at the Pickerington Ohio Chamber of Commerce on the Common Core. I was one of the participants and can attest that there were plenty of anti-Common Core voices in the crowd and they were given every opportunity to make their arguments.
But, the purpose of this blog is to challenge Wurman's reference to the Soviets because it is so over-the-top and frankly offensive to me, as it would be to anyone who knows anything about the Soviet Union and its oppression of people across Eastern Europe. My wife is Polish, and we regularly visit her family with our children in Poland. I lived and taught in Poland in the early 1990s, and I worked with former Solidarity leaders on efforts to help Polish schools and educators transition from communism to Western-style democracy.
One of my best friends in Poland is a man named Wiktor Kulerski. Wiktor's family experienced the horrors of oppression under both the Nazis and the Soviets. Wiktor's family was remarkable. His grandfather and father ran the largest newspaper in Poland, Gazeta Grudziadzka, between the World Wars. Three generations of Kulerski's served in the three...
State Representative Gerald Stebelton and the Pickerington Chamber of Commerce convened an education summit this morning at Ohio University's Pickerington Center. Nearly 100 people gathered to discuss education in Ohio and in their own communities, and Representative Stebelton—the House education committee chair—began with an overview of the education provisions in the just-enacted state budget.
Rep. Stebelton addresses the education summit meeting.
Fordham's Terry Ryan gave a presentation (which can be downloaded here) on the history and development of the Common Core State Standards, the process of their adoption in 2010, and some insight into the early stages of its implementation across the state. His presentation was eagerly awaited by many in the gathering as questions began early and persisted throughout. Terry's review of academic standards in Ohio going back to the mid-1990s proved enlightening to many. Terry urged the attendees to read the standards carefully, compare them properly to Ohio's previous academic standards in English and math, and to "speak out loudly" if there is anything within the Common Core that they do not want their children or grandchildren to learn.
Terry Ryan describes the history of the Common Core State Standards.
But the true highlight of the event was a panel discussion in which three stellar superintendents explained how the Common Core has been implemented in their quite different districts, and what they see as the benefits for the students...
Has the U.S. government's $3.5 billion School Improvement Grant (SIG) program delivered as promised? The data from Ohio indicates that the answer is no—but with a glaring exception.
SIG is a federal grant program, which has been funded heavily through the 2009 stimulus act. Its goal is to improve the academic performance of persistently low-performing schools. In March 2010, Ohio received a three-year, $132 million grant; the Ohio Department of Education then allocated funds to eligible schools based on a competitive grant process. In spring 2010, over 200 schools applied, and 35 schools received funding.[1]
In return for the funds (up to $2 million per year for a school), the grantee is required to implement one of four intervention models: turnaround—replacing the principal and 50 percent or more of the staff; restart—closing a school and reopening under new management, possibly a charter school; school closure; or, transformation—leaving staff in place but implementing plans to improve instructional effectiveness, extend learning time, et cetera. Most schools in Ohio and across the nation have selected the transformation model, what we have argued is the "easiest" model.
Given the sizeable cash infusion, together with the required interventions to turnaround the school, we might expect to see strong and positive gains in school-level performance.
But one does not observe across-the-board improvements in achievement.
The chart below shows the change in achievement scores for Ohio's first cohort of SIG schools, from 2009-10 (pre-SIG) to 2011-12 (the second year of SIG...
We have been hearing a lot about the proposed levy for Columbus City Schools (CCS), as mandated by the freshly-signed HB 167. The District's Millage Committee has had to work quickly, even ahead of the signing, in order to get the issue on the ballot by November. Much has been made over provisions to fund an independent auditor, to distribute local tax revenue to high-performing non-profit charter schools, and to continue with the district's expansive building and renovation program.
But one provision included in the package that has garnered little public attention, despite being the same size as the charter school funding recommendation, is the expansion of pre-Kindergarten programming for children in Columbus. The provision allocates 1 mil or approximately $42.5 million over 5 years to pre-K programs.
Pre-K expansion has been on the district's radar for over a year. In fact, the last millage committee to convene back in July 2012 had included funding to the tune of 1.49 mills for this initiative. When the district's data issues came to light, the proposed levy issue for November 2012 was shelved under great pressure from within and outside of the district.
The latest iteration of the district's pre-K expansion was presented to the Board at its March 5 meeting. The proposal lays out the reasons why quality preschool programming is important to children and how the lack of it can be felt from Kindergarten through third grade and beyond. Proponents of pre-K expansion have noted...
This spring, we promised to talk to some educators about the implementation for the Common Core Curriculum and PARCC assessments. What we asked was how they and their schools have prepared and what could potentially hinder a smooth transition.
The first school leader we spoke with was Chad Webb, the head of school for Village Preparatory Academy:Woodland Hills Campus (Village Prep) in Cleveland. Chad is an Ohio native and was a principal in the city of New Orleans Louisiana Recovery School District after Hurricane Katrina. Village Prep is one of the Breakthrough Schools with a structured school culture focusing on reading and math instruction, integrating technology and a unique entrepreneurship curriculum. Beginning in kindergarten, all students (who are referred to as scholars) have a goal of doing their best and attending college.
Below are the questions and excerpts from our conversation.
Q: What's your biggest worry?
A: Increased rigor of course, but making sure we are preparing our scholars when the new assessment piece takes place.
Q: What do you need to put in place before this all starts?
A: Making sure we are meeting all the teaching points and staff preparation. Our director of curriculum and instruction has worked with the staff and we have had support from regional partners, including the Educational Service Center.
Q: Do you have all the technology needed for testing?
A: We have been working on it and collaborating with all Breakthrough Schools vetting all our options. Our goal of is 35...
A new era dawned today for Columbus' public education system. Today, at Indianola K-8 School—the nation's first junior high school—Governor Kasich signed House Bill 167, the Columbus Reform Plan. The reform plan was crafted in response to the cheating scandal that has rocked Columbus City Schools, first reported publically last summer.
Governor John Kasich signs House Bill 167
The legislation, which raced through Ohio General Assembly in 39 days, enacts three major reforms: establishes an independent auditor, empowers the mayor to authorize charter schools, and shares local levy dollars, which normally fund only district schools, with high-performing charter schools. These reforms represent three of the 55 reforms put forward by the Columbus Education Commission.
Columbus mayor Michael B. Coleman (left) and Ohio governor John Kasich (right)
House Bill 167 better positions Columbus' public schools (district and charter) to compete with the highest-performing urban school systems in the nation. By empowering the mayor with greater authority over the public school system—in his remarks, Governor Kasich dubbed the mayor, "the enforcer"—schools will be held to higher performance standards, while gaining the political support and clout that an influential mayor can offer. The plan also calls for a November levy, and the Democrat mayor and Republican governor both strongly urged Columbus residents to support it. And, the plan—if rightly executed—will also kick start efforts to attract the nation's highest-performing charter school networks to open schools in high-need Columbus communities.
So, kudos...