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Terry Ryan said it well, praising The Mind Trust’s Indianapolis school reform plan, Creating Opportunity Schools, as a “bold and dramatic transformation of public education akin to what has taken place in New Orleans and New York City.  And its true that “the most controversial part of the reform plan,” as Terry writes,  “calls for neutering the role of the current IPS [Indianapolis Public Schools] school board, while turning governance over to a new five member board appointed jointly by the mayor and the City-County Council.”  This is indeed a bold consolidation of power.  But the plan also calls for turning Indianapolis into a district of total choice, in which all schools would compete for students — a bold diffusion of power.

This is indeed a bold consolidation of power.  But the plan also calls for turning Indianapolis into a district of total choice, in which all schools would compete for students — a bold diffusion of power.  By combining mayoral authority and parental choice, as Paul Peterson suggests in his masterful 2010 book Saving Schools, The Mind Trust proposal would create “a marriage made in heaven”:

Theoretically, the excellence movement’s two central thrusts — accountability and parental choice — are complementary strategies designed to enhance school quality: information supplied by an accountability system can be made available to parents, who can then make intelligent choices among schools.

But Peterson warns that when choice and accountability are pursued simultaneously, they operate on a collision course. This tension is part of the ref

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It is evident that there are several factors that influence the salary you are offered. This seems to be the universal rule and it was proved with the recent recession and pay cuts that were enormous in many industries. So if you decide to take EKG technician training and pursue a career in the medical field, you should make the decision based on the salary of the EKG technician and what factors influence it. Read full post…

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AESP Foundation Receives $230,000 Contract From U.S. Department of Energy The Association of Energy Services Professionals Foundation announced today that it has received a $230,000 contract from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop My Energy Gateway, a comprehensive website and information clearinghouse for educational and training opportunities in the field of energy efficiency.

Geared to students, professionals, and displaced workers, My Energy Gateway, provides users with valuable information on trade school, college, university and certification programs that focus on energy efficiency, green energy and alternative energy.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson is meeting with his constituents in South Carolina’s state capital.

Wilson is planning to talk about job creation during a town hall meeting in Columbia on Tuesday.

His office says the Republican is also planning to talk about ways to remove barriers to allow for private-sector growth.

Anyone who lives in South Carolina’s Second Congressional District is invited to attend the meeting at Forest Acres City Hall.

Last night, Rhode Islands legislature passed a sweeping reform of its public-sector retirement system. It cuts retiree benefits, mostly by suspending cost of living adjustments, and institutes a cheaper hybrid plan with a 401(k)-like private account component, and it should save taxpayers billions of dollars in coming years.

Far-reaching as the bill is, however, this outcome is something of a failure, good only by comparison to the tragedy that would have ensued had lawmakers done nothing. Rhode Island waited until it was on the cusp of disaster to make desperately needed changes. By comparison, Utahs reform, described in our recent series of case studies, came about because lawmakers were thinking years into the future about the risk pension shortfalls presented.

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