For those unfamiliar with the above acronym, OCTFCU stands for the Orange County Teachers Federal Credit Union.  They recently changed their name to SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union.  This bothers me for two reasons.  First (which isn’t as big a deal as the second) is that I and many others grew up saying Octafoo.  What are [...]

Until a couple weeks ago, the only “rubber rooms” I’d ever heard of were the crazy house kind.  I had no idea that New York State Board of Education (“NYSBE”) was using policies that resembled those of the United Auto Workers union, namely “job banks.”
Each year, hundreds of teachers in New York are put on [...]

I work with a guy from Boston.  He is a bleeding heart liberal who I’ve never heard say one good thing about President Bush.  Not one good thing ever.  He claims to be a fiscal conservative and social liberal, but he’s all liberal.  Anyway, we were discussing the government’s desire to modify home mortgages.  Of [...]

The stimulus bill is more expensive than the Iraq and Afghanistan war combined. 
“As a nation, we got into this mess by spending and investing money that didn’t exist. We won’t get out of it by doing more of the same.”  Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK).  That is why it is called a bubble.  There’s nothing of [...]

In today’s WSJ op-ed section, Al Sharpton and Joel Klein wrote a letter to President-elect Obama about schools.  Part of their argument was about the difference in achievement between Hispanic and Black students and their White counterparts.  What they don’t mention is that the achievement level of the white kids is sub-par as well.  As [...]