Perry names Williams education chief
This appointment had been rumored for some time, so it was hardly a surprise. Michael Williams has a slim history in the education area, except for serving in the Department of Education during the George H. W. Bush administration and serving on the board of a Catholic school. He faces a steep learning curve in a Texas Education Agency that is a stripped-down version of what it used to be, going into a session that has a long list of education issues on the table.
One of the most important items on the agenda is whether testing is out of control. Perry is a strong advocate of accountability, which is based upon standardized tests. The Texas Association of Business, under Bill Hammond, is another advocate. Some business groups say that they won’t support more funding for education if the accountability system is weakened. I believe that this issue will come up for a vote this session, and if it does, I think Hammond may lose. Outgoing commissioner Robert Scott turned against standardized testing last session, and many parents have turned against it–the mantra being that there is too much “teaching to the test”–and it’s going to be hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube. (You can read my August column about Scott’s departure and his view of testing here.) Williams is also going to find himself in the middle of a big fight over school vouchers. He is there to serve the governor, not the schools.
Perry has all but officially announced for governor in 2014. That race won’t be a cinch given that his negatives are sky high, but it could shut the door on Greg Abbott and the rest of the would-be field. It also means his sights are really set on 2016, when Obama’s second term would expire, and Romney would be but a memory. (I’m not calling the presidential race for Obama, just putting the pieces of the puzzle together for what Perry needs to happen.) Perry is about to become Barack Obama’s biggest fan, for if Romney wins the presidency, all of Perry’s efforts will go for naught. The looming voucher fight is a signal that Perry will turn even harder to the right as he prepares for another race. Next up after vouchers: changing ERS from a defined benefit plan to a defined contribution plan.
One fly in that ointment is that the 2016 Republican field will be much stronger than the current one (Ryan, Rubio, Jeb Bush, Jindal, Daniels, Christie), and Perry still has plenty of scars and YouTube moments that voters are going to remember. I don’t expect Michael Williams to set the world on fire as education commissioner, but he is very popular and very well known in Republican circles and would be an asset to Perry as a surrogate in a presidential campaign.
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Emptyk says:
Hard to say which word applies to Mr. Williams in this matter. Hack? Crony? Clueless?
Despite having the tenure of the leader of a Banana Republic, Governor Perry has made some good appointments. This isn’t one of them. Having no professional credentials, Mr. Williams is now the steward of Texas schools. Is it that the Governor rewards failed office seekers so generously or that he values public education so lightly?
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Bell of the ball Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Emptyk says, “Is it that the Governor rewards failed office seekers so generously or that he values public education so lightly?”
Probably both. Doesn’t really matter as the end result will be the same, less $ for Texas public schools.
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Spiro Eagleton Reply:
August 31st, 2012 at 8:55 am
Michael Williams lost a lot of favor with me by running for so many offices over the last three years. He was running for senate, then for a CD in the Arlington area, and then a gerrymandered CD that ran from the DFW area down into western Travis Co. Ultimately the voters got tired of it and he lost pretty badly in the primary.
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Cow Droppings Reply:
September 2nd, 2012 at 11:34 am
You mean the same voters who nominated Roger Williams who did tr exact same thing?
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Blue says:
Needed a job after losing the House seat. Republicans need to keep him as a viable future statewide candidate.
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Blue Dogs Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 4:45 pm
Blue, keep in mind that Williams was appointed to the Texas Railroad Commission by BUSH JR in 1999 when Strayhorn was elected Comptroller the year before.
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Art Vandelay says:
If Michael Williams was very popular he wouldn’t have come in FIFTH in the CD 25 primary.
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Spiro Eagleton Reply:
August 31st, 2012 at 8:56 am
Exactly!
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Tom says:
Typical Republican. Looking to the government to give him a job.
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Pri-ista says:
I have a much more simpler explanation. Michael Williams probably wants to get vested (if hasn’t already) or rack up a few years to add to his pension. Boom.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
Who cares as long as he makes the cuts to stop educating the 3rd world’s masses.
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WUSRPH Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
The problem is that those cuts are also hurting the effort to educate our own “masses”…By the way, I love how you use that Socialist word so often…It sure demonstrates how much you love your fellow man…
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Wicky Pewwy Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 3:39 pm
Boy, you ain’t never got laid with dumb assed statements like that. But most far right dudes never do.
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John Johnson says:
The bottom line? How much better served would Texans be if the best person for the job received the appointments instead of rewarding flunkies and facilitators for the governor and Big Business? Look back at the sorry examples at our PUC, TxDoT, Insurance, and, and, and….
The QR annonced Williams’s appointment to Education by announcing “…an oil/gas expert” has been appointed to be education commissioner. Mr. Williams is no oil and gas “expert”, nor is he an education “expert”. He’s was just an out of work political lieutenant who has shown he is capable of carrying out his boss’s dictates.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
JJ didn’t you appoint a community organizer as POTUS?
It seems Obama not being qualified to be POTUS is WAAAAYYYY more important than edu czar over a bunch of 3rd world illegal immigrants.
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John Johnson Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 3:40 pm
You’ve traded back and forth with me all this time and you think I voted for Obama? To use an old joke …I’d rather you think my daughter is a prostitute than think I voted for Obama. I’ve been around bullshitters all my life. O puts all of them to shame. He is king of unfullfilled promises; a master at passing the buck; the epitome of being unprepared for a job. He should have studied how Clinton managed the presidency when fighting a Repub controlled Congress. Please don’t poke me in the eye like that again, JBB.
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A2Z Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 10:08 pm
JJ, Clinton wasn’t working with an R Congress that stated publicly, emphatically and often that their primary goal was to ensure the Clinton presidency failed and that he was a one-term president. And they weren’t working under the threat of losing their seat if they didn’t sign a no-tax pledge.
These facts can be verified through broadcast clips on YouTube and Grover Norquist’s 60 Minutes interview.
I’d like to see YOU try to fulfill your promises given those conditions.
By the way, I always appreciate your comments.
John Johnson Reply:
August 31st, 2012 at 10:39 am
Point well taken. The situation has changed somewhat, but you’ll have to admit that he has not shown a proclivity for using his bully pulpit to force the Repubs to the table.
Obama said he was going to “open up” meetings…make them public. He has done no such thing. If he had, he could have said, “I’m calling all the senate and house leaders in for a round table discussion with the cameras rolling. That would have gotten things off high center. See where I’m coming from?
Anonymous Reply:
August 31st, 2012 at 12:32 pm
Yes, I do, but I believe the Republicans would have been no-shows at such a meeting. Because they are not intent on helping the nation, they are intent on doing everything they can to defy Obama and any programs he attempts to implement. There are very few statesmen among the Republicans these days, and those who are are suppressed and marginalized. Until Rove, Norquist and the Kochs are blasted from the planet, this will not change. IMHO, anyway.
John Johnson Reply:
August 31st, 2012 at 3:00 pm
You can mention the Koch’s, Norquist and Rove. I could toss Soros, Axelrod, and Dean out there. I might also mention no budget even submitted in three years, which I blame Reed for.
I also disagree with you on Repubs being no shows to a called, publicized, broadcast meeting. They would be crucified for not showing. Both parties know they would come out of such a public meeting battered and bleeding.
Indiana Pearl says:
Mitch Daniels will never run for president unless he gets a new wife.
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Blue Dogs Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 4:46 pm
Daniels has like what a 70 percent approval rating in Indiana.
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Bodhisattva Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 10:27 pm
Exactly.
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Robert Morrow says:
Testing is ridiculous and out of control in public schools.
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WUSRPH says:
Assume you have heard that those evil federal judges did it again…This time they killed the voter ID law. Two in a row…Gregg (I hate all tort claims but my own) Abbott has again shown how wrong his strategy to bypass preclearance was.
It certainly appears that the Legislature and the State’s leadership (sic) need a course in how to read the 15th Amendment. We know that Ted Cruz told Gov. Oops about the 10th Amendment, but he seems not to have mentioned that one.
this one.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
yawn….Voter ID is already the law of the land and SCOTUS will reaffirm.
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Simon Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 7:19 pm
Yawn….. poll taxes were outlawed two generations ago and will be again. That’s all this is.
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JBB's older brother Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 7:21 pm
yawn……….who is that youngster?
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
August 31st, 2012 at 6:41 am
yawn…. the simpleton?
WUSRPH says:
It is the law of the land in those cases where it can be shown NOT to effect the right-to-vote. That does not mean that it will be upheld for Texas with our (most regretable) continuing record of violating the 15th Amendment every chance we get.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
August 31st, 2012 at 6:42 am
It’s settle law. The only censured Atty General’s disregard for the law will be upheld by SCOTUS.
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GOP Realist says:
If you don’t use testing to measure whether students are learning, and how effectively tax dollars are being spent, how else do you empirically measure the performance of Texas’ Public Schools?
Graduation rates? How good is a diploma if there is no assurance the student given one learned any thing? Social promotion would return.
Also, that means you cannot detect problems in earlier grades.
The end of course exams will help. The end of No Child Left Behind testing will help.
But those who denounce testing NEVER have an alternative means of mesauring the effectiveness of public schools.
So the tests will stay. Sorry.
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Whoa, Nellie! Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
Good grief. What a clueless comment. Students are tested ALL the time in EVERY class. That’s what GRADES are based on. GRADES determine whether or not a student PASSES a class, is promoted to the next higher GRADE, and eventually GRADUATES with a DIPLOMA. It’s a system what works when it is properly administered by education professionals — teachers, and some executives — and funded at appropriate levels by governments and school districts. These are the mechanisms that are broken in Texas (and elsewhere). Adding these endless series of mandated Super-Tests is not the answer, it’s just doubling-down on dumb and wrongheadedness.
Look to a place like Finland, consistently scoring highest of all measurements of educational success, for what can be done by a motivated society. (Note their teachers are ALL unionized, paid handsomely, given much classroom freedom, are recruited from the best available talent, and do NOT have to teach to state-mandated tests to justify their continued employment.)
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Jerry Only Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 5:38 pm
yeah, but theyre socialists, so they dont count!
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WUSRPH Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
Sorry, the current Finish government is CONSERVATIVE…Not liberal….You are thinking of Sweden.
Beerman says:
Williams wants to join Gov. Oops and the Dew as “double-dippers” of the government teat.
A bunch of hypocritical whores!
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shasta says:
My kids spent 45 days either taking tests or preparting directly for the tests. These were days in which no homework was assigned and nothing new was introduced in the classroom. 45 days. That’s an entire grading period where they are learning nothing.
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paulburka Reply:
September 3rd, 2012 at 4:32 pm
The Wichita Falls school district had the same numbers, 45 out of 180 days, one out of four, spent preparing for, or taking, tests.
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Wicky Pewwy says:
Looks like Gen Abbott lost another one…Texas vote ID struck down. Thank goodness there are some adults in the room to strike down such horrendous challenges to our liberty and freedom.
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Anonymous says:
A lot of the parents that support Perry believe their kids should learn Jesus rode a dinosaur
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JBB's older brother Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
No, that was JBB on that dinosaur.
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Ted Melina Raab says:
Paul Burka opined: “[Williams] is there to serve the governor, not the schools.”
That is an unfortunate political truth. It does not reflect the independent boards and commissions that have been a hallmark of Texas’ conservative governmental structure since well before our current constitution was adopted in 1876. It also does not accord with Texas Education Code Chapter 7, Subchapter C–the statute that authorizes the office.
But why should we let the constitution or statutes interfere with radical governing?
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Blue Dogs says:
Burka, if Perry somehow shuts the door on everyone in 2014, does this mean whoever is elected LG will be actually Heir to the Throne down the road as governor ?
Like the 1998 LG race.
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Whoa, Nellie! Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 11:16 pm
Look out world, here comes “P”!
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Anonymous says:
By then, the MQS type Republican’s will have run off so many R’s toward the middle that a moderate Democrat, singing the right tune and in the proper key, might be attractive to many. This person will be female and people will know her name.
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The Mustache That Dare Not Speak Its Name Reply:
August 30th, 2012 at 6:15 pm
I don’t think Hillary Clinton wants to be Governor of Texas.
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WUSRPH says:
An open letter to the Leaders (sic) of Texas:
Dear Governor Oops, Atty. Gen. Abbott and Members of the Texas Legislature:
Please repeat after me:
“Amendment 15 –
1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
Now keep repeating it until you can remember it.
I hope this is not one of those cases where, as they say in the Texas House:
“I am sorry, Sir, I can explain it to you, but I can not understand it for you.”
But, based on your past behavior, I am afraid that may be the case.
Yours,
The Voters of Texas
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Anonymous Reply:
August 31st, 2012 at 7:52 pm
Notice it reads the right of CITIZENS.
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anita Reply:
September 1st, 2012 at 10:26 am
Are you alleging that minorities are not citizens?
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Anonymous Reply:
September 1st, 2012 at 12:24 pm
No. Illegal aliens, dead people and citizens of other countries are not (obviously) U.S. citizens.
Sir Paul says:
Sharp could beat Perry. In the General or in the R Primary. Ironically
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Jerry Only Reply:
August 31st, 2012 at 2:44 am
if he would run. which he wont.
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Blue Dogs Reply:
August 31st, 2012 at 8:36 am
Sharp’s political career is DEAD and he will never run for office again anytime soon.
Time for some new blood in the TX Democratic Party.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
Williams doesn’t have a Phd in Edu that confounds liberals. They’ve never seen a leader before that will confound them even more.
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John Johnson says:
I’m no liberal, JBB, but I do think Perry made another questionable choice.
I’m sure Mr. Williams is a nice guy. Is he, however, the best choice for the position? If the Ed Commissioner was a private sector position would a board of directors hire Mr. Williams for the job?
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JBB's older brother Reply:
August 31st, 2012 at 8:34 pm
This has nothing to do with education. It has to do with doing what Rick says do.
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Blue Dogs says:
Johnson, at least Williams was elected to statewide office 3 times.
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Anonymous Reply:
August 31st, 2012 at 10:31 am
And that makes him an “expert” in oil & gas or education? Smitherman was elected, too, and he is an attorney/banker by trade who while at the PUC did nothing but nod his head yes to Energy Future Holdings and NRG at Perry’s urging. Expect more of the same at the Railroad Commission.
All the independent thinkers that Perry has appointed have gone the way of the albatross as soon as they show that independent thinking. Williams and Smitherman are not independent thinkers.
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John Johnson Reply:
August 31st, 2012 at 11:27 am
Sorry, Blue Dog..didn’t load my name on post above.
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Wicky Pewwy says:
JBB, you consider Dewhurst or Perry leaders? Mittens? funny man, you.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
August 31st, 2012 at 1:22 pm
“JBB, you consider Dewhurst or Perry leaders? Mittens?”
democrats considered President Obama a leader.
nuff said.
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Tom says:
Given the choice of following Perry, Mittens, Ryan, Palin, Bush, Cheney, Bachmann, Christie et al., why yes, I will follow the leader now occupying the White House.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
Let’s talk about leadership.
What does a community organizer know about leadership? A community organizer’s job is to agitate, to stir up dissension, to breed malcontents.
A leader like Romney, their job is to unite and accomplish goals.
Community organizer or divider Vs a uniter…..
I can’t wait until Nov 6th.
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Kenneth D. Franks says:
I can’t wait either since Obama will likely be reelected.
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Robert Morrow says:
Clint Eastwood: senile, out of touch, talking to an empty chair. Symbolic of the Republican party!
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/dirty_chairy_clint_eastwood_is_a_senile_old_republican_coot
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John Johnson Reply:
September 1st, 2012 at 10:03 am
You are showing your true colors, Robert. To you it is all about appearance and delivery. Did you listen to what the man said between the rough attempts at humor? The message was great. They work for us; you have to let him go…
Someone gives you a gift and you reject it because you don’t like the way it is wrapped. I think this about sums up your reaction.
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Robert Morrow Reply:
September 2nd, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Eastwood is flacking for Romney, which means he is flacking for the endless wars, the Federal Reserve and unhinged government.
So I will pass. Yes I agree my points were cheap shots at Eastwood on style not substance.
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John Johnson Reply:
September 2nd, 2012 at 3:07 pm
You really didn’t listen to Eastwood , did you? He said we should bring the Afghan troops home tomorrow. Clint is a Libertarian, Robert.
Robert Morrow says:
Lance Armstrong is a jerk and a liar. Sorry you cult worshippers of Austin, TX, and elsewhere.
http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/biking/road-biking/My-Life-With-Lance-Armstrong.html
Lance Armstrong reminds me a lot of Rick Perry, GWB, GHW Bush and Roger Clemens. A bunch of phonies and frauds with reputations to maintain, lots of stuff to hide.
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longleaf Reply:
September 1st, 2012 at 6:24 am
Only in Austin could a bicyclist develop a cult following. Anywhere else in the state he’d have been run over by an 18-wheeler his first day out on the road.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
September 1st, 2012 at 9:31 am
“Anywhere else in the state he’d have been run over by an 18-wheeler his first day out on the road.”
But he would have had his bike helmet on….
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Robert Morrow Reply:
September 2nd, 2012 at 12:42 pm
People like winners and they like to glorify their heros. And they don’t like the ugly truth when it turns out these people are liars and massive frauds- i.e. Rick Perry and Lance Armstrong and Roger Clemons (yes, an unconvicted fraud with good lawyers). Rapist Bill Clinton, too, see all his defenders in the 1990′s.
I find the same thing in JFK research; much of the community are Kennedy worshippers and can’t handle that John Kennedy was a massively compromised sex freak and that Achilles heel was one big reason Lyndon Johnson got on the 1960 Demo ticket. LBJ blackmailed him.
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texun Reply:
September 3rd, 2012 at 9:27 pm
So, Lance is a “jerk”! I’ll bet he’s glad to be admitted to your club!
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JohnBernardBooks says:
The DNC back pedals from it’s sanctioned event “The Jumah In Charlotte” as only 300 showed.
BIMA led by radical Jibril Hough
“”This is about caving in to fear and ignorance,” said Hough.
The radical Islamist nature of the BIMA organization was highlighted by the topics addressed at yesterday’s “Jumah at the DNC” –Islamophobia and opposition to Anti-Sharia laws. The featured speakers were also controversial:
– Jibril Hough, who claims Muslims lived in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Hough is listed as a “spokesman” for BIMA, and his views are reflected in the “indigenous Muslims” claim included in the group’s title.
–Retired Army Muslim Chaplain, Captain James Yee, who was charged with sedition but not prosecuted since to do so would have revealed national security secrets.
— Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.”
The democrats war on white men continues.
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Great says:
Good thing we have JBB to keep us informed of the truly important issues.
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GOP Realist says:
The political lie that TX students test 45 days a year has been conclusively debunked.
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/aug/29/ted-lyon/ted-lyon-says-most-texas-schools-spend-45-days-man/
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Strawboy Reply:
September 2nd, 2012 at 6:14 pm
I believe the claim was 45 days ‘testing or preparing for the test’ not 45 days of testing. I don’t know whether 45 days is correct, but my kids spend a hell of a lot of time learning how to take the test, learning what will be on the test, how to answer etc. Those are days when there is no new information learned that has any relevance beyond ‘the test.’
Maybe the lege should pass a law that no time can be spent on prep outside of test days. Make sure that the kids actually understand things for a change.
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GOP Realist says:
Before testing, school districts routinely passed kids who couldn’t read through “social promotion”. Testing stopped that. For that reason, testing is good.
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Charlie Adaway says:
I am done hiding. Henceforth I will post as me, Charlie Adaway of Missouri City, instead of JohnBernardBooks. I have hidden behind a nom de plume for too long. The closet door has swung open!
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SusieQBankston says:
Leave JBB alone he makes me hot. all 250 lbs of me become a hunk of burning love.
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PattyCakesBaig says:
JBB maybe the smartest man I’ve ever met. But then everyone seems smart to me.
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Eric Bearse says:
I know I am entering the lion’s den of dissent here, but I think the commenters on this page have Michael Williams all wrong.
He is a policy wonk at heart. I have worked with him on some issues over the years, and he has a fertile policy mind because he studies the issues. His time in DC included working both in Justice where he received threats on his safety for prosecuting the Klan, and working at the US Dept of Education where he took enormous heat for being the lead voice on a policy opposing race-based admissions.
He has remained very involved over the years in mentoring programs for at-risk youth, and making sure students are involved in science and engineering. He is a good man with a strong compass, and a passionate advocate for educational opportunity. He grew up on “the wrong side of the tracks” in Midland (yes, Midland has a wrong side of the tracks.) But his parents pushed him to succeed. And he has, and he will. Give him a chance.
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John Johnson Reply:
September 3rd, 2012 at 7:48 am
Eric, I am sure that Mr. Williams is a great guy, smart, and a hard worker. After losing an election, he was simply out of a job…like many people are… and Perry awarded a good lieutenant and gave him one. My question is simply this…did Texans get the best possible person available for this position?
Let’s say that the Rangers need another pitcher for the title run. Would Nolan Ryan pick up Ashton Eaton, the Olympic decathalon winner, to fill this void? He is arguably the best athlete in the world, but is he the best guy to fill this slot? I think not.
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paulburka Reply:
September 3rd, 2012 at 4:35 pm
I’ll give him a chance, Eric, up to the point that he tries to gut the schools.
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The Mustache That Dare Not Speak Its Name Reply:
September 3rd, 2012 at 5:00 pm
That should be a good month or so.
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PattyCakesBaig Reply:
September 3rd, 2012 at 6:37 pm
why shouldn’t he? The democrats have made public edu a joke. Time for vouchers and the end of public edu.
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John Johnson Reply:
September 3rd, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Patty, when was the last time in Texas that Dem’s had control of our legislature? You think our current ed problems are caused by the ghost of Ann Richards?
JohnBernardBooks says:
will National empty chair day replace Labor Day?
https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23emptychairday
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Robert Morrow says:
Liar Lance Armstrong Complete and Total Fraud/Cheater Update:
“Lance Armstrong’s ex-pals claim brazen drug use”
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/the_inside_dope_wVH5SsdUpW4oUgENUCNExO
Lance “The Syringe” Armstrong groupies are having a really tough time on this one. I guess life is simpler when you are in cult because you don’t have to think for yourself. Follow the great leader – the rest of the world are a bunch of liars.
I have known that Lance was on steroids and EPO and God knows what else for a long time. Liar Lance had to tell his cancer doctors all the PEDs he was taking so they could change his chemotherapy. Lance’s inner circle at the time was there – the girlfriend who stood by him at death’s door who he later dumped. The Liar Lance dumped Sheryl Crow after she got cancer.
My gym friends knew his inner circle and they me about what Liar Lance told the docs. I had a reporter a few months ago tell me the exact same story. Apparently they told everyone about Liar Lance’s admission of steroid and drug use EPO.
In my opinion, Lance’s drug use is what caused his cancer in the first place and fertilized it to grow all over his body. Don’t need a cancer foundation to tell me that.
The Liar Lance groupies are really hanging tight on this. “Denial” is not just a river that runs in Egypt. I don’t worship any idols – not Ron Paul, a fine man.
Do you like comfortable and comforting lies or do you like the TRUTH.
What pill did you take in the Matrix?
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texun Reply:
September 3rd, 2012 at 9:36 pm
Morrow, the vastness of your competence still amazes me: now you are able to diagnose cancer without seeing a patient. Are you certain that he didn’t catch it from LBJ?
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Robert Morrow Reply:
September 3rd, 2012 at 10:44 pm
Yep – when you pump yourself full of steroids and Human Growth hormone, and God know’s what else performance enhancing drugs, don’t be surprised to see cancer running all over your body at the tender age of 26.
I think Lance the Chemist brought it on himself.
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Robert Morrow says:
http://dwb.unl.edu/teacher/nsf/c10/c10links/www.tcada.state.tx.us/research/facts/steroids.html
“Vital Organs: Prolonged heavy use of steroids can permanently damage the liver, causing cancer, jaundice, bleeding, and hepatitis. Steroids can impair the kidneys leading to kidney stones and kidney disease.”
When you turn your body into a walking pharmacy, funny and bad things can happen.
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Leesa says:
Testing is not out of control in my humble opinion. The students take several tests in April. How is that out of control? Has anybody heard of grade inflation? How do you know if the students are doing ok if you don’t have some type of test that they all take? The testing may ease up on the students who pass it every year but there are still plenty of students we need to follow in terms of student success. I just know that what we test is what we teach. Accountability keeps us all on task.
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