Posted on October 27, 2009 at 3:41 pm by The Education Gadfly

Today’s Quotable and Notable

Quotable:

“I don’t think they [drafted the contract with the best interest of students in mind]. I think it was in the best interest of getting the contract resolved, and we were all focused on that, myself included. I think it would have been better to stand up and say, ‘Well, we just can’t settle it this way.’”
-Linda Lingle, Governor of Hawaii

Hawaii Governor Regrets Teacher Furloughs,” Teacher Magazine (subscription)


Notable:

$7500:
Amount each participating student receives under Washington, DC’s endangered voucher program.  Educating those students in public schools would cost about twice as much, says a new film defending vouchers.

Voices for Choice,” National Review Online

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