Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

The Big Government Statist Solution

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Big Government Socialism is sold because it is “ free money”to a constituency that seems willing to be dependent on government and another constituency who gets rich from government. The Forgotten Taxpayer, the tax producer, has close to one third of what he or she earns by work or investment, ...

Compare Performance and Money: LMSD to RSD

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="245" caption="reading graph"][/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="280" caption="math graph"][/caption] Radnor School District  spends substantially less than Lower Merion School District and performs better. The Lower Merion School District Learning Curve Bends Down Lower Merion School District spends more per pupil than any school district in the State and yet results ...

Lehigh Valley Schools & Karen Beyer

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Lehigh Valley Student Learning Curve Bends Down. And what is happening in Lehigh County to school performance. More spending; less performance?  Take a look at this chart of Lehigh Valley Schools PSSA performance.  Allentown Morning Call reported this one time and then this gets lost and all the other noise of ...

Republican Party of Pennsylvania: Resolution on Card Check

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

The Informed Voter is our Ally and it is evident that the media is not giving this issue the attention it deserves just as it has ignored international Climategate issue and Pennsylvania’s Bonusgate issue. Pat Toomey has consistently articulated the case against Card Check as a job killer on many ...

Harvard Yale Columbia: Endowments tank

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

    People a lot smarter than we don’t always get it right. “Past performance does not predict future results” is good investment advice. Are Lower Merion Commissioners smarter than the smartest, best educated,best informed, most expert, most experienced, most sophisticated investors in the world? Can the Commissioners predict the future? Will ...