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      <![CDATA[Appointments or simply Political Paybacks for campaign contributions. Primarily Speaking.<br>
And of course, if the Person doing these Appointments "DOES HAVE A CLUE EITHER", it's more of a "CLUSTER _UC_" for the People.
        
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      <![CDATA[Gast, that buzzing sound was the point, zipping right past your head.
        
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      <![CDATA[Without even looking I would guess the stats for STDs would contradict your claim. Or  maybe social diseases don't mean anything anymore.
        
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      <![CDATA[As a Davidson Countian, is it possible to secede from the state.....
        
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      <![CDATA[But what does that have to do with running schools, NeverFear?<br>
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To put it another way:  what best business practices can be applied to schools to make schools better? Specifics, please.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[NeverFear]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[No one currently in the Newspaper business knows anything about business as the  industry has shown nationwide over the last several years. The main point is that although the Representative may not be running a Fortune 500 Company, he at least knows many good points within the business principals among which is Competition keeps all on their toes for more knowledge and derives points from competition that works and can plainly see those that don't.
        
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      <![CDATA[@ david longfellow:<br>
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What's true is that money ALONE doesn't drive graduation rates. If it did, Washington DC would have the most successful schools in America.<br>
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But many conservatives erroneously use this truth to further a falsehood: that more money is never even part of the answer, which winds up as an excuse to cut funds for public education.
        
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      <![CDATA[Sure, run schools like a business: if a student is not a good employee, fire them.<br>
They can seek a job elsewhere. Like maybe the neighborhood gangsta is hiring.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Min]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Well, for one, that absolutely ridiculous article they wrote about the negative effect of early sexual activity and multiple partners on women, which was supposed to be supported by CDC data, but was not. And then, basically every bullshit thing they've ever published about abstinence only education.
        
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      <![CDATA[@ Min:  An example, please, or is this just another liberal blanket assumption?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Min]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Oh, please. I wouldn't trust the people at the Heritage Foundation, if they told me water was wet.
        
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Take a look. You'll find expenditures on education have nothing to do with graduation rates.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Southern Beale]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[“The people who tell you things should run more like a business usually have not a clue about things that aren't businesses.”<br>
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THIS
        
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      <![CDATA[Dafuq?<br>
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And also, my kid graduates in May.  Not a moment too soon, obviously. But if she was just starting school, I probably would've homeschooled.
        
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      <![CDATA[By the way, if Mr. "White" has any brains as a businessperson, he knows how to rely on data — and the data show that the "failed" system he wants to change in Tennessee actually leads the nation in rate of improvement for HS graduation over the past decade.
        
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      <![CDATA[The people who tell you things should run more like a business usually have not a clue about things that aren't businesses.
        
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      <![CDATA[And now I just want to punch someone. <br>
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Here's the difference, Rep. White.
        
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      <![CDATA[When can we rent some clean children? Clean parents?
        
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