Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The Editor's Notepod, Wed., Jan. 12, 2011

Wallingford officials seem unfazed by the Superintendent of Schools’ budget request for next year, even though it means an 8 percent increase over two years. We imagine, though, that there will be a good deal of talk and consideration before anything of the kind is adopted.

Governor Chafee of Rhode Island has decided he and his staff will stay away from profit-driven talk show radio interviews, a position reached before the Arizona assassinations. This is an interesting and possibly provocative move with which many will have much sympathy.

The Connecticut law passed in an unsuccessful effort to win “Race to the Top” federal funds could be a casualty of the lack of funding. To the degree that the changes were merely reactions to an arbitrary set of standards, that’s probably a good thing.

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