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Monday, July 16, 2007
RSS And You
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I’ve been meaning to tell you there’s a new way to keep track of Get Schooled’s daily discussions.
Some of you — I’m thinking of Jeff, specifically — already seem to have caught on. So I’m letting the rest of you in on the secret.
Instead of feverishly checking the site every day to see if something new has posted, you now can get automatic e-mail notifications or updated links to personalized Web pages whenever I post a new blog — no more fuming because it’s 12 o’clock and Bridget hasn’t posted anything.
It’s called RSS.
Check it out. Try it out. Embrace the technology.
You (and I) will be happy you did.
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As The Lawsuit Turns: The Sequel
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In the midst of all of the reporting I was doing on the state’s new vouchers program last week, I got an interesting e-mail from Joe Martin, executive director for the Consortium for Adequate School Funding in Georgia.
This is the group of 51 small, mostly rural school systems, which nearly three years ago filed a lawsuit saying the state was not properly funding their public schools. Turns out the group recently hired some additional legal help.
Martin had been complaining that the attorneys the state hired last year — from Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan — were trying to wear down the school systems’ with time-consuming and costly legal maneuvers — a modern-day David and Goliath, if you will.
With the hiring of Atlanta’s Rogers & Hardin, however, the consortium apparently is feeling more resolve than ever; although, Martin says he still believes a settlement would be better than a trial in this case.
“To paraphrase Mark Twain,” Martin wrote in his e-mail, “the rumors of our death were premature.”
The question: Has that death just been prolonged?
UPDATE: In case you missed it, there have been a couple news stories recently reporting that Georgia’s bank account is fatter than ever. First, we heard that the fiscal year ended with a $600 million surplus. Now, we learn Lottery sales, which pay for the state’s HOPE scholarship and Pre-K program, are at an all-time high. Yet, Gov. Sonny Perdue and state lawmakers insisted on continuing the education budget’s “austerity” cuts — to the tune of $140 million — this coming school year.
