"While it is unfortunate that it took more than a year and hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to resolve this matter, the positive news is that we will be able to utilize the data-driven analysis to reorganize DPI to help the agency focus on its core mission of supporting educators, students and parents across … Continue reading If Mark Johnson Wants to be “Data-Driven,” Then He Might Want to Look at the Data
Joyce Kraweic
Hallelujah, and Pass the Lard! – Sen Joyce Krawiec’s Uneducated Assertion on the Class Size Mandate
"If brains were lard, you couldn't grease a small skillet." - Sen. Joyce Krawiec, Jan. 20, 2017 in reference to the people participating in the Women's March. Not Sen. Krawiec's best moment. One would think that since the senator equated lard with brains and the fact that much lard was actually sent to her directly … Continue reading Hallelujah, and Pass the Lard! – Sen Joyce Krawiec’s Uneducated Assertion on the Class Size Mandate
Real Men Don’t Use Billboards To Tell Any Woman What They Should Do
Coming home from an afternoon trip to Greensboro, NC to visit the Nature Center, we encountered the following billboard on I-40 between Kernersville and Winston-Salem. That's right. It says "Real men provide Real women appreciate it." Of course, it made news. Even a news channel in Chicago reported on it. When I first saw it, … Continue reading Real Men Don’t Use Billboards To Tell Any Woman What They Should Do
Praise The Lard and Pass The Retribution – An Amazon.com Wish List for Sen. Joyce Krawiec
"Praise the lard and pass the retribution Need a little bit more Cause this pan needs greasin' I don't know where I'll be ordering' But it's arrivin' on a mail wagon." - Apologies to the Dixie Chicks for the small rewrite of "Sin Wagon" If you remember the now famous tweet from State Sen. Joyce Krawiec, you … Continue reading Praise The Lard and Pass The Retribution – An Amazon.com Wish List for Sen. Joyce Krawiec
I Will Not Write Joyce Krawiec About Her Tweet Concerning The Women’s March, But I Will…
I am not going to write Sen. Joyce Krawiec a letter concerning her statement in a recent tweet that belittled the women who marched in the Women’s March this past Saturday which looked something like this: I am not going remark to her that using Twitter allows for your comments to be seen by everybody … Continue reading I Will Not Write Joyce Krawiec About Her Tweet Concerning The Women’s March, But I Will…
SB 873 – Shame on Apodaca and Kraweic – The Farce of the Access to Affordable College Education Act
Note: Be sure to view a note by John de Ville, public school advocate and Hope Street Fellow from Macon County, following this op-ed. He highlights that Western Carolina University has strong reservations and provides a link to their statement on SB 873 - The Affordable College Education Act. Thanks to John. Sen. Joyce Kraweic … Continue reading SB 873 – Shame on Apodaca and Kraweic – The Farce of the Access to Affordable College Education Act
