...teaching to pass tests, without promoting critical thinking skills!

Not that much better...unless you want a generation of bug eyed, drooling dolts...just an opinion!

the people who run this country do not want educated people capable of thought, they want obedient workers.

the standards of an educational system I grew up with 60 years ago. While the math processes seem a bit ridiculous for us old-timers the standards for reading, writing, and thinking and logic seem reasonable to me but only if you want a well educated citizenry.

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/01/18/everything-you-need-to-know-about-common-core-ravitch/?tid=pm_local_pop

This lady needs to kick her Koch habit.

...and you better believe the Bibble is going to be front and center

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I guess it is hard to be stuck in Oklawhere(?) when you want to be in Cali LOL

Christina Fallin in hot water again
Published on Apr 28, 2014

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin's daughter Christina wore a Native American-style shawl with the word "sheep" on the back while her band Pink Pony played at the Norman Music Festival over the weekend.




Uploaded on Jul 13, 2011

Christina Fallin - the daughter of Governor Mary Fallin - strutting her stuff at an unapproved photoshoot at the Governor's Mansion for 20something Magazine.

Watch and see. She is a Koch whore and will do their bidding. She doesn't have a chance winning against Hillary but she is a rising dark horse star.

... and the GOP will have a Failin/Palin ticket!!!

Those two women hatin bitches would destroy this country in 2 years if not sooner.

Believe it or not, the Republican dominated state legislature passed a bill that would allow state employees to cash in up to 200 hours of annual year (max 100 hours every 6 months). The genesis of the bill was the Dept. of Correction Correctional Officers, a job class that is constantly understaffed and requiring officers to typically work 60 hours a week which makes it near to impossible to take any annual leave. They do not qualify for over time pay but to qualify for comp time. Well, if you can't schedule annual leave you are not going to be able to schedule comp time. On the positive side, if comp time is not taken within 6 months after it is earned, at that time the employee gets the pay at time and a half. They just have to wait 6 months to get the pay for that overtime. I imagine that after 6 months they are probably getting what I would then call delayed time and a half on a rolling basis. That does resolve the comp time making the employee wait for the pay but the state caps annual leave and when an employee hits that ceiling, they start to lose their annual leave. This bill was to try to bring some relief to correctional workers who are working in a high risk environment due to the shortfall in staffing.

Yup you bet it, Fallin vetoed the bill. Correctional workers in Oklahoma are working pretty darn close to slave labor. I don't know why on earth anybody would want to be a correctional officer in this state.

If there are even less correctional officers employed, the lawsuits from prisioners would force the state to change policies to attract qualified applicants. Nothing is going to change without force. Having no one show up for work would accomplish that.

and do away with still more state employee jobs.

privatization does tot result in saving tax dollars. Private companies exist to make a profit not to run a formerly state run entity for the goodness of their heart. We have consultants that are awarded contracts for federal and/or state financed projects. Not all consultants complete their work with the due diligence they should because they rely upon state workers to fix their mistakes while still getting paid for inferior work. It would probably cost taxpayers less money to have state workers generate the plans in the first place.

is doing her level best to repeal both the 21st and 20th centuries in Oklahoma. She could, however, take it back to Indian Territory, which would be problematic for her and other white folks.