[Zakeet]

It would have been a lot worse, but we couldn't find a cat house that takes credit cards.

[PJBankard]

Every transaction has a business purpose in mind.

She forgot to include that the business purpose in mind wasn't necessarily related to Baltimore City Schools.

[Lurker]

The company I start working for next week doesn’t issue corporate credit cards to anyone. And any business related expenses have to be approved in advance or they aren’t reimbursed at all.

[Iron Munro]

The thugocracy - a democrat victim group.

[nascarnation]

We are working around the clock to engage our partners and move our agenda forward

I assume they must be talking about re-electing Obama?

[SeaHawkFan]

...during which the 16 employees of the Information Technology Department were also treated to a $500 dinner at Brazilian steakhouse Fogo de Chao...

That must have been lunch. If it was dinner, the tab would have been around $800.

If you have never been to a Fogo de Chao; you need to go at least once. It's about $50/person for dinner, but around $30 for lunch for the same service. It's awesome.

[cpdiii]

The solution to our education problem is very simple.

1. Determine what is the per pupil cost of education to the state.

2. Give a voucher that is equal to this amount of money to each and every family that has a child or children in school.

3. Allow this family to spend that voucher at any school they want to, be it private or public. The private and public schools must meet a minimum educational standard or they will not be eligible for this program and will thus be closed.

It should be noted that children with disabilities can take a large portion of the school budget. Private institutions must take these students in the same proportion as public schools. Otherwise the public schools would become a dumping ground for a very costly student group.

4. Tell the NEA to shove it where the sun does not shine and pay them off according to their accrued years of service in accordance with their contracts.

This is not rocket science, it is simply supply and demand.
Families that live in the depths of the welfare system want better for their children. They will be the number one advocates of this.

5. Sit back and watch academic excellence and scores soar.

6. End of problem.

[JesusIsLord]

With the exception of government, the public school system is the biggest racket in the nation. I want to vomit every time a governor tells the taxpayer, "we must throw more money at the "education industrial complex". The NEA, which is the largest union in the nation along with other teacher unions, use our kids as hostages for a bigger pay-check, bigger pensions and more benefits. School boards, which are intended to represent the people, are mostly inept and rubberstamp every whim that the "education industrial complex" wants.

From K through 12, I was taught in old brick buildings with no AC or computers and with some classes having > 40 students. No tutors, no teacher assistants, no multimillion dollar campuses, (1) principal, no vice principals - you get the picture. Virtually everyone I went to school with graduated with a fine education and they were fully capable of reading, writing and doing arithmetic. Unfortunately, we can’t say this about many so-called educated children today.

When will taxpayers say, "enough is enough" to the "education industrial complex"?

[antiRepublicrat]

If I did this with the company card, my employment wouldn’t survive the next audit.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Livin’ the good life in the land of peasant living!

Maryland “Freak State” PING!