| One of the 17 gazillion things produced by our ongoing experiment with the Dunning-Kruger effect this week was last night's narrow passage of an expanded EAA. That's the entity that oversees failing schools in the dark, not the light of transparency (as noted by state Rep. Andy Schor today, we already have a statewide educational authority to do this work called the State Board of Education). Anyone paying close attention going in also knew that part of it was to pay for it with private funds, including this: The cashflow problem in the state’s reform school district is getting a bailout.
...snip... The grant comes two months after the executive committee of the EAA requested a $2-million advance from its monthly state funding allocation to fix technology problems and provide professional development.
Well, golly, it'd be nice to know why it is that the EAA is experiencing cashflow problems, especially since it's not a business that has to rely on the vagaries of the business cycle, but it was created largely to escape the light of transparency. And to think that the state's media outlets were hooting and hollering just a few days ago about Sunshine Week. |
