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Olson vs. Luna?
Submitted by Bill Roberts on Fri, 01/22/2010 - 2:38pm
Stan Olson, Boise School District superintendent, will decide in about 10 days whether he'll run for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Right now, he said, he's talking to people who have experience in campaigning to help him decide if he should toss his hat into the ring. See our Statesman »
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crackerjack
It's nice to know that there is someone with a background in education willing to run against a man who got his degree in weights and measures out of a crackerjack box. Schools are not businesses, they are not gas pumps, they are not truck scales, they are the future of this state. We need to return to the day when someone with a doctorate in education is actually running the department of education.
ANY hack can run Ed.
Stop kidding yourself!
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Like a midair collision with a tugboat
IN DEFENSE OF LUNA
I don't really believe that not being an 'Educator', whatever that may really mean, makes Luna less effective in his current role. Quite the reverse.
He has presented more objective views and has proposed more positive actions needed in the business of educating children than any I've seen in Idaho public education ever.
And yes, education really is a business. My tax bills help prove it. The current troubles faced by the Idaho public schools in their funding is proof of this. Teachers and school Administrators who work their tails off to provide the best of the best minds from their schools can tell you that there is a business side to what they do. School Boards, PTA groups and Booster Clubs will admit that there's a business side to what they have to do. Follow the money.
Kuna faces institutional problems in trying to obtain value for the taxpayers money. These problems, resulting from conflicts and pressures within the institution are hugely difficult for an 'Educator', with bias and self-interest involved, to resolve. If anyone is going to figure out how to make the best of the Idaho school systems, it will likely be a man like Tom Kuna. Smart, bold, with backbone, and connected in national and state politics - from whence the $$ decisions flow he's the best you'll get for the money offered.
Keep what you got, give him more time to do what must be done, support him and volunteer to work with your local schools and that will do a great deal for the system. Idaho education needs to change the approach in what it is being done in Idaho to educate children who can compete on the world market. Right now - they cannot.