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Why There Was No Basement Tornado Shelter in That Oklahoma City School « LewRockwell.com Blog
"Politicians like himself will always spend taxpayers' money in a way that enhances THEIR popularity and maximizes THEIR chances for re-election. There are orders of magnitude more votes to be had in handing out welfare benefits or lavish public employee pensions than in replacing leaky water lines. Public employees are well organized politically; the average taxpaying citizens are not.... Putting a basement in a new school building will not motivate government school teachers to spend thousands of hours campaigning and driving voters to the polls in school buses. Promises of pay and pension increases will."
The writer has a point about politicians, but it doesn't apply to Oklahoma and the way we finance education and school facilities. School bond issues can only be used for capital improvements and equipment, not operating costs. If anything, school bond issue supporters here work for low voter turnout; I've never heard of driving people to the polls in school buses, which I'm pretty sure would be against the law. Heavy construction companies are usually very supportive of school bond issues, since they stand to win the contracts to do the work, and publicly-funded construction can take up the slack when the economy has stalled new commercial construction. There's plenty of political incentive to build school tornado shelters; I suspect the hindrance is practical. Oklahoma just doesn't have many basements. (Remember what happened to Tulsa's buried Belvedere.) Blair, Oklahoma, has an impressively large, partially buried storm shelter on its school playground, easily seen from US 283, about 20' wide by 70' long, built in 1928 after a tornado destroyed the school.
The Impact of Federal Involvement in America's Classrooms
Andrew J. Coulson's February 10, 2011, testimony to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Includes graphs showing federal per-pupil spending vs. achievement and total K-12 public school spending vs. achievement, 1970-2010.
The Juilliard Effect - Ten Years Later - NYTimes.com
In 2004, the New York Times hunted for the 44 instrumentalists who graduated with the Juilliard Class of 1994. After 10 years, fewer than half of these gifted musicians were making a living performing music.
Oklahoma Teacher: October 1921 issue: October Bible Readings
Back in October 1921, on p. 22, the official publication of the Oklahoma Education Association offered a list of daily Bible readings and weekly memory verses.
Book of Virtues - Shiver Academy
Questions, worksheets, and activity ideas designed around William Bennett's The Book of Virtues
rec.arts.books Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
How did one find quirky local bookstores before the World Wide Web was invented? Well, there was Usenet, and there was the rec.arts.books FAQ, with its listing of bookstores by region, edited by Evelyn C. Leeper. The list is still being edited and maintained, although some entries are out of date. (Remember Novel Idea? First Edition?)
Εταιρεία Ελληνικών Τυπογραφικών Στοιχείων :: Greek Font Society :: Typefaces
Home page to their list of Greek typefaces from the earliest days of printing to modern times, organized in pages by century.
[Stoa Consortium] Unicode Polytonic Greek for the World Wide Web (UPGW3)
A list of Unicode Ancient Greek fonts for use on the web.
Unicode fonts for Ancient Greek
A list of links to Ancient Greek Unicode fonts.
The Aristarcoj font by Russell Cottrell -- a very attractive ancient Greek Unicode font.
