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...states get ready to apply for funding, the opposition is still strategizing. "Are the unions going to tell legislators that they're dead ducks if they support this?" says Chester Finn, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a leading education reformer. "I bet not. But they'll definitely work hard to soften the RTT language and then work to undermine the implementation." The Administration believes it can overcome resistance to its plans. Eight states have amended or removed laws to make themselves friendlier to charter schools, partly in anticipation of Duncan's pot of gold. And California Governor...
Duncan has spent a lot of time in his new job crisscrossing the country, talking to teachers, teachers' unions, school boards and teachers' colleges about the need to shake things up and change the way they all do business. Finn says Duncan's courage in speaking truth to the educational establishment is his greatest achievement, at least...
...Finn M.W. Caspersen, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a prolific philanthropist who raised and donated huge sums to the Law School, died last week of an apparently self-inflicted gun-shot wound. Caspersen, the former Chairman of the Beneficial Corporation, a consumer finance corporation, donated over $30 million to the Law School and served as the chairman of the successful capital campaign which ended last year and raised $476 million, the most successful fund-raising campaign in the history of legal education. Caspersen’s death comes at a time when his fund-raising abilities may have...
...district. The city has no middle schools, but rather one K-6 school and eleven that are K-8, which feed into a single high school. The school committee was in the process of addressing the issue last year under the direction of former superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, but was interrupted when he “went to pursue other interests,” in the words of School Committee member Joseph G. Grassi. In the wake of Fowler-Finn’s departure, the school committee was considering candidates for the superintendency that would be particularly adroit...
...Edith Ronne, 89, became the first U.S. woman to set foot in Antarctica. Her Norwegian-born husband Finn, a former U.S. Navy captain, asked her to join the expedition so that Edith--who had better English skills--could pen his newspaper dispatches...