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...made me uncomfortable, because I didn't see my job as a bartender. A lot of times there was a very personal issue underlying the tax liability. Lots of taxpayers would tell us emotional stories and let us in on things that even their spouses didn't know about...
President Obama's announcement this week that he would lift remittance and travel restrictions for those with family still in Cuba marked a small but significant change in the U.S.'s position toward the island. Obama also agreed to let telecommunications companies - long barred under the embargo - to pursue business in the country, which still has roughly the same number of phone lines as it did in the 1950s. But the fate of the embargo rests in the sensitive hands of politicians, and no one is sure what Cuba's reaction will be. President Raúl Castro (who took...
...didn't come from a lot of money had one option - and usually that option wasn't a good one. The more options available, the more we give parents a chance to figure out what the best learning environment is for their child. To me it's not about letting a thousand flowers bloom. You need to have a really high bar about whom you let open the charter school. [You need] a really rigorous front-end competitive process. If not, you just get mediocrity. Once you let them in, you need to have two things. You need to give...
...there. I think what we need to do is fundamentally reverse that - I think we need to be really tight on goals and have these common college-ready international benchmark standards that we're all aiming for, but then be much looser in how you let folks get there...
Regular folks don't get the distinction between certified teachers and qualified teachers - why the teachers' union wouldn't let Einstein teach physics to high school students because he wasn't certified. Isn't all that matters that our children learn? That teachers give students knowledge? And not how they became a teacher, whether it's from a traditional route or an alternative certification route. At the end of the day, it is not about a piece of paper coming [through] the door. It's about student achievement...