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The High Stakes of Stakeholder Engagement: A Plea for Careful Planning from Public Agenda
This post was written for the 20 community colleges participating in Completion by Design, a five-year Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation initiative that aims to significantly increase completion rates for low-income students under 26. As a “National Assistance partner” for Completion by Design, Public Agenda provides direct assistance to the colleges to help them build capacity for solutions-oriented dialogue among faculty, staff and administration. Here, Public Agenda's Alison Kadlec discusses best practices for authentic internal stakeholder engagement. While the post is geared toward Completion by Design planning teams, the principles are useful for any authentic engagement process.
***You Can't Do It Alone: A New Guide to Creating Sustainable Change in Education Reform
Far too often, throughout our work in the education field, we've seen even the most earnest and promising ideas from experts and reformers for improving schools and ramping up student learning met with confusion, anxiety or even anger from teachers, parents, students or community members.
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The chart is wrong. It says medicare makes up 3.10% of the federal budget when it is actually closer to 12%. The other numbers seem right.
You are wrong. You just misread the chart.. it actually says 13.10% :)
In business I look at the top expenditures in my department budget to reduce expenses. The top 3 in the Federal budget make up 55 % of the budget. I challenge either party and the tea baggers to cut 5% to-50% of those items. It will never happen !
The sole purpose for having a government is to protect the rights of the individuals being governed. In order to do that we need three things, Courts, police, and military. Nothing else the government does actually protects anybody's rights. If you think we should cut defense spending, then there should be a real reason for doing so.
Some expenses, like paying subsidies to sheep herders to raise mohair sheep are nuts. I think the union would be safe without them.
Not a true expenditure of 707 bil....remember it is taxed and some of this money comes back to the Feds to wastefully spend it in other areas
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