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		<title>Lamar Thames&#8217; Talk of the Town column</title>
		<link>http://www.lamarthames.com/2009/05/lamar-thames-talk-of-the-town-column-13</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 19:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar Thames</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife, Barbara, just returned from a week in Reno, Nev., along with two students from Clay County, Fla., and a coworker, Brenda Weeks. They attended the International Science and Engineering Fair.
This was her first trip to the International and that may account for the exuberance she displayed about the trip. Especially when  she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk of the town column</title>
		<link>http://www.lamarthames.com/2009/05/the-value-of-music-education</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 19:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar Thames</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[






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By LAMAR THAMES
Tuesday, May 5, is my birthday, and while that doesn&#8217;t have anything directly to do with this story, I mention it as a way of telling you that the month leading up to the 65th celebration of my birth has been enormously satisfying — and possibly even life-changing. More about that later. Right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stimulus funding may alter teacher evaluation methods</title>
		<link>http://www.lamarthames.com/2009/04/stimulus-funding-may-alter-teacher-evaluation-methods</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar Thames</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Stephen Sawchuck, Education Week
The nation’s oft-criticized systems for evaluating the quality of its educator workforce are poised to receive increased scrutiny, thanks to an Obama administration plan to require school districts to disclose how many teachers perform well or poorly.
Although nearly every state requires districts to evaluate teachers, the instruments are typically designed locally. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yacht owners to get some relief, thankfully</title>
		<link>http://www.lamarthames.com/2009/04/yacht-owners-to-get-some-relief-thankfully</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar Thames</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY HOWARD TROXLER
Yachts! The Florida Legislature is going to pass a new tax break for buying luxury yachts and private airplanes.
Let&#8217;s hope this passes in the same year that the Legislature hurts the K-12 schools, guts the universities, makes it harder for Floridians to vote, drains the Lawton Chiles tobacco trust, kills Florida Forever, weakens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stimulus Guidance Spotlights Teacher Evaluations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar Thames</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stephen Sawchuk and Erik W. Robelen


U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today started rolling out $44 billion in economic-stimulus aid for education that comes with new teacher-quality reporting requirements for states and districts, and also with significantly more spending flexibility on school construction than many administrators had expected.

New guidance from the Department of Education spells out in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual classes gaining in acceptance</title>
		<link>http://www.lamarthames.com/2009/04/virtual-classes-gaining-in-acceptance</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar Thames</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Debra Viadero


Premium article access courtesy of Edweek.org.



Online classes may be a relatively young instructional practice for K-12 schools, but experts already generally agree on one point: Research shows that virtual schooling can be as good as, or better than, classes taught in person in brick-and-mortar schools.


But that broad conclusion, which comes mainly from a couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Lottery chief on hot seat</title>
		<link>http://www.lamarthames.com/2009/04/state-lottery-chief-on-hot-seat</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar Thames</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was reported by the Miami Herald April 1:
BY STEVE BOUSQUET
TIMES/HERALD TALLAHASSEE BUREAU

TALLAHASSEE &#8211; The chief of the Florida Lottery waited eight months to follow legislative orders to seek new offers for the agency&#8217;s lucrative advertising work, then skirted a legislative order to seek competitive proposals.
All that time, Lottery Secretary Leo DiBenigno kept the existing advertising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House, Senate budgets contain stimulus money for education</title>
		<link>http://www.lamarthames.com/2009/03/house-senate-budgets-contain-stimulus-money-for-education</link>
		<comments>http://www.lamarthames.com/2009/03/house-senate-budgets-contain-stimulus-money-for-education#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar Thames</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
NOTE: This is a legislative update from Emergent Design and Development, a Tallahassee consulting firm that advises clients about education matters.
From Bob and Mary Bedford
The session is progressing with the release of the Senate Budget &#8211; and the House budget is expected to be released this week.  In somewhat of a surprise, both Houses have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers who got recruited, soon get booted.</title>
		<link>http://www.lamarthames.com/2009/03/teachers-who-got-recruited-soon-get-booted</link>
		<comments>http://www.lamarthames.com/2009/03/teachers-who-got-recruited-soon-get-booted#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar Thames</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story was reported in the Orlando Sentinel recently. It is a scenario that is undoubted played out in school districts around the state of Florida.
By Leslie Postal &#124; Sentinel Staff Writer
Courtney Coker graduated from Florida State University in 2006 eager to start work as a music teacher. It wasn&#8217;t hard to turn her passion into a paycheck.
&#8220;It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A call for parents to speak out about education proposals</title>
		<link>http://www.lamarthames.com/2009/03/a-call-for-parents-to-speak-out-about-education-proposals</link>
		<comments>http://www.lamarthames.com/2009/03/a-call-for-parents-to-speak-out-about-education-proposals#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamar Thames</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By LAMAR THAMES
Whether you like his ideas or not, you have to admire the way Clay County School Board Chairman Charlie Van Zant Jr. thinks outside the box in trying to come up with methods to cut expenses for the cash-strapped system.
Earlier this year, Van Zant broached the subject of a four-day school schedule. I [...]]]></description>
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