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Sort of off topic, but I am a proud Kentuckian today. By now you have heard the governor of my home state of Illinois has been arrested. This is just the latest in a long line of corruption stretching back decades. It is embarrassing.
I have sort of alluded to it before, but I don't miss Illinois politics at all. I never had a ton of experience in it, but going to law school in Illinois and working with the department of education for a couple years was enough for me. When I moved to Indiana it was a totally different story and it is similar here in Kentucky. Here is a post I wrote earlier this year which is worth reading again.
You are never going to get all the politics out of education, but Illinois has taken politics to a whole different level. There is so much politics in Illinois that at some point it becomes only about the politics and power, not about democracy.
Full post as published by Edjurist on December 09, 2008 (boomark / email).
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