From yesterday’s Panama City News Herald:

The state should abandon the one-size-fits-all approach of the current bill and instead seek real education reform, a bottom-up paradigm that increases parental choice in traditional public schools and leaves compensation decisions at the local level, ideally the principals. Good teachers would have more freedom to market their skills to principals, just as private sector employees do, since schools would be competing for their services.

The current legislation is doomed to fail because it maintains the current centralization of education and gives teachers even more incentive to “teach to the test.” It also raises the possibility that good teachers won’t be justly compensated because of the bureaucracy’s inability to construct an accurate and fair merit system. That’s reason enough why Gov. Crist should veto this bill.

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If he makes the club, he might be.

Its important to remember that the club that leaves Florida in April is gfar different from the one which plays in September. But the Mets roster is void of right-handed pop. The veteran Kielty can provide that. With the club likely to carry 12 to 13 pitchers again, it leaves fewer players to come off the bench. Kielty is likely to make the club along with a left-handed hitting OF, one catcher, and Alex Cora.

This assumes that the Fernando Tatis and Daniel Murphy enters the season as the left field platoon. The Mets need Kielty and Tatis to have good springs to solve balance problems. One lefty-hitting OF out of the group of Angel Pagan, Cory Sullivan and Jeremy Reed will battle for one roster spot.

The best hitters coming off the bench late in the game will come from the following list that’s not already in the game: Tatis, Kielty, Murphy and a lefty-hitting OF. Only in the chance the Mets opt to go with 11 or 12 pitchers will the bench change. All in all, this is not a bad roster to start the season.

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Predictably some member of the dem congressional caucus found a way to get code pink near the front of the ceremony today. They were there to mock and taunt president Bush while his daughters and President Obama’s daughters could witness. Stay classy dems. They’re yours.

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