[Local-Maine-Schools] Correlation does not imply causation: annotated talking points

[Brian Hubbell]

http://mdischools.net/20080217_Correlation_is_not_causation.htm
http://mdischools.net/20080217_Correlation_is_not_causation.pdf
http://mdischools.net/20080217_Correlation_is_not_causation.doc

These links above will take you to annotated talking points from the
Department of Education which were titled "Why Unions Don't Work"

The DoE talking points are in black.  These are from a one-pager
issued by the Department of Education last week to pressure
legislators to shift their support away from the Damon amendment to LD
1932 which, as you know, expands the school reorganization law to
allow reorganizing districts to adopt an alternate governance
structure of regional school unions.

Senators, who had already voted to include the amendment in the bill,
were told that by Department officials that every student in a new
regional school union would represent $1000 that could be unavailable
for their own districts.

Our own annotations to the talking points are in red (Brian Hubbell)
and blue (Judy Sproule).

Please forward these links and reply with your own comments and, if
you like, I can add additional annotations.

Brian Hubbell,
MDIschools.net, 2/17/2008