[Vision2020] Courtney's Numbers

[keely emerinemix]

Tom, this is amazing.  It's one thing to hide behind stats and data because 
your real viewpoint is too odious for people to accept -- but to use them 
with such carelessness, not knowing or not caring that they're out of date, 
is really disappointing.

Even from Dale Courtney.  And I've regrettably set that bar pretty damned 
low.

The fact remains:  There isn't a levy rate, enrollment gain, test-score 
result, graduation rate or anything else that would make Dale Courtney 
support a public schools levy, and I appreciate the bravery you show here, 
Tom, in exposing Dale's chicanery.

keely


From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] Courtney's Numbers
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:35:17 -0700

Greetings Visionaires -

Concerning this year's school levy . . .

I have just glanced over several of Dale Courtney's on-line files concerning
his argument against the 2007 school levy located at:

http://MoscowLevy.com/March2007.htm

and compared them to the on-line files concerning his argument against the
2005 school levy located at:

http://MoscowLevy.com

I know that this is the site he used to argue against the 2005 levy, since
it clearly states at the top of the page:

"Here is a resource to which you can turn for information about the Moscow
School District levy on 26 April 2005."

I was interested in finding results of recent research that he may have
conducted.

Primarily I reviewed the files dealing with "Administrative Bloat".  He not
only is using the same numbers from 2005.  He is using the same files.  The
most recent data in the files that I reviewed was for 2004/2005.

He didn't event bother copying, renaming, and pasting the files into a 2007
directory.  The links within his 2007 levy web pages are the very same,
identical links found in his 2005 levy web pages.

His property tax information, located at:

http://moscowlevy.com/waste.htm

is almost five years old.

Thoughts?

Stay tuned.  More to come.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho




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