Illinois education officials keep trying to hide their failures behind excuse of “higher test standards” – Wirepoints
Illinois’ dismal education numbers – especially for minority students – are embarrassing to politicians and officials. But rather than admit there’s a problem with Illinois’ education system, they attack the state’s own standards for being “too high,” instead.
Corruption in Asia consists largely of rent-seeking by public officials from police officers to judges to government officials. When I asked a lawyer in Country X about the legal profession there, he shared that most problems can be solved short of hiring a lawyer. However, if a JUDGE needs to be bribed, that’s when you hire a lawyer. The larger the number of government hurdles that must be jumped, the greater the number of opportunities for rent-seeking. While a young lawyer, I once represented a business opening a branch in Chicago and thought I could handle the property tax angles… Read more »