Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has proposed that we consider getting the dollar back on the gold standard, which puts him outside the "mainstream" of contemporary economics. (What's a mainstream again? I can't quite say. Are there mainstreams without tributaries, in watersheds for example? Weird metaphor.)
BOSTON – Hundreds of boisterous charter school supporters rallied on Boston Common across from the State House on Wednesday to demand that lawmakers lift the state cap on the number of such institutions, as more than 37,000 students languish on waiting lists for admission.
"We are here from every corner of Massachusetts," roared KIPP Academy Boston Principal Nikki Delk Barnes, who led the rally organized by Great Schools Massachusetts. "This is a revolution of parents, students, educators and community leaders, united in a common goal, to tell the state Senate to lift the cap on charter schools."
