July is here and that, to me, means two things. First, my wife and I are expecting our first child early this month. Because it coincides with the Tour de France, I decided that her name will be “Le Tour.” My wife has not signed off on this decision yet. Second, July 1 is only 91 days from September 30, 2011. As I discussed previously, this is the date of the “funding cliff”, the date by which school districts must “obligate” most of their stimulus dollars and fiscal year 2009 allocations. (A defensive aside: I’m not really counting the days until the funding cliff arrives. I’m a little more intellectually alive than that. But for the purposes of this blog, please suspend disbelief and pretend I’m that much of a wonk.)* Read more
