"Attendance has dramatically increased and our students are taking home lessons about health, water and nutrition, strengthening the whole community".
Christie, viewed by many as the most moderate would-be candidate in attendance, reeled off impressive statistics from his re-election victory in New Jersey last year as he received a predictably lukewarm response from the conservative-leaning audience.
Then he phones his schools and asks for today's attendance figures.
Instead Gove sneers at them, undermines them, devalues their professionalism, and saves his praise for the millionaire who graciously allows his name to appear on the school gates, and phones up in the morning to ask what the attendance figures are – but not until he has phoned round his stores and checked the previous day's sales figures.
On Tuesday police issued a court attendance notice to the 20-year-old woman "in relation to the unauthorised access of restricted data," a NSW Police spokeswoman told Guardian Australia.
Miliband knew in advance his attendance was a risk, that he could be left isolated by the alliance of leftwing leaders as the beacon for stale Westminster politics and austerity policies.
Ministers were also advised to avoid attendance at any commemoration of the Armenian genocide, and to avoid any mention of it at Holocaust Day memorials.
Although, in some ways, victory was beside the point – for many of the nearly 600 cubers in attendance, a record, the World Championship was more about hanging out with other cubers, some of whom they had never met offline.
Last season, Republic, who play at USL level, broke league attendance records on their way to winning their first championship.
The inspectors who recommended special measures identified "engaging students' interests... as essential to the improvement of attendance and standards".
I reckon if you started counting everyone you'd get to about 6,500 and find there are fewer in actual attendance.
