"So the Edinburgh school fiasco opens up a massive can of worms as to what the true legacy is of years of private financing of core public services.
"The free school fiasco; the culling of local education authorities and the loss of all that expertise; the changes to pay that mean teachers will be competing for pay rather than working together for the good of the students; the closing of PGCE courses with the expected result that young teachers aren't prepared for the rigours of the profession, do a pretty rubbish job, hate it, then leave.
Perhaps if Mr. Levy had tried listening before the Edison Schools fiasco, he and Edison would have saved themselves not only a lot of trouble but also money.
Given the sophomoric humor PT displayed during, and after, the presidential debates, I thought, "Do I want my sweet, somewhat sophisticated comedy turned into a grade-school fiasco?" Now, Trump has said, "Never give up under any circumstances".
Opinions vary wildly - as do predictions of whether the stunt will take place or make any real difference in Illinois' long-standing school funding fiasco.
He was widely unpopular, suspected of hoarding millions if not billions of dollars from mineral deals and leaving the bridges, roads, hospitals and schools a fiasco.
The end-of-school yearbook signing fiasco, the tennis court humiliation, the camping trip incompetence — any or, for some who had particularly disastrous childhoods, all of it might bring a wince of familiarity.
8 P.M. (HBO) DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: DOG DAYS (2012) A seventh-grade graduate (Zachary Gordon, left) goes from one embarrassment to another — an end-of-school yearbook signing fiasco, a tennis court humiliation, a camping trip gone awry — in this movie directed by David Bowers, the third based on Jeff Kinney's book series.
Whatever the rationale, said Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, the affair was a fiasco for the school.
He resigned his post and now pops up in Newark as the leader of a new Free School making new promises after the fiasco of the school he led in Derby".
The fiasco in its schools puts all that in jeopardy.
