Re: Interesting conversation.... (2 of 3)

[kirby urner]

From: kirby urner <kirby...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Subject: education mafia (EM) revives in Portland
To: Math-teach Teach <math-...@mathforum.org>


You may remember my post wherein moms were out picketing for a casino
to help raise revenue.

This was evidence Oregon Lottery is not doing its job, as the state
already funds itself the same way the tribes do, but apparently not as
effectively.

Now, the memo below tells parents the problem is solved at the local
level. The question is why this is being presented as a city thing,
when Oregon collects school funds, and spends them, from Salem, not
Portland.

We used to use the property tax system but that was ruled unfair
because rich neighborhoods got better schools while poor ones, where
kids most need facilities to compensate for crummy homes, just got
poorer.

Here's the first part of the memo:

"""
May 3, 2012

To the PPS Community,

I am pleased to tell you that we have reached a tentative agreement
that would restore all budget-related staffing cuts in schools next
year and maintain a full school year for students.

I want to personally thank Mayor Sam Adams and Portland Association of
Teachers President Gwen Sullivan who spent long hours with me in
recent days working on this proposed agreement. (The agreement remains
tentative pending ratification by the teachers association and
approval by the school board and the City Council.)

...
"""

This will not mean the push for a casino will go away. They're all
over the state in tribal hands and quite successful.

Speaking of Indian Gaming, my Casino Math component of the OCN Digital
Math curriculum is helping to feed a next generation CSN planner.

Alphabet soup! What do those mean? It's as bad as the military (or
para-military) around here in terms of alphabet soup: OCN = Oregon
Curriculum Network; CSN = Coffee Shops Network

CSN is a new open source business model for the kind of casino that
pumps money to charities and profiles the winners by their own
consent.

Info from profiles feeds the dating games, the resume pools, such that
future collaborators can select based on shared values, where your
mode of philanthropy because like your signature or calling card.

Think of church bingo.

Anyway, it takes a lot of math to plan a shop, lots of flow diagrams.
Sponsor - vendors commit profit-slice per item purchased, as they
would anyway, to good will earning (an known chart of accounts line
item or set of items).

Instead of long boring board room meetings about what to do with 1%, a
bigger % feeds the gamers, who may rise to hero status as stars of
your flagships. Or they may stay anonymous (relatively) and yet still
help drive revenue.

Games and charities are sometimes closely associated other times only
loosely coupled. Like I said, it takes people with "circuit diagram"
expertise when it comes to closing the various feedback loops.

Kirby
OCN

Digital Math:

http://wikieducator.org/Digital_Math