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eduSTAR.NTP Round 4 Cycle 4

This has been an interesting round of teacher notebooks as the original date last year was supposed to be November last year, but it got pushed back and back and back and back to the point where the end of the round ended up being 28th May this year. We have found out that unlike previous rounds, these were not done by Macquarie Finance but by the Department of Education themselves. Slight shamble would be sugar coating it. Every previous round there have been "Buy backs" because with these it has been like a car lease and a residual... After x amount of years you are offered to 'buy back' your used laptop for a set residual.

They still after five weeks have not come back with any information as to if there will be a buy back this round or whether we will be sending them back. They've only been boxed up and sitting in the Business Manager's office for the past two months (close to give or take a couple of weeks).

The disorganisation in the DEECD must be absolutely bizarre.

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A Tea Party senator from upstate wishes John Boehner were more like Andrew Cuomo

Amplify’d from www.capitalnewyork.com

State Senator Greg Ball believes his friends in the Tea Party would rather see the kind of bipartisan compromise forged by Andrew Cuomo in Albany than the firebrand opposition of the House Republicans in Washington.

"From a leadership perspective, it's apparent that President Obama lacks the leadership skills of Andrew Cuomo," Ball told me in a phone call this afternoon. "And it's also apparent that the congressional Republicans have individual members that are more intent on blowing up the process, as opposed to our conference in the Republican [State] Senate, where we're focused on moving the state forward through less taxes, bipartisan leadership, even if that means compromise."

Ball, an outspoken ideological conservative and self-proclaimed Tea Partier who proudly calls the group his political base, was reacting to yesterday's vote by House Republicans to reject an extension of the payroll tax cut that had already passed the Senate by a vote of 89-10. The vote puts the payroll tax cut in jeopardy, since Senate Democrats have already vowed not to return to session before the cut expires on January 1.

And while the Tea Party is largely credited for pressuring Speaker John Boehner into scuttling the deal, Ball said that obstructionist posture doesn't reflect the group's rank and file, and noted that even Tea Partiers don't give high approval ratings to the House Republicans.

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