Odds and Ends

Saturday was the Junior League's annual Easter Egg Hunt.  I made these for the bake-sale to help fund our scholarships; adorable right?  Ever since I found the Sally's Baking Addiction site I have been adding sprinkles to everything.  Sally is kind of evil and needs help and if you don't want to take my word for it check out her recipe for Oreo Cookie cake.  It is like 4,000 calories just to look at, but possibly the most insanely good dessert you will ever eat.  Damned you Sally for being so darn good!

A deal has been struck on the budget.  It mostly maintains the horrifying testing regime, scraps the expansion of charter schools, but adds more money than Cuomo had initially proposed (not incidentally the $2.1 billion needed to guarantee every student a sound basic education).   Sadly the draconian educational policies that Cuomo was hoping for have not yet been tossed to the scrap heap because NYC's school system will need re-authorization which provides another opportunity to hold the legislative system hostage to pay back the big donors to his campaign.

NYSUT has come around and joined the opt-out testing movement.  While some might argue they are coming late to the game, I say  "Welcome!"

The Telegraph reports that scientists can now explain why "hipsters grow beards."  I can only hope that scientists get to work immediately on why hipsters drink expensive fancy bottles of water and $5 a cup coffee.