Posted on 05/15/2012 6:52:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The LAUSD Superintendent is calling on Calif. voters to approve new taxes on the November ballot to safeguard education spending. How do you plan to vote? Yes
No
Don't know
Vote
73.53% say no. :)
How about HELL NO.
The public schools are no longer about educating our children. They’re about fancy building projects, union jobs and pensions.
Thanks BenLurkin.
Just one of the reasons I left CA.
Government orgs campaigning and lobbying should be illegal.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha HELLLLLLL NO!!
exactly and don’t forget the mass commie, athiest, just plain ole’ be as nasty as one can brainwashing.
Yeh and the way MoonBeam is framing the tax increase vote. Class warfare taxing ‘the rich’ and oh by the way you avg joe citizens with get hit with a sales tax increase too.
They never learn that tax addition eventually winds up as revenue subtraction. Nothing new under the Kalifornicating sun.
Take this tax and shove it. The latest OWS bumper sticker in CA: “Repeal Prop 13.” Get a rope.
Yes 13.84% (44 votes)
No 78.93% (251 votes)
Don’t know 7.23% (23 votes)
Total Votes: 318
NO
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2010/08/20/lausd-spends-30k-per-student/
By JOHN SEILER / Aug 2010
The research by Adam Schaeffer of the Cato Institute’s Center for Education Freedom seemed shocking: The Los Angeles Unified School District spent $29,780 per student in fiscal year 2007-08. That’s way above the $10,000 as advertised by the school district, and as used in most studies.
The $29,780 per student figure means a class of 25 students would spend $744,500 a year
Comedy if it were not true
Basically, what Schaeffer found was that the LAUSD doesn’t count capital spending,
Why isn’t this money accounted for in the usual per-pupil tallies? “They act as if its ‘bond revenue. Oh, it’s not tax money’,”
LAUSD responds
Spokesperson Lydia Ramos replied. “Most school districts don’t count capital funding” in budget reports. “We obviously are doing our best to pass every dollar down to the classroom.”
I pointed out that, when I buy something at Walmart, the price includes the costs of capital spending for buildings.
“That’s not how we view our work,” she replied. And she said of the money sent for capital construction from Sacramento, “That’s really a state decision.
I brought up Schaeffer’s number of $29,780 per student and asked if that was correct. “You’re using a methodology that only you are using,” Ramos replied. “No, that’s not accurate. That’s not what we’re doing. I’m going to have to let you go. This is an issue to take up with the state, or your local district, to see what they are doing.” [This is the first time in my 35 years of journalism that an official spokesperson has hung up on me.]
Because LAUSD gets both state and federal tax dollars, its spending is of interest to those outside the district’s boundaries.
They just keep coming back for more. They just don’t know when to stop do they.
Heh, heh...
HECK NO.
YES, school vouchers!
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