CA: Massive school overhaul is proposed

Sac Bee ^ | 12/4/02 | Jim Sanders

[NormsRevenge]

After spending billions of dollars to improve student performance, California legislators Tuesday launched a drive to overhaul the educational system itself -- starting from the top.

Lawmakers unveiled SB 6 to shift management of public schools from the state's newly elected superintendent of public instruction, Jack O'Connell, to Gov. Gray Davis' appointed secretary of education, Kerry Mazzoni.

[NormsRevenge]

The legislation stems from a newly released California Master Plan for Education, designed as a 20-year blueprint for the state's school system that was crafted by a committee of 18 lawmakers with assistance from hundreds of education officials.

Designed by socialists for socialists, no doubt.

[NormsRevenge]

Ping

[BreitbartSentMe]

* Target the state's lowest-performing schools first in creating universal preschool programs. Private providers potentially could receive state funding if they met quality standards

What's that quote about having to remove children from the corrupting influence of their parents in order to fully indoctrinate them into Nazi-ism???

[Tired of Taxes]

Very frightening.

[Drango]

??? HUH ???

Nothing about getting rid of the shackles of the teacher's union. Promoting on merit and the ablity to fire sub-par teachers would make dramatic changes in the classroom. That change is essentially cost free!

[NormsRevenge]

Very frightening. ... Yes, It IS!!!

Did you know your kids don;t belong to you? They belong to the state. So, don;t get too excited here, parents. They are just doing it "for the children", after all.

[NormsRevenge]

The most controversial proposal is the transfer of school management powers from the superintendent of public instruction to the governor's office, though many education officials concede the current system is fundamentally flawed.

State law severely limits what changes O'Connell can make in the state's public school system serving 6 million students.

O'Connell, elected in November, cannot set education policies -- he can only implement policies adopted by the state Board of Education or laws passed by the Legislature.

Does this look like more bureaucracy, rather than less bureaucracy to you?

[NormsRevenge]

Much less, do you want Davi$ or those of his ilk having more power over your kids?

[BenLurkin]

A modest three step proposal to reform public eduction in California:
1) Remove control of K-12 from Sacramento and return total control to the local school districts
2)Remove funding from Sacramento and make funding K-12 the sole responsibility of each local school district.
3) Remove ALL Federal funds, control, guidance or influence from local schools K-12.

[ex-Texan]

The California educational system is a hug mess. It has been a huge mess for years. It was pretty bad when I was in high school in the 1960's, at was hopelessly in need of repair in the 1980's. When my son first enrolled in elementary school in Sacramento in the mid-1970's we noticed that we could not obtain proper attention for our extremely gifted child. We finally gave up and enrolled him in private school.

'Suffer Little Children' describes the problem in California.

In California, the whole system is a mess K through 12. Strangely, the state-wide Junior College and California State College and State University System were really very strong. Everyone knows the major state universities, Cal Berkeley and UCLA, are top notch. My guess is the powers that be decided long ago to put the taxpayers money to better use at the junior college and college levels.

[Desron13]

"Provide grants to create programs for identifying young children's health or social needs before they become barriers to learning."<-i>

Translation:

"We will watch every move parents make at home to insure that none of the socialist bilge we're pumping into the kids at school is affected by parental opinion or discipline."

[RAT Patrol]

They don't need more centralization and so-called "accountability." They need COMPETITION!!!!!

[ladylib]

They don't want competition. They hate homeschooling. They don't want vouchers. Well, guess what? The schools are so lousy and the people who run them so corrupt and incompetent that they'll never get fixed. So many of them will close under the No Child Left Behind Act that there will be relatively few public schools left -- parents will demand private school vouchers and private schools will spring up all over the place.

[KC_for_Freedom]

Wow, good ideas. Can you really do this? California would lead the nation. Good luck.

[ladylib]

California schools need savvy parents who know when their kids are getting screwed over by the CA public school system.

http://www.educationnews.org/NeededInformedVigilantCitizens.htm

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

No recognition by the Democrats that they need to restraint themselves till the budget gets under better control!

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[John Jorsett]

Consolidating the supervisorial power under the governor is another way to make sure the campaign bucks flow ever more strongly in his direction.

[John Jorsett]

• Remove control of K-12 from Sacramento and return total control to the local school districts
• Remove funding from Sacramento and make funding K-12 the sole responsibility of each local school district.
• Remove ALL Federal funds, control, guidance or influence from local schools K-12.

Up until Prop 13, after which the state started stealing the property tax money and dribbling just some of it back to the communities, we had a lot of local control and funding in the schools. It would take a ballot proposition to restore the old balance. One day I hope we see one. And I don't see any hope of getting either voters or legislators to give up the Federal money.

[SCalGal]

I didn't think it was possible to make our schools much worse. I was wrong.