An Education Revolution In Pa?

BillLawrenceOnline.Com ^ | 3-21-11

[Tribune7]

Tea Party activist Bob Guzzardi reports that the Pennsylvania State Senate is preparing to unveil, tomorrow, a revolutionary education reform package that could very well make the recent shrieking in Wisconsin by the special-interest child haters sound like whispers.

Among the reforms that Bob says will be addressed in a series of bills will be:

--Empowering school districts to furlough teachers if the economic conditions should warrant it

-- Allowing districts to suspend non-essential reports to the state Department of Education in years state education funding declines

-- Requiring a two-thirds vote by school boards to raise property taxes

--Allowing districts to hire registered nurses rather than school certified nurses

--Changing public advertising requirements to allow the use of the internet

--Allowing school districts to bid single prime on construction projects. (It has been estimated that this will cut construction costs by 10 percent)

--Allowing districts to hire those who have graduate degrees in business or finance as superintendents ending the incestuous education certification requirement.

--Ending the state mandate for 10 paid sick days and paid sabbatical leave for teachers.

[goldi]

This group of PUBLIC charter schools don’t care if their teachers are accredited by the state either.

http://greatheartsaz.org/

It’s sort of refreshing. Imagine: hiring people who can do the job vs. having to hire union people who may not be up to the job intellectually. Absoluely amazing.

[Niuhuru]

Or a Liberal Arts degree.

[Niuhuru]

“This alone will really put the brakes on these Taj Mahal schools”

Tell me about it; kids seemed ot learn well in small schools.

[PA Engineer]

This alone will really put the brakes on these Taj Mahal schools and the endless spending on special lights on the Field Hockey field and elaborate television production studios when the kids can't even read. I like what the new GOP majority is trying to do here in the PA. Corbett is really doing a nice job to so far. I guess it doesn't take much after the last crook Fast Eddie

Agreed. I will be watching for exploding heads tomorrow.

[PA Engineer]

Wow. You sure found the dark cloud in that silver lining.

[Golden Gate]

Thanks for that info - ~ You can home school in any state, but PA ~ among most restrictive ... ~

[Dr. Sheldon Cooper]

Or a Liberal Arts degree.

Ah yes, the "Seinfeld" degree.

A degree about nothing.