Baltimore’s public schools

wordpress ^ | May 9, 2015 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

[Thom Pain]

Some years ago there was some testing done in DC and

wait for it......

..... the 8th graders out-scored the TEACHERS!!!

[Liz]

....lying liberals refuses to admit how much taxpayer dollars Baltimore schools are actually spending........

High time to unleash RICO on Baltimore pols and school officials....twenty-seven ATLANTA educators get nailed under RICO. Here's how.

Rhonda Cook one of the ace AJC reporters who bird-dogged the Atlanta story reported: The 1980 Georgia General Assembly was concerned about “the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements,” so it adopted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), patterned after a similar federal law.

NOTE RICO is often used to try to prove that a legal business was being used for illegal means, and, in the beginning, was used to prosecute drug traffickers or organized crime members. But in recent years prosecutors have applied RICO to government officials accused of using their offices for personal gain---such as -the various former and current Atlanta public school officials.

TAXPAYER ALERT To bring a case under Georgia’s RICO law, there must be at least two underlying felonies — such as fraud, bribery, witness tampering (among others). RICO allows prosecutors to include multiple defendants charged with various crimes in the self-same indictment, and to charge that they were allegedly part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.

Anybody can bring a RICO....taxpayers are prime litigants since there are reams of evidence....pols telling taxpayers that throwing money at this or that program will fix the problem.

[Jim from C-Town]

It means that more than 60% of the Baltimore teachers live outside the city limits in predominantly white and middle class school districts.

[Liz]

Investors in Baltimore/Maryland education bond issues also have legal standing to bring a RICO lawsuit.....b/c they were clearly misled about the use of education bond proceeds.

Also culpapble under RICO:

<><> Wall Street financiers (Goldman Sachs?) that issued bonds to fund these programs.

<><> banks holding education bond proceeds.

<><> school supply vendors that received payment from education bond issues.

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The FBI, SEC and IRS would be interested in uses of tax-exempt bond issues:

EMAIL: enforcement@SEC.gov

EMAIL: FBI TIPS PAGE---https://tips.fbi.gov

[umgud]

We should quit rebuilding Afgan and Baltimore schools.

If we stopped all funding of public schools, then kids who want to learn will find a way to learn (w/parental help).

If we increased public school funding, the kids who don’t want to learn, still won’t.

[EDINVA]

All the money in the world cannot offset dysfunctional families and communities. Those kids, or most of them, are doomed pretty much from birth.

[KarlInOhio]

Baltimore’s public schools spent $17,329 per student.

That's $433,225 for a classroom of 25 students. Let's say the teacher makes $100k gross including medical+SS+retirement. Mark that up 25% to allow teachers to have work periods and for substitutes. So we're at $125k.

Add on a classroom at about 600 square feet. Now double that to handle common areas. Around here office space is about $12/sq. ft./year, so that's $14,400 for the space. So the total is $139,400.

Textbooks last a few years so I'll add on two new textbooks per student at $100 each. $144,400 total.

Let's say each kid gets a ream of paper copied per year. At $0.10 per page (probably overstated) that's $1250 more. $145,650.

Where does the rest of the money go to jump from $145,650 to $433,225? Transportation will cost some. Administrators will cost some, but even if you figure one administrator for every two teachers that is still under $200k. Is it spent on repairs to the school because the kids break everything? Special education? Did I greatly underestimate some price?

[ilovesarah2012]

You can lead a horse to water...

[grundle]

OK. That sounds like a good explanation.

[newfreep]

Not surprisingly, entrants to “Education Major” programs score in the bottom 25-percentile of all SAT testers.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Your math works perfectly to illuminate the problem. Don’t worry Common Core will fix that. In the new math the problem is, not enough money.

[silverleaf]

This

Or they have no children because working with ferals tends to repress maternal and paternal instincts

[driftless2]

"doomed...from birth"

The unvarnished, sad truth that not only most libs but many conservatives fail to recognize.

[driftless2]

Read Robert Weissberg's "Bad Students, Not Bad Schools." Weissberg's conclusion is that bad students make bad schools. Sending rotten students to private schools won't improve things a bit. The best thing that can be done is to remove all violent thugs from schools at an early age. Separate them from the kids who might benefit.

Now what to do with the very large population of the low IQ thugs who can't learn? Good question. But letting them disrupt classes and physically threaten students and teachers alike will only continue the problem. Send the little miscreants to their own schools where they can't hurt others. Give them weapons where they can assault and kill themselves to their heart's content.

[conservativejoy]

Freddie Gray is a case in point. His mother is a heron addict who has never held down a job. Gray never had a job either. Tribal mentality still rules, because the family has been destroyed by liberal social programs.

[GreyFriar]

Obviously the difference between “$145,650 to $433,225” goes to providing Michelle approved free breakfast and lunches to all the students.

[BobL]

I’ve done that math before too - the money is clearly being STOLEN. It’s a shame that ‘civil rights’ protocols prevent anyone from being held accountable.