[Gordongekko909]

"All the superintendents would have to give up their jobs. All the school board members would have to give up their jobs, and that's not going to happen," Johnson said after a wreath-laying ceremony at Kelly Ingram Park. "There would be blood on the sidewalks."

Those teacher's union votes are more important than providing quality education, I see.

And of course, more race-hate from lefties on Doctor King's holiday.

[aviator]

School vouchers!

[dsc]

"Those teacher's union votes are more important than providing quality education, I see."

I almost think we need a Constitutional Amendment specifying the personnel that a public school may hire.

One principal, one vice principal, one nurse, X teachers per student, X lunch ladies per student, X janitors per specified unit of floor area, and no one else, ever. School boards shall be unpaid. The duties of the superintendant shall be restricted to ensuring that students' test scores meet criteria, or, if they don't, that failing teachers and/or principals are fired and replaced.

Throwing money at the mess we have now isn't going to help a thing.

[daviddennis]

Disregarding the voucher question, which I wholeheartedly support, I have a big problem with this article.

What's behind the theory that a unified school district would do any better?

The Los Angeles Unified School district is just plain awful, and there is not even the pretense of local control. Everything comes from the center, and they have made some incredibly bad decisions, including blowing over $100 million on a brand new, state of the art school built on top of major methane deposits. Many think this building is too dangerous to use as a school, and last time I looked, it was still rotting.

Is that what we want?

D