used to be said the only sure way to lose in politics was to get caught in bed with a dead woman or a live man. not so sure even they apply now days...
Posted on 09/29/2006 3:33:13 PM PDT by SmithL
ov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Thursday to end the so-called dance of the lemons in which unsuccessful teachers move from one low-performing school to another and principals are powerless to stop it.
...Those bills were two of more than 100 pieces of legislation that Schwarzenegger acted on Thursday. The governor still has 503 bills that he needs to sign or veto before the Saturday midnight deadline.
SB1655 authored by Sen. Jack Scott, D-Altadena, will give school principals the flexibility to reject a voluntary transfer of a teacher and change hiring deadlines so that promising new teachers can be hired earlier.
Currently, principals must give teachers seeking a transfer first priority for any open positions, even if they are not performing well.
"Right now we have what we call the dance of the lemons," Schwarzenegger said at a bill signing ceremony at a Pasadena high school. "Teachers who are failing our students, or getting into trouble in one school, can voluntarily move to another school, and there the school principal has to accept them, even knowing that they're not good teachers."
The bill gives principals power to "say no to those teachers and only hire the best candidates," the Republican governor said.
SB1655 was opposed by the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers, two traditional Democratic allies.
Sandra Jackson, a spokeswoman for the California Teachers Association, said the bill "wrongly identifies teachers as the reason" the schools are failing.
"I don't think it is going to do anything to help students in those districts," she said. "It's the wrong answer to a complex problem."
Another Scott bill signed by Schwarzenegger, SB1209, is aimed at overcoming the challenge of losing 100,000 California teachers to retirement over the next decade.
Specifically, the bill makes it easier for out-of-state teachers...
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Maybe the kids are idiots... maybe the parents aren't committed to their child's education...
Even the best teacher in the world can't help the unmotivated.
Well, one lemon that was found in my school was fired for being found lying on a table with a young, male student.
There are only really two things that will get you into trouble in teaching: Finance and Romance.
The NEA would say that the problem is that it needs more money.
There is a fundamental problem with the concept of GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE UNIONS.
Unions are supposedly to represent the employees from an abusive and tyrannical employer. In the case of government employees, WE are the employer.
Even worse, the concept that these unions are allowed to contribute to the election of people who will subsequently vote on their pay levels, funding, retirement systems, etc.
The reasons our schools suck is simple;
Teachers Unions
+ Government Bureaucracy
-- - -- - - - --
= Total Failure
No, there are some REALLY bad teachers out there.
I have family and friends who work in California public schools. One is a librarian. She worked with one PE teacher who was so lazy that he would try to send his so called PE class to the library almost EVERY DAY so she would have to supervise them. He eventually ended up as part of a transfer deal in the District that is exactly like the one described. He had tenure, and basically got paid by the taxpayers for doing nothing.
I don't believe in tenure, and I come from a family of teachers.
Absolutely. There are also parents out there who figure that their kid will learn what they need to know in school alone.
A woman I know, we'll call her Linda Z., looked shocked that my (now ex)wife and I got her son a book. "He doesn't know how to read," she said. We told her that she could read to him and that he could learn that way. Her response was, "he'll learn all that in school."
There are tons of moronic parents out there.
Factually correct but provides little indication of how this would be accomplished.
The bill's language reveals these remedies include lowering standards and accepting foreign credentials as long as the candidate is certificated in teaching English language learners. Three guesses as to where these out-of-state teachers currently call home.
Every time the page is turned and light shines upon the subject, this idiot Schwarzenegger has approved an expedient remedy that creates a leveling downward of educational standards at no savings to the taxpayer. Every time.
Sad, but accurate.
I volunteer at my children's school. You can tell at a very early age which kids have idiot parents.
It ticks me off, because I hate to see five year olds already behind the power curve.
used to be said the only sure way to lose in politics was to get caught in bed with a dead woman or a live man. not so sure even they apply now days...
"Maybe the kids are idiots... maybe the parents aren't committed to their child's education... "
??? So these teacher keeping bouncing from school to school, and only find the bad ones ?
Not likely ...
"....and accepting foreign credentials as long as the candidate is certificated in teaching English language learners. "
Uh ... this IS a good thing - It won't help these kids if we don't have enough teachers, which means there is no chance of us getting rid of the bad ones.
Still think he "MUST be defeated" with Angeledies as the only candidate who could possibly beat him ?
Hum? Sounds familiar.
Invite Mexico's poor to come and stay, on our dime, and import their old teachers under H-1B visas, again, on our dime. All in opposition to the proven theory of language immersion.
Yep, right out of a familiar play book.
Still think he "MUST be defeated"
Schwarzenegger is a cancer metastasizing in the CaGOP. Only two classes of people will vote for Scvhwarzenegger in November. The liberal and the gullible.
Both Schwarzenegger and Angelides need to be separated from the public trust and governance authority.
http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/press-release/4211
09/29/2006 GAAS:715:06 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the signing of AB 2283 by Assemblymember Jenny Oropeza (D-Long Beach), requiring the Medical Board of California (MBC) to publish annual data on physicians' foreign language fluency, as well as race and ethnic backgrounds, by zip code.
"AB 2283 is the type of practical policy that is needed in order to begin comprehensive and future planning for the state," said Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. "I am proud to sign this bill that builds on efforts to ensure Californians, particularly non-English speakers, have access to physicians with whom they may share a culturally affinity or that are fluent in their language of choice."
AB 2283 addresses the increasingly diverse population of California that may be looking for specific data regarding healthcare practitioners. Specifically, this bill:
(snip)
http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/press-release/4192
09/29/2006 GAAS:714:06 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Legislative Update
Bills signed:
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AB 680 by Assemblymember Wilma Chan (D-Alameda) - English language learners.
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From the bill (legislative counsel digest):
AB 680, Chan English language learners. Existing law provides that, when 15% or more of the pupils enrolled in a public school speak a single primary language other than English, all notices, reports, statements, or records sent to the parent or guardian of any such pupil by the school or school district shall, in addition to English, be written in the primary language, and may be responded to either in English or the primary language. This bill would require the State Department of Education to monitor adherence to that requirement as part of its regular monitoring and review of public schools and school districts, to make certain related determinations, and to notify school districts of certain related information by August 1 of each year. The bill would require the department to make that notification using electronic methods. The bill would require the department to use existing resources to comply with those provisions.
Three syllables?
Oaxaca? Jalisco? Nayarit?
Oaxaca? Jalisco? Nayarit?
Not Canada?
I didn't think of that. Were you initially inferring Mexico and Canada?
¡No!
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