California's fiscal crisis hits schools

CSM on yahoo ^ | 3/21/08 | Daniel B. Wood

[Lancey Howard]

Okay. I found the figures.

2008 - 2009
K - 12: $48,345,000,000
Higher Educ.: $15,111,000,000

2007 - 2008
K- 12: $45,425,000,000
Higher Educ.: $14,979,000,000

So, THERE ARE NO CUTS. These are INCREASES.

Surprise, surprise. They’re all lying, aided and abetted by “reporters” like Daniel B. Wood.
What a disgrace....

[upchuck]

If more Californians would do what’s right and yank their kids out of the Imperial Federal Indoctrination Centers (sometimes called schools) and homeschool them, more Indoctrination Center drones (sometimes called teachers) could be fired, thus reducing the need for funds.

[RoadTest]

School them at home.

[wintertime]

the thousands of teacher layoffs, the projected loss of librarians, nurses, counselors, and arts personnel; and the need to close schools, increase class sizes, and postpone buying new books.
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Gee! I notice that administrators are **not** listed. Imagine that!

[wintertime]

Congratulations to you and your son!

[wintertime]

Uh oh! Some government school defender is sure to feel **personally** insulted! :-)

[mtbopfuyn]

That tends to happen when such a huge percent of the student population isn’t legal.

[Haddit]

This is from Senator Dave Cogdill
http://republican.sen.ca.gov/opeds/14/oped4362.asp

Fact: Expenditures have increased by $25 billion since 2003. This raises the question, “What do we have in the way of positive results to show for it?”

Fact: Throwing more money at a failing school system does not improve education. K-12 education is arguably the most contentious issue during budget negotiations. Certainly, we all want our schools to be well funded and provide safe environments that are conducive to learning. Republicans want California’s children to succeed just as much as Democrats do. Where we part ways is in accepting the fallacy that pumping more money into the education budget will necessarily result in better schools.

Fact: Education and per-pupil spending are continually rising. Since 2003, K-12 spending increased by $7 billion. Accordingly, per-pupil spending rose significantly from $8,960 in 2002-03 to $10,612 by 2005-06, according to the National Education Association. According to California’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, this places California right in the middle of the pack (25th) nationwide. Moreover, according to the National Education Association, California’s teachers are the highest paid nationwide.

Fact: California’s schools are failing California’s children. The outcome has been underwhelming to say the least. The most recent national assessment of educational progress ranks California’s fourth-graders 47th in the nation in math – down from 45th in 2003 – and 48th in reading – down from 47th in 2003. Similarly, the state’s eighth-graders fell from 44th to 45th in math.

Fact: California’s kids are giving up on California’s schools. Consider California’s shamefully high dropout rate. A report issued by the California Dropout Research Project observes that only two-thirds of California high school students graduate on time. Fully 170,000 of the more than 520,000 children who entered the ninth grade in 2002 dropped out or otherwise failed to graduate with the class of 2006. All the while, enrollment – the actual number of children requiring a public education – has decreased by 74,000 students over the past five years. In short, we’re spending more dollars on fewer kids and achieving less.

[wintertime]

the actual number of children requiring a public education – has decreased by 74,000 students over the past five years.
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California has lost 74,000 children? Where did they go?

Also, while school enrollment was decreasing was illegal immigrant enrollment increasing? If so, this would make the actual decrease ( minus 74,000) actually **worse** than it appears.

I hope this foreshadows the ultimate implosion of the government indoctrination centers ( misnamed “schools”) in California.

[Lancey Howard]

the actual number of children requiring a public education – has decreased by 74,000 students over the past five years.

...While the total expediture has gone gone up up UP.
That state's education mafia is clearly a pisspot of corruption.

[BurbankKarl]

There should be cuts, because kids are moving out of state.

So, you have less kids....and a demand for the proposed budget passed in better times

[John Jorsett]

Even so, some damage has already been done. California will need thousands of teachers in the next decade. Says David Sanchez, president of the CTA: "Why would any good teacher want to come here if they have to wonder what each year's budget is going to bring?"

And why would any business want to locate here when they're going to get shaken down by the legislative thralls to the teacher's union?

[rolling_stone]

Time for the Attorney General of California and other states to revisit Plyler v. Doe which is breaking our states public education system at the benefit of illegals and to the detriment of American Citizens and legal immigrant children. come on terminator get some huevos and tell him to do it.

http://www.tourolaw.edu/patch/Plyler/