we always here about this but many people I know with teaching degrees can not find full time jobs!.....
does anyone know just how much the average California teacher makes ?...and what the average pension/yr is?......that kind of info seems never to be talked about....
What moronic crud... A radio station said that as many as 4 thousand administrators were getting pink slips. It begs the question - why do we have 4 thousand administrators in the first place? Stop blowing money. The biggest waste of money in the state is making every campus ADA compatible. It dwarfs the billions we spend educating illegals.
Can’t say ‘mom’ and ‘dad’ in schools there now. When the Christian homeschoolers and such yank their kids out of the schools, I will like to see what that exodus does to their godless, atheistic, pro-gay, pro-abort school system. Hope it totally tanks. It will help out the other 49 states’ school systems, textbook-wise.
“When boom times came – 1999 taxes on capital gains brought $24 billion to the state treasury – schools spent the windfall immediately to make up for past debt, without saving for rainy days to come.”
I’m not sure I agree with the premise of this sentence. Schools are allocated money by local or state governments for the purpose of paying its bills that year.
It’s not a school district’s job to put some of its money into securities, it’s not a self-contained, self-capitalized business; it’s a government service. It’s the gov’t’s job to make sure it has capital available for all its projects. Not to say there hasn’t been waste, but the job of any government agency is to spend its budget. They were given the money to spend by the powers that be.
More fake reporting....no one has received a pink slip yet....and spending isnt being cut...future increases are being cut.
And they want me to stop homeschooling my kids so they can attend schools like these? They're crazy! Over half the schools in my city are failing schools - they look slightly better than a crack house and the kids they're turning out need to take their shoes off to count to twenty. I'd rather up and move out of this state than have my child put one toe into these schools.
The teachers’ union has a death grip on California.
It looks like we’ll finally be out of the public school system next year. My son just got into a private high school, and my girls are already in private school.
I’d just like my tax dollars back.
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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.
School them at home.
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!
That tends to happen when such a huge percent of the student population isn’t legal.
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.
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?