Posted on 06/21/2009 8:18:07 PM PDT by Kartographer
The budget cuts will be especially painful for struggling schools such as Richmond High School, where more than half of its 1,700 students are English learners and three-quarters are considered poor. The East Bay area school has failed to meet academic standards set by the federal No Child Left Behind Act for more than four years.
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Well, there's half the problem right there. Friggin' Bush promised local control of schools in his 2000 acceptance speech but passed this Ted Kennedy-endorsed monstrosity. Feds need to get out of education and parents at the local level need to hold their schools accountable.
When I see you cutting them and seriously, then and only then will I know you mean it.
Gee, I wonder why half of them are English learners,hmmmm, couldn't be they are illegals could it?
Parents at the local level would find it much easier to hold their schools accountable without bussing.
"Diversity" is not a legitimate goal of public education. Especially when it's not even teaching reading, writing and 'rithmatic effectively.
Article blames the education on proposition 13. Yeah right, not enough money because of prop 13, I would think that the high housing values should be able to make up for the fact that property taxes can only be raised so much a year. In fact, if one were to look up the numbers on property tax collection, they’d see it’s increased quite a bit over the years.
Hopefully it’s not like our district which has spent 3.7 million over the last four years building wheelchair accessible playgrounds, $4.8 million reducing the number of available restrooms to make them wheelchair friendly and $7.8 million making grounds improvements. All of this to service two students in wheelchairs out of the 14 school campuses in the district.
We don’t have an income problem, we have a spending problem.
The obvious solution is to lay off white, English-speaking teachers, and to increase staff of Mexican teachers and progressive administrators.
¡No niño dejádo atrás! ¡Sí, se puéde!
You have described the entire problem with gubmint in a nutshell.
The California Goose with the golden eggs rather than be killed by the Sacto legislators just got smart and flew away-—maybe to Texas perhaps but long gone from Ca. by now.
And ...
"California used to lead the nation in education," U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said during a recent visit to San Francisco.
Plain as the nose on everyone's face except for the idiots that run California.
I read the article twice and I still did not find out how many school administrators would be cut. Probably because when governments make cuts, they strive to cut the employees that have the most impact on the public. So they cut teachers, and continue to employ all those who shuffle papers in offices or conduct seminars that no one benefits from.
The goal of government is to grow. When forced to make cuts, a government will do all it can to punish the taxpayers by cutting the services that impact the most taxpayers.
Wheelchair accessible playgrounds are ridiculous. My suburb has 40 neighborhood parks, nice ones. I’ve visted them all multiple times over the past 12 years (I have 3 boys).
I’ve never once seen anyone in a wheelchair on those ramps that go into the tanbark. Hilarious, really. And lots and lots of $$$.
My boys use them to ride their bikes onto the bark. ..
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