[NormsRevenge]

Himelstein is president of San Diegans 4 Great Schools and director of the University of San Diego’s Center for Educational Policy and Law.

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Accountability in Education. wow.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[ex-snook]

There is no incentive for students to do well on a test. It is the teacher that is being evaluated for retention.

[TankerKC]

Step 1: Stop. Educating. Illegals.

[freespirited]

It would make school board members accountable for progress

I am not sure what this means. If it is arbitrarily deciding that the school board is at fault if x percent of kids don't perform at grade level, that might make some people feel good but will do little to address the situation.

A lot of these kids will never perform at "grade level." Rather than try to turn them into future scientists, it would make more sense to develop a curriculum consistent with their abilities.

[MichaelCorleone]

The answer is simple but the politically correct establishment will never admit it.

It begins and ends with caring and involved parents who are willing to administer ‘tough love’ on their kids, including behavior modification.

It’s the family, stupid!

[Polybius]

A reform initiative proposed by San Diegans 4 Great Schools addresses the root causes of these failures: leadership more concerned with protecting the status quo than with the welfare of students and a lack of accountability to parents and taxpayers.

American public school education is a system of the Teacher's Unions, by Teacher's Unions, for Teacher's Unions.

Until you address the root cause of the self-interests of Teacher's Unions, throwing more money at the system is equivalent to flushing money down the toilet.

[Seruzawa]

It’s easier to give them a pill than to educate them.

[DannyTN]

I think we ought to replace the $7 billion head start program that serves 1 million students with an automated program.

Instead send every kid a cheap $100-$200 computer preloaded with age appropriate educational programs that are fun and focus on reading and math and a rather locked down operating system.

Allowing $100 per computer for shipping and handling and administration, the total cost of the program would be $300 million.

A savings of $6.7 billion.

[Le Chien Rouge]

Despite more spending, students are failing but teacher unions are getting LARGER!!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Despite more spending, students are failing

And in other news, despite spending to buy more heroin, junkies don't feel any better. I thought this was a lesson we learned a long, long, long time ago. Apparently not.

[Noumenon]

Here's the acorn that these blind pigs can't seem to find:

Teach crap, get crap

Now that's not hard, is it? Homeschoolers prove it every day and in every way - by being arguably superior.

[sportutegrl]

. . . during a period that saw four superintendents in the past five years.

1. Hire super at X hundred thou per year. (X>1)

2. 'Fire' super for underperformance. Super gets boyout of 5 year contract, retirement, bennies, etc.

3. Rehire new Super and repeat with a higher X value.

Question: Does making employees 'more accountable' do anything other than to speed up this cycle?

[hinckley buzzard]

San Diegans 4 Great Schools...

I think I see one of their problems now...