Posted on 02/17/2011 8:55:46 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Protesters unhappy about proposed budget cuts march at the State Capitol building on Wednesday in Madison, Wisconsin.
(CNN) -- This week's growing controversy about funding public education in Wisconsin is hardly an isolated incident, as 40 states are coping with budget shortfalls totaling $140 billion, which will threaten America's 14,000 school districts for the next five years, one analyst said Thursday.
Concerns about funding kindergarten through 12th-grade systems were evident this week in Denver when big education's stakeholders -- the nation's two largest teachers unions, a superintendents group, a school boards group and federal education officials -- met to discuss labor-management cooperation, one participant said.
The summit was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
"What is becoming very clear is that state legislatures and governors are struggling with huge budget shortfalls," said Anne Bryant, executive director of the National School Boards Association, who attended the gathering.
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Mark Steyn made a comment last week on Rush that really struck me, he said that the Greatest Generation had an average education of eight grade and did the most for this country. What does that say about today?
I know in my county 80% of the budget goes to schools.
I lived in a time when we all learned reading, writing, and arithmetic, as well we learned about the history, the correct history of our nation, and we learned enough about our Constitution, and the reasoning behind it to understand, and know why our country was so great. Education back then instilled pride.
During the time I was in school the Long Beach, California Unified School District was rated #1 in the Nation.
The Left is a minority of self centered, power hungry elitists void of the ability to comprehend self government yet they have managed to dissassemble over many years that which we all had so much pride.
We must dissassemble the Leftist’ power, and soon.
” by walking out on them. “
For the third day in a row now
BINGO! You win the money quote of the day! Just wait until the TAXPAYERS show up and protest. NO MORE PORK FOR THESE SOWS!
You’re 100% correct.
That’s too much!
Asking teachers to contribute a few percent more to their own retirement and medical insurance is a “crisis”??
eh?
Look at the picture if you see the teachers in red with Wisconsin embazoned on it they are a UW Madison graduate. The issue is that the teachers are too stupid to realize that they will get to keep the 1100.00 dollars that pay for union dues. 12.6% for health and 5.8% for their pensions. Gee the 1100.00 savings from the union dues will pay for the health insurance plan and their pension amount with some change so they can make a monthly payment on a Ford Focus or Ford Fusion Hybrid.
It's sometimes fun watching the self-absorbed (admittedly from a safe distance.) Irony seems to be beyond them.
To shift to serious: how long before SEIUesque teachers start flunking kids that show non-liberal thoughts in school? Those people strike me as aggressive enough to do it, and they've got the kids under their thumb while class is in session.
This is the list of school districts that are closed again today:
http://www.wkow.com/Global/category.asp?C=135641&nav=menu1362_3_1
This was the flyer protesters were given at the Capitol building regarding clearing the building: (don’t resisist - ‘go limp’/disorderly conduct arrest procedures)
http://wispolitics.com/1006/110217_Flyer.pdf
Where's she been for the last 2 years?
So....they're urging me to care about educators AS IF they cared about my child?
Or, is it care about educators in the same way, by abandoning their education?
Or...is it care by teaching them to lie and that the end justify the means (very Islamic of them, don'cha think?)?
Or...is it care by holding their education hostage until *I* get what *I* want?
Or...is it care by using them as a prop to further my own self-absorption?
"Like" is such an ambiguous word. Leave it to a union teacher to have such difficulty with word choice.
There are real dangers in this growing - in light of what has happened elsewhere.
Unions will stop at no cost to see that they don’t go the way of the dinosaur.
This could become something big
You can’t have it both ways - bankrupt states = big unions.
Trouble ahead
There are real dangers in this growing - in light of what has happened elsewhere.
Unions will stop at no cost to see that they don’t go the way of the dinosaur.
This could become something big
You can’t have it both ways - bankrupt states = big unions.
Trouble ahead
You do have to count special education costs in those for public schools, and private schools do not typically have those. If they do, then the cost can easily go up to 30-40K per year.
I would like to see special education funding pulled out of the accounting for public schools. It would be interesting to see how they compare.
Of course, my daughter got “special ed services” when she was in public school. However, it wasn’t much, and it wasn’t enough to help her. In elementary we paid about $5000 per year for private sceech which was 1 hour for individual therapy each week, $8000 for a private school, and $1500 for a reading program at the school. It was multi-sensory reading program for dsylexia which met daily for 2 hours with 2 other kids. The public school only provided the regular classroom and 40 minutes of group therapy. They would not provide a reading program.
It would have been cheaper for the public school to put my daughter in private school with the reading program and 1 on 1 speech. Also, some of the speech therapy was covered by our insurance. The public schools could easily contract our speech therapy to private therapist who come into the schools, and then they could only cover the portion that insurance doesn’t cover.
When my kids were in public school, they were lucky to have lovely teachers who did care for them. My son had some in middle school that were not great.
I really don’t have a problem with the teachers. However, it’s the bloated administrative costs that are unbelieveable. Have you seen the salaries of the Wisconsin school district administrators? So many of them get over $100K. First there are way too many administrators, and then they are overpaid.
And by setting a good example to kids by lying and calling in sick when you’re really not.
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