[SkyDancer]

Meaning that taxes will go through the roof.

[tomkat]

Clovis Gallon, one of York’s teachers, told a local Fox News broadcast that he couldn’t trust anybody “in it to make money” to run the city’s education system.

             

[O6ret]

I’ve been a York resident for 20+ years and in that time have had several “dialogs” with 1) the School Board over out-of-control education costs and 2) the superintendent who is unwilling to demand needed changes. As the cost per student increases year over year and student achievement steadily declines no one has been held accountable. The union and teachers always ask for more and wash their hands of any responsibility for the failure to meet educational expectations. Give the Charter Schools a 5-year contract with clearly defined goals. If they fail, they’re out. If they meet it, they get another 5 years.

[a fool in paradise]

If they really want to make money, they should charge a fee like when you go to the movies, only do it when they leave every day!

No pay, no leave!

[Intolerant in NJ]

York, Penn., desperate to turn around major holes in its budget and major shortfalls in academic achievement...but isn't York the hometown of Mr. Wolf, who's about to be elected governor of Pennsylvania on a platform of claims that the current Republican governor didn't spend enough on education - you'd think a rich 'rat who spent millions on campaign ads over the last year to tear down his opponent could have poured at least a bit of extra funding into his local schools to help reduce "major holes in its budget and major shortfalls in academic achievement"......

[Herakles]

I can tell you personally from having lived the majority of my life in Pennsylvania that the one worst thing that happened to education was unions.

And with the leftist running Penn State, it is in the toilet too.

[Fresh Wind]

Uh, oh, author dropped the “D” word (”draconian”).

[Buckeye McFrog]

Will never happen.

The teachers unions have squashed far smaller school privatization projects in the past.

They are about to send Tom Corbett to the showers, and will no doubt be quite full of themselves after that happens.