Posted on 03/06/2015 11:41:48 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"....[Scott Walker] has proposed eliminating the long-standing racial integration program, a move that could redirect $60 million in school funding and have a cultural and financial impact on Milwaukee, nearby suburban school systems and districts like Racine, Madison and Wausau.
The proposal has districts analyzing the complicated structure of school funding to try to get their arms around the potential impact of ending Chapter 220.
"It's hard to speculate," said Bob Lang, director of the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau, which has yet to complete its own analysis of the legislation.
The governor's proposal calls for phasing out the Chapter 220 program to reflect declining participation by school districts and pupils, according to Walker spokeswoman Laurel Patrick......
Under the governor's plan, integration aid would be phased out with each graduating class of 220 students and be shifted into a main pot of money for state school funding. That money gets distributed through a complicated equalization aid formula that funnels less aid to property rich districts and more to poor districts...."
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That's basically what you had here; parents wanting their children to leave failing districts and attend schools in more successful districts. But school choice is meaningless if you don't have a way to get to the school.
The more and more I see what Governor Walker is doing for Wisconsin the more and more I like him for President.
Maybe they could do something more useful with all that money.
Like many government programs busing had unintended negative consequence which were completely ignored:
1) In many areas small elementary children were put on busses as early as 7:00 am, and spend up to an hour traveling to school, in order to ride the bus across town. The children arrived at school tired and unable to learn.
2) Fights, shakedowns and other forms of bullying were frequent occurrences on many buses. Authorities ignored the dangers and would not punish the perpetrators, even when parents complained. Even the adult bus drivers feared the predators.
3) The environmentalist liberals completely ignored the fact that billions of gallons of fossil fuels were being wastefully burned in a government mandated activity that did nothing to improve the education of the children it was supposedly benefiting. No worry at all about carbon emissions and the impact on climate change from this activity.
4) Not only did the educational performance of minority children not improve, the performance of good schools declined. Many parents, fed up with dumbing down of the curriculum, behavioral problems, and violence authorities could not stop removed their children from the unsafe environment and at great financial sacrifice moved their children to private school or home schooled.
Having lived through the era of busing in the south, I observed first hand the deterioration of public education resulting from busing. After five years of trying to educate my child in the public schools I realized the situation was hopeless and paid for private schooling. Her classmates at the private school included the children of some of the most left wing community leaders who did not practice what they preached.
It is interesting that over time liberals have quietly, not publicly, recognized busing failed at its objectives and caused students to suffer. As school systems have slowly abandoned busing, there have been few demands from progressives for its continuation and even fewer lawsuits to compel local systems to continue the practice.
Likely a few liberal cranks in the press will moan about Walker ending busing. However, most liberal taxpayers will stay silent, recognizing it is good policy.
Yes Scott is retro, a reminder of an America that is quickly receding. A Boy Scout amongst vengeful craven shadow people. But worst of all...oh the shame of it all...he is white he is male he is Christian he is heterosexual, and he just doesn't seem to understand, it’ his turn to sit in the back of the bus.
May God Bless and Protect him and his family.
It’s safe to say that CA will not be a “winner” with it’s disastrous rail project.
Let’s see how it turns out by 2020.
But CA taxpayers will foot it.
Everywhere marta goes has turned to complete sh!t.Lenox square used to be a really high end place to shop and eat.Right after the line put in a stop at the mall it started to go down hill because the southside hoodrats could now travel easily to lenox.People stopped going because of the crime.
Everywhere marta goes has turned to complete sh!t.Lenox square used to be a really high end place to shop and eat.Right after the line put in a stop at the mall it started to go down hill because the southside hoodrats could now travel easily to lenox.People stopped going because of the crime.
My bet is that is you look under the bussing portion of Wisconsin’s school funding formula, you will find all sorts of shenanigans. In Kansas, a conservative looked into something similar and found $1 billion in hidden money across the state school systems. Kansas has a 17-part (each with its own subparts) formula, hardly any comprehensible. The only person who understood it (until Brownback got involved) was a government KNEA stooge who is now way, way past retirement age. Things are changing here, I am so happy to report. And the best the Democrats can come up with is “Children are starving!”
Governors seem to be our only hope.
Florida dumped high speed rail too... massive up keep and cost and no proven ridership.
Reminds me of big city buses lumbering around town with two passengers. It would be cheaper to send a limo to the homes of the few riders... or buy them a car. Public transportation is another liberal idea without merit.
Walker was right to turn down the boondoggle.
http://able2know.org/topic/249740-1
Yep....I remember parking lot crimes by urban warriors who then ran to jump on Marta to escape.
If you live on or anywhere within walking distance of Marta rail or bus lines, extension bus lines into outer counties, or even just of interstates your lives are in danger when that 5-10 supply back up to the city fails.
The true Zombies.
They don't all automatically get the funding they seek (I remember hearing one disappointed prof. whine about not getting the funding for one her projects), but it's not for lack of trying. Multiply that by every fund-seeking prof in the UW system, and that's quite a bit of cheese the mice are after.
It is the structure and progressive theory of government that must be dismantled to ensure current abuses do not recur or merely get repurposed when the other side uses them.
Walker’s plan to reform school funding.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Black parents and white parents don’t like bussing... it’s a white liberal elite idea that’s served it’s time... Walker should end it.
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