Posted on 07/07/2022 9:30:57 PM PDT by willk
Grassroots non-profit Reclaim Idaho delivered around 100,000 signatures to the Idaho Secretary of State's office to get their Quality Education Act on the November ballot.
Individual counties have already verified these signatures, according to Reclaim Idaho Co-Founder Luke Mayville. The Secretary of State's office will review, and confirm, the petition before the Quality Education Act official makes the ballot.
The Quality Education Act aims to collect $323,526,400 annually for Idaho public schools. The initiative would create a new tax bracket for any person earning more than 250-thousand dollars a year, or a married couple earning more than half-a-million dollars.
Each dollar earned above this threshold would be taxed at 10.925%.
"These things need to be funded. Our legislators are not doing what they need to do," Twin Fall second grade teacher Leah Jones said. "This isn't gonna solve all the problems in public schools, but it's a good start because we have been going down since I started."
Leah Jones signed the petition.
She loves her job as a teacher; however, staffing shortages, low wages, and stress to fill in the gaps has overshadowed the classroom moments she cherishes the most.
"I love seeing them grow, I love seeing them learn," Jones said.
However, it's tough to help these kids grow without the necessary resources, according to Jones.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktvb.com ...
“This is what happens when California liberals invade your state. Notice the quote from the National Education Association stating that Idaho is last in educational spending? Just like the media quoting from the Southern Poverty Law Center leftist organization.”
Your statement is exactly correct. Liberal parasites, leave when the host is dying. Parasites actively look for a New Host to infect when the previous host begins to die.
More money always fixes problems in bloated gov bureaucracies. I hate emigrating liberal Californians
And not a word about the quality of the instruction or more importantly, what is being taught.
Many high school seniors do not know what year the War of 1812 was fought nor who fought in it. The youth are nearly 80% dumbed down.
The same libs shoved Obamacare/Medicaid down our throats. The leftist infestation of Idaho is on the march.
A friend of mine took a Law Enforcement exam way back in 1997, in Australia. One of the questions was (as near as I recall) "A man wearing a red shirt crossed the road. What color shirt was the man wearing?"
The examiner assured my friend after the test that that was a legitimate question, and a surprising number of people got it wrong.
“Notice the quote from the National Education Association stating that Idaho is last in educational spending?”
How much money you spendis not how you judge an educational system, it’s how well they do standardized test that counts.
There’s no mention of that in the article.
My 16 yr old grandson and his sisters don’t know how to fill out a check or an envelope.
Republicans are their own worst enemy. They make money and create jobs developing land, building homes, and selling them to the highest bidder.
And then they wonder why all the neighbor kids have shocking green hair and complain when you use the wrong pronouns.
Since when do 16 year olds have a checking account?
I had one when I was 16 because I had an after school job and a paycheck. It really depends on whether a kid has an income.
Although, now days the younger set may just use their debit card rather than write actual checks, probably pay any other bills online.
In Washington state the educational part (to fund teachers, etc.) is paid for by taxes on timber companies and sales of timber on state-owned land. Of course between the owls and what-not that is getting less and less.
The funding for construction and operation of buildings is paid for with property taxes. And of course the new levies are almost always passed because it is “for the children”.
So what we get are fancy schools with lots of open spaces (wasted space) - like 3-story tall open lunch areas. Cooking classes (at least they are still teaching it) but with state-of-the-art ovens and dish washers. Lots of sculptures and art-work (a certain percentage of the total cost has to be spent on art to pay the starving artists).
Anyway - you end up with REALLY nice buildings, but the teachers and the programs are still poorly paid, so you don’t get the best teachers.
Also, my grandson was paid electronicly. He never actually saw or held the money.
He never knew how to see how much he had. Doesn’t know much about “checks”.
I know kids that can’t tell time unless it’s digital.
IMHO that’s much same problem with EBT ‘cards and not fake welfare money they used to have to have in their hands at check out. I predicted that we would lose connection to value of money earned, saved and spent with invention of Debit cards. Balancing your check book was part of managing a budget
The funding for construction and operation of buildings is paid for with property taxes. And of course the new levies are almost always passed because it is “for the children”.
So what we get are fancy schools with lots of open spaces (wasted space) - like 3-story tall open lunch areas. Cooking classes (at least they are still teaching it) but with state-of-the-art ovens and dish washers. Lots of sculptures and art-work (a certain percentage of the total cost has to be spent on art to pay the starving artists).
Anyway - you end up with REALLY nice buildings, but the teachers and the programs are still poorly paid, so you don’t get the best teachers.
AMEN Same thing in my "poorest county in Ohio". They snuck bond issues past the voters in off-year elections, built themselves a palace, and instruction hasn't improved a bit. But we're still paying the bondholders and will be for another hundred years.
They snuck bond issues past the voters in off-year elections
Ours are being snuck into primary elections...We even have a new several hundred million one gracing the runoff election...
That is not something I would expect to be taught in school.
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