AdWatch: Simon ad skews Davis' record on education

Sac Bee ^ | 6/21/02

[NormsRevenge]

On Tuesday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon kicked off his television ad campaign for the Nov. 5 election. The 30-second spot -- which criticizes Gov. Gray Davis' education record -- is entirely in Spanish, and will run for two weeks on Univision, Telemundo and Galavision affiliates across the state. Following is a text of the ad and an analysis by Emily Bazar of The Bee Capitol Bureau.

[NormsRevenge]

better than students in Mississippi. Among eighth-graders, Californians performed as well as students in 12 other states and better than students in New Mexico, Louisiana and Mississippi.

MiSSissiPPi Don'T Get No Respect At All

What's that make us:-? 36th? ..Whoopie
DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists



GO SIMON

[Drango]

and better than students in Mississippi

I am soooooooo proud (sniff).

(No offense to Freeper friends in Mississippi.)

[NormsRevenge]

Test ... Test ... Test ... That's how ya edukate yur kids!!! Kidz these dayz got to menny distraktions.

[Fish out of Water]

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[Carry_Okie]

What's that make us:-? 36th? ..Whoopie

Not only that, but 36th in a country that ranks at the bottom of industrialized nations.

[Feiny]

Why don't they break down how much money is spent and compare that to the results? If davis weren't so busy collecting money from the NEA, maybe he could have focused on the sorry state of affairs here in California.

[NormsRevenge]

I wonder if the Greeks and the Romans ever saw it coming?

We ain't diddly in the classrooms these days.

[Carry_Okie]

More than $5 billion per year has been spent on class size reduction hiring additional teachers, the majority of whom were from the bottom of the barrel. The better teachers left bad schools for new openings in good schools. The bad schools got the incompetents that were left.

The poor got screwed by class size reduction. Total spending in California schools (contrary to what the State claims) is now about $9,200 per head. When the State publishes its numbers on per student spending, it does not include Federal or lottery money (among other sources).

[NormsRevenge]

The Best Intentions can shur kick ya in the butt sometimes!

It will be interesting to see if enough California voters showup to Flush Davi$ from office.

[Carry_Okie]

Here is my program for California's school system that I sent to the Simon campaign:

1. Cut off the NEA’s money. Enforce the U.S. Supreme Court decision Communications Workers v. Beck (487 US 735, 1988). Sue the NEA for non-disclosure of political campaign spending (actually Landmark Legal is doing precisely that).
2. Analyze any Federal program for insufficient funds and unintended consequences suspecting un-funded mandates and disband compliance to any Federal program that doesn’t provide a measurable and immediate benefit in test score performance. Cite New York v. United States (505 US 144, 1992).
3. Put parents in control of local school boards by breaking up large unified school districts. Here’s how: First, complete Step 1. Then assist formation of corporate service associations providing legal services and insurance coverage to those local school districts who divest into smaller, more personalized institutions under parent control if, and only if, they contract with such services and lay off large portions of the administrative bureaucracy.
4. Veto any bill requiring home and private educators to conform to State teacher certification standards.
5. Veto any bill requiring State supervision of home schools.
6. Use the private and home education markets to develop and test pedagogical tools and services for both general and specialized requirements. Private, third-party validation services would assess product performance against suppliers’ claims. School boards meeting standards of divestiture would be free to select guaranteed products for use in public schools.
7. Insurance on the guarantee would cover the cost of remedial education if the product fails to meet warranted performance. If the supplier will not provide the product without offering their own instructional professionals, so be it. There would be a concurrent reduction in force.
8. As broadband services proliferate, outstanding educators who can present effective lectures and multimedia presentations and organize trained tutorial assistants and test scoring services will make a killing in the new education market. There would be a concurrent reduction in force among public school teachers. Public schools as we know them will collapse under the competition.

[NormsRevenge]

Public schools as we know them will collapse under the competition.

If they don't collapse under their overwhelming bureaucracies first :-\

How's the weather over the hill today?

[Carry_Okie]

High stratus cloud cover, no wind, temperature 59°.

[d14truth]

"But since 1999, scores on the state Academic Performance Index have increased. The API is based on results of the standardized Stanford 9 test, which is given to students each spring and compares how well they perform against their peers across the country."

I believe that while the 'scores' may have gone up the 'education' level hasn't. If memory serves, the 'standard' bar was lowered. I will try to find it for the 'Sac Bee' writer who is apparently unfamiliar with the lowering of standards so as not to damage self-esteem and the 'appearance' of doing good.

[d14truth]

Here's an article, not the one I was looking for--

Stanford 9 To Be Replaced

Gee, and just when the teachers where starting to see the students' scores getting better. < /sarcasm >

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the good news.

Last night driving home from a fishing trip, I heard on Sac talk radio, that under Davis and the Rats the annual per $ cost in our class rooms is now up to $275,000 per class room.

Ten years ago I used make lib teachers and administrators run screaming from a class room during a meeting with the public. At that time the cost per class room was about $100,000.

I would go to the chalk board and do a little exercise. I would deduct the cost of the teacher's salary, the cost of the utilities, (there never was any repair nor new books then).

I would leave $40 -$50,000 left after those direct expenses were deducted and toss the chalk back to the administor or teacher. Then ask them to show me and the rest of the people in the room where and how that $50,000 was being spent before asking me to spend more for education.

None had an answer. I told them that instead of increasing my taxes for school until they came up with an answer, I wanted a 40 to 50% reductions in taxes. I can only imagine the fun, if we can document the $275,000/classroom/year.

[Lizavetta]

They replace achievement tests every few years so that critics cannot compare now to then.

"You simply cannot come to conclusion that the decline is scores is any indication of failure. Today's test is different than the old one, testing different things...."

[d14truth]

Here's another, still looking--

Lower Standards: An open letter

Whatever happened to AB144?

[d14truth]

John Taylor Gatto - Dumbing Us Down

[d14truth]

I think the other $50,000 per classroom was used to 'keep God out' - {;~)