Posted on 09/07/2006 7:40:22 AM PDT by shrinkermd
LOS ANGELES -- This city is the main front in the pitched battle over the No Child Left Behind Act. Like many large urban school districts across the nation -- though more brazenly -- the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is resisting the law's core command: that no child be forced to attend a failing school.
In LAUSD, there are over 300,000 children in schools the state has declared failing under NCLB's requirements for adequate yearly progress. Under the law, such children must be provided opportunities to transfer to better-performing schools within the district. To date, fewer than two out of every 1,000 eligible children have transferred -- much lower even than the paltry 1% transfer figure nationwide. In neighboring Compton, whose schools are a disaster, the number of families transferring their children to better schools is a whopping zero.
The question is whether Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings -- whose administration has made NCLB the centerpiece of its education agenda -- will do anything about it. She has the power to withhold federal funds from districts that fail to comply with NCLB, and has threatened to do just that. Rhetoric, so far, has exceeded action.
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Thank the NEA. Then, cut off funding!
Get Rob Reiner and other Hollywood honchos out working in their own communities.
One of the reasons these schools are failing is that they house hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant children that the already overburdened taxpayers of Cali are providing with a free education.
Get them out of the system, and see how fast it improves.
If 4 million children are left behind.
Lets find and get 8 million parents to do their fair share of raising their own children.
If anyone wants to see how the II influx is impacting California schools, just go to the State STAR test results (which are posted on the web, along with race/ethnicity data).
As the proportion of Hispanics in the student population goes up, the test scores plummet.
Let's make the money portable with the children, and allow them the choice of any school they want. There is no other solution, there is nothing besides this that will fix our education system.
What?
Common sense?
It'll never happen.
"Let's make the money portable with the children, and allow them the choice of any school they want. There is no other solution, there is nothing besides this that will fix our education system."
That would make me extremely excited.....
I'm curious if children aren't transferring simply because their parents don't care.
When I was a kid, my parents would go to the parent-teacher meetings held at the end of each term where the teacher schedules a one-on-one with parents to discuss their child's progress. The teachers always told my parents the same thing: "It's nice to see you, but you're really not the parents that I need to be talking to. The ones that I need to talk to never show up."
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Did you watch the special with John Stossel last Friday on ABC? It was called "Stupid in America". They interviewed students, teachers and parents in Europe, that had portability. They beat our students in tests by 50% and higher avg test scores. Of course the teachers, administrators and mucky mucks over here, would have none of it.
If they've been left behind, may I adopt one?
Start with not putting illegals in with citizens.
Educate them under a tent in front of a bowling ally with volunteers on the weekend. Let the illegals get their own baby sitter.
After the rubbish is removed, you need probably 40% less teachers and with less of an illegal problem in class, they could all learn better at far less cost to California.
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