[Vince Ferrer]

The parishes ought to sell bonds to buy up failed public schools. The states are broke anyway, so just privitize the schools and make money.

Of course, we know that won't happen, because they would rather bankrupt the state and have starving populations walking barefoot in the snow before they would give up ideological control of the students, but it would actually help the financial situation.

[VOA]

Of course, we know that won't happen, because they would rather bankrupt
the state and have starving populations walking barefoot in
the snow before they would give up ideological control of the students

Amen to that.

My first real clue that the recent school bond issue would fail
was in the office I worked in during the spring.
A couple were in for a consultation; the husband had retired after
a full career in the public school system and the wife is also
still in the educational system.

When the retired husband said "The corrupt folks in the public schools
I retired from...they DESERVE to have the bond-issue FAIL!!!".

I barely restrained myself from responding visibly...
especially because my more-liberal co-worker was obviously taken
aback by that sort of comment.

But the retired teacher got his wish.
The bond issue totally tanked when the vote went down about a
month later.

The superintendant that had pimped slavishly for the increased
taxes suddenly realized she had enough years to retire.
(And somehow, it finally came to light that she'd been running
away from a cock-up at her previous school district when our
school district hired her. "Dance of the Lemons" as they say
about the rotation of incompetent principals in the Los Angeles
Unified School District...except this was in Mid-Missouri.)

It doesn't have to be a big urban, Democratic-single-party rule
to get sucky schools.
It can even happen in smaller-town flyover America.

[goldi]

Black ministers are now demanding scholarships for minority students attending crummy NJ inner city schools. Black ministers want the state to make sure inner city students take the same graduation test as more affluent students. Of course, that would damage NJ’s reputation as the state with the highest high school graduation rate in the country, putting it smack dab in the middle at 24th, because these students don’t have the ability to take the harder graduation test.

http://www.northjersey.com/education/Group_leaders_Grad_rate_a_sham.html

A court ruling recently struck down vouchers, saying that the state would take care of the problem of failing schools. Of course, that’s patently ridiculous, since it would have been done by now.

The NJEA doesn’t want companies to offer students scholarships. It would “take money from the public schools.”

Who cares! Failing inner city public schools don’t deserve an existence.