[Lucky]

Dismantle the Dept. of Education!

[jonefab]

And the answer to this problem is always; we don't have enough "resources" (money).

[Eagle Eye]

There is no neutrality regarding Judeo/Christian principles in most of our public schools today; there is open hostility!

For a corroborating story check this link about a Florida school board (with low FCAT scores, I might add) that nixed an assembly because the word "faith" is involved.

[TxBec]

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[doc30]

Big problem with education in FLorida are teachers salaries. They are abysmally low. The problem is that teachers require a college education. When teachers salaries are significantly below private sector salaries for people with the same education, then the more competent people will enter the private sector and the less competent people wind up being teachers. Salaries need to be brought up to what the private sector pays so schools may compete for the best people to fill teaching positions. Otherwise, our kids will be taught by the college stagglers and not the people that actually know what they are talking about.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating flushing money down the education toilet represented by the current teachers or on more "resources" (whatever that means. On a theoretical level, salary economics determine who will do the teaching.

[EdReform]

Ping

[Don Corleone]

Do to the NEA what Klintoon did to the country for 8 years!

[EdReform]

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[Free the USA]

fyi

[summer]

See the following editorial, for a very different view on FL education:

Making Progress [Orlando Sentinel editors praise Jeb for changes in student testing

IMO, speaking as a FL certified teacher who chooses not to teach right now, Gov. Bush is doing an outstanding job of initiating an enormous number of meaningful education reforms in FL. Will the results be in overnight? No. But he is well on the way to improving the situation for FL students and teachers, and so is FL -- for the first time ever.

To me, the glass is half full.