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Florida leading the way to Education REFORM in America.. I predict SUCCESS for the voucher program in Florida... and hopefully we will see other States across America follow suit... The public education system is in desperate need of competition..

Passing it on..
35 posted on 06/24/2002 6:36:10 PM PDT by davidosborne
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A state can do this? Without Federal approval? I had no idea, I think what Jeb is doing in Florida is great. I just don't know how he's getting away with it.
36 posted on 06/24/2002 6:50:13 PM PDT by MissAmericanPie
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Thumbs up for vouchers and REAL education reform in America.

Let's get all accountablilty and full responsibility back to the parents, at the local community level. The feds have no business making decisions on the education of America's children. That right belongs solely to the parents/families /guardians.

37 posted on 06/24/2002 6:50:25 PM PDT by Reagan Man
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To: davidosborne
Yes, Florida is doing great things, thanks to Jeb. I like the special ed. vouchers. I think the teacher's union got exactly what they deserve. With some ungodly number of "handicapped" kids (250,000 or more) being given a chance to choose their school, it will have to improve their chances of success.

The unions fail to teach kids to read, label them special ed., then collect more money based on that failure. What a racket.

In my charter school, we take kids with I.E.P.'s (individual education plans, Colorado's term for special ed). We have gotten about half of them off the I.E.P.'s after their first year with us. We are the only school in our district to ever get a kid off an I.E.P. Many of them can't read anywhere near grade level. Some have come to us in 5th, 6th, and 7th grade illiterate. They have just been pushed through. No wonder they have been behavior problems. Anyway, when they come to us, they are told if they do all their work, they will be reading by the end of the year. And they are.

Slapping a label on a kid, then ignoring his education should be a crime. Unfortunately, this is what many public schools do everyday. Their philosophy is if the kid didn't learn, there must be something wrong with him.

Our approach is if the kid didn't learn, the teacher didn't teach. This applies to every kid in every class. If the kid is not doing his work, we find a solution before he fails. It may be to have him have his parents sign every homework assignment until he is back on task, it may be moving him to a class that isn't moving as fast until he is prepared. It may be having him check in with the principal every morning to show he has all his material. It may just be having some lessons in being organized. We figure out what the kids problem is and finding a solution that will work.

39 posted on 06/24/2002 7:12:57 PM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: davidosborne
bump
42 posted on 06/24/2002 7:41:24 PM PDT by homeschool mama
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One can just declare the new education program as "reform," and the people will support it. The public does not understand that much of the problem in education is the lack of effort on the part of "students." Because their children get good grades, the typical parent has no idea that most of his children's high grades are bogus -- the result of grade inflation carried on by teachers at the insistence of administrators eager to curry favor with the public and taxpayers who underwrite the "education" bond issues. It's all in the money; isn't that what the liberals said about Watergate?
43 posted on 06/24/2002 8:20:32 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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BTTT!!!!
74 posted on 06/25/2002 3:19:11 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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I hope so...

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84 posted on 07/04/2002 7:56:09 PM PDT by Coleus
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