[NormsRevenge]

The legislation stems from a newly released California Master Plan for Education, designed as a 20-year blueprint for the state's school system that was crafted by a committee of 18 lawmakers with assistance from hundreds of education officials.

Designed by socialists for socialists, no doubt.

[NormsRevenge]

Ping

[BreitbartSentMe]

* Target the state's lowest-performing schools first in creating universal preschool programs. Private providers potentially could receive state funding if they met quality standards

What's that quote about having to remove children from the corrupting influence of their parents in order to fully indoctrinate them into Nazi-ism???

[Tired of Taxes]

Very frightening.

[Drango]

??? HUH ???

Nothing about getting rid of the shackles of the teacher's union. Promoting on merit and the ablity to fire sub-par teachers would make dramatic changes in the classroom. That change is essentially cost free!

[BenLurkin]

A modest three step proposal to reform public eduction in California:
1) Remove control of K-12 from Sacramento and return total control to the local school districts
2)Remove funding from Sacramento and make funding K-12 the sole responsibility of each local school district.
3) Remove ALL Federal funds, control, guidance or influence from local schools K-12.

[ex-Texan]

The California educational system is a hug mess. It has been a huge mess for years. It was pretty bad when I was in high school in the 1960's, at was hopelessly in need of repair in the 1980's. When my son first enrolled in elementary school in Sacramento in the mid-1970's we noticed that we could not obtain proper attention for our extremely gifted child. We finally gave up and enrolled him in private school.

'Suffer Little Children' describes the problem in California.

In California, the whole system is a mess K through 12. Strangely, the state-wide Junior College and California State College and State University System were really very strong. Everyone knows the major state universities, Cal Berkeley and UCLA, are top notch. My guess is the powers that be decided long ago to put the taxpayers money to better use at the junior college and college levels.

[Desron13]

"Provide grants to create programs for identifying young children's health or social needs before they become barriers to learning."<-i>

Translation:

"We will watch every move parents make at home to insure that none of the socialist bilge we're pumping into the kids at school is affected by parental opinion or discipline."

[RAT Patrol]

They don't need more centralization and so-called "accountability." They need COMPETITION!!!!!

[John Jorsett]

Consolidating the supervisorial power under the governor is another way to make sure the campaign bucks flow ever more strongly in his direction.

[SCalGal]

I didn't think it was possible to make our schools much worse. I was wrong.