Three Steps To Improve California Schools
Exactly one month ago, the Pacific Research Institute’s director of education studies, Lance T. Izumi, published the following analysis:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2006-07 budget proposal increases education spending by $4 billion, raising total per-pupil spending from state, federal and local sources from $10,336 in 2005-06 to $10,996. Some added spending will go to worthy goals, such as the governor’s program to increase the number of math and science teachers being produced by the University of California and the California State University system.
The majority of the new spending, however, has not been tied to any requirement that the Legislature agree to fundamental reforms of California’s still underperforming public school system. Here are three ideas that the governor may want to consider in his discussions with legislators.
Izumi breaks it down with three key issues:
First, reform California’s school accountability system, the core of state education policy.
. . .Second, implement a preschool voucher program.
. . .Third, improve teacher quality.
As memory serves, Gov. Schwarzenegger tried to tackle some of these important issues during last year’s special election. He pushed for reforms. Unfortunately, the unions and other special interests beat him out at the polls*, by pouring big money into a campaign of disinformation which misled the voters. Rhetoric prevailed over reality.
It worked then, and Hillary Clinton hopes it’ll work again.
This morning, Michelle Malkin reports:
Hillary screeches that providing inner-city and poor students with more choice in education will lead to a a “school of the Church of the White Supremacist ” and a “School of the Jihad.” [See the video]
Does anyone remember where Chelsea Clinton went to school? Another example of standard liberal hypocrisy.
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February 23rd, 2006 at 12:07 pm
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February 23rd, 2006 at 3:21 pm
How about teaching kids some fucking common decency. Little skater shits stole my ipod today! 250 bucks gone! ARRGH!
February 23rd, 2006 at 4:24 pm
Vent,
What does common decency have to do with today’s education? That’s prejudicial, ’cause that’s putting white european values into non-white european mush heads, and that’s evil, don’cha know? Besides, what’s it got to do with putting a condom on a banana?
While cop-killing, woman-hating and abusing is glorified in the culture of the young, it has been made perfectly clear to today’s youngsters that if you want to be “hip”, or “with it”, or “hot”, or whatever they say now, you have to act like the thugs and perverts the music and movie industries foist upon us daily, hourly, or else you are considered a _____phobic (fill in the blank).
This is what we get (and probably deserve) for letting a treachorous and traitorous national union hijack the philosophy of education. For not being vigilent, we deserve it.
February 23rd, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Does that mean I get to punch anyone between 13 and 16 in the face? Cause dammit, I loved that friggen ipod.
February 23rd, 2006 at 5:04 pm
I wish we could set-up a school that used the Japanese sytle of education. Where the kids are constantly competing against one another, in more control of their school, and held accountable.
It would have to be a private school though because there’s no way we could get teh Janitorial union to allow the kids to clean the school. Or the teacher’s union to make the teachers move from class to class. (OMG!)
*Sigh*
Then again, there’s more to schooling then the teaching style. There’s community involvement, parental involvement, and choice. Any time you have a choice and there’s competition you get a better product. It’s simple economics and right now our public schools don’t allow choice and that needs to change.
February 24th, 2006 at 9:23 am
“Any time you have a choice and there’s competition you get a better product.”
Are you saying that, because we don’t want to hurt their precious little feelings so close is good enough, the schools today are putting out an inferior product? Well, imagine that!
The headlong, brainless rush to eliminate competition in schools, through grades, activity or anything else, is running us at 100 mph toward not only mediocrity but inferiority. Maybe that’s why, on average, home-schooled are more academically accomplished than those at either publics or in most of the private, non-religious schools.
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