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In the "duh" category: "State and local school officials say California can take over a public school that habitually performs poorly, but it's never done so, leaving San Bernardino's low-performing schools faced with nothing but an empty threat.
While officials and experts disagree on the best way to judge schools' performance, they do seem to agree that federal and state education laws don't give schools much of a reason to improve."
Government schools can not improve, for the students--pour money in and the special interests become rich--and the kids still get a crummy education. Give unions more power and they get richer and more politically powerful by having more people paying bribes to them--while the kids get ideology, incompetence and propaganda instead of education.
""There has been no instance where either the federal or state government has stepped in and said, `This is unacceptable,"' said David Plank, an education professor at Stanford University. "It's not a genuine (threat). Districts don't take it seriously."
A day after saying the state could take over troubled schools, Fred Balcom, director of district and school improvement for the California Department of Education, said the state might not have that power after all.
"The California Constitution may prohibit us from doing that," he said."
This is why government education is a failure--the people, the parents, the government can not run the schools--they are wholly owned subsidiaries of folks who demand bribes--criminal from the start. Would Al Capone give up control of gambling? Why should unions give up the money tree called government education?
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While officials and experts disagree on the best way to judge schools' performance, they do seem to agree that federal and state education laws don't give schools much of a reason to improve."
Government schools can not improve, for the students--pour money in and the special interests become rich--and the kids still get a crummy education. Give unions more power and they get richer and more politically powerful by having more people paying bribes to them--while the kids get ideology, incompetence and propaganda instead of education.
""There has been no instance where either the federal or state government has stepped in and said, `This is unacceptable,"' said David Plank, an education professor at Stanford University. "It's not a genuine (threat). Districts don't take it seriously."
A day after saying the state could take over troubled schools, Fred Balcom, director of district and school improvement for the California Department of Education, said the state might not have that power after all.
"The California Constitution may prohibit us from doing that," he said."
This is why government education is a failure--the people, the parents, the government can not run the schools--they are wholly owned subsidiaries of folks who demand bribes--criminal from the start. Would Al Capone give up control of gambling? Why should unions give up the money tree called government education?
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