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Once again the San Francisco Chronicle has been used by the corrupt unions, organizations that force people to pay bribes to work is by definition corrupt, to demand more taxes and more failed schools.
Read this article, not a single word about how unions OWN complete school boards. Not a word about the union rules forcing districts to fire good teacher and keep bad ones. Nor a single word about how unions make it too expensive for schools to fire bad teachers, corrupt or criminal teachers.
"The fact is, court-ordered school spending has never translated to academic success. A federal court judge ruled in 1985 that school officials in Kansas City, Mo., had to double local property taxes to fund $2 billion aimed at improving performance in low-income and mostly minority schools. In the blizzard of spending that followed over the next two decades, students got state-of-the-art science facilities, Olympic-size swimming pools, small classes - and no measurable improvement in academic outcomes.
Voters' efforts to boost school funding haven't translated to success either. Proposition 98, which Californians passed in 1988, locked California into a budget-busting mandate directing at least 40 percent of the state budget toward elementary and secondary education. Since its passage, California has seen negligible gains in academic outcomes and lagged well behind mediocre national trends."
The last generation of failed government schools proves one thing, government education needs to end, and the education of the public needs to begin.
Charter schools and vouchers, get rid of the special interests and corrupt unions, then maybe the children will have a chance. Until then, children are going to be harmed and money flushed down the union toilet.
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Read this article, not a single word about how unions OWN complete school boards. Not a word about the union rules forcing districts to fire good teacher and keep bad ones. Nor a single word about how unions make it too expensive for schools to fire bad teachers, corrupt or criminal teachers.
"The fact is, court-ordered school spending has never translated to academic success. A federal court judge ruled in 1985 that school officials in Kansas City, Mo., had to double local property taxes to fund $2 billion aimed at improving performance in low-income and mostly minority schools. In the blizzard of spending that followed over the next two decades, students got state-of-the-art science facilities, Olympic-size swimming pools, small classes - and no measurable improvement in academic outcomes.
Voters' efforts to boost school funding haven't translated to success either. Proposition 98, which Californians passed in 1988, locked California into a budget-busting mandate directing at least 40 percent of the state budget toward elementary and secondary education. Since its passage, California has seen negligible gains in academic outcomes and lagged well behind mediocre national trends."
The last generation of failed government schools proves one thing, government education needs to end, and the education of the public needs to begin.
Charter schools and vouchers, get rid of the special interests and corrupt unions, then maybe the children will have a chance. Until then, children are going to be harmed and money flushed down the union toilet.
More...