I attended an education forum tonight that shed some light on a massive failure of the education system the likes of which we have never seen before...
50% of the districts in California on the verge of insolvency...
A potential
$42
Billion
projected
deficit by
June 2010
(18 months away) that will cripple everyone...
"We are cutting bone and
marrow right now!"
Teachers are stretched as thin as they can be...
$30 million in cuts over the last 3 years...
"This is beyond ideology..."
This is a crisis....
In the next few weeks the state will be out of money and will be handing out IOU's...
"We took back our
country....now it is time to
take back our state!"
AN EDUCATION SERIES BEGINNING....FRIDAY NIGHT.....on
4 comments:
I've always believed there were problems. I'm glad to see someone with the guts to write about it!
I am very interested as a former special ed teacher I hasve seen the problems. Please let me know if there is another meeting. How much money do tax payers pay for the cars supper attendents drive? I do know that we place a lot of money for their cars as well as goverments? It would be interesting to find out what we can save by cutting such luxuries? I also know there are more ways and would love to be involved in what ever I am needed for.
Myths about California education
- $30 Million in cuts? It's still compliant with Prop 98. No?
- California teacher funding is 48th out of 50 states? Total benefits are more like 26th.
Why must ordinary citizens cut back and government and schools don't have to? Why couldn't government and schools say, for the commonweal we will agree to live on the 2004 budget.
Fund every child equally and let parents make the educational choice they want for their children without discrimination, massive incompetence and corruption from the government, unions, bureaucrats, and school districts.
Myths?
You answered your own question with the statement about funding every child equally, but more so actually providing unencumbered funding so that politics and legal mandates affording the needs of the few a greater weight than the needs of the many might actually allow for a standard education.
I believe the entire system needs a massive overhaul starting with how we educate children and why we educate children.
Perhaps it takes a collapse to effect such a change.
I'll be posting the story tonight. It has been a busy week.
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