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The
Kaukauna School District, in the Fox River Valley of Wisconsin near
Appleton, has about 4,200 students and about 400 employees. It has
struggled in recent times and this year faced a deficit of $400,000.
But after the law went into effect, at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, school
officials put in place new policies they estimate will turn that
$400,000 deficit into a $1.5 million surplus. And it's all because of
the very provisions that union leaders predicted would be disastrous.
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"The monetary part of it is not the entire issue," says Arnoldussen, a
political independent who won a spot on the board in a nonpartisan
election. Indeed, some of the most important improvements in Kaukauna's
outlook are because of the new limits on collective bargaining.
In the past, Kaukauna's agreement with the teachers union required the
school district to purchase health insurance coverage from something
called WEA Trust -- a company created by the Wisconsin teachers union. [Golly,
I can't imagaine what happened next]
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California
public schools see paradox of lower funding, higher test scores
It's a trend that would seem to defy
conventional wisdom: As
public school spending has declined in California in recent years,
student achievement test scores have gone up.
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n El Dorado County, spending fell 9 percent
from 2008 to 2010. But test scores rose dramatically. The proportion of
students in grades two through seven testing proficient or above in
English rose from 63 percent to 68 percent; those at or above
proficient in math shot from 65 percent to 72 percent. Read
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So, are educators finding ways
to teach?
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If you take away the bureacracy, government meddling, unions and attorneys, education is substantially less expensive. Of course, when your remove those people, somebody has to get a real job. I'm thinking picking up trash will be similar to what they've done for the last few decades.
ReplyDeleteI bet the numbers went up in English proficiency because there are fewer Mexican kids in the system since the economy is in the tank. Remove the ESL kids and the numbers are guaranteed to rise.
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Lower education funding, higher scores?
ReplyDeleteNO! The tests just got easier, thassall.
ESL and bilingual teaching should be outlawed. When I was in the sixth grade (1956) we had a Turkish kid enroll, his family had moved here. Didn't speak a word of English. By the end of the first semester he was conversant, by the end of the year he was fluent in English. By the end of ninth grade his Turkish accent was gone. My dad was born in Norway, came here at the age of 10, and experienced the same assimilitional syndrome, within six years his accent was gone.
ReplyDeleteTake a non English speaking kid, toss him into class with the other kids, and prepare to be amazed. very few kids are any dumber than the other kids,
It's liberals who are afflicted with CHITAS (Chronic Head In The Anus Syndrome), sometimes called Jimmy Carter's Disease. Since they are condescending, smarmy, self important and horribly annoying, perhaps it would be kinder to send them to re-education and supervised work camps in the wilderness where they won't cause problems for themselves or others. They could be trained to do useful jobs such as sorting recyclables, packing Mickey Dee's Happy Meals toys or Cracker Jack's prizes.
If you do the math the reduction in health insurance premiums by being allowed to go to open market amounted to some $700,000. Simply says that the union had been ripping the public off on this front for who knows how long.
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Simpler solution: forbid public employees from belonging to unions, and bring back the Hatch act ( talking about political beliefs gets a public employee fired ).
ReplyDeleteIf you want a government job, you accept government mandated restrictions.