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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on August 26, 2009, 06:13:13 PM
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Backers of the Board of Education decision tout choice and competition. Foes call the move illegal, illogical and improper.
In a startling acknowledgment that the Los Angeles school system cannot improve enough schools on its own, the city Board of Education approved a plan Tuesday that could turn over 250 campuses -- including 50 new multimillion-dollar facilities -- to charter groups and other outside operators.
The plan, approved on a 6-1 vote, gives Supt. Ramon C. Cortines the power to recommend the best option to run some of the worst-performing schools in the city as well as the newest campuses. Board member Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte dissented.
The vote occurred after a tense, nearly four-hour debate during which supporters characterized the resolution as a moral imperative. Foes called it illegal, illogical and improper.
The action signals a historic turning point for the Los Angeles Unified School District, which has struggled for decades to boost student achievement. District officials and others have said their ability to achieve more than incremental progress is hindered by the powerful teachers union, whose contract makes it nearly impossible to fire ineffective tenured teachers. Union leaders blame a district bureaucracy that they say fails to include teachers in "top-down reforms."
LaLaTimes (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lausd-schools26-2009aug26,0,4203620.story?track=rss)
A victory for education and a blow to the power of teachers unions. :cheersmate:
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God knows, they couldn't do any WORSE than LAUSD. I should know, having tried to recruit out of some of the worst of the worst there--and MEPS was right next door to Dorsey HS.
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God knows, they couldn't do any WORSE than LAUSD. I should know, having tried to recruit out of some of the worst of the worst there--and MEPS was right next door to Dorsey HS.
Which has the most loons: National Education Association or National Endowment for the Arts? Liberals gone wild run each organization. There have been some interesting threads at the dump which were pushed down due to the passing of Fat Teddy. ( Who, by the way, was very instrumental in NCLB ) :whatever:
Dump link one (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8605109&mesg_id=8605109)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4026786Dump link two] (http://)
The on going communist / socialist union attack on education has all but finished off its victim. Kids today have no idea what has been done to them in the name of progress and diversity. Public education is a perfect example of what the "public" option in health care will become. Department of Education? Uh huh. Public education is not a right but a privilege ( just blow off one cherry bomb in the boys room if you doubt this).