Schools failing! "Yes, Our plan is working!"

[marshmellow]

The "no child left behind" with orchestrated funding shortfalls combined with orchestrated testing results that demonstrate failing schools has the "RNC plan" to sell vouchers to minorities and damage teachers unions on track.

"It is a plan to capture a 20% minority voting block by sytematically destroying the public schools in favor of private schools that can fortify the right's agenda". Said a top official.

The Lieberman camp understands that either you go down fighting or own the plan and make it fuzzy as to which party will provide the vouchers.

[Brucey]

1. Can I get a voucher to

move to Canada?

[Fovea]

2. If the battle is public education we better go down fighting

Or American education will look like DeVry.

[bambo53]

3. Question,

What does DeVry look like?

[dofus]

6. DeVry

is a perfectly good chain of commercial schools with a strong technical focus. Per hour credit fees range from $355 to $415 per credit hour. I've worked with people who went to DeVry and those people were very competent. They seem to have a good job placement record. If that's what you want, it's a good place to go.

Here's the link www.DeVry.edu

[ret5hd]

4. got a link re:

"It is a plan to capture a 20% minority voting block by sytematically destroying the public schools in favor of private schools that can fortify the right's agenda". Said a top official.

edit:typo

[realFedUp]

5. LA Times Op-Ed on leaving children behind

(a way not to pay these schools?)

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-test15sep15,1,1181098.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials

The 85% Solution

September 15, 2003

Don Juan Avila Middle School met all its targets for higher test scores this year under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Yet, for the lack of a single student, the Aliso Viejo school is listed as failing to meet its goals.

If one more special-education student had taken the state's standardized math test, Don Juan Avila would have been a success story. The federal schools-accountability law requires 95% of all students in every subcategory — and there are 10 of those, including racial or ethnic groups and children with language barriers — to take the tests, and it imposes sanctions against schools that repeatedly fall short. Though Don Juan Avila missed the 95% in only one subgroup, in one subject, by one student, it's a total failure in the law's eyes.

You could think of Don Juan Avila as One School Left Behind, except for all the company it has. Of the 3,000-plus California schools that failed to meet their targets this year, one-third raised their test scores across the board just fine but were listed as failing because too few students took the test. The problem runs nationwide. In Georgia, a majority of the so-called failing schools lost out solely because they missed participation goals. The reasoning behind the goals is good. It would be all too easy for principals to encourage the parents of struggling students to take a family trip during test week, to give schools' scores a boost. But even the federal law's most ardent supporters, such as the nonprofit policy group Education Trust, say the 95% rule is too stiff. For one thing, parents of special-education students sometimes resist the exams. Their children often find a long, fill-in-the-bubbles test stressful and difficult to complete. And, parents of mentally disabled children say, the tests provide little useful information to them, telling them only that, as they already knew, their children are below grade level.

[MassDem4Life]

7. point:

schools were failign long before the NCLB act.
And in reality have any political solutions done better? think about goals 2000. 18months and 36million spent to draft a national curriculum that was less demanding than what was there before.