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Chicago Teacher's Union Turns Down $400 Million Deal, 16% Pay Raise...
Highest Average Salary In Nation...
$71,000 per year before benefits...

Almost 40% of Chicago’s Public School Teachers Send their Kids Elsewhere to Learn

More than 1 in 5 public school teachers said their children attend private schools.

In Washington (28 percent), Baltimore (35 percent) and 16 other major cities, the figure is more than 1 in 4. In some cities, nearly half of the children of public school teachers have abandoned public schools.

In Philadelphia, 44 percent of the teachers put their children in private schools; in Cincinnati, 41 percent; Chicago, 39 percent; Rochester, N.Y., 38 percent. The same trends showed up in the San Francisco-Oakland area, where 34 percent of public school teachers chose private schools for their children; 33 percent in New York City and New Jersey suburbs; and 29 percent in Milwaukee and New Orleans.

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Jesse Jackson, Hillary Clinton and Al Gore (to name just a few) all send or sent their children to private schools.


http://hotair.com/ar...where-to-learn/

[Rogerdodger]

30 years ago I was a pioneer in home schooling my daughter once she reached middle school level.
One critical friend said: "But she will miss out on so much."
I hoped so.
The next year a girl was raped in the school she was scheduled to attend.
Now that entire area of town has been utterly destroyed by the failings of the Great Society's social experiments.
Note the large area of violence just North of Tulsa:
http://www.tulsaworl...firearmpack0916

Anyway, I see where the Chicago Union Teachers escaped their final exams: in the form of teacher performance evaluations.
So they will get above average pay for turning out below average students:
"11th Graders Meeting College Readiness Benchmarks: 21% in Reading, 19% in Math, 11% in Science, 38% in English"
LINK

As I said in the thread title: Education Reform will come when... Student's Unions are as powerful as Teacher's Unions.

Chicago teachers rally after tentative labor deal...

Edited by Rogerdodger, 16 September 2012 - 11:59 AM.

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It looks like Sex Ed is taking a new twist:
Florida may bring paddlings back to schools...

SAT reading scores lowest since 1972...

No doubt they will combat this problem by complaining about racial discrepancies in education and suggesting pouring billions more down the rathole that is the public education system – all the while avoiding scrutiny for teachers unions.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 25 September 2012 - 09:54 AM.

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The new film Won’t Back Down

A parent horrified by her daughter’s awful education joins with a once-jaded school teacher to take over their local public elementary school and rescue kids from union-imposed mediocrity.

The film is based on real events surrounding efforts by frustrated parents and teachers across the country to use “parent trigger” laws to transform failing schools. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays the poorly educated Pittsburgh mom who wants a better future for her dyslexic third-grade daughter. She sees a teacher from her daughter’s school (Viola Davis) at a lottery for the handful of slots in a high-performing charter school and believes she can be an ally for reform.

Attacks are launched on Gyllenhaal and Davis by reform opponents, including desperate personal attacks, that are based on real attacks in “parent trigger” battles across the country.

“Some of the things that really happened were so over-the-top, we left them out of the movie,” Walden Media’s Michael Flaherty told me. “In California, reform oppents went to Hispanic parents who signed the parent-trigger petitions and told them, if they didn’t remove their names, they would be deported. Can you believe it?”


http://www.nationalr...-michael-graham

[Rogerdodger]

Why R Ur Kids So Stupid?

Edited by Rogerdodger, 30 September 2012 - 10:00 PM.

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CHEATERS: Teachers hired stand-in to take certification tests...

For 15 years, teachers in three Southern states paid Clarence Mumford Sr. — himself a longtime educator — to send someone else to take the tests in their place, authorities said. Each time, Mumford received a fee of between $1,500 and $3,000 to send one of his test ringers with fake identification to the Praxis exam. In return, his customers got a passing grade and began their careers as cheaters, according to federal prosecutors in Memphis.

I find it amazing that our most precious are willingly sacrificed to the G0DS of the State and it's "progressive" goberment education system.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 25 November 2012 - 09:48 PM.

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Public school behavioral specialist indicted for sex with dog...

Probably the same person who told my grade school grandson on 9/11/01 that the terrorists were only seeking justice against America, an evil country.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 12 May 2013 - 09:55 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

I can't wait for the Public Health Care system to become like the Public Education system.
Union Doctors and Nurses can't be fired for malpractice.
At least it will be free, except for the exorbitant taxes that the few working poor will be paying.

Teachers' unions fight bill that would prevent sex offenders from working in schools...

Teaching assistant accidentally emails nude photos of herself to class...

Below average government education.
Below average government health care.
And the few wealthy will still have superior private education and private health care, while the poor still suffer.

Publicly educated US adults score below world average in math, reading.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 25 October 2013 - 10:50 AM.

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The fraud and corruption in Government schools is truly appalling.

TPS administrator paid over $100,000 lacked certification in Oklahoma

Her lack of state certification could affect state school funding.
Tulsa school board President Ruth Ann Fate, Vice President Gary Percefull and member Leigh Goodson all told the Tulsa World they had not been informed that Frazier-Branch was lacking the required certification.
"The first question would be, 'How did this happen?' Why were the credentials of this person not checked completely?"

Public records show that the school board approved Frazier-Branch's hiring at a salary of $102,900 and then adjusted it to $105,987 with a host of other administrative salary increases three months later.
Superintendent Keith Ballard said he has remedied the situation, at least temporarily, by having Frazier-Branch removed from the TPS payroll when her contract ended on June 30 and now working at TPS only as an "unpaid consultant."

When pressed, he said her salary is being "picked up" by the George Kaiser Family Foundation currently, but he denied any role in the arrangement.

George Kaiser: $500 million in Solyndra money

Edited by Rogerdodger, 22 August 2014 - 01:12 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

It's all about the money! Kids are just the means to the jackpot.
Feeding kids for free is another jackpot.

I found out that public education was all about the money when, as a HS senior I needed only one credit to graduate.
I needed to take a zero hour English so that I could keep a new job with excellent pay.
Then I found out that the school would not get government money if I didn't attend at least a half day so they would not allow me to just finish my one required course.
There was no flexibility or accomodiation for my needs. It was all about money.

Hidden between the poor children is the real problem: It's all about the money!

Snow-Day Alternative Creates New Challenges...
Home schooled via Internet...

The state's solution has caused a new set of challenges for some districts in one of the country's most impoverished areas. Some students don't have computers or home Internet access.
And the school district might lose some state and federal aid.

Districts that opt to use the home school option would lose state transportation dollars and federal money for free and reduced lunches.

The record shows that real education is NOT the goal of public school.
(If it is the goal then they should get an "F" but I guess that's not allowed these days.)
Until parents get to chose the best teachers and schools for their children, mediocrity is the highest expectation one should have.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 01 December 2014 - 04:20 PM.