Re: NCLB help!!!!

["Young, Alan" <alan.young@DMPS.K12.IA.US>]

Actually, when they find out it is costing them far more than 7% to impose something that will harm our children and society by REDUCING their education and educational opportunities. . . that they have WASTED their money on pseudo-science, they will likely be glad to spend their money more wisely than on this federal joke/nightmare. Even without the federal money, they may even be better off (though that is not what I would hope for), since they could reorganize their approaches around meaningful improvement. My guess is that schools would improve from just stopping reorganize their approaches around dead end, warmed over, psychometric hocus pocus left in the hands of inept legislators who have little or no education about education. 

Cutting off fed money is a short term solution, however, since it lets the feds off the hook and means they do not have a role in education any more. So it is strategy but not a panacea. This is part of the plan, I think, to destroy the USDOE by imploding or gutting it from the inside. The USDOE does have a legitimate role that is being skirted now and that is one of EQUITY. That is the reason for their existence. We do not want federal control with local support, but local control with federal support. So, we must fight within and without, at the local, state, and federal level to systematically dismantle this destructive approach to public education. DEMAND the DOE return to its job of supporting equity, and assert that control is local first and foremost.

Alan Young

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> From:         Art Burke
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> Let me save the taxpayers' money on the study.  The state is free to refuse resources under ESEA.  That would shrink the state education budget by around 7-10 percent.  I'm sure the citizens of Washington would just jump at the chance to make up the difference.
> 
> Art 
> 
> >>> Jedoyon@AOL.COM 12/03/02 10:02AM >>>
> In a message dated 12/3/2002 9:51:40 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> rparkany@BORG.COM writes:
> 
> > is the product of Bubbaism
> 
> Well, the man in the white house is the best evidence AGAINST Social
> Promotion I can think of.  And, as I told the teacher writing the column,
> when I am superintendent, the first operation I set up, utilizing the highly
> capable staff at OSPI rather than importing expensive outside consultants,
> will be a feasibility study on ESEA REFUSAL.
> 
> Analize that.
> Juanita
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