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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (731578)8/8/2013 12:38:36 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1575621
 
>> t was never enough. Inner city schools are the worst in the nation.

And inner-city schools tend to have the more powerful teachers unions.

Washington DC spends more per-student than any school system in America, at nearly $20k/per.

As was proved, beyond any doubt at all, during the Texas Robin Hood debate (in which poorly funded school districts were shown to outperform some well-funded districts), how much you spend isn't important. What is important is how the money is spent.

Of course its important how much you spend. Impoverished students don't get the kind of parental nurturing and coaching that more affluent kids get. Now schools can not replace the nurturing but they can make up the coaching deficit. And we need more men teaching in inner city schools for a whole bunch of reasons.........that's means the pay needs to increase.

As for whatever TX concludes, I am inclined to do the opposite.

If, for example, it is spent on retirement benefits for teachers under an absurd union contract, or paying union teachers to sit in a rubber room, you tend not to see value for the money.

Because teachers don't get a wage that is commensurate with their educational attainment.

For some very bizarre reason, we don't think teachers are worth it........so what Rs won't allow them to get in wages are made up in pensions.......which they mostly pay for themselves.
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