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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Les H who wrote (4499)	8/27/1999 1:41:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Of course I know school funding is a state and local issue. I am saying conservatives in the state governments are spending beaucoup bucks on jails when the same investment in schools would provide a better alternative down the line. I am not saying we don't need jails btw. There are some communities such as Oakland where local property taxes are not going to be sufficient... here they set up the state lottery for that which helped a little but not much. Of course its better than the alternative of busing. Anyway Bush made a statement and it was publicized in that Mercury piece as "scientists shocked"... etc. There is some influence the feds have over schools, I don't know if its matching funds or whatever, but whats more important is the message this sends to the local jurisdictions in places like Austin where you have a school board stuck in the past and a high tech workforce demanding change - the only alternative in Austin is to send your kids to private school. I don't buy the "too many terrible teachers" argument. You can't make a decent living in teaching and until they fix that no one will go into it. It used to work, because there were few alternatives for women 2 decades ago, they were underpaid even then however. Prison staff makes more than teachers as I understand it - why is that, anybody know?