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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (35811)	7/16/2004 3:58:31 PM
From: Mao II	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81568

Anyone who has had any experience at all with big city public schools knows that NCLB is a charade. Money is the equalizer. You put your money where your mouth is, put libraries in the schools. Staff them. Acquire books. Bring computers in. Hire science teachers. Art teachers. Provide money for special assistance. Etc. Etc. The withdrawal of federal funds over the last couple of decades has led to an outsized increase in local taxes and a rapid decline in quality, particularly in cities that rely on property taxes for district funding. All else is just rhetoric.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (35811)	7/16/2004 4:33:25 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

ZERO, you can throw all the money you want at the schools, make it 10 trillion, but with the agenda the NEA and teachers union has, the kids still won't learn a thing. The dems don't want them to.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (35811)	7/16/2004 5:54:31 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Who Teaches Teachers' Kids? In urban areas, where public schools have the most problems, public school teachers are two to three times more likely than other parents to send their children to private schools, and in extreme cases, four to five times as likely. This suggests that the more parents know about public schools in urban areas, the less likely they are to send their children there. In 69 of the 100 largest U.S. cities, public school teachers are more likely to send their children to private schools than are other parents. In three cities, more than half of the public school teachers send their children to private schools - Grand Rapids (55.1 percent), Jersey City (51.4 percent) and Honolulu (50.5 percent). The two cities with the largest difference between the percent of public school teachers and all parents who send their children to private schools are Miami and Newark. In Miami, 31.4 percent of public school teachers send their children to private schools, compared to 13.2 percent of all parents. In Newark, 37.8 percent of public school teachers send their children to private schools, compared to 18.8 percent of all parents. Source: Denis P. Doyle, "Where the Connoisseurs Send Their Children to School," Hudson Briefing Paper No. 181, Hudson Institute, Herman Kahn Center, P.O. Box 26-919, Indianapolis, IN 46226, (317) 545-1000.