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To: elmatador who wrote (36987)	8/5/2005 2:05:24 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 306849

No doubt much of the money Governor George W. Bush spent on education in Texas was either wasted or poorly spent. Very little else can explain the extremely low achievement level by students in Texas. Parent participation in California is far higher, as are additional payments by the parents of students for additional items not provided by the state. In the California community where I grew up, parents and local endowments more than double the amount of funding provided by the State of California. A couple of decades ago real spending per student in California was substantially higher and school achievement was higher as well. Since Prop 13 which restricted property tax rises to less than inflation, communities which do not have the wealth and time to provide substantial donations of money and volunteer time to their local schools, as Orinda does, are slipping to achievement levels similar to Texas. At least California does not have to squander as much money as the dunder-head Bush did in Texas to achieve so little. Americans should review a candidates long record of failures before giving them the chance to create even larger disasters. .