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To: MrLucky who wrote (15032)	3/24/2006 5:40:27 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541108

Simply open the checkbook? Is that the answer? No. If you raise pay, all you are doing is raising the pay of the mediocre. There's no reason to expect that new skills will materialize. I suspect that you'd have to reinvent the whole thing. It's just too far gone.

To: MrLucky who wrote (15032)	3/24/2006 8:46:51 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541108

Where does this leave CA? Simply open the checkbook? Is that the answer? No, I don't think that at all. Improving public education is not a simple job. My own sense is that suburban schools do reasonably well for all the obvious reasons. The problems are in "inner city" schools which are the sites that need addressing. The problems are many. Money is a necessary but not sufficient solution. There is an argument about giving teachers more power--the CPE argument; about reducing the role of bureaucracies in deciding curriculum; about decreasing class size; about funding to attract better teachers; etc.