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Politics : Socialized Education - Is there abetter way? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (1030)	6/6/2013 10:41:12 AM
From: Peter Dierks	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB TimF Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1513

School districts have developed a bunker mentality. They rattle sabers and cut the programs people want, to scare taxpayers into giving them more. The author has a great point, cutting bureaucratic bloat is not as dramatic but is more likely to attract the very students they need to survive. If they cut that ten el-ed instructors they have less need for district supervision, and one staff loss there would probably pay for half the teaching positions. lost so much revenue from students leaving for the voucher program that it had to “cut ten art, music, and physical education teaching positions at elementary schools.” This is one strategy to deal with a leaner budget, but is unlikely to keep the middle class families that districts are trying desperately to hold on to. This quote that closes the article is spot on: they are fighting the exact fight that they should have to; to prove every day that they are working to deliver the highest quality education to the students trusted to their care. Competition is good. Schools have begun to understand the costs associated with failing to compete. It is my understanding that many states fail to subtract payments to charter schools from payments to school districts. The Indiana approach is most likely to be a catalyst for necessary change.