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"The Center for Public Policy Priorities has been a nonpartisan, nonprofit policy institute committed to improving public policies to better the economic and social conditions of low- and moderate-income Texans." I think they are a legitimate group and they have released their projections regarding the current school funding crisis on a county by county basis. (I excerpted the Wise County section from their downloadable spreadsheet.)
The loss of private sector jobs is interesting. That goes back to my post the other day about how "big government's" purchasing of goods and services keeps a lot of people employed in the private sector.
(Thanks, Kevin.)
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The DISD page has a survey on budget cuts up on its website. Go make your voice heard!
I would have to have much more info regarding their methodology before those numbers had much meaning to me.
I agree that the private sector jobs loss number is interesting, and that govt. spending gives rise to private sector employment. However, 1)there is ginormous waste in all govt. agencies, programs, etc., and 2)govt. has no means to purchase anything until it first takes away a portion of what the citizens possess, and 3)creating jobs, govt. or private sector, is not a power the Constitution gives to the govt.
Even if you and I disagree mightily on every social and fiscal issue conceivable, surely, BG, you don't believe that allowing currently employed bureaucrats (sp?) and elected officials to go off on the project du jour is a good thing, without going through some formal process of obtaining the authority to do so from the citizens. Or do you?
Big goverment may force some portion
of the economy to go along. But makes
up for it with waste, redundancy, duplication, excess, squander, etc., etc., etc., ............................................................................................................
The survey has nothing on cutting spending on sports and cutting a coach or 10. Nothing on how to get rid of that stacked school board. It's for the Kids BS
Barry, have you ever watched Dr. Zhivago (the Omar Sharif version)? You really need to sit down and watch that movie.
The CPPP may be "nonpartisan" but it has a definite Leftward ideological bent. While I don't have the info to dispute their projections (as in "forecasts," not facts,) there is a philosophy behind the numbers, which should be kept in mind while considering them. Here's another analysis of education funding in Texas, from another "nonprofit, nonpartisan" group. "Encourage school districts to find efficiencies" seems like sound advice.
An observation on government spending: When you're spending someone else's money, there's no incentive to be frugal or even prudent. While that spending may benefit particular individuals, those who provide the funds ultimately lose.
It is ignorant to believe that if you increase expectations for student and school achievement that you can at the same time slash resources.
I can agree that overhead is high for education, at the same time, expectations are high as well.
While the state is preparing to slash education funding they are raising the standard for achievement and will not budge on delaying the new STAAR Test.
Lower your expectations, lower your budget.
apparently expectations are not very high, all ive heard is how crappy the schools are since i was in it. seems like the more we spend the less they perform.
2:13
You are so right! Let's throw money
at the problem and see if that doesn't
fix it.
@ 1:40 re: 1st point: reread the survey - it's there.
2nd point: run yourself, or recruit candidates you can support at the ballot box and beyond, and be correctly informed of the issues.
@2:13 you make no allowance for, as 1:33 phrased it, "waste, redundancy, duplication, excess, squander, etc., etc., etc.,".
I agree with Doc Feelgood. I did some quick math and it seems that the forecast is projecting an average loss of 1.385 jobs for every ISD job. My question other than how did they derive that number is what type of analysis did they use to base this theory? Did they use use a cross-sectional regression analysis or some other form to determine causation?
I don't believe there are 584 private-sector jobs TOTAL that are directly linked to Public Education in Wise County.
Someone's got some hefty justifying to convince me of that number.
Back in January Decatur ISD blew over $1 million and famously said they needed to spend the money because they had too much....
Is that still the case?
Talk about good planning!!!!!!
You can badmouth schools all you want, take a 5th grade Math TAKS test and see how you do.
There is absolutly no correlation that more spending equals better learning. Until schools figure out how to better educate, more money will never be the answer.
All I know is we are all complete morons because we graduated from schools that never even gave TAKS tests!! (or the like thereof)
Ohhh... the horror!! How have we survived???????
Most people/parents would want Rick Perry and George W Bush's head on a platter if they went through what today's kids have to endure in school...mountains of boring worksheets, hours of bubbling in circles in a silent room (how many of you ever sit in complete silence for hours at a time?), teachers harping on you about test strategies because they have to provide data to the nervous principals that are monitored by administrators that base their priorities on school board members that find bleachers and turf important. And then it starts all over again in the fourth grade.
When are all the decisions final on what the state is going to do?
6:45, I feel you. I was talking with an administrator from NW schools. I made mention that a few years ago they were considered a "rich" school district and had to give money to other schools. I was trying to make the point that if they had kept it they would not have to make a $90 million cut. He said they still have to give money to other schools. And that the comproller is basing the budget from 2005-2006, even though the enrollment numbers are much higher now.
Alvord is tossing the idea out there to not hire an elementary principal as apart of their cuts. They are too busy working on building their athletic department.
GO BULLDAWGS oops I mean DOGS
I'm tired of hiring about this crap. Athelitcs needs more help. Education is over-rated! Get rid of band and fine arts!!!
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