Republicans almost universally want to eliminate the Department of Education. Jimmy Carter and Congress created the new Department of Education in 1979. In 1980, candidate Ronald Reagan pledged to dissolve it, and the Republican platform adopted it. Trump talked about dissolving it when he was in the White House with a Republican Congres…
Republicans almost universally want to eliminate the Department of Education. Jimmy Carter and Congress created the new Department of Education in 1979. In 1980, candidate Ronald Reagan pledged to dissolve it, and the Republican platform adopted it. Trump talked about dissolving it when he was in the White House with a Republican Congress.
In 1965, LBJ, a former teacher, promoted the Higher Education Act 1965 which enabled many to attend college who would not otherwise have had the chance. It covered many bases, including the provision of federal resources for continuing education, community service programs, and stronger library programs and library instruction. Republicans and Dixiecrats said it was an attempt to take over local control of school.
Thom mentioned desegregation. The entire south was in "massive resistance" to the federal government. I joke that I was in the the Army of the occupation of the south before I went to Vietnam and after I returned in 1967. By 1968, the whole country was on fire.
Our district had special programs. One of them, "humanizing education" let top objections, primarily from Evangelicals but others who accused us of "removing God" and replacing it with Communism.
In some states taxpayers refuse to fully fund public education. I don't think there is any magic to local control, local school boards, as politics at the retail level is more corrupt than at the wholesale level, i.e. state boards. I can testify to that fact.
I have some experience. I represented some school districts and local AFT, American Federation of Teachers local unions. I relocated and took a job with the federal government, but my brother was involved in school law from 1970 until his retirement in 2018.
We had experiences with representing school districts state wide in major busing initiatives, the first teacher strike in Pa, before such strikes were legal, involved in the sale of schools to the Amish community after Wisconsin v Yoder, etc. My brother represented some districts where the AFT was not the bargaining units. We were involved in implementing due process rights and our districts had some novel programs.
In most Amish schools, 13 year old girls are the teachers. The state does not care whether they are certified.
Down here in Baghdad By the Sea, our governor wants veterans without degrees or certification to teach his favored mandated subjects. Florida ranks 46th in the nation in per-pupil funding, which means that schools have less money to spend on things like teacher salaries, classroom materials, and extracurricular activities. He mandates the content of required lesson plans. A former governor, JEB Bush, created charter schools, which are an educational disaster. During the 2022-23 school year, over 382,367 students were enrolled in 726 charter schools in 46 Florida districts.
Florida has the third-highest percentage of adults lacking basic prose literacy skills of 19.7%, equaling a literacy rate of 80.3%. Florida has the lowest number of public libraries per 100,000 residents of 2.6. Although DeSantis says Florida has the best education, A large majority of Florida eighth graders do not read proficiently and struggle with 8th grade-level math skills, according to a nationwide assessment of students in 2022 — an uncomfortable reality for teens unprepared for a rigorous high school schedule.
A large portion of Florida’s fourth graders also struggled with math and reading skills — though they performed higher than the national average. Still, they were unable to reach proficiency in those key subjects, according to 2022 data.
Republicans almost universally want to eliminate the Department of Education. Jimmy Carter and Congress created the new Department of Education in 1979. In 1980, candidate Ronald Reagan pledged to dissolve it, and the Republican platform adopted it. Trump talked about dissolving it when he was in the White House with a Republican Congress.
In 1965, LBJ, a former teacher, promoted the Higher Education Act 1965 which enabled many to attend college who would not otherwise have had the chance. It covered many bases, including the provision of federal resources for continuing education, community service programs, and stronger library programs and library instruction. Republicans and Dixiecrats said it was an attempt to take over local control of school.
Thom mentioned desegregation. The entire south was in "massive resistance" to the federal government. I joke that I was in the the Army of the occupation of the south before I went to Vietnam and after I returned in 1967. By 1968, the whole country was on fire.
Our district had special programs. One of them, "humanizing education" let top objections, primarily from Evangelicals but others who accused us of "removing God" and replacing it with Communism.
In some states taxpayers refuse to fully fund public education. I don't think there is any magic to local control, local school boards, as politics at the retail level is more corrupt than at the wholesale level, i.e. state boards. I can testify to that fact.
I have some experience. I represented some school districts and local AFT, American Federation of Teachers local unions. I relocated and took a job with the federal government, but my brother was involved in school law from 1970 until his retirement in 2018.
We had experiences with representing school districts state wide in major busing initiatives, the first teacher strike in Pa, before such strikes were legal, involved in the sale of schools to the Amish community after Wisconsin v Yoder, etc. My brother represented some districts where the AFT was not the bargaining units. We were involved in implementing due process rights and our districts had some novel programs.
In most Amish schools, 13 year old girls are the teachers. The state does not care whether they are certified.
Down here in Baghdad By the Sea, our governor wants veterans without degrees or certification to teach his favored mandated subjects. Florida ranks 46th in the nation in per-pupil funding, which means that schools have less money to spend on things like teacher salaries, classroom materials, and extracurricular activities. He mandates the content of required lesson plans. A former governor, JEB Bush, created charter schools, which are an educational disaster. During the 2022-23 school year, over 382,367 students were enrolled in 726 charter schools in 46 Florida districts.
Florida has the third-highest percentage of adults lacking basic prose literacy skills of 19.7%, equaling a literacy rate of 80.3%. Florida has the lowest number of public libraries per 100,000 residents of 2.6. Although DeSantis says Florida has the best education, A large majority of Florida eighth graders do not read proficiently and struggle with 8th grade-level math skills, according to a nationwide assessment of students in 2022 — an uncomfortable reality for teens unprepared for a rigorous high school schedule.
A large portion of Florida’s fourth graders also struggled with math and reading skills — though they performed higher than the national average. Still, they were unable to reach proficiency in those key subjects, according to 2022 data.