If Public Éducation Were A Business, It Would Be Bankrupt
Nov 3, 2023 02:47:18 #
https://amgreatness.com/2023/11/02/if-public-education-were-a-business-it-would-be-bankrupt/
If Public Education Were a Business, It Would Be Bankrupt
When the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse
Larry SandNovember 2, 2023
There has been, for some time now, optimism about a post-C***d recovery for American public school students, but sadly, there is no good news to be had.
Looking through a long lens, government-run education has been an enterprise rife with failure. The National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report in 1983 titled “A Nation at Risk,” which used dire language, asserting that “the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.”
The report also stated: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”
Well, that war is still on, and it has been a massacre. A Gallup poll from earlier this year revealed that just 26% of Americans have a “great deal/fair amount” of confidence in public schools. To wit….
[b]ACT scores[/i]
The average scores on the American College Testing (ACT) exams, which are used for college admission, have fallen the last six years in a row and are the worst since 1991. The average scores for reading, math, and science all fell below benchmark levels that are necessary for students to have a chance at succeeding in their first year of college.
To make things even worse, the education establishment’s “fix” for the problem is to put lipstick on the proverbial pig. According to an ACT research report, while students’ ACT scores have deteriorated, student course grades have increased sharply.
The K-12 proficiency problem
The ACT downturn is hardly surprising if you look at the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, which show that nationwide, 29% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading, and just 26 % are proficient in math.
In California, the most recent Smarter Balanced test scores released in late October indicate that just 46.7% of students are meeting literacy standards, and a meager 34.6% are proficient in math. The tests are given to all students in grades 3–8 and grade 11.
Big cities, notably, are not faring well. In Los Angeles, proficiency rates are 41.2% in English and a paltry 30.5% in math.
In Chicago, minorities are especially poorly educated, with 11% of Black and 17% of Hispanic students reading at grade level.
But Los Angeles and Chicago schools are exemplary compared to Baltimore, where the latest NAEP scores show that just 10% of 4th-graders and 15% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading. Additionally, at 13 Baltimore high schools, not one student tested proficient on the 2023 state math exam.
Students aren’t showing up
Additionally, as reported by The 74, two out of three students were enrolled in public schools with high or extreme rates of chronic absenteeism during the 2021-22 school year – more than double the rate in 2017-18. Students who miss at least 10% of the school year – for any reason – are considered chronically absent.
Also, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, 35 states and more than two-thirds of school districts are serving fewer students than they did five years before the p******c shutdowns. Six and a half million more students missed at least 10% or more of school days in the 2021-22 year than in 2017-18, which t***slates to 14.7 million students being chronically absent.
In Ohio, the student absentee rate has almost tripled in the past six years. Nearly 34%, or 565,651 students, were chronically absent in 2022. In Chicago, a third of the city’s schools are at less than 50% capacity.
Why are students ditching school?
While there are many reasons for the great uptick in absenteeism, the education establishment is the prime factor. Most recently, schools abandoned their mission by hysterically shutting down as a response to C***d, thus alienating many families.
Also, the stress on whacked-out sexuality is certainly a contributor to absent kids. Many parents don’t want to subject their child to the National Education Association Pronoun Guide, which uses silly terms like “ze, zim and zer.”
In Illinois, the Evanston–Skokie school district has adopted a curriculum that teaches pre-K through 3rd-grade students to “break the binary” of g****r.
In Oregon, the State Department of Education’s health standards may soon require 6th-grade students to be able to define “sexual and romantic orientations” and “vaginal, oral, and anal sex” if implemented.
The drive to indoctrinate students with B*M, CRT, DEI, and other Marxist-driven drivel has also played a role in the public school exit. In California, the new math framework contends that mathematics should be used to “both understand and impact the world.” It argues that math teachers should hold the political position that “mathematics plays a role in the power structures and privileges that exist within our society and can support action and positive change.”
Rhode Island’s current social studies standards define “how power can be distributed and used to create a more equitable society for communities and individuals based on their intersectional identities.”
In Buffalo, NY, students are told that “all white people” perpetuate s******c r****m, and kindergarteners were forced to watch a video of dead black children, warning them about “r****t police and state-sanctioned violence,” which might k**l them at any time.
All the while, the number of teachers is increasing
The faux ongoing teacher union mantra about a “nationwide teacher shortage” is holding less water than ever these days. Marguerite Roza is the Director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University. She tracks staffing at the nation’s public schools and explains that staffing has been on the upswing since the Great Recession of 2008, as schools added back staff that they had been forced to cut in the economic downturn.
Then came seven consecutive years of strong economic growth beginning in 2013, followed by the p******c-fueled hiring bonanza. In 2020, the federal government sent more than $200 billion in p******c recovery funds to schools, which hired additional counselors, interventionists (tutors), and aides and increased their reserves of substitute teachers. While not every school has increased staffing levels, Roza asserts, it’s a widespread national trend. Her organization produced graphs for six states – Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, Washington and Pennsylvania – that release their staffing and student enrollment data publicly. It could be years before complete national data is available.
Roza reports that in the past decade, the population of K-12 students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000, but the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7% while staffing rose 8%. Even in states with expanding populations, school staff has been increasing far faster than students. In Texas, for example, there are now 367,000 more students, a 7% increase over the past decade, but the number of education employees has surged by more than 107,000, a 16% jump. Staffing is up 20% in Washington state, while the number of students has risen by less than 3%.
While the massive hiring has done virtually nothing for students, it has successfully picked the pockets of the country’s already beleaguered taxpayers.
“I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
Can you imagine if your local market sold inferior food, and was staffed by some wonderful people but the not-so-wonderful ones could not be fired due to union protections? And at the same time, they kept adding employees and sold even more inferior food – would you shop there? Of course not.
In all likelihood, that store would go bankrupt. But when the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse.
Ronald Reagan once quipped, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.” Those words from 1986 still ring true today, especially in the area of education. We need to get the government out of the ed biz ASAP.
We need to teacher’s unions out of the “ed biz”!!! Randi Weingarten is the greatest through to the United States. She gives not a pinch of salt for students, nor education. It is all about “show her the money. Behind closed doors, she runs government schools.
If Public Education Were a Business, It Would Be Bankrupt
When the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse
Larry SandNovember 2, 2023
There has been, for some time now, optimism about a post-C***d recovery for American public school students, but sadly, there is no good news to be had.
Looking through a long lens, government-run education has been an enterprise rife with failure. The National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report in 1983 titled “A Nation at Risk,” which used dire language, asserting that “the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.”
The report also stated: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”
Well, that war is still on, and it has been a massacre. A Gallup poll from earlier this year revealed that just 26% of Americans have a “great deal/fair amount” of confidence in public schools. To wit….
[b]ACT scores[/i]
The average scores on the American College Testing (ACT) exams, which are used for college admission, have fallen the last six years in a row and are the worst since 1991. The average scores for reading, math, and science all fell below benchmark levels that are necessary for students to have a chance at succeeding in their first year of college.
To make things even worse, the education establishment’s “fix” for the problem is to put lipstick on the proverbial pig. According to an ACT research report, while students’ ACT scores have deteriorated, student course grades have increased sharply.
The K-12 proficiency problem
The ACT downturn is hardly surprising if you look at the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, which show that nationwide, 29% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading, and just 26 % are proficient in math.
In California, the most recent Smarter Balanced test scores released in late October indicate that just 46.7% of students are meeting literacy standards, and a meager 34.6% are proficient in math. The tests are given to all students in grades 3–8 and grade 11.
Big cities, notably, are not faring well. In Los Angeles, proficiency rates are 41.2% in English and a paltry 30.5% in math.
In Chicago, minorities are especially poorly educated, with 11% of Black and 17% of Hispanic students reading at grade level.
But Los Angeles and Chicago schools are exemplary compared to Baltimore, where the latest NAEP scores show that just 10% of 4th-graders and 15% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading. Additionally, at 13 Baltimore high schools, not one student tested proficient on the 2023 state math exam.
Students aren’t showing up
Additionally, as reported by The 74, two out of three students were enrolled in public schools with high or extreme rates of chronic absenteeism during the 2021-22 school year – more than double the rate in 2017-18. Students who miss at least 10% of the school year – for any reason – are considered chronically absent.
Also, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, 35 states and more than two-thirds of school districts are serving fewer students than they did five years before the p******c shutdowns. Six and a half million more students missed at least 10% or more of school days in the 2021-22 year than in 2017-18, which t***slates to 14.7 million students being chronically absent.
In Ohio, the student absentee rate has almost tripled in the past six years. Nearly 34%, or 565,651 students, were chronically absent in 2022. In Chicago, a third of the city’s schools are at less than 50% capacity.
Why are students ditching school?
While there are many reasons for the great uptick in absenteeism, the education establishment is the prime factor. Most recently, schools abandoned their mission by hysterically shutting down as a response to C***d, thus alienating many families.
Also, the stress on whacked-out sexuality is certainly a contributor to absent kids. Many parents don’t want to subject their child to the National Education Association Pronoun Guide, which uses silly terms like “ze, zim and zer.”
In Illinois, the Evanston–Skokie school district has adopted a curriculum that teaches pre-K through 3rd-grade students to “break the binary” of g****r.
In Oregon, the State Department of Education’s health standards may soon require 6th-grade students to be able to define “sexual and romantic orientations” and “vaginal, oral, and anal sex” if implemented.
The drive to indoctrinate students with B*M, CRT, DEI, and other Marxist-driven drivel has also played a role in the public school exit. In California, the new math framework contends that mathematics should be used to “both understand and impact the world.” It argues that math teachers should hold the political position that “mathematics plays a role in the power structures and privileges that exist within our society and can support action and positive change.”
Rhode Island’s current social studies standards define “how power can be distributed and used to create a more equitable society for communities and individuals based on their intersectional identities.”
In Buffalo, NY, students are told that “all white people” perpetuate s******c r****m, and kindergarteners were forced to watch a video of dead black children, warning them about “r****t police and state-sanctioned violence,” which might k**l them at any time.
All the while, the number of teachers is increasing
The faux ongoing teacher union mantra about a “nationwide teacher shortage” is holding less water than ever these days. Marguerite Roza is the Director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University. She tracks staffing at the nation’s public schools and explains that staffing has been on the upswing since the Great Recession of 2008, as schools added back staff that they had been forced to cut in the economic downturn.
Then came seven consecutive years of strong economic growth beginning in 2013, followed by the p******c-fueled hiring bonanza. In 2020, the federal government sent more than $200 billion in p******c recovery funds to schools, which hired additional counselors, interventionists (tutors), and aides and increased their reserves of substitute teachers. While not every school has increased staffing levels, Roza asserts, it’s a widespread national trend. Her organization produced graphs for six states – Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, Washington and Pennsylvania – that release their staffing and student enrollment data publicly. It could be years before complete national data is available.
Roza reports that in the past decade, the population of K-12 students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000, but the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7% while staffing rose 8%. Even in states with expanding populations, school staff has been increasing far faster than students. In Texas, for example, there are now 367,000 more students, a 7% increase over the past decade, but the number of education employees has surged by more than 107,000, a 16% jump. Staffing is up 20% in Washington state, while the number of students has risen by less than 3%.
While the massive hiring has done virtually nothing for students, it has successfully picked the pockets of the country’s already beleaguered taxpayers.
“I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
Can you imagine if your local market sold inferior food, and was staffed by some wonderful people but the not-so-wonderful ones could not be fired due to union protections? And at the same time, they kept adding employees and sold even more inferior food – would you shop there? Of course not.
In all likelihood, that store would go bankrupt. But when the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse.
Ronald Reagan once quipped, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.” Those words from 1986 still ring true today, especially in the area of education. We need to get the government out of the ed biz ASAP.
We need to teacher’s unions out of the “ed biz”!!! Randi Weingarten is the greatest through to the United States. She gives not a pinch of salt for students, nor education. It is all about “show her the money. Behind closed doors, she runs government schools.
Nov 3, 2023 02:52:42 #
[quote=AuntiE]https://amgreatness.com/2023/11/02/if-public-education-were-a-business-it-would-be-bankrupt/
If Public Education Were a Business, It Would Be Bankrupt
When the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse
Larry SandNovember 2, 2023
There has been, for some time now, optimism about a post-C***d recovery for American public school students, but sadly, there is no good news to be had.
Looking through a long lens, government-run education has been an enterprise rife with failure. The National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report in 1983 titled “A Nation at Risk,” which used dire language, asserting that “the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.”
The report also stated: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”
Well, that war is still on, and it has been a massacre. A Gallup poll from earlier this year revealed that just 26% of Americans have a “great deal/fair amount” of confidence in public schools. To wit….
[b]ACT scores[/i]
The average scores on the American College Testing (ACT) exams, which are used for college admission, have fallen the last six years in a row and are the worst since 1991. The average scores for reading, math, and science all fell below benchmark levels that are necessary for students to have a chance at succeeding in their first year of college.
To make things even worse, the education establishment’s “fix” for the problem is to put lipstick on the proverbial pig. According to an ACT research report, while students’ ACT scores have deteriorated, student course grades have increased sharply.
The K-12 proficiency problem
The ACT downturn is hardly surprising if you look at the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, which show that nationwide, 29% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading, and just 26 % are proficient in math.
In California, the most recent Smarter Balanced test scores released in late October indicate that just 46.7% of students are meeting literacy standards, and a meager 34.6% are proficient in math. The tests are given to all students in grades 3–8 and grade 11.
Big cities, notably, are not faring well. In Los Angeles, proficiency rates are 41.2% in English and a paltry 30.5% in math.
In Chicago, minorities are especially poorly educated, with 11% of Black and 17% of Hispanic students reading at grade level.
But Los Angeles and Chicago schools are exemplary compared to Baltimore, where the latest NAEP scores show that just 10% of 4th-graders and 15% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading. Additionally, at 13 Baltimore high schools, not one student tested proficient on the 2023 state math exam.
Students aren’t showing up
Additionally, as reported by The 74, two out of three students were enrolled in public schools with high or extreme rates of chronic absenteeism during the 2021-22 school year – more than double the rate in 2017-18. Students who miss at least 10% of the school year – for any reason – are considered chronically absent.
Also, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, 35 states and more than two-thirds of school districts are serving fewer students than they did five years before the p******c shutdowns. Six and a half million more students missed at least 10% or more of school days in the 2021-22 year than in 2017-18, which t***slates to 14.7 million students being chronically absent.
In Ohio, the student absentee rate has almost tripled in the past six years. Nearly 34%, or 565,651 students, were chronically absent in 2022. In Chicago, a third of the city’s schools are at less than 50% capacity.
Why are students ditching school?
While there are many reasons for the great uptick in absenteeism, the education establishment is the prime factor. Most recently, schools abandoned their mission by hysterically shutting down as a response to C***d, thus alienating many families.
Also, the stress on whacked-out sexuality is certainly a contributor to absent kids. Many parents don’t want to subject their child to the National Education Association Pronoun Guide, which uses silly terms like “ze, zim and zer.”
In Illinois, the Evanston–Skokie school district has adopted a curriculum that teaches pre-K through 3rd-grade students to “break the binary” of g****r.
In Oregon, the State Department of Education’s health standards may soon require 6th-grade students to be able to define “sexual and romantic orientations” and “vaginal, oral, and anal sex” if implemented.
The drive to indoctrinate students with B*M, CRT, DEI, and other Marxist-driven drivel has also played a role in the public school exit. In California, the new math framework contends that mathematics should be used to “both understand and impact the world.” It argues that math teachers should hold the political position that “mathematics plays a role in the power structures and privileges that exist within our society and can support action and positive change.”
Rhode Island’s current social studies standards define “how power can be distributed and used to create a more equitable society for communities and individuals based on their intersectional identities.”
In Buffalo, NY, students are told that “all white people” perpetuate s******c r****m, and kindergarteners were forced to watch a video of dead black children, warning them about “r****t police and state-sanctioned violence,” which might k**l them at any time.
All the while, the number of teachers is increasing
The faux ongoing teacher union mantra about a “nationwide teacher shortage” is holding less water than ever these days. Marguerite Roza is the Director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University. She tracks staffing at the nation’s public schools and explains that staffing has been on the upswing since the Great Recession of 2008, as schools added back staff that they had been forced to cut in the economic downturn.
Then came seven consecutive years of strong economic growth beginning in 2013, followed by the p******c-fueled hiring bonanza. In 2020, the federal government sent more than $200 billion in p******c recovery funds to schools, which hired additional counselors, interventionists (tutors), and aides and increased their reserves of substitute teachers. While not every school has increased staffing levels, Roza asserts, it’s a widespread national trend. Her organization produced graphs for six states – Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, Washington and Pennsylvania – that release their staffing and student enrollment data publicly. It could be years before complete national data is available.
Roza reports that in the past decade, the population of K-12 students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000, but the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7% while staffing rose 8%. Even in states with expanding populations, school staff has been increasing far faster than students. In Texas, for example, there are now 367,000 more students, a 7% increase over the past decade, but the number of education employees has surged by more than 107,000, a 16% jump. Staffing is up 20% in Washington state, while the number of students has risen by less than 3%.
While the massive hiring has done virtually nothing for students, it has successfully picked the pockets of the country’s already beleaguered taxpayers.
“I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
Can you imagine if your local market sold inferior food, and was staffed by some wonderful people but the not-so-wonderful ones could not be fired due to union protections? And at the same time, they kept adding employees and sold even more inferior food – would you shop there? Of course not.
In all likelihood, that store would go bankrupt. But when the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse.
Ronald Reagan once quipped, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.” Those words from 1986 still ring true today, especially in the area of education. We need to get the government out of the ed biz ASAP.
We need to teacher’s unions out of the “ed biz”!!! Randi Weingarten is the greatest through to the United States. She gives not a pinch of salt for students, nor education. It is all about “show her the money. Behind closed doors, she runs government schools.[/quote]
Great article...
Canada is even worse
If Public Education Were a Business, It Would Be Bankrupt
When the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse
Larry SandNovember 2, 2023
There has been, for some time now, optimism about a post-C***d recovery for American public school students, but sadly, there is no good news to be had.
Looking through a long lens, government-run education has been an enterprise rife with failure. The National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report in 1983 titled “A Nation at Risk,” which used dire language, asserting that “the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.”
The report also stated: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”
Well, that war is still on, and it has been a massacre. A Gallup poll from earlier this year revealed that just 26% of Americans have a “great deal/fair amount” of confidence in public schools. To wit….
[b]ACT scores[/i]
The average scores on the American College Testing (ACT) exams, which are used for college admission, have fallen the last six years in a row and are the worst since 1991. The average scores for reading, math, and science all fell below benchmark levels that are necessary for students to have a chance at succeeding in their first year of college.
To make things even worse, the education establishment’s “fix” for the problem is to put lipstick on the proverbial pig. According to an ACT research report, while students’ ACT scores have deteriorated, student course grades have increased sharply.
The K-12 proficiency problem
The ACT downturn is hardly surprising if you look at the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, which show that nationwide, 29% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading, and just 26 % are proficient in math.
In California, the most recent Smarter Balanced test scores released in late October indicate that just 46.7% of students are meeting literacy standards, and a meager 34.6% are proficient in math. The tests are given to all students in grades 3–8 and grade 11.
Big cities, notably, are not faring well. In Los Angeles, proficiency rates are 41.2% in English and a paltry 30.5% in math.
In Chicago, minorities are especially poorly educated, with 11% of Black and 17% of Hispanic students reading at grade level.
But Los Angeles and Chicago schools are exemplary compared to Baltimore, where the latest NAEP scores show that just 10% of 4th-graders and 15% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading. Additionally, at 13 Baltimore high schools, not one student tested proficient on the 2023 state math exam.
Students aren’t showing up
Additionally, as reported by The 74, two out of three students were enrolled in public schools with high or extreme rates of chronic absenteeism during the 2021-22 school year – more than double the rate in 2017-18. Students who miss at least 10% of the school year – for any reason – are considered chronically absent.
Also, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, 35 states and more than two-thirds of school districts are serving fewer students than they did five years before the p******c shutdowns. Six and a half million more students missed at least 10% or more of school days in the 2021-22 year than in 2017-18, which t***slates to 14.7 million students being chronically absent.
In Ohio, the student absentee rate has almost tripled in the past six years. Nearly 34%, or 565,651 students, were chronically absent in 2022. In Chicago, a third of the city’s schools are at less than 50% capacity.
Why are students ditching school?
While there are many reasons for the great uptick in absenteeism, the education establishment is the prime factor. Most recently, schools abandoned their mission by hysterically shutting down as a response to C***d, thus alienating many families.
Also, the stress on whacked-out sexuality is certainly a contributor to absent kids. Many parents don’t want to subject their child to the National Education Association Pronoun Guide, which uses silly terms like “ze, zim and zer.”
In Illinois, the Evanston–Skokie school district has adopted a curriculum that teaches pre-K through 3rd-grade students to “break the binary” of g****r.
In Oregon, the State Department of Education’s health standards may soon require 6th-grade students to be able to define “sexual and romantic orientations” and “vaginal, oral, and anal sex” if implemented.
The drive to indoctrinate students with B*M, CRT, DEI, and other Marxist-driven drivel has also played a role in the public school exit. In California, the new math framework contends that mathematics should be used to “both understand and impact the world.” It argues that math teachers should hold the political position that “mathematics plays a role in the power structures and privileges that exist within our society and can support action and positive change.”
Rhode Island’s current social studies standards define “how power can be distributed and used to create a more equitable society for communities and individuals based on their intersectional identities.”
In Buffalo, NY, students are told that “all white people” perpetuate s******c r****m, and kindergarteners were forced to watch a video of dead black children, warning them about “r****t police and state-sanctioned violence,” which might k**l them at any time.
All the while, the number of teachers is increasing
The faux ongoing teacher union mantra about a “nationwide teacher shortage” is holding less water than ever these days. Marguerite Roza is the Director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University. She tracks staffing at the nation’s public schools and explains that staffing has been on the upswing since the Great Recession of 2008, as schools added back staff that they had been forced to cut in the economic downturn.
Then came seven consecutive years of strong economic growth beginning in 2013, followed by the p******c-fueled hiring bonanza. In 2020, the federal government sent more than $200 billion in p******c recovery funds to schools, which hired additional counselors, interventionists (tutors), and aides and increased their reserves of substitute teachers. While not every school has increased staffing levels, Roza asserts, it’s a widespread national trend. Her organization produced graphs for six states – Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, Washington and Pennsylvania – that release their staffing and student enrollment data publicly. It could be years before complete national data is available.
Roza reports that in the past decade, the population of K-12 students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000, but the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7% while staffing rose 8%. Even in states with expanding populations, school staff has been increasing far faster than students. In Texas, for example, there are now 367,000 more students, a 7% increase over the past decade, but the number of education employees has surged by more than 107,000, a 16% jump. Staffing is up 20% in Washington state, while the number of students has risen by less than 3%.
While the massive hiring has done virtually nothing for students, it has successfully picked the pockets of the country’s already beleaguered taxpayers.
“I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
Can you imagine if your local market sold inferior food, and was staffed by some wonderful people but the not-so-wonderful ones could not be fired due to union protections? And at the same time, they kept adding employees and sold even more inferior food – would you shop there? Of course not.
In all likelihood, that store would go bankrupt. But when the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse.
Ronald Reagan once quipped, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.” Those words from 1986 still ring true today, especially in the area of education. We need to get the government out of the ed biz ASAP.
We need to teacher’s unions out of the “ed biz”!!! Randi Weingarten is the greatest through to the United States. She gives not a pinch of salt for students, nor education. It is all about “show her the money. Behind closed doors, she runs government schools.[/quote]
Great article...
Canada is even worse
Nov 3, 2023 03:22:34 #
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Great article...
Canada is even worse
Canada is even worse
Currently, even schools with strong IB and AP programs, are mediocre.
Nov 3, 2023 05:22:06 #
AuntiE wrote:
Currently, even schools with strong IB and AP programs, are mediocre.
IB programs over here are really touch and go...
Very popular for people with money...But difficult to find qualified teachers... And very little emphasis on culling the weaker students ..
Nov 3, 2023 07:38:59 #
[quote=AuntiE]https://amgreatness.com/2023/11/02/if-public-education-were-a-business-it-would-be-bankrupt/
If Public Education Were a Business, It Would Be Bankrupt
When the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse
Larry SandNovember 2, 2023
There has been, for some time now, optimism about a post-C***d recovery for American public school students, but sadly, there is no good news to be had.
Looking through a long lens, government-run education has been an enterprise rife with failure. The National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report in 1983 titled “A Nation at Risk,” which used dire language, asserting that “the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.”
The report also stated: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”
Well, that war is still on, and it has been a massacre. A Gallup poll from earlier this year revealed that just 26% of Americans have a “great deal/fair amount” of confidence in public schools. To wit….
[b]ACT scores[/i]
The average scores on the American College Testing (ACT) exams, which are used for college admission, have fallen the last six years in a row and are the worst since 1991. The average scores for reading, math, and science all fell below benchmark levels that are necessary for students to have a chance at succeeding in their first year of college.
To make things even worse, the education establishment’s “fix” for the problem is to put lipstick on the proverbial pig. According to an ACT research report, while students’ ACT scores have deteriorated, student course grades have increased sharply.
The K-12 proficiency problem
The ACT downturn is hardly surprising if you look at the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, which show that nationwide, 29% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading, and just 26 % are proficient in math.
In California, the most recent Smarter Balanced test scores released in late October indicate that just 46.7% of students are meeting literacy standards, and a meager 34.6% are proficient in math. The tests are given to all students in grades 3–8 and grade 11.
Big cities, notably, are not faring well. In Los Angeles, proficiency rates are 41.2% in English and a paltry 30.5% in math.
In Chicago, minorities are especially poorly educated, with 11% of Black and 17% of Hispanic students reading at grade level.
But Los Angeles and Chicago schools are exemplary compared to Baltimore, where the latest NAEP scores show that just 10% of 4th-graders and 15% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading. Additionally, at 13 Baltimore high schools, not one student tested proficient on the 2023 state math exam.
Students aren’t showing up
Additionally, as reported by The 74, two out of three students were enrolled in public schools with high or extreme rates of chronic absenteeism during the 2021-22 school year – more than double the rate in 2017-18. Students who miss at least 10% of the school year – for any reason – are considered chronically absent.
Also, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, 35 states and more than two-thirds of school districts are serving fewer students than they did five years before the p******c shutdowns. Six and a half million more students missed at least 10% or more of school days in the 2021-22 year than in 2017-18, which t***slates to 14.7 million students being chronically absent.
In Ohio, the student absentee rate has almost tripled in the past six years. Nearly 34%, or 565,651 students, were chronically absent in 2022. In Chicago, a third of the city’s schools are at less than 50% capacity.
Why are students ditching school?
While there are many reasons for the great uptick in absenteeism, the education establishment is the prime factor. Most recently, schools abandoned their mission by hysterically shutting down as a response to C***d, thus alienating many families.
Also, the stress on whacked-out sexuality is certainly a contributor to absent kids. Many parents don’t want to subject their child to the National Education Association Pronoun Guide, which uses silly terms like “ze, zim and zer.”
In Illinois, the Evanston–Skokie school district has adopted a curriculum that teaches pre-K through 3rd-grade students to “break the binary” of g****r.
In Oregon, the State Department of Education’s health standards may soon require 6th-grade students to be able to define “sexual and romantic orientations” and “vaginal, oral, and anal sex” if implemented.
The drive to indoctrinate students with B*M, CRT, DEI, and other Marxist-driven drivel has also played a role in the public school exit. In California, the new math framework contends that mathematics should be used to “both understand and impact the world.” It argues that math teachers should hold the political position that “mathematics plays a role in the power structures and privileges that exist within our society and can support action and positive change.”
Rhode Island’s current social studies standards define “how power can be distributed and used to create a more equitable society for communities and individuals based on their intersectional identities.”
In Buffalo, NY, students are told that “all white people” perpetuate s******c r****m, and kindergarteners were forced to watch a video of dead black children, warning them about “r****t police and state-sanctioned violence,” which might k**l them at any time.
All the while, the number of teachers is increasing
The faux ongoing teacher union mantra about a “nationwide teacher shortage” is holding less water than ever these days. Marguerite Roza is the Director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University. She tracks staffing at the nation’s public schools and explains that staffing has been on the upswing since the Great Recession of 2008, as schools added back staff that they had been forced to cut in the economic downturn.
Then came seven consecutive years of strong economic growth beginning in 2013, followed by the p******c-fueled hiring bonanza. In 2020, the federal government sent more than $200 billion in p******c recovery funds to schools, which hired additional counselors, interventionists (tutors), and aides and increased their reserves of substitute teachers. While not every school has increased staffing levels, Roza asserts, it’s a widespread national trend. Her organization produced graphs for six states – Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, Washington and Pennsylvania – that release their staffing and student enrollment data publicly. It could be years before complete national data is available.
Roza reports that in the past decade, the population of K-12 students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000, but the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7% while staffing rose 8%. Even in states with expanding populations, school staff has been increasing far faster than students. In Texas, for example, there are now 367,000 more students, a 7% increase over the past decade, but the number of education employees has surged by more than 107,000, a 16% jump. Staffing is up 20% in Washington state, while the number of students has risen by less than 3%.
While the massive hiring has done virtually nothing for students, it has successfully picked the pockets of the country’s already beleaguered taxpayers.
“I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
Can you imagine if your local market sold inferior food, and was staffed by some wonderful people but the not-so-wonderful ones could not be fired due to union protections? And at the same time, they kept adding employees and sold even more inferior food – would you shop there? Of course not.
In all likelihood, that store would go bankrupt. But when the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse.
Ronald Reagan once quipped, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.” Those words from 1986 still ring true today, especially in the area of education. We need to get the government out of the ed biz ASAP.
We need to teacher’s unions out of the “ed biz”!!! Randi Weingarten is the greatest through to the United States. She gives not a pinch of salt for students, nor education. It is all about “show her the money. Behind closed -doors, she runs government schools.[/quote]
If you had to create useful media content-you would be out of business.
Why don't any of you clowns talk about the US Postal Service?
If Public Education Were a Business, It Would Be Bankrupt
When the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse
Larry SandNovember 2, 2023
There has been, for some time now, optimism about a post-C***d recovery for American public school students, but sadly, there is no good news to be had.
Looking through a long lens, government-run education has been an enterprise rife with failure. The National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report in 1983 titled “A Nation at Risk,” which used dire language, asserting that “the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.”
The report also stated: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”
Well, that war is still on, and it has been a massacre. A Gallup poll from earlier this year revealed that just 26% of Americans have a “great deal/fair amount” of confidence in public schools. To wit….
[b]ACT scores[/i]
The average scores on the American College Testing (ACT) exams, which are used for college admission, have fallen the last six years in a row and are the worst since 1991. The average scores for reading, math, and science all fell below benchmark levels that are necessary for students to have a chance at succeeding in their first year of college.
To make things even worse, the education establishment’s “fix” for the problem is to put lipstick on the proverbial pig. According to an ACT research report, while students’ ACT scores have deteriorated, student course grades have increased sharply.
The K-12 proficiency problem
The ACT downturn is hardly surprising if you look at the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, which show that nationwide, 29% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading, and just 26 % are proficient in math.
In California, the most recent Smarter Balanced test scores released in late October indicate that just 46.7% of students are meeting literacy standards, and a meager 34.6% are proficient in math. The tests are given to all students in grades 3–8 and grade 11.
Big cities, notably, are not faring well. In Los Angeles, proficiency rates are 41.2% in English and a paltry 30.5% in math.
In Chicago, minorities are especially poorly educated, with 11% of Black and 17% of Hispanic students reading at grade level.
But Los Angeles and Chicago schools are exemplary compared to Baltimore, where the latest NAEP scores show that just 10% of 4th-graders and 15% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading. Additionally, at 13 Baltimore high schools, not one student tested proficient on the 2023 state math exam.
Students aren’t showing up
Additionally, as reported by The 74, two out of three students were enrolled in public schools with high or extreme rates of chronic absenteeism during the 2021-22 school year – more than double the rate in 2017-18. Students who miss at least 10% of the school year – for any reason – are considered chronically absent.
Also, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, 35 states and more than two-thirds of school districts are serving fewer students than they did five years before the p******c shutdowns. Six and a half million more students missed at least 10% or more of school days in the 2021-22 year than in 2017-18, which t***slates to 14.7 million students being chronically absent.
In Ohio, the student absentee rate has almost tripled in the past six years. Nearly 34%, or 565,651 students, were chronically absent in 2022. In Chicago, a third of the city’s schools are at less than 50% capacity.
Why are students ditching school?
While there are many reasons for the great uptick in absenteeism, the education establishment is the prime factor. Most recently, schools abandoned their mission by hysterically shutting down as a response to C***d, thus alienating many families.
Also, the stress on whacked-out sexuality is certainly a contributor to absent kids. Many parents don’t want to subject their child to the National Education Association Pronoun Guide, which uses silly terms like “ze, zim and zer.”
In Illinois, the Evanston–Skokie school district has adopted a curriculum that teaches pre-K through 3rd-grade students to “break the binary” of g****r.
In Oregon, the State Department of Education’s health standards may soon require 6th-grade students to be able to define “sexual and romantic orientations” and “vaginal, oral, and anal sex” if implemented.
The drive to indoctrinate students with B*M, CRT, DEI, and other Marxist-driven drivel has also played a role in the public school exit. In California, the new math framework contends that mathematics should be used to “both understand and impact the world.” It argues that math teachers should hold the political position that “mathematics plays a role in the power structures and privileges that exist within our society and can support action and positive change.”
Rhode Island’s current social studies standards define “how power can be distributed and used to create a more equitable society for communities and individuals based on their intersectional identities.”
In Buffalo, NY, students are told that “all white people” perpetuate s******c r****m, and kindergarteners were forced to watch a video of dead black children, warning them about “r****t police and state-sanctioned violence,” which might k**l them at any time.
All the while, the number of teachers is increasing
The faux ongoing teacher union mantra about a “nationwide teacher shortage” is holding less water than ever these days. Marguerite Roza is the Director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University. She tracks staffing at the nation’s public schools and explains that staffing has been on the upswing since the Great Recession of 2008, as schools added back staff that they had been forced to cut in the economic downturn.
Then came seven consecutive years of strong economic growth beginning in 2013, followed by the p******c-fueled hiring bonanza. In 2020, the federal government sent more than $200 billion in p******c recovery funds to schools, which hired additional counselors, interventionists (tutors), and aides and increased their reserves of substitute teachers. While not every school has increased staffing levels, Roza asserts, it’s a widespread national trend. Her organization produced graphs for six states – Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, Washington and Pennsylvania – that release their staffing and student enrollment data publicly. It could be years before complete national data is available.
Roza reports that in the past decade, the population of K-12 students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000, but the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7% while staffing rose 8%. Even in states with expanding populations, school staff has been increasing far faster than students. In Texas, for example, there are now 367,000 more students, a 7% increase over the past decade, but the number of education employees has surged by more than 107,000, a 16% jump. Staffing is up 20% in Washington state, while the number of students has risen by less than 3%.
While the massive hiring has done virtually nothing for students, it has successfully picked the pockets of the country’s already beleaguered taxpayers.
“I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
Can you imagine if your local market sold inferior food, and was staffed by some wonderful people but the not-so-wonderful ones could not be fired due to union protections? And at the same time, they kept adding employees and sold even more inferior food – would you shop there? Of course not.
In all likelihood, that store would go bankrupt. But when the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse.
Ronald Reagan once quipped, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.” Those words from 1986 still ring true today, especially in the area of education. We need to get the government out of the ed biz ASAP.
We need to teacher’s unions out of the “ed biz”!!! Randi Weingarten is the greatest through to the United States. She gives not a pinch of salt for students, nor education. It is all about “show her the money. Behind closed -doors, she runs government schools.[/quote]
If you had to create useful media content-you would be out of business.
Why don't any of you clowns talk about the US Postal Service?
Nov 3, 2023 08:02:37 #
[quote=AuntiE]https://amgreatness.com/2023/11/02/if-public-education-were-a-business-it-would-be-bankrupt/
If Public Education Were a Business, It Would Be Bankrupt
When the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse
Larry SandNovember 2, 2023
There has been, for some time now, optimism about a post-C***d recovery for American public school students, but sadly, there is no good news to be had.
Looking through a long lens, government-run education has been an enterprise rife with failure. The National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report in 1983 titled “A Nation at Risk,” which used dire language, asserting that “the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.”
The report also stated: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”
Well, that war is still on, and it has been a massacre. A Gallup poll from earlier this year revealed that just 26% of Americans have a “great deal/fair amount” of confidence in public schools. To wit….
[b]ACT scores[/i]
The average scores on the American College Testing (ACT) exams, which are used for college admission, have fallen the last six years in a row and are the worst since 1991. The average scores for reading, math, and science all fell below benchmark levels that are necessary for students to have a chance at succeeding in their first year of college.
To make things even worse, the education establishment’s “fix” for the problem is to put lipstick on the proverbial pig. According to an ACT research report, while students’ ACT scores have deteriorated, student course grades have increased sharply.
The K-12 proficiency problem
The ACT downturn is hardly surprising if you look at the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, which show that nationwide, 29% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading, and just 26 % are proficient in math.
In California, the most recent Smarter Balanced test scores released in late October indicate that just 46.7% of students are meeting literacy standards, and a meager 34.6% are proficient in math. The tests are given to all students in grades 3–8 and grade 11.
Big cities, notably, are not faring well. In Los Angeles, proficiency rates are 41.2% in English and a paltry 30.5% in math.
In Chicago, minorities are especially poorly educated, with 11% of Black and 17% of Hispanic students reading at grade level.
But Los Angeles and Chicago schools are exemplary compared to Baltimore, where the latest NAEP scores show that just 10% of 4th-graders and 15% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading. Additionally, at 13 Baltimore high schools, not one student tested proficient on the 2023 state math exam.
Students aren’t showing up
Additionally, as reported by The 74, two out of three students were enrolled in public schools with high or extreme rates of chronic absenteeism during the 2021-22 school year – more than double the rate in 2017-18. Students who miss at least 10% of the school year – for any reason – are considered chronically absent.
Also, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, 35 states and more than two-thirds of school districts are serving fewer students than they did five years before the p******c shutdowns. Six and a half million more students missed at least 10% or more of school days in the 2021-22 year than in 2017-18, which t***slates to 14.7 million students being chronically absent.
In Ohio, the student absentee rate has almost tripled in the past six years. Nearly 34%, or 565,651 students, were chronically absent in 2022. In Chicago, a third of the city’s schools are at less than 50% capacity.
Why are students ditching school?
While there are many reasons for the great uptick in absenteeism, the education establishment is the prime factor. Most recently, schools abandoned their mission by hysterically shutting down as a response to C***d, thus alienating many families.
Also, the stress on whacked-out sexuality is certainly a contributor to absent kids. Many parents don’t want to subject their child to the National Education Association Pronoun Guide, which uses silly terms like “ze, zim and zer.”
In Illinois, the Evanston–Skokie school district has adopted a curriculum that teaches pre-K through 3rd-grade students to “break the binary” of g****r.
In Oregon, the State Department of Education’s health standards may soon require 6th-grade students to be able to define “sexual and romantic orientations” and “vaginal, oral, and anal sex” if implemented.
The drive to indoctrinate students with B*M, CRT, DEI, and other Marxist-driven drivel has also played a role in the public school exit. In California, the new math framework contends that mathematics should be used to “both understand and impact the world.” It argues that math teachers should hold the political position that “mathematics plays a role in the power structures and privileges that exist within our society and can support action and positive change.”
Rhode Island’s current social studies standards define “how power can be distributed and used to create a more equitable society for communities and individuals based on their intersectional identities.”
In Buffalo, NY, students are told that “all white people” perpetuate s******c r****m, and kindergarteners were forced to watch a video of dead black children, warning them about “r****t police and state-sanctioned violence,” which might k**l them at any time.
All the while, the number of teachers is increasing
The faux ongoing teacher union mantra about a “nationwide teacher shortage” is holding less water than ever these days. Marguerite Roza is the Director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University. She tracks staffing at the nation’s public schools and explains that staffing has been on the upswing since the Great Recession of 2008, as schools added back staff that they had been forced to cut in the economic downturn.
Then came seven consecutive years of strong economic growth beginning in 2013, followed by the p******c-fueled hiring bonanza. In 2020, the federal government sent more than $200 billion in p******c recovery funds to schools, which hired additional counselors, interventionists (tutors), and aides and increased their reserves of substitute teachers. While not every school has increased staffing levels, Roza asserts, it’s a widespread national trend. Her organization produced graphs for six states – Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, Washington and Pennsylvania – that release their staffing and student enrollment data publicly. It could be years before complete national data is available.
Roza reports that in the past decade, the population of K-12 students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000, but the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7% while staffing rose 8%. Even in states with expanding populations, school staff has been increasing far faster than students. In Texas, for example, there are now 367,000 more students, a 7% increase over the past decade, but the number of education employees has surged by more than 107,000, a 16% jump. Staffing is up 20% in Washington state, while the number of students has risen by less than 3%.
While the massive hiring has done virtually nothing for students, it has successfully picked the pockets of the country’s already beleaguered taxpayers.
“I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
Can you imagine if your local market sold inferior food, and was staffed by some wonderful people but the not-so-wonderful ones could not be fired due to union protections? And at the same time, they kept adding employees and sold even more inferior food – would you shop there? Of course not.
In all likelihood, that store would go bankrupt. But when the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse.
Ronald Reagan once quipped, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.” Those words from 1986 still ring true today, especially in the area of education. We need to get the government out of the ed biz ASAP.
We need to teacher’s unions out of the “ed biz”!!! Randi Weingarten is the greatest through to the United States. She gives not a pinch of salt for students, nor education. It is all about “show her the money. Behind closed doors, she runs government schools.[/quote]
**** When the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse*****
This money , however does not allow
40% to be captured as profit by CEOs
Like Betsy DeVoss.
Destroying public education is part of her and others plan to destroy public education.
They will not however destruct the amount of money spent on public education.
And chances are the prices will be going up .
As privatization precludes.
Again capturing more taxpayer money .
Privatizations have the government and taxpayers more than you can imagine.
Privatized railroads in Ohio , can’t keep the trains on the tracks .
Airlines can’t stay in budiness without More Govt money ,
And omg
Look at happyville we now have with healthcare.
Destroying Medicare to take away all of your healthcare.
$140Billion per year into the pocket of CEOs
And you without healthcare.
So , when you think about privatizing government programs , keep in mind the government can err for the amount of 40% Profit. That no one
benefits from . Besides CEOs.
Teachers need Unions as much as everyone else.
Who are you to say they don’t need them ?
Why are you chosen to do Battles for the rich Oligarchians. Let them fight their own battles and start fighting for your side for once.
Just look at what has happened to your healthcare.
Don’t be fooled by all the free Balloons ,
Parades , extra cash in your pocket .
You are being screwed over Totally .
Medicare Advantage programs are today robbing you blind and tomorrow will have you paying for All of your own Healthcare out of your own pocket .
See,
Wendell Potter substack
If Public Education Were a Business, It Would Be Bankrupt
When the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse
Larry SandNovember 2, 2023
There has been, for some time now, optimism about a post-C***d recovery for American public school students, but sadly, there is no good news to be had.
Looking through a long lens, government-run education has been an enterprise rife with failure. The National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report in 1983 titled “A Nation at Risk,” which used dire language, asserting that “the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.”
The report also stated: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”
Well, that war is still on, and it has been a massacre. A Gallup poll from earlier this year revealed that just 26% of Americans have a “great deal/fair amount” of confidence in public schools. To wit….
[b]ACT scores[/i]
The average scores on the American College Testing (ACT) exams, which are used for college admission, have fallen the last six years in a row and are the worst since 1991. The average scores for reading, math, and science all fell below benchmark levels that are necessary for students to have a chance at succeeding in their first year of college.
To make things even worse, the education establishment’s “fix” for the problem is to put lipstick on the proverbial pig. According to an ACT research report, while students’ ACT scores have deteriorated, student course grades have increased sharply.
The K-12 proficiency problem
The ACT downturn is hardly surprising if you look at the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, which show that nationwide, 29% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading, and just 26 % are proficient in math.
In California, the most recent Smarter Balanced test scores released in late October indicate that just 46.7% of students are meeting literacy standards, and a meager 34.6% are proficient in math. The tests are given to all students in grades 3–8 and grade 11.
Big cities, notably, are not faring well. In Los Angeles, proficiency rates are 41.2% in English and a paltry 30.5% in math.
In Chicago, minorities are especially poorly educated, with 11% of Black and 17% of Hispanic students reading at grade level.
But Los Angeles and Chicago schools are exemplary compared to Baltimore, where the latest NAEP scores show that just 10% of 4th-graders and 15% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading. Additionally, at 13 Baltimore high schools, not one student tested proficient on the 2023 state math exam.
Students aren’t showing up
Additionally, as reported by The 74, two out of three students were enrolled in public schools with high or extreme rates of chronic absenteeism during the 2021-22 school year – more than double the rate in 2017-18. Students who miss at least 10% of the school year – for any reason – are considered chronically absent.
Also, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, 35 states and more than two-thirds of school districts are serving fewer students than they did five years before the p******c shutdowns. Six and a half million more students missed at least 10% or more of school days in the 2021-22 year than in 2017-18, which t***slates to 14.7 million students being chronically absent.
In Ohio, the student absentee rate has almost tripled in the past six years. Nearly 34%, or 565,651 students, were chronically absent in 2022. In Chicago, a third of the city’s schools are at less than 50% capacity.
Why are students ditching school?
While there are many reasons for the great uptick in absenteeism, the education establishment is the prime factor. Most recently, schools abandoned their mission by hysterically shutting down as a response to C***d, thus alienating many families.
Also, the stress on whacked-out sexuality is certainly a contributor to absent kids. Many parents don’t want to subject their child to the National Education Association Pronoun Guide, which uses silly terms like “ze, zim and zer.”
In Illinois, the Evanston–Skokie school district has adopted a curriculum that teaches pre-K through 3rd-grade students to “break the binary” of g****r.
In Oregon, the State Department of Education’s health standards may soon require 6th-grade students to be able to define “sexual and romantic orientations” and “vaginal, oral, and anal sex” if implemented.
The drive to indoctrinate students with B*M, CRT, DEI, and other Marxist-driven drivel has also played a role in the public school exit. In California, the new math framework contends that mathematics should be used to “both understand and impact the world.” It argues that math teachers should hold the political position that “mathematics plays a role in the power structures and privileges that exist within our society and can support action and positive change.”
Rhode Island’s current social studies standards define “how power can be distributed and used to create a more equitable society for communities and individuals based on their intersectional identities.”
In Buffalo, NY, students are told that “all white people” perpetuate s******c r****m, and kindergarteners were forced to watch a video of dead black children, warning them about “r****t police and state-sanctioned violence,” which might k**l them at any time.
All the while, the number of teachers is increasing
The faux ongoing teacher union mantra about a “nationwide teacher shortage” is holding less water than ever these days. Marguerite Roza is the Director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University. She tracks staffing at the nation’s public schools and explains that staffing has been on the upswing since the Great Recession of 2008, as schools added back staff that they had been forced to cut in the economic downturn.
Then came seven consecutive years of strong economic growth beginning in 2013, followed by the p******c-fueled hiring bonanza. In 2020, the federal government sent more than $200 billion in p******c recovery funds to schools, which hired additional counselors, interventionists (tutors), and aides and increased their reserves of substitute teachers. While not every school has increased staffing levels, Roza asserts, it’s a widespread national trend. Her organization produced graphs for six states – Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, Washington and Pennsylvania – that release their staffing and student enrollment data publicly. It could be years before complete national data is available.
Roza reports that in the past decade, the population of K-12 students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000, but the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7% while staffing rose 8%. Even in states with expanding populations, school staff has been increasing far faster than students. In Texas, for example, there are now 367,000 more students, a 7% increase over the past decade, but the number of education employees has surged by more than 107,000, a 16% jump. Staffing is up 20% in Washington state, while the number of students has risen by less than 3%.
While the massive hiring has done virtually nothing for students, it has successfully picked the pockets of the country’s already beleaguered taxpayers.
“I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
Can you imagine if your local market sold inferior food, and was staffed by some wonderful people but the not-so-wonderful ones could not be fired due to union protections? And at the same time, they kept adding employees and sold even more inferior food – would you shop there? Of course not.
In all likelihood, that store would go bankrupt. But when the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse.
Ronald Reagan once quipped, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.” Those words from 1986 still ring true today, especially in the area of education. We need to get the government out of the ed biz ASAP.
We need to teacher’s unions out of the “ed biz”!!! Randi Weingarten is the greatest through to the United States. She gives not a pinch of salt for students, nor education. It is all about “show her the money. Behind closed doors, she runs government schools.[/quote]
**** When the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse*****
This money , however does not allow
40% to be captured as profit by CEOs
Like Betsy DeVoss.
Destroying public education is part of her and others plan to destroy public education.
They will not however destruct the amount of money spent on public education.
And chances are the prices will be going up .
As privatization precludes.
Again capturing more taxpayer money .
Privatizations have the government and taxpayers more than you can imagine.
Privatized railroads in Ohio , can’t keep the trains on the tracks .
Airlines can’t stay in budiness without More Govt money ,
And omg
Look at happyville we now have with healthcare.
Destroying Medicare to take away all of your healthcare.
$140Billion per year into the pocket of CEOs
And you without healthcare.
So , when you think about privatizing government programs , keep in mind the government can err for the amount of 40% Profit. That no one
benefits from . Besides CEOs.
Teachers need Unions as much as everyone else.
Who are you to say they don’t need them ?
Why are you chosen to do Battles for the rich Oligarchians. Let them fight their own battles and start fighting for your side for once.
Just look at what has happened to your healthcare.
Don’t be fooled by all the free Balloons ,
Parades , extra cash in your pocket .
You are being screwed over Totally .
Medicare Advantage programs are today robbing you blind and tomorrow will have you paying for All of your own Healthcare out of your own pocket .
See,
Wendell Potter substack
Nov 3, 2023 08:08:16 #
[quote=AuntiE]https://amgreatness.com/2023/11/02/if-public-education-were-a-business-it-would-be-bankrupt/
If Public Education Were a Business, It Would Be Bankrupt
When the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse
Larry SandNovember 2, 2023
There has been, for some time now, optimism about a post-C***d recovery for American public school students, but sadly, there is no good news to be had.
Looking through a long lens, government-run education has been an enterprise rife with failure. The National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report in 1983 titled “A Nation at Risk,” which used dire language, asserting that “the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.”
The report also stated: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”
Well, that war is still on, and it has been a massacre. A Gallup poll from earlier this year revealed that just 26% of Americans have a “great deal/fair amount” of confidence in public schools. To wit….
[b]ACT scores[/i]
The average scores on the American College Testing (ACT) exams, which are used for college admission, have fallen the last six years in a row and are the worst since 1991. The average scores for reading, math, and science all fell below benchmark levels that are necessary for students to have a chance at succeeding in their first year of college.
To make things even worse, the education establishment’s “fix” for the problem is to put lipstick on the proverbial pig. According to an ACT research report, while students’ ACT scores have deteriorated, student course grades have increased sharply.
The K-12 proficiency problem
The ACT downturn is hardly surprising if you look at the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, which show that nationwide, 29% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading, and just 26 % are proficient in math.
In California, the most recent Smarter Balanced test scores released in late October indicate that just 46.7% of students are meeting literacy standards, and a meager 34.6% are proficient in math. The tests are given to all students in grades 3–8 and grade 11.
Big cities, notably, are not faring well. In Los Angeles, proficiency rates are 41.2% in English and a paltry 30.5% in math.
In Chicago, minorities are especially poorly educated, with 11% of Black and 17% of Hispanic students reading at grade level.
But Los Angeles and Chicago schools are exemplary compared to Baltimore, where the latest NAEP scores show that just 10% of 4th-graders and 15% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading. Additionally, at 13 Baltimore high schools, not one student tested proficient on the 2023 state math exam.
Students aren’t showing up
Additionally, as reported by The 74, two out of three students were enrolled in public schools with high or extreme rates of chronic absenteeism during the 2021-22 school year – more than double the rate in 2017-18. Students who miss at least 10% of the school year – for any reason – are considered chronically absent.
Also, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, 35 states and more than two-thirds of school districts are serving fewer students than they did five years before the p******c shutdowns. Six and a half million more students missed at least 10% or more of school days in the 2021-22 year than in 2017-18, which t***slates to 14.7 million students being chronically absent.
In Ohio, the student absentee rate has almost tripled in the past six years. Nearly 34%, or 565,651 students, were chronically absent in 2022. In Chicago, a third of the city’s schools are at less than 50% capacity.
Why are students ditching school?
While there are many reasons for the great uptick in absenteeism, the education establishment is the prime factor. Most recently, schools abandoned their mission by hysterically shutting down as a response to C***d, thus alienating many families.
Also, the stress on whacked-out sexuality is certainly a contributor to absent kids. Many parents don’t want to subject their child to the National Education Association Pronoun Guide, which uses silly terms like “ze, zim and zer.”
In Illinois, the Evanston–Skokie school district has adopted a curriculum that teaches pre-K through 3rd-grade students to “break the binary” of g****r.
In Oregon, the State Department of Education’s health standards may soon require 6th-grade students to be able to define “sexual and romantic orientations” and “vaginal, oral, and anal sex” if implemented.
The drive to indoctrinate students with B*M, CRT, DEI, and other Marxist-driven drivel has also played a role in the public school exit. In California, the new math framework contends that mathematics should be used to “both understand and impact the world.” It argues that math teachers should hold the political position that “mathematics plays a role in the power structures and privileges that exist within our society and can support action and positive change.”
Rhode Island’s current social studies standards define “how power can be distributed and used to create a more equitable society for communities and individuals based on their intersectional identities.”
In Buffalo, NY, students are told that “all white people” perpetuate s******c r****m, and kindergarteners were forced to watch a video of dead black children, warning them about “r****t police and state-sanctioned violence,” which might k**l them at any time.
All the while, the number of teachers is increasing
The faux ongoing teacher union mantra about a “nationwide teacher shortage” is holding less water than ever these days. Marguerite Roza is the Director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University. She tracks staffing at the nation’s public schools and explains that staffing has been on the upswing since the Great Recession of 2008, as schools added back staff that they had been forced to cut in the economic downturn.
Then came seven consecutive years of strong economic growth beginning in 2013, followed by the p******c-fueled hiring bonanza. In 2020, the federal government sent more than $200 billion in p******c recovery funds to schools, which hired additional counselors, interventionists (tutors), and aides and increased their reserves of substitute teachers. While not every school has increased staffing levels, Roza asserts, it’s a widespread national trend. Her organization produced graphs for six states – Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, Washington and Pennsylvania – that release their staffing and student enrollment data publicly. It could be years before complete national data is available.
Roza reports that in the past decade, the population of K-12 students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000, but the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7% while staffing rose 8%. Even in states with expanding populations, school staff has been increasing far faster than students. In Texas, for example, there are now 367,000 more students, a 7% increase over the past decade, but the number of education employees has surged by more than 107,000, a 16% jump. Staffing is up 20% in Washington state, while the number of students has risen by less than 3%.
While the massive hiring has done virtually nothing for students, it has successfully picked the pockets of the country’s already beleaguered taxpayers.
“I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
Can you imagine if your local market sold inferior food, and was staffed by some wonderful people but the not-so-wonderful ones could not be fired due to union protections? And at the same time, they kept adding employees and sold even more inferior food – would you shop there? Of course not.
In all likelihood, that store would go bankrupt. But when the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse.
Ronald Reagan once quipped, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.” Those words from 1986 still ring true today, especially in the area of education. We need to get the government out of the ed biz ASAP.
We need to teacher’s unions out of the “ed biz”!!! Randi Weingarten is the greatest through to the United States. She gives not a pinch of salt for students, nor education. It is all about “show her the money. Behind closed doors, she runs government schools.[/quote]
Propaganda !!!!!
Complete with f**e boogiemen .
Balance it all against the new out of pocket expenses that will be guaranteed for you.
If you don’t want government to pay,
Fine !!!!!!
You Will Be Doing All of the Paying out of your own
Pockets .
40% of which will be profit for CEOs .
If Public Education Were a Business, It Would Be Bankrupt
When the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse
Larry SandNovember 2, 2023
There has been, for some time now, optimism about a post-C***d recovery for American public school students, but sadly, there is no good news to be had.
Looking through a long lens, government-run education has been an enterprise rife with failure. The National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report in 1983 titled “A Nation at Risk,” which used dire language, asserting that “the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.”
The report also stated: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”
Well, that war is still on, and it has been a massacre. A Gallup poll from earlier this year revealed that just 26% of Americans have a “great deal/fair amount” of confidence in public schools. To wit….
[b]ACT scores[/i]
The average scores on the American College Testing (ACT) exams, which are used for college admission, have fallen the last six years in a row and are the worst since 1991. The average scores for reading, math, and science all fell below benchmark levels that are necessary for students to have a chance at succeeding in their first year of college.
To make things even worse, the education establishment’s “fix” for the problem is to put lipstick on the proverbial pig. According to an ACT research report, while students’ ACT scores have deteriorated, student course grades have increased sharply.
The K-12 proficiency problem
The ACT downturn is hardly surprising if you look at the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, which show that nationwide, 29% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading, and just 26 % are proficient in math.
In California, the most recent Smarter Balanced test scores released in late October indicate that just 46.7% of students are meeting literacy standards, and a meager 34.6% are proficient in math. The tests are given to all students in grades 3–8 and grade 11.
Big cities, notably, are not faring well. In Los Angeles, proficiency rates are 41.2% in English and a paltry 30.5% in math.
In Chicago, minorities are especially poorly educated, with 11% of Black and 17% of Hispanic students reading at grade level.
But Los Angeles and Chicago schools are exemplary compared to Baltimore, where the latest NAEP scores show that just 10% of 4th-graders and 15% of 8th-graders are proficient in reading. Additionally, at 13 Baltimore high schools, not one student tested proficient on the 2023 state math exam.
Students aren’t showing up
Additionally, as reported by The 74, two out of three students were enrolled in public schools with high or extreme rates of chronic absenteeism during the 2021-22 school year – more than double the rate in 2017-18. Students who miss at least 10% of the school year – for any reason – are considered chronically absent.
Also, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, 35 states and more than two-thirds of school districts are serving fewer students than they did five years before the p******c shutdowns. Six and a half million more students missed at least 10% or more of school days in the 2021-22 year than in 2017-18, which t***slates to 14.7 million students being chronically absent.
In Ohio, the student absentee rate has almost tripled in the past six years. Nearly 34%, or 565,651 students, were chronically absent in 2022. In Chicago, a third of the city’s schools are at less than 50% capacity.
Why are students ditching school?
While there are many reasons for the great uptick in absenteeism, the education establishment is the prime factor. Most recently, schools abandoned their mission by hysterically shutting down as a response to C***d, thus alienating many families.
Also, the stress on whacked-out sexuality is certainly a contributor to absent kids. Many parents don’t want to subject their child to the National Education Association Pronoun Guide, which uses silly terms like “ze, zim and zer.”
In Illinois, the Evanston–Skokie school district has adopted a curriculum that teaches pre-K through 3rd-grade students to “break the binary” of g****r.
In Oregon, the State Department of Education’s health standards may soon require 6th-grade students to be able to define “sexual and romantic orientations” and “vaginal, oral, and anal sex” if implemented.
The drive to indoctrinate students with B*M, CRT, DEI, and other Marxist-driven drivel has also played a role in the public school exit. In California, the new math framework contends that mathematics should be used to “both understand and impact the world.” It argues that math teachers should hold the political position that “mathematics plays a role in the power structures and privileges that exist within our society and can support action and positive change.”
Rhode Island’s current social studies standards define “how power can be distributed and used to create a more equitable society for communities and individuals based on their intersectional identities.”
In Buffalo, NY, students are told that “all white people” perpetuate s******c r****m, and kindergarteners were forced to watch a video of dead black children, warning them about “r****t police and state-sanctioned violence,” which might k**l them at any time.
All the while, the number of teachers is increasing
The faux ongoing teacher union mantra about a “nationwide teacher shortage” is holding less water than ever these days. Marguerite Roza is the Director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University. She tracks staffing at the nation’s public schools and explains that staffing has been on the upswing since the Great Recession of 2008, as schools added back staff that they had been forced to cut in the economic downturn.
Then came seven consecutive years of strong economic growth beginning in 2013, followed by the p******c-fueled hiring bonanza. In 2020, the federal government sent more than $200 billion in p******c recovery funds to schools, which hired additional counselors, interventionists (tutors), and aides and increased their reserves of substitute teachers. While not every school has increased staffing levels, Roza asserts, it’s a widespread national trend. Her organization produced graphs for six states – Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, Washington and Pennsylvania – that release their staffing and student enrollment data publicly. It could be years before complete national data is available.
Roza reports that in the past decade, the population of K-12 students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000, but the number of school employees grew by 18,000. In Connecticut, public school enrollment fell 7% while staffing rose 8%. Even in states with expanding populations, school staff has been increasing far faster than students. In Texas, for example, there are now 367,000 more students, a 7% increase over the past decade, but the number of education employees has surged by more than 107,000, a 16% jump. Staffing is up 20% in Washington state, while the number of students has risen by less than 3%.
While the massive hiring has done virtually nothing for students, it has successfully picked the pockets of the country’s already beleaguered taxpayers.
“I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
Can you imagine if your local market sold inferior food, and was staffed by some wonderful people but the not-so-wonderful ones could not be fired due to union protections? And at the same time, they kept adding employees and sold even more inferior food – would you shop there? Of course not.
In all likelihood, that store would go bankrupt. But when the government runs something, there’s an endless supply of taxpayer money for them to use and abuse.
Ronald Reagan once quipped, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.” Those words from 1986 still ring true today, especially in the area of education. We need to get the government out of the ed biz ASAP.
We need to teacher’s unions out of the “ed biz”!!! Randi Weingarten is the greatest through to the United States. She gives not a pinch of salt for students, nor education. It is all about “show her the money. Behind closed doors, she runs government schools.[/quote]
Propaganda !!!!!
Complete with f**e boogiemen .
Balance it all against the new out of pocket expenses that will be guaranteed for you.
If you don’t want government to pay,
Fine !!!!!!
You Will Be Doing All of the Paying out of your own
Pockets .
40% of which will be profit for CEOs .
Nov 3, 2023 12:29:37 #
Milosia2 wrote:
Propaganda !!!!!
Complete with f**e boogiemen .
Balance it all against the new out of pocket expenses that will be guaranteed for you.
If you don’t want government to pay,
Fine !!!!!!
You Will Be Doing All of the Paying out of your own
Pockets .
40% of which will be profit for CEOs .
Complete with f**e boogiemen .
Balance it all against the new out of pocket expenses that will be guaranteed for you.
If you don’t want government to pay,
Fine !!!!!!
You Will Be Doing All of the Paying out of your own
Pockets .
40% of which will be profit for CEOs .
Chairman Xi is so proud of you.
Nov 3, 2023 12:31:03 #
Sew_What wrote:
If you had to create useful media content-you would be out of business.
Why don't any of you clowns talk about the US Postal Service?
Why don't any of you clowns talk about the US Postal Service?
Do you lack the ability to handle that topic? Why should we do the work for you on a topic of your choosing?
Nov 3, 2023 12:35:47 #
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
IB programs over here are really touch and go...
Very popular for people with money...But difficult to find qualified teachers... And very little emphasis on culling the weaker students ..
Very popular for people with money...But difficult to find qualified teachers... And very little emphasis on culling the weaker students ..
Our area has more AP focused classes than it does IB programs.
Most amusing is our county has made their name in education yet the two best schools in the area are the French International School and the British School.
Nov 3, 2023 13:16:18 #
Milosia2 wrote:
Propaganda !!!!!
Complete with f**e boogiemen .
Balance it all against the new out of pocket expenses that will be guaranteed for you.
If you don’t want government to pay,
Fine !!!!!!
You Will Be Doing All of the Paying out of your own
Pockets .
40% of which will be profit for CEOs .
Complete with f**e boogiemen .
Balance it all against the new out of pocket expenses that will be guaranteed for you.
If you don’t want government to pay,
Fine !!!!!!
You Will Be Doing All of the Paying out of your own
Pockets .
40% of which will be profit for CEOs .
For the record , none of the Reagan policy’s did anything but make rich people richer, gathering up Your Money .
Nov 3, 2023 13:19:22 #
AuntiE wrote:
Chairman Xi is so proud of you.
Nope . He’s proud of youz fools for filling up his warehouses with your greenbacks buying his cheap crap at Walmart .
Now he’s buying up all of your real estate,
Xi ,
Oh yeah , a friend of yours.
Nov 3, 2023 13:23:48 #
Sew_What wrote:
If you had to create useful media content-you would be out of business.
Why don't any of you clowns talk about the US Postal Service?
Why don't any of you clowns talk about the US Postal Service?
** “I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help. The the rich, t***sfer all of the wealth the middleclass has amassed into rich peoples accounts ***
Nov 3, 2023 18:10:25 #
LostAggie66
Loc: Corpus Christi, TX (Shire of Seawinds)
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Great article...
Canada is even worse
Canada is even worse
I wonder what the test scores are in Southern schools/cities and how they relate to the stats posted in the article. This was an interesting article.
Nov 3, 2023 18:13:39 #
LostAggie66 wrote:
I wonder what the test scores are in Southern schools/cities and how they relate to the stats posted in the article. This was an interesting article.
I notice you do not “wonder” what test scores are in blue schools/cities. Could it be because their percentages are so horrid and already published ie. Baltimore high school graduates cannot read above elementary school level.
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