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Lauren Tripp

Texas, Budget Cuts and Children - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...28krugman.html

schoolfunding Cuts

shared by Lauren Tripp on 27 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • What’s supposed to happen when today’s neglected children become tomorrow’s work force?
  • Lauren Tripp on 27 Mar 11
     
    This is an interesting connection: today's education budget cuts directly impact the viability of our future economy. So much for racing to the top...
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  • Alyssa Gantt on 29 Mar 11
     
    The unfairness is appalling. The low spending looks so attractive but it's the children in their schools that don't get spent on. And the hypocrisy, "In practice, however, when advocates of lower spending get a chance to put their ideas into practice, the burden always seems to fall disproportionately on those very children they claim to hold so dear." And this quote just straight up scared me: "Consider, as a case in point, what's happening in Texas, which more and more seems to be where America's political future happens first". If this is just the beginning, or a taste of where the rest of America is going to end up, then some serious steps need to be taken to prevent it.
  • Jenna Rocklein on 29 Mar 11
     
    This sounds crazy. They're making budget cuts in all the wrong places! I understand that cuts are necessary because of the economy but this is going to have a seriously negative impact on their state. If children are "the future" then theirs isn't looking very bright and I think it would be wise of them to reconsider. Having one of the lowest high school graduation rates, ranking 5th in child poverty, and being below national average health wise does not look very good on their part. Not a very promising future if you ask me!
  • Stephen Pridgen on 29 Mar 11
     
    This is a very well written column by Mr. Krugman. Unfortunately I feel he is correct that if our country does not switch its current path we will soon be going the way of Texas. For years the education system has been neglected and now we are starting to pay the price for it. An almost 40% non graduation rate is completely unacceptable for one of the wealthiest nations in the world and unless we stand up to this assault on our basic human rights we will have nobody to blame but ourselves.
  • Mark Bocinsky on 30 Mar 11
     
    I was initially attracted to this post because I have several friends who live in Texas. After reading through it, I started thinking about the whole budget cut thing and I realized I'll never know exactly what that means until I'm a teacher and being directly affected by it. I can ready all I want about numbers but I really won't know how big of a difference it is until I'm a part of it. On top of that, I won't have much of an argument against budget cuts to teachers unless I know exactly why cuts are coming from teachers and not somewhere else. Anyways, just a thought that came up. Maybe I should start paying attention to these details so I can be well-informed of the history of teachers salary and budget cuts if I become a teacher?
Chelsea Corrales

Wonk Room » Gov. Corbett's Education Cuts 10 Times Higher In Poor Districts T... - 0 views

wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/...budget-poor-corbett

Cuts

shared by Chelsea Corrales on 24 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • However, it appears that Corbett doesn’t believe in shared sacrifice, at least when it comes to the distribution of his education cuts. Corbett has proposed about $1 billion in education cuts, and as the Education Law Center found, cuts for students living in poverty are in some instances ten times as deep as those for students in wealthier districts:
  • Lauren Tripp on 25 Mar 11
     
    Cuts for students in poverty 10x as deep as for those in wealthier areas???? ARGH!
  • kwalley on 29 Mar 11
     
    I find it absolutely ridiculous the amount of budget cuts made for schools that are already struggling to give their students a half-way decent education. On top of that to make bigger budget cuts in schools where poverty is much higher than in wealthy neighborhoods is frankly insane and one of the biggest problems within our education system. I plan to use this source and others to explore how socio-economic status of the surrounding neighborhoods of schools negatively affects the quality of education.
Chelsea Corrales

Corbett Deeply Cuts Education Funding - 0 views

www.myfoxphilly.com/...ion-slammed-in-pa.-budget-cuts

Budget Cuts

shared by Chelsea Corrales on 23 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Chelsea Corrales on 23 Mar 11
     
    The governor of PA plans to cut $1.5 billion from education (including asking teachers to not only give up their raises for the next year as a "voluntary contribution" but also to accept a one-year pay freeze.) But if teachers are in charge of preparing our world for the future, shouldn't they be rewarded for their work?
  • Caitie Tighe on 25 Mar 11
     
    I completely agree. I'm not quite sure what the incentive would be for teachers to voluntary give their raises. I understand raises to be rewards for good work, and as a reward it should be up to the teachers how they will use it.
  • cleves on 30 Mar 11
     
    I feel like there are so many more ways that teachers, parents, and students can "voluntarily contribute" to budget cuts. Perhaps more parents can use the bus system, give their children money for lunch, and even just helping with miscellaneous things (pictures,baking cookies,classroom moms) around the campus. Perhaps by using the schools facilities and investing in their programs they are also giving back to their community, saving money, and helping people keep stable jobs. I'm not sure that these things would even help but i believe that teachers are the last people that should be affected and yet are usually the first to be let go.
Lauren Tripp

Detroit School Closings to Offset Budget Deficit - 0 views

www.washingtoninformer.com/index.php

ClassSize schoolclosing

shared by Lauren Tripp on 08 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • In an effort to help reduce the city of Detroit’s $327 million budget deficit, half of its public schools will close, resulting in classrooms bursting with as many as 60 students.
Chelsea Corrales

Poor Math Scores Come as Education Cuts Continue - 1 views

www.libraryjournal.com/...r_math_scores_come_as.html.csp

schoolfunding

shared by Chelsea Corrales on 29 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • California’s budget crisis has come home to roost as the 2009 Nation’s Report Card puts the state lower than the nation’s average for fourth graders and eighth graders on the biennial National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
  • Mark Bocinsky on 30 Mar 11
     
    I don't think budget cuts should create lower math scores... the teachers that are included in the budget should be hired because of their qualifications.
Lauren Tripp

Bill Gates: How state budgets are breaking US schools | Video on TED.com - 1 views

www.ted.com/...s_are_breaking_us_schools.html

schoolfunding

shared by Lauren Tripp on 22 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • , Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and weighted with worsening deficits -- with the financing of education at the losing end.
Lauren Tripp

The Children in Room E4 - Race Based Academic Goals - 14 views

Looks like Virginia passed a similar policy, and this is Jeb Bush's response to it: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/24/school-expectations-should-be-colorblind/ While I don't agree th...

started by Lisa Lee on 15 Feb 13 5 follow-ups, last by Lauren Tripp on 26 Feb 13
Alexis Freeman

Unequal Opportunity in Education (PROBE) - 1 views

Here are some resources that helped me through my paper. They gave me good speaking points to my paper because they left open ended questions that I could talk about further. New York Times articl...

started by Alexis Freeman on 29 Mar 12 no follow-up yet
Caitie Tighe

Class Sizes Rise as Budgets Are Cut - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...07classrooms.html

ClassSize

shared by Caitie Tighe on 22 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Those who support that notion include Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who last Sunday told governors gathered in Washington to consider paying bonuses to the best teachers to take on extra students.
  • Caitie Tighe on 22 Mar 11
     
    What would qualify a teacher as being one of the "best"?...besides taking on the extra students
  • Chelsea Corrales on 23 Mar 11
     
    My personal favorite part of this article is where they explain the study from the 1980's and clearly state that "smaller classes significantly outscored the larger classes on achievement tests," and then proceed to talk about Hanushek's point of view by stating that, "the impact of small classes on achievement has been exaggerated and that giving students a skillful teacher is more cost-effective."
  • Lauren Tripp on 25 Mar 11
     
    Ah, hypocrisy. It's so fun. ;)
Chelsea Corrales

New Jersey's Poorest Students Hurt by Christie's Funding Cuts, Judge Says - Bloomberg - 1 views

www.bloomberg.com/...-christie-cuts-judge-says.html

Cuts

shared by Chelsea Corrales on 24 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Related News: Law  · U.S.  · Municipal Bonds New Jersey’s Poorest Students Hurt by Christie's Funding Cuts, Judge Says By David Voreacos - document.write(dateFormat(new Date(1300828860000),"mmm d, yyyy h:MM TT Z"));Mar 22, 2011 5:21 PM ET Tue Mar 22 21:21:00 GMT 2011 inShare7 More Business Exchange Buzz up! Digg Print Email New Jersey’s poorest students have been hurt the most by Governor Chris Christie and the Legislature underfunding scho
  • New Jersey’s poorest students have been hurt the most by Governor Chris Christie and the Legislature underfunding schools by $1.6 billion, a state-court judge said in a report filed in a lawsuit over budget cuts.
  • School Funding Reform Act of 2008
  • Chelsea Corrales on 24 Mar 11
     
    If a school district's requirement is to provide a "thorough and efficient system of free public schools" haven't we been falling short for a long time?
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