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Public Schools: Success Stories and Reform

scotttyson62 said:
Okay everyone got an update for you all on Robeson County Schools. SO i am still subbing at the same school but while I was talking to some of the teachers they told me that they have a 10 point grading scale. Which is 100-90 A 89-79 B 78-68 C and an D is a 60 I think and everything else is a F. Which I think is crazy but along with the county policy, that it doesn't matter if you do not do any work all year you get a 50 overall. I think this policy does a lot more harm than good. That was on Monday. Today the students were working on EOG practice which was only 6 question. SO the principle told me if you get a question wrong it was -5. So if you got all 6 wrong you get a 70, which would be a C. I am for a lost of words of how bad this county is and the harm it is doing.
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That's not a ten-point scale, bruh.
 
A 10-point scale is common in higher education. The 50 rule makes sure students can recover from their mistakes.
 
This is not a success story but didn't want to start a new thread. http://time.com/4326380/texas-high-school-football-stadium/ $63,000,000 for a high school football stadium. Another school spent $60,000,000 on a stadium in 2012.

Pretty obvious to the kids in that school what the priorities are. The adults are telling them loud and clear that being good at sports is much more important than getting an education.
 
That's the whole point. Conservatives are destroying public education from within.
 
Some much-needed perspective on public schools and the narrative that they are "broken". http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/06/everything-in-american-education-is-broken/488189/?utm_source=nl-atlantic-weekly-062416#article-comments

Perhaps the most serious consequence of the “broken system” narrative is that it draws attention away from real problems that the nation has never fully addressed. The public-education system is undeniably flawed. Yet many of the deepest flaws have been deliberately cultivated. Funding inequity and racial segregation, for instance, aren’t byproducts of a system that broke. They are direct consequences of an intentional concentration of privilege. Placing the blame solely on teacher training, or the curriculum, or on the design of the high school—alleging “brokenness”—perpetuates the fiction that all schools can be made great without addressing issues of race, class, and power. This is wishful thinking at its most pernicious.
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Still, it is important not to confuse inequity with ineptitude. History may reveal broken promises around racial and economic justice. But it does not support the story of a broken education system. Instead, the long view reveals a far less dramatic truth—that most aspects of public education have gotten better, generation by generation.
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Not a success story, but not sure where to put this.

Maryland casinos are pumping out billions for education. So why are there school budget deficits?

In the seven years since the first of Maryland's six casinos opened, they have pumped $1.7 billion into the state's Education Trust Fund — the financial windfall that advocates for gambling promised would go to the state's public schools.

But over that time, casino funds have not gone to bolster school budgets more than what the state already was required to spend — and some jurisdictions, including Baltimore, have suffered funding cuts.

That's because the state officials who approved casino gambling in 2008 — Gov. Martin O'Malley and his Democratic allies in the General Assembly — didn't require that school aid keep pace with the growth in gambling.

State budget analysts say the money from the casino-fueled Education Trust Fund is, in fact, going to schools, helping to pay for rising costs. But that stream has allowed the governor and lawmakers to take money that once went to schools and redirect it to pay salaries, fund roadwork and support other government programs and services.
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School funding was a focal point of pro-gambling ads that ran in 2008, before the state's voters approved five slots-only casinos, and again in 2012, before they approved expanding to table games and a new casino in Prince George's County.

In one commercial, advocates said casinos would pump hundreds of millions of dollars "directly into our schools."

Another, featuring then-Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Baltimore Ravens star Jonathan Ogden, said expanding gambling would lead to "millions for our schools."
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So the same shell game that happens whenever legalized gambling is connected to education.
 
Philly is taking back control of its schools from the state:

Mayor to seize control of Philly schools - and pay for them

The mayor, in a letter to the public to be released Thursday, said the SRC has made for a system with no accountability. The commission also has presided over cycles of stability and investment in schools followed by instability and deep cuts that officials said must end.

“With a return to local control, the people of Philadelphia will finally be able to hold one person accountable for their school system, the mayor,” Kenney wrote.
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Want a public school disaster because of idiot politicians look at Atlanta.

http://www.cbs46.com/story/36741880/districts-consider-closing-schools-without-tax-revenue

1) Fulton County fails to properly update valuations on properties for ~5 years
2) In that time, average metro housing prices increase 55.5%, with some local spikes as high as 200%
3) Fulton County corrects the assessments for 2017 all at once
4) APS and FCS plan their budgets based on expected revenue from corrected evaluations
5) People are upset that their property taxes are suddenly spiking up
6) Fulton County gives in to the pressure, and resets the assessments back to 2016 levels
7) APS and FCS suddenly have massive revenue shortfalls
8) The state says the whole thing is messed up, and steps in to stall both collections and the reversion to 2016 values
9) APS and FCS still have massive shortfalls, but now everything is frozen at the county level by the state
 
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