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Aaronb, Sad.
Maybe this NCLB will work better. I hope so.
posted by
kingmi
on June 26, 2006 at 11:04 AM
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Throwing money at the problem
A judge in Kansas City ruled that schools were a disgraced, and basically ordered this one district to build a world-class school. They spent many hundreds of millions, got a state-of-the-art everything. Guess what: test scores and graduation rates didn't improve. Many of the worst districts spend the most per pupil (DC leads the nation); it doesn't help.
posted by
AaronB
on June 26, 2006 at 8:45 AM
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sarooster, I had heard that Texas was one of the first states to adopt the
Robin hood model. However RE your assumption that "throwing money at the problem doesn't work" is flawed. Throwing some money at the problem doesn't work.
Dollar per dollar expenditures has never been tried. To say nothing of several hundred years of social inferiority.
These are fixable problemms that are not being addressed.
posted by
kingmi
on June 25, 2006 at 5:43 PM
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I live in one of the "affluent" areas in here in Texas where our taxes
are taken and sent to "poorer" school districts in a "Robin Hood"-type system. So my district gets penalized and yet still has wonderful schools that win awards and such. The poorer districts are still screaming for more money. In my district we are taxed at the highest rate possible. Luckily, that will all change in the near future. Throwing money at the problem has never helped and never will. The poorer sections stay that way because they have broken families, no discipline, hatred for the system, and a plethora of other ills, all of their own doing.
posted by
sarooster
on June 25, 2006 at 1:36 PM
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