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CA's New Education Mantra, "Stay at the Bottom of the Hill," Just in Time for Spring

Thu, 03/04/2010 - 18:20 — Capuchin the Wry

we need an "education" topic pigeonhole around here. imo

NEWS! AS ONLY THE L. A. TIMES CAN COVER IT (that is, lukewarmedly)!

"California disqualified from receiving federal education funds"

" The competition was set up to encourage states to take on reforms supported by the Obama administration. "

Anyone want to tell me how a state with 10% of the population blew this one? WHO ARE THE GRANT-WRITERS RESPONSIBLE? I WANT THEIR PENCILS BROKEN.

Not necessarily because I favor federal funds being taken from states, filtered thru the feds and then generously being returned to us a little at a time. Rather, mostly because you could pluck me out of bed at 3 A.M. and I would be able to write a pretty good grant proposal for federal education funding. These grant-writers are obviously inept.

Present company excepted, sirs!

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Thu, 03/04/2010 - 18:26 — Capuchin the Wry

"Race to The Top!" Gosh!

Interesting for me to see a teachers union scared off by federal funds.

I have poisoned myself twice by eating bad meat. This is due to a depressed ability to smell good.** After the second time, I developed an ironclad rule: if the cat won't eat it, then I shouldn't either.

The teachers' unions in CA reaction to avoiding federal $$$ being offered up? Reminds me of the cat, somehow, or a pig turning her nose up at a trough full of swill.

** perhaps I am not saying this good.

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 15:53 — Ben

Re: "Race to the Top"

Don't get caught up in the hype surrounding Race to the Top. Just because the unions opposed aspects of it -- in particular, legislation that tied teacher performance evaluations to student test scores -- doesn't mean it's worth a damn. I written a bit about Race to the Top, including op-eds in the L.A. Daily News and the Sac Bee. (That mugshot... oy.)

Bottom line: Race to the Top is as prescriptive and bureaucratic as any federal program; worse, it's one-time money. (Although the Obama administration wants to make it an ongoing program, the current funds come from the stimulus last year.) For California, one-time money almost always gets spent the wrong way. And, in any event, the red tape that comes with the funds lasts forever.

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 18:55 — Capuchin the Wry

"RACE" to the top? Hmm...

That's the emotion summed up in, "The teachers' unions in CA reaction to avoiding federal $$$ being offered up? "

If the unions don't want the money, I figure it must be tainted to an amount well outside operating parameters. ;o/