Ind. vouchers prompt thousands to change schools

[Capt Bringdown]

SOUTH BEND, Ind.—Weeks after Indiana began the nation's broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to private schools


"The bottom line from our perspective is, when you cut through all the chaff, nobody can deny that public money is going to be taken from public schools, and they're going to end up in private, mostly religious schools," said Nate Schnellenberger, president of the Indiana State Teachers Association.

...only six of the 240 private schools that have signed up for the voucher program are secular."
- more - (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/08/28/ind_vouchers_prompt_thousands_to_change_schools/)

[Trainwreck2100]

them private schools gon go to shit if they ain't curfull

[Capt Bringdown]

them private schools gon go to shit if they ain't curfull

Report to Father Murphy's inner sanctum for some hands-on counseling.

[Wild Cobra]

This is a good thing for the students and parents.

[boutons_deux]

This report shows the %age of charter schools meeting standards substantially below the %age of public schools

http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/choice/pcsp-final/finalreport.pdf

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The war on teachers and the impact on U.S. public opinion

Stunning. The closer Americans are to their public schools, the more they embrace them. Few public institutions can match the +75 favorability spread that public schools receive from those folks that have children in public schools. That figure, incidentally, also lays waste to the oft-repeated notion that there is a critical mass of parents out there frustrated by their hideous public schools. Only one-in-25 would offer a grade of "D" or "F" to their kid's school.

A total of 71% of Americans have confidence in the teachers that occupy their public schools (versus just 27% that do not). That is unchanged from last year. However, public opinions of teachers unions have endured a modest-but-clear slide. A generation ago, 38% of Americans thought teachers unions hurt the quality of American public education. Today, that number is up to 47%.

However, before Republican politicos do a Snoopy Dance and rush to strip teachers of even more rights, there is a cautionary note in the data for the right wing. The number of Americans who say that unions have helped the quality of American public education has also incrementally increased (from 22% in 1976 to 26% today).

Furthermore, the PDK/Gallup people had the foresight to ask people who they sided with in the educational wars this year between (almost uniformly Republican) governors and teachers unions. The majority of Americans (52%) sided with the unions, versus just 44% who sided with the governors.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/28/1011204/-The-war-on-teachers-and-the-impact-on-US-public-opinion?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

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"Poverty Is the Problem" With our Public Schools, Not Teachers' Unions


http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/152182

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Attacks on Science Education Intensify: “There Seems To Be a Lynch-Mob Hate Against Any Teacher Trying to Teach Climate Change”

Although it’s hard to find online now, I’ve reviewed the offending coal curriculum, entitled “The United States of Energy.” In my view, it didn’t even contain any obvious falsehoods—except for errors of omission. It was more a case of subtle greenwashing.

What’s currently seeping into classrooms across the country is far, far worse—more ideological, and more difficult to stop. We’re talking about outright climate denial being fed to students—and accurate climate science teaching being attacked by aggressive Tea Party-style ideologues.

One teacher reported being told by school administrators not to teach climate change after a parent threatened to come to class and make a scene. Online message boards for science teachers tell similar tales…

“There seems to be a lynch-mob hate against any teacher trying to teach climate change,” says Andrew Milbauer, an environmental sciences teacher at Conserve School, a private boarding school in Land O’Lakes, Wisconsin.

Milbauer felt that wrath after receiving an invitation to participate in a public debate about climate change.

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/08/11/293781/attacks-on-climate-science-education/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Cli mate+Progress%29

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The VRWC, esp UCA carbon companies, continues to dumb down Human-Americans with anti-science, anti-intellectual indoctrination. Then we know the "Christian" assholes just make up Biblical/OT shit to indoctrinate their school kids.

[ChumpDumper]

Wow, 3200 students.

[RandomGuy]

I hear those private elementary schools pay their principals $200,000+

What a waste.

[Wild Cobra]

Wow....

71%....

Didn't know that many people were ignorant of the public school problems.

Must be a product of public school indoctrination!

[Wild Cobra]

I hear those private elementary schools pay their principals $200,000+

What a waste.
I'm sure that depends of the school. My understanding is the average teacher and administrator in public schools are paid less. One reason why most are cheaper than public schools.