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Senate committee votes for independent charter expansion, harmful education reform

Posted: 6/7/2011 3:00:15 PM

The Senate Education Committee today voted 4-3 along party lines to recommend Senate Bills 22 and 95 for passage. Both bills aim to take resources and successful programs away from public schools.

Senate Bill 95 allows the use of standardized tests in the discipline of educators, despite the fact that current tests don’t allow for reviewing teacher effectiveness. SB 95 also diminishes the successful SAGE program limiting class sizes, lifts requirements for teaching health and physical education, and raids school library funds. You can read more about SB 95 by clicking here.

Senate Bill 22, in expanding independent charter schools, removes local authority and accountability of public schools and lowers the bar for teaching licensing and expertise in these schools. You can read more about SB 22 by clicking here.

Comments 1

  1. Steve Sturtz 10/29/2011

    What are you thinking?  You are taking badly needed moneys from successful schools to where they may have to close and put that into charter schools that have very little supervision or proper personnel to educate students.  You may think you are doing what is best by outsourcing education but in reality it isn't the way at all.  If you think that giving out a diploma is like giving out driver's licenses just look at all the bad drivers out there.  I can only imagine how many have taken a true DPI certified Driver Education program.  How are employers going to hire people with educated back grounds that can actually help them grow as a company and make a reliable product.  We already see how poor the products in China are so bad. Bad drivers/bad workers.

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