More Government, Lowering the Standards on Test Scores

 Education, Local Government  Comments Off on More Government, Lowering the Standards on Test Scores
Oct 032011
 

Nice, huh?

Many school districts have decided to drive a truck through a loophole in “No Child Left Behind” using a test for special needs students in order to artificially inflate their test scores.

Even the Sacramento Bee couldn’t help themselves – they wrote a long story about it.

Here are some of the money quotes from this linked story:

The federal government issued guidelines to the state saying the new test should be given to no more than 2 percent of students in those grades – about 100,000 children.

Four years later, almost 200,000 students are taking the test – a number that will likely grow as the CMA gains momentum.

Nice, Huh?

CMA scores are tallied separately from scores on the regular test, the STAR California Standards Test. By removing failing students from the pool of kids taking the regular test, districts end up with a greater proportion of high-scoring students.

The CMA has inflated gains on the regular STAR test by about 25 percent statewide since 2007, according to a Bee analysis.

George Bush let Ted Kennedy write the education bill – and in California, Arnold and now Jerry Brown are at the helm of creating a generation of idiots out of our schools.
Fortunately, in Placer County – our schools are average compared to a national standard – which makes them look stellar compared to California.
So – people are moving here, especially from the Bay Area, many have not made the connection that their former area sucks so bad because of the Democrats they blindly voted for.

 

Jerry Brown to Local Government: UP Yours

 Darrell Steinberg, Jerry Brown, Local Government  Comments Off on Jerry Brown to Local Government: UP Yours
Oct 022011
 

I would like to thank the Whitman for Governor Campaign for making this disaster scenario possible. While Whitman is installed at HP – Jerry Brown is finishing off California, doing the bidding of his union masters.

Many local governments were recognizing that Project Labor Agreements were breaking the banks of local budgets. A PLA is when a government project is basically reserved for a Union shop only. (There are exceptions where a non-union shop can get the contract – but they are very narrow)

The bill? SB922 by Darrell Steinberg, the number one whore of the Labor Unions.

Steinberg has been on fire this year screwing local government in favor of labor unions – leave us not forget what he did to school districts, basically preventing them from firing teachers to balance their budgets?

Click Here to read about that bill – Teacher’s Union to California’s Students, UP YOURS.