The Poor are Lazy.
The Public Sector is Lazy.
Teachers are not good enough for our children.
Unions are corrupt and obsolete.
What is the default settings for elections?
By Zahira Torres
The Denver Post
Posted: 09/02/2013 12:01:00 AM MD
Douglas County could be the first school district in Colorado (click here) to face a review of its teacher evaluation system under the appeals process of a new educator effectiveness law.
The Douglas County Federation, a teachers union, has asked the Colorado Department of Education to outline the process for challenging the district's implementation of a market-based evaluation system under the educator effectiveness law, known as SB 191.
Union leaders call the evaluation system implemented in Douglas County invalid and unreliable. District officials said they followed state law and suggested that the union's challenge will be fruitless.
Courtney Smith, vice president of the union, said the plan, which is tied to teacher pay raises, was rolled out in September 2012 after teachers had been in the classroom more than a month. She said district leaders did not adequately communicate to teachers what was expected of them.
"It would have been like me saying to the kids, 'I'm going to give you a grade but you are going to have no idea what's expected of you. I'm not even going to give you the information you need to be successful,' " Smith said.
By Nathan Kowalski
There was a time in recent history when citizens were good citizens and believed everything they were spoon fed. Are we still willing, and that was willing, to be this lazy about the way we think about the government we elect?
Why aren't local government chambers packed with concerned citizens every week rather than when it is fashionable?
The absent American gets what they deserve.
Public choice applies the theories and methods of economics (click here) to the analysis of political behavior, an area that was once the exclusive province of political scientists and sociologists. Public choice originated as a distinctive field of specialization a half century ago in the works of its founding fathers, Kenneth Arrow, Duncan Black, James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, Anthony Downs, William Niskanen, Mancur Olson, and William Riker. Public choice has revolutionized the study of democratic decision-making processes....
When I think of education and higher education it is to bring about a responsible citizen and well educated employee or small business owner.
The Public Trust.
Why does that price we pay for educating the citizens of the USA fall apart with graduation and why are our college grads unable to ACHIEVE STATUS they deserve in a well paying job without having to increase debt to move into a higher degree in order to achieve a poor paying job just to survive.
A Bachelor degree prepared person should mean something. Having spent four years of life and thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars to improve the education for a better life, why isn't happening? This is not a failure of our education system, it is a failure of our economy. Our children deserve jobs befitting to their hard work to achieve the status of an adult.
The Public Sector is Lazy.
Teachers are not good enough for our children.
Unions are corrupt and obsolete.
What is the default settings for elections?
By Zahira Torres
The Denver Post
Posted: 09/02/2013 12:01:00 AM MD
Douglas County could be the first school district in Colorado (click here) to face a review of its teacher evaluation system under the appeals process of a new educator effectiveness law.
The Douglas County Federation, a teachers union, has asked the Colorado Department of Education to outline the process for challenging the district's implementation of a market-based evaluation system under the educator effectiveness law, known as SB 191.
Union leaders call the evaluation system implemented in Douglas County invalid and unreliable. District officials said they followed state law and suggested that the union's challenge will be fruitless.
Courtney Smith, vice president of the union, said the plan, which is tied to teacher pay raises, was rolled out in September 2012 after teachers had been in the classroom more than a month. She said district leaders did not adequately communicate to teachers what was expected of them.
"It would have been like me saying to the kids, 'I'm going to give you a grade but you are going to have no idea what's expected of you. I'm not even going to give you the information you need to be successful,' " Smith said.
Union leaders told the state's education department in a letter
obtained by The Denver Post that they intended to officially challenge
the district's evaluation system on grounds that it does not meet the
new teacher evaluation standards for fairness and reliability, teacher input and the training of evaluators....
Are things THIS BAD with every teacher and every union in the USA? Is every incompetent teacher linked to a union? Is every union responsible for the educational system failures throughout the country? Are there actually failures of the education system in the USA?
Are things THIS BAD with every teacher and every union in the USA? Is every incompetent teacher linked to a union? Is every union responsible for the educational system failures throughout the country? Are there actually failures of the education system in the USA?
Isn't this phenomena in attacks on public employee unions a bit odd to be consistent across the country?
By Nathan Kowalski
There is a branch of economics (click here) that deals with the operations of the political process called public choice theory.
Often
credited to the economist James Buchman who won a Nobel Prize in
economics, it deals with a theory linking individual behaviour to
ultimate political action.
In general, the
political process works very well when there is a close and transparent
relationship between the receipts of benefits and payment of costs.
There are numerous situations where sound economics and good politics fail to coincide.
I’ll briefly discuss one of these concepts: Inefficiency of Government Operations.
Inefficiency of Government Operations
First
it’s important to clearly state that professional pride and the desire
to do an excellent job exists in the public sector as well as the
private sector. The argument on inefficiency within government is not
one that assumes employees of the bureaucratic government are lazy or
incapable...
There was a time in recent history when citizens were good citizens and believed everything they were spoon fed. Are we still willing, and that was willing, to be this lazy about the way we think about the government we elect?
Why aren't local government chambers packed with concerned citizens every week rather than when it is fashionable?
The absent American gets what they deserve.
Public choice applies the theories and methods of economics (click here) to the analysis of political behavior, an area that was once the exclusive province of political scientists and sociologists. Public choice originated as a distinctive field of specialization a half century ago in the works of its founding fathers, Kenneth Arrow, Duncan Black, James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, Anthony Downs, William Niskanen, Mancur Olson, and William Riker. Public choice has revolutionized the study of democratic decision-making processes....
When I think of education and higher education it is to bring about a responsible citizen and well educated employee or small business owner.
The Public Trust.
Why does that price we pay for educating the citizens of the USA fall apart with graduation and why are our college grads unable to ACHIEVE STATUS they deserve in a well paying job without having to increase debt to move into a higher degree in order to achieve a poor paying job just to survive.
A Bachelor degree prepared person should mean something. Having spent four years of life and thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars to improve the education for a better life, why isn't happening? This is not a failure of our education system, it is a failure of our economy. Our children deserve jobs befitting to their hard work to achieve the status of an adult.
