“e) “Educational program” means expenditures for the following purposes at a K-12 school site, approved at a public hearing by the governing board of the LEA with jurisdiction over the school, to improve the students’ academic performance, graduation rates, and vocational, career, college and life readiness:

1. instruction in the arts, physical education, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, history, civics, financial literacy, English and foreign languages, and technical, vocational or career education; 2. smaller class sizes; 3. more counselors, librarians, school nurses and other support staff at the school site; 4. extended learning time through longer school days or longer school years, summer school, preschool, after school enrichment programs and tutoring; 5. additional social and academic support for English language learners, low income students and students with special needs; 6. alternative education models that build students’ capacity for critical thinking and creativity; and 7. more communication and engagement with parents as true partners with schools in helping all children succeed.

However, Art actually is part of the core curriculum. See: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/vp/

The “Our Children Our Future” initiative states in Section 2.17: “The initiative also builds in an extra layer of accountability by ending the tax after twelve years unless it is re-approved by the voters. That gives our schools enough time to show that the new funds have actually improved educational outcomes, while protecting taxpayers by eliminating the tax if voters decide they don’t want to keep it.”

If PTA advocates for the kids then start by (1) purging the schools of illegal migrants who siphon $resources$ from our American-born children thereby stunting their intellectual growth potential and by (2) demanding that the schools terminate incompetent and lazy teachers who contribute to high dropout rates.

No matter how much we give to the public schools education continues to worsen, Deb. K-12 is already getting 40% of the state budget. If the schools cannot provide adequate education with that massive motherload of taxpayer money then more money would not solve the problem.

The real problem is the selfish and greedy bureaucrats who run and teach at the schools, Deb. Go fix them. We’re tired of throwing good money after bad.

Deb is a PTA mouthpiece who has posted this exact cut and paste post all over the state within the last 6 hours.
http://twitter.com/#!/mcdezpta

Gonna pass….get ready…higher everything after gas goes to five buckaroos too!

The money will be placed in a separate trust fund that can only be spent as authorized by the provisions of the Act. The Governor and Legislature are prohibited from using the money. It cannot be used to increase current teacher salaries, but can be used to hire additional teachers and staff, i.e., the arts, science, technology, engineering and math, smaller class sizes, counselors, librarians school nurses, and more.

No more than 1% of money raised by the The Molly Munger PTA “Our Children, Our Future” initiative will go towards administrative costs — mandated. The initiative will raise $10 billion for schools per year for twelve years. Every child in the state will benefit. The money goes into a trust and does not pass through Sacramento. At this point in time, CA would need to spend an additional $60,000 a year, per classroom, just to catch up to the national average — that is a fact. CA has the highest ratios of students to teachers, students to counselors, students to administrator in the country — that is a fact. We are shortchanging all of our kids and have been for many years. PTA, the largest volunteer organization lobbying for children, supports “Our Children, Our Future”.

PTA has been in the trenches advocating for kids — for free — for 115 years — my vote goes with them. ourchildrenourfuture2012.com

Here is the link which CLEARLY shows the MOLLY MUNGER was appointed to First Five Committee

http://www.ccfc.ca.gov/pdf/press/pr/MollyMungerAnnouc.pdf

Munger’s tax proposal will retire DEBT during the first three years. Some of that debt presumably is the pension gap for Cal-STRS.

I rest my case. What a crock of disinformation.

WL