Education
Back to homepageSchool reformers aim for teacher evaluations
May 1, 2013 By Katy Grimes Efforts in California to usher in teacher and school administrator accountability have been nearly impossible due to opposition from the teachers’ unions. But some reformers aren’t giving up, including in the Democratic Party. Sen. Ron
Read MoreSenate pushing nutty new school-finance scheme
April 29, 2013 By John Seiler The state supposedly “balanced” its budget only with the Prop. 30 tax increase. Three California cities declared bankruptcy last year. Businesses keep streaming out to greener pastures. So what does the California Legislature do?
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Real school reform: homeschooling
April 28, 2013 By John Seiler Public schools are a disaster, especially in California. Plummeting test scores, not enough kids going into math and science so we have to import workers in those areas, rising costs, violence, gangs, bullying, exploding
Read MoreGov. Brown calls for redistribution of school funding
April 24, 2013 By Katy Grimes Citing a lack of civil rights and social inequities as what is wrong with California public schools, Gov. Jerry Brown vowed Wednesday at a Capitol press conference to give more money to the K-12
Read MoreNo CA university among those with worst graduation records
April 21, 2013 By John Seiler Although we often criticize California government here at CalWatchDog.com, we also like to highlight the occasional good news. I just found something that’s worth mentioning, although a few months old. The Fiscal Times lists
Read MoreCA social engineers: Gov’t should parent ‘disadvantaged’ kids
April 18, 2013 By Chris Reed The recent flap over an MSNBC promo in which commentator Melissa Harris-Perry declared that Americans “have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to
Read More700,000 CA school suspensions spark legislative hearing
April 16, 2013 By Katy Grimes At the California Democratic Party Convention this past weekend, Democrats killed efforts led by other Democrats to call for much needed public school reforms. Convention delegates even passed a resolution slamming education reform groups like
Read MoreState schools chief: President Obama is a corporate stooge
April 15, 2013 By Chris Reed UC Berkeley linguistics professor George Lakoff’s blueprint for Democrats from a decade ago continues to reverberate. Lakoff stressed the emphasis of framing issues with the proper language and spoke of the power of metaphors.
Read MoreCutting pork could close CalSTRS funding gap
April 9, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi The California Legislative Analyst recently reported that the funding gap for the California State Teachers’ Retirement System was $4.5 billion per year in additional funding. There’s no proposal on the table anywhere on how
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