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re: Public School Funding Debates
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:22 am to Colonel Flagg
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:22 am to Colonel Flagg
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What specifically in the minimum required high school education bothers you?
Mandatory foreign language classes. A complete waste when most of them cannot even master the English language.
That's a start.
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Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:24 am to DMAN1968
I do not believe foreign language is required in LA unless wanting the TOPS scholarship.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:31 am to Colonel Flagg
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I do not believe foreign language is required in LA unless wanting the TOPS scholarship
I may have been wrong on that. It was required at one time not that long ago.
It stills seems a waste even for TOPS students. It should just be an elective.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:46 am to DMAN1968
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It stills seems a waste even for TOPS students. It should just be an elective.
I think the idea that a couple of foreign language courses is going to make you a capable communicator in that language is ridiculous. I think many people discuss taking a foreign language in this manner. I believe you need immersion to practically learn a second language and that would probably happen more in some study abroad environment.
Now where I believe the use of a foreign language education at this level could serve helpful is the reinforcement of the communication in the English language in general. Now is that worth putting into the curriculum as a requirement I would say that is very debatable.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 12:28 pm to Tigahhs97
"Underfunded schools" is a misnomer.
Underfunded compared to what?
The school in the same district with the same funding?
The school in other districts +/- 10% of funding?
The schools in other countries that do more with half as much?
Underfunded compared to the amount of interest in getting an education by the students? Lol
Underfunded compared to the results that we expect? Lol
I promise you this. No school that falls short of its target goals will ever tell you that they are over funded. But those schools continuously fail to produce better results with more funding.
"Underfunded schools" is a misnomer.
Underfunded compared to what?
The school in the same district with the same funding?
The school in other districts +/- 10% of funding?
The schools in other countries that do more with half as much?
Underfunded compared to the amount of interest in getting an education by the students? Lol
Underfunded compared to the results that we expect? Lol
I promise you this. No school that falls short of its target goals will ever tell you that they are over funded. But those schools continuously fail to produce better results with more funding.
"Underfunded schools" is a misnomer.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 12:36 pm to the808bass
In 2017, there were only 13 states 80% funded or better. That is using very generous assumptions including over estimating annual returns and interest rate assumptions that are more than likely unrealistic in the long run. The 70% number I'd have to go figure out how he came up with that number but he was an expert on pension and pension investment strategy.
Pew Research
Here's California for example:
California Pension Liability Increases
Pew Research
Here's California for example:
quote:
Before the Legislature raised contributor rates in 2014, districts, the state and teachers together were paying 21.5 percent of payroll as pension contributions. By 2022-23, it will be 40 percent.
As the employer, districts are bearing the brunt of the increase to CalSTRS: from 8.3 percent before the reform law to a scheduled 19.1 percent of payroll, or 230 percent more, in 2020-21, continuing at that level through 2022-23.
California Pension Liability Increases
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