Education
The shadow that unions cast over our education system never ceases to sting: [East Providence’s] current contract with its teachers expires on Friday, and talks are at a deadlock. The sides can’t agree on ground rules and the sticking point is the School Committee’s demand that the bargaining be done in public. “The union representatives…
Julia Steiny recently heard a speaker whose conclusions point to the same problem in education, but from a different aspect: University of Chicago Prof. Charles Payne spoke recently on the subject of his book So Much Reform, So Little Change. … “Because you have institutions in which the adults fail to cooperate. Grown-up people unable…
Just in case anybody missed this nugget from our state’s leading education unionist: Robert A. Walsh Jr., executive director of the National Education Association Rhode Island, said repealing the tax levy law would also alleviate the problem. Said Walsh, “We simply can’t continue to produce a competitive public education system in our current state.” Put…
Putting aside the pun in this post’s title (on the grounds that I couldn’t resist it), Moderate Party Chairman Ken Block’s prescription for education reform in Rhode Island offers some worthy suggestions: Provide life skills courses to non-college-tracked children. … Let uncertified professionals who are content experts teach in our schools. … Ban the practice…
Liz Abbott of the Westerly Sun has a summary of a local-forum debate between the three candidates for District 36 State Representative: incumbent Donna Walsh, Republican Dave Cote, and independent Matt McHugh. Here are their answers on the topic of education…QUESTION: In these challenging economic times, should the Paiva-Weed Act, which was adopted to provide…
Two quick suggestions for anyone reading today’s Jennifer D. Jordan‘s Projo article on Rhode Island’s tax credit scholarship program…Amelia Kah struggled through her freshman year of high school in the Providence school system. She was teased and mocked by classmates when she raised her hand in class, and was even beaten up a few times,…
David Anderson, candidate for State Representative in Rhode Island’s 4th District (Providence), and opponent of House Majority Leader Gordon Fox, has presented some concrete ideas for reforming public education in the state of Rhode Island…Given the large number of failing schools in Rhode Island I would not try to overhaul all of them at once.…
In “The Unspoken Roadblock”, Justin points out that, while ignoring the six letter complication in our education system, among other education reform measures, RIPEC has called for the state to implement a predictable formula for state financing of local schools RIPEC is not the first to use this phrase. The question that pops into my…
Something still isn’t making sense, for me, from a Friday article on RIPEC’s study of RI education: RIPEC has released a report entitled Education in Rhode Island 2008 that is chock-a-block with data, and it reinforces RIPEC’s standing message that lagging student performance does not reflect the size of the investment. And yet (emphasis added):…
None can doubt that this is part of the “value add” of the union structure, but it still strikes the ear as sinister: The organization opposing efforts to eliminate the state’s income tax has received two-thirds of its funding from large teachers unions based in Washington D.C. The Boston Herald reports in Wednesday’s editions that…
