Walker new education promises overshadowed by actual voting record
County Executive Scott Walker is trying to pitch himself as pro-education in his 100 days agenda, a listing of priorities he would act on if elected governor. He is claiming that he will maintain the state's commitment to two-thirds funding.
I'm guessing he is hoping no one will remember that he voted against maintaining two-thirds funding for state schools and to end state funding for the very successful four-year old kindergarten program while he was in the State Assembly. And that was just in one state budget. I'm sure as I go through some of the others, there will be more votes that don't quite match up to his campaign promises.
posted by whatsleftwi @ 1:06 PM
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This statement is from Scott Walker's campaign website: "Quality education in the public school system does not mean simply pouring more money into our public schools without reasonable expectations."
But apparently it's OK for $93 million in taxpayers dollars that flow to private schools through public vouchers? There's no testing and no academic accountability in those schools, but that's OK by Scottie. He supports lifting the voucher caps without any assurances that these schools are teaching kids anything. But I suppose that transfering tax dollars from public schools to private & religious schools is more important than providing low-income, urban parents information with which to make informed choices about which schools are best for their children, right?
I couldn't agree more. There were some good stories about some of the questionable schools that are getting funding through the voucher program and I will find them and post them soon.
There's one other element to keep in mind here. These publicly funded private schools can discriminate. They don't have to take learning disabled kids or the handicapped which tend to have a higher per-pupil cost than the general student population.
If Scottie wants the Guv to "lift the cap", how about requiring that these private schools are required to take learning disabled kids and the handicapped if they apply. After all, we want to compare apples to apples right?
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