Ted Dabrowski joined Jeanne Ives for an in-depth discussion on the failures of the state’s “evidence-based” funding formula for education. Pouring more money into education – focusing on inputs – won’t work. Illinois needs to focus on literacy for student outcomes to improve.
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- The evidence so far on Illinois’ ‘Evidence-Based Funding’ for K-12 schools: It’s a flop – Wirepoints Special Report
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Notice how the Invest in Kids program just went away? Our Democratic pols don’t want the kids to be able to get decent educations at private schools where they can’t be indoctrinated with Communist ideas. Even the public school teachers know this and send their kids to private schools. They know most public schools aren’t teaching the kids what they need to succeed in life. If students aren’t in the accelerated classes, they aren’t going to be learning what they need to, as the other classes are dumbed down to be eqitable. GET WOKE OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS.
The education system was not set up for “education”, but as a system to give adults jobs, salaries, benefits, and pensions. It is working just as designed. Teachers just pass the students through the grades, no one cares about educating them, no one.
Don’t forget about our schools being government indoctrination centers for every Leftist and woke idea out there.
There’s nothing wrong with primary school education in Illinois that a few thousand nuns couldn’t fix.
Sure theoretically at least, but you won’t find multi-thousands to apply, and many will quit soon afterwards when reality doesn’t match recruitment hype. Public schools are a different world.
I’m sure you are right-public schools are a different world. Who has been running them for more than 50 years?
The policies and leadership are politically determined at all levels and change as public sentiment for their support changes. What was the case years ago at any level never is guaranteed to stay the same as laws and public attitudes shift.
Yes, we already know that schools have been politically run for a long time. That’s why I refer to them as progressive madrasas.
Or just the nun in the Blues Brothers movie. She still gives me nightmares.
New teachers at the elementary level have no background in how to teach reading, the universities need to emphasize reading to the non readers.