COURANT on Corrupticut's Crappy Schools and the Pod People
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Subject: COURANT on Corrupticut's Crappy Schools and the Pod People
Date: Mar 26, 2010 8:18 AM
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Well, we're still waiting to meet
Yale's Space Aliens. You know, the ones
who created allin us Pod-People terrorists
who are harassing the likes of Allen Steere,
Durland Fish and Mark Klempner with our magical
powers:
http://www.actionlyme.org/070430.htm
Meanwhile, Yale has yet to tell us what
OspA is, much less answer the Blumenthal
Lyme Cryme subpoena or meet the terms of
their agreement.
Oh, and Lyme in Black people is unmentionable
because, well they're Black. And this is
Corrupticut - the State whose primary source
of income is complaining to Uncle Washlincoln
about allin them bad-parents-and-criminals:
http://www.actionlyme.org/RELLS_MURDERS.htm
I called Rell's office yesterday and
asked about how we were going to support
these extra courts-and-judges, when Rell,
at the same time, wanted to cut the legions
of people-processors known as the State
Employee Unions? Who would send all the
bodies-to-be-processed to meet Rell's
new - and totally inexperienced - "judges"
if the Unions numbers of people-processors
were cut?
Seriously, you should be asking Yale what
OspA is. Their answer will tell you what the
problem is with Corrupticut's abominable
racial disparity in Educational Performance.
We're ranked the lowest in the nation; 50th out
of 50 States.
This is in addition to having "The most
children in jail" of any name place ON
EARTH, even more than Israel has Palestinian
children in jail.
[Having Corrupticut become the bedroom
community for the NWO Elite - Rowland and
Rell's assignment - didn't work out so
well, did it? That would be because
there actually was never any Intellectual
Elite.]
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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Rick Green: After 25 Years, Broken Education System Remains The Same
Rick Green
March 26, 2010
Merrill Gay still can't quite believe what he found when he moved to
Connecticut 25 years ago.
Now a New Britain resident, Gay found a state where every little town
and city scrapes together money from property taxes to pay for the
local schools, creating a patchwork of inequity under a single state
constitution that guarantees education equality.
Over those 25 years, very little has changed.
"Every year it feels like we fight the same battles and we lose a
little more every year," Gay, 48, told me when we talked a few days
after the state Supreme Court ruled that all children have a
constitutional right to not just an education, but a quality one.
Gay, a parent of two, is a board member of the group that brought the
suit, the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding. When
Gay's daughter graduates from New Britain High School this spring, one
in three of the classmates she started school with will have dropped
out.
Supporters, legislators, lawyers, parents and politicians are trying
to assess what the court ruling will mean and whether another
yearslong court case will be needed to force real change.
For now, this is clear: Our method of financing schools has given us
one of the most divided education systems in the country, rewarding
Connecticut with some of the highest achieving students and schools.
It's also given us one of the largest gaps between students who learn
— and those who don't.
Meanwhile, nothing changes, even when we've been hit over the head
with alarming reports for years.
Most of our future workforce is going to come from the cities, where
the kids drop out and children don't learn to read. All that income
tax money we get from Fairfield County won't matter much when our
workers can't compete.
It's revealing to watch this week as our legislators and governor are
more worked up about jobs for judges than they are about the fact that
four in 10 Hispanic children don't finish high school. Even the good
news the other day that our fourth-graders are among the best readers
is a slap in the face: Minority children aren't even remotely part of
this success story.
"It's very dire," said Old Saybrook First Selectman Mike Pace, also
part of the coalition behind the school funding lawsuit.
"I think it's everybody's problem. Old Saybrook is not an island. We
can't pretend the cities don't exist," said Pace, a Republican. "My
budget goes up about $1 million a year for education. That is
unsustainable in my town."
I don't want more taxes. I don't want more state spending. But you
can't ignore what the Connecticut Mirror's Keith Phaneuf recently
reported: According to the state revenue department, the gross incomes
of our millionaires have shot up 140 percent since 2002. Yet no
gubernatorial candidate with a shot at winning will dare talk about
replacing the property tax with a more fair income tax.
Like I said, nothing changes.
The problem is "nobody really believes this is a winnable battle," Gay
said.
I don't have any faith that our political leaders, who can't even
agree on whether we can afford 10 more judges or how to balance the
budget, will have the backbone to tackle our school funding problem.
But while nothing happens, the problem grows steadily worse.
"New Britain is spending $1,300 less [per pupil] on average than the
rest of the state," Gay said. "You have the poor people in the cities
who live in rental housing and they don't have the tax base to pay for
the schools. This is a place where there isn't the tax base to cover
the cost of educating kids."
New Britain kindergarten students start school far behind children in
other communities, Gay told me, with nearly half of them having barely
"emerging" literacy skills.
Gay, Pace and a majority of the Supreme Court are now forcing us to
face this disturbing question: When schools aren't equally "adequate"
— when we preserve a system the penalizes the poor and turns out
students who can't compete — where will that leave all of us?
It is the same place we were 25 years ago when Merrill Gay arrived. He
can't believe it.
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