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study halls -- as it stands, school is deliberately structured to produce factory fodder and service industry drones. Gotta keep our younglings regimented and propagandized.

BTW, testing is NOT intended to educationally benefit our students -- it's "required" so that a small group of businesses can make mega-buckages and so that administrators can get rid of costly veteran teachers.

When the majority of American business practices can be easily and definitively explained by the 4 panel cartoon strip "Dilbert"..........

a few months back peddling the shit and the citizens ran them off for the time being.

of education. The following link is the draft proposal of their Education Task force.

http://www.alec.org/wp-content/uploads/ED-35-day-AM-2014.pdf
Dallas.
Actually, this pdf is the registration form to attend their national meeting July 30- August 1st in Dallas. It includes the draft proposal after the registration. There are two major proposals in the draft.


One is a proposal directed toward public higher education that would

"require all public four year universities to offer bachelor’s degrees costing no more than $10,000, total, for four years of tuition, fees, and books. The Act would require that ten percent of all public, four year university degrees awarded reach this price point within four years of passage of this act" and "would be instructed to capitalize on the opportunities and efficiencies provided by (1) web-based technology and (2) competency based program."

In other words, set up an impossible task - under current economic conditions, under current instructional conditions, and that requires intensive revising of curricula and ultimately continues and exacerbates contingent faculty - make it required only of publicly-funded institutions and impose penalties if compliance is not met within an impossibly short time period. The best, most reputable entirely on-line public institution is Western Governors ( a project developed by 19 US Governors) and their tuition is approximately 2,890 per six-month period ( semester).

The other, the section on Public Charters, is another disaster in the making, couched in pretty tricky terms. For example, Public Charters cannot be required to take services from their Authorizers, but they can choose to do so. Well here are two quick points on teachers:

"Public charter schools shall comply with applicable federal laws, rules, and regulations regarding the qualification of teachers and other instructional staff. In accordance with Section 8, (A), (4), teachers
in public charter schools shall be exempt from state teacher certification requirements."

"Public charter school employees cannot be required to be members of any existing collective bargaining agreement between a school district and its employees."

before '08 "reform" could be bashed as yet another ploy by the good-ol'-boys' network: now that an adored technocrat, who's constantly being damned as socialist by the GOP and constantly being praised as a socialist by Dems, is behind it, that makes it seem that "everybody" (i.e., both parties in a duopoly) thinks it's a good idea

same with Af/Iraq: when it's just oil barons and people who worry that Celestial Seasonings tea lets Satan into your home and think that he lives in Fallujah, it's easy to dismiss the "war on Islam": but once Dems and prominent atheist agitators join in, it becomes consensual: it MORE than doubles in support--it's disproportionate, a multiplier effect