« New! Pump Prices Being Forced Up!!! | Main | Question of the Day RE: Insurgent Libertarians »
November 20, 2007
Your Mispent Tax Dollars in State Education
by Jack Lee
The democrats in the legislature say we don't have an efficiency problem when it comes to spending on education, we just need to raise your taxes to fund it better.
Today we fund each child in K-12 to the tune of $11,000 per year. In a class of 30, that's $330,000. If you deduct the teacher's salary of $42,000, with benefits about another $30,000 that equals a net of $258,000. The teacher is allocated about $3 per child for pencils, paper and other incidentals. Yet, we can't we fund band uniforms and equipment or sports uniforms with the remainder?
We should have plenty of money to go around, so where's the money going? That is the big question asked by many irate California teachers and equally irate taxpayers! I think the democrats need to prove they don't have an efficiency problem and if they can't and they remain in denial then that's when we enforce "accountability". . . at the voting booth.
I'm all for funding our children’s education, if they truly need it, but I demand reasonable accountability and good academic performance. Todate California schools rank at the bottom of all but three states in overall quality of education. This is unaccpetable! And you can't blame this all on the teachers either, there is plenty of blame to go around from the federal government that has consistently failed us on border security and allowed millions of illegal aliens to sneak in to our state school system. We also have this one size fits all curriculum forced on communities, unrealistic teacher tenure, lack of power for school boards and principals and so much more! We don't have a funding problem - we have a spending problem! We can do better.
Thanks to democrats we now spend $75,000,000 per year to subsidize a mostly free college education for illegal aliens. And this may be a little off the subject, but did you know we are funding 6000 state employee positions that are empty? The various departments pour this unspent cash into their general fund and where it goes from there nobody is quite sure because there is no tracking once it hits the general fund.
Posted by Post Scripts at November 20, 2007 08:47 AM
Comments
Education should be judged by the RESULTS!
Why is this such a difficult concept for democrats to grasp.
Instead we are inundated with concerns about teacher tenure, unions, political correctness, etc.
We are told that education is to important to be left to the private sector. Maybe that is why people still come from all over the world to go to our private universities, but no developed nation admires our K-12 education.
Posted by: Nick Freitas at November 20, 2007 12:19 PM