Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
CCSD has ~310,000 students. How many of them are illegal? 1%? 10%? 20?!
Big deal.
Keep them. Get rid of the *legal* 80%+. Save a bundle. Abolish the system altogether. Save a bigger bundle.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Farewell Rulffes
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
CCSD has *dozens* of competing constituencies. CCSD has *thousands* of regulations controlling it. The best candidate for Superintendent is someone with *political* skills.
Someone PC. Someone who can utter all the right platitudes to whichever audience s/he's in front of. Someone who can deal with the Legislature.
Yes, Rulffes is a dope, but he's well-suited for the job. I'm sorry to see him go.
CCSD has *dozens* of competing constituencies. CCSD has *thousands* of regulations controlling it. The best candidate for Superintendent is someone with *political* skills.
Someone PC. Someone who can utter all the right platitudes to whichever audience s/he's in front of. Someone who can deal with the Legislature.
Yes, Rulffes is a dope, but he's well-suited for the job. I'm sorry to see him go.
Republicrats Eyeballing Your Wallet Again
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
In 2011 the governor and Legislature are projected to face a budget scenario in which expected revenue is as much as $3 billion less than projected spending.
How much government are the Republicrats planning to shove down our throats in the next biennium?
Current tax revenues are running ~$2.5B/yr, with ~$150M of that set to expire in FY '12. That means if the economy stablizes, in the next biennium old taxes (which "No new taxes!" Fibbons adores) will generate ~$4.7B. A $3B "gap" indicates that Horsefurd, Raggio and the gang are looking to spend ~$7.7B! Up from $6.9B in the current biennium. ~11% more.
Are they serious? Where is all this money going to come from? The crooked politicians are not going to find it in the Dairy Commission or the Taxicab Authority. What do the scheming politicians have up their sleeves?
In 2011 the governor and Legislature are projected to face a budget scenario in which expected revenue is as much as $3 billion less than projected spending.
How much government are the Republicrats planning to shove down our throats in the next biennium?
Current tax revenues are running ~$2.5B/yr, with ~$150M of that set to expire in FY '12. That means if the economy stablizes, in the next biennium old taxes (which "No new taxes!" Fibbons adores) will generate ~$4.7B. A $3B "gap" indicates that Horsefurd, Raggio and the gang are looking to spend ~$7.7B! Up from $6.9B in the current biennium. ~11% more.
Are they serious? Where is all this money going to come from? The crooked politicians are not going to find it in the Dairy Commission or the Taxicab Authority. What do the scheming politicians have up their sleeves?
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Public Schools OPPOSE "Take Your Kids To Work" Day
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
The reason public school cogs oppose absences so vociferously is because state education funds are allocated based on a wonkish formula which scores school attendance.
That is why the most important employee a public school system is its truancy officer. That is why school districts fight tooth-&-nail to keep compulsory attendance laws on the books. That is why the local School Board should more accurately be called the DRAFT Board.
We homeschool. We take our kids to work every day.
Many public school teachers won't allow their kids to come to work with them.
#1) It's too dangerous.
#2) They're paying good money to send their kids to *private* schools.
The reason public school cogs oppose absences so vociferously is because state education funds are allocated based on a wonkish formula which scores school attendance.
That is why the most important employee a public school system is its truancy officer. That is why school districts fight tooth-&-nail to keep compulsory attendance laws on the books. That is why the local School Board should more accurately be called the DRAFT Board.
We homeschool. We take our kids to work every day.
Many public school teachers won't allow their kids to come to work with them.
#1) It's too dangerous.
#2) They're paying good money to send their kids to *private* schools.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Little Red School Modular
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
the district's 76 year-round schools ..
The constitutional minimum is ONE school. Attendance optional. Squeeze up to 310,000 kids into a single portable.
the district's 76 year-round schools ..
The constitutional minimum is ONE school. Attendance optional. Squeeze up to 310,000 kids into a single portable.
Teachers Who Went to Graduate School
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
I am so sick of this constant whining about underpaid teachers with advanced degrees. As though a CCSD incompetent with a Masters is worth more than an incompetent without. Academic credentials only matter in fields which are dominated by the government.
At the stove a dropout who can flip 400 burgers/hr is worth twice as much as a doctor who can only flip 200.
I am so sick of this constant whining about underpaid teachers with advanced degrees. As though a CCSD incompetent with a Masters is worth more than an incompetent without. Academic credentials only matter in fields which are dominated by the government.
At the stove a dropout who can flip 400 burgers/hr is worth twice as much as a doctor who can only flip 200.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Livengood's Fuzzy Accounting
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
[Livengood] kept [UAZ Athletic] department in the black
For college sports you can't really talk about black/red in a way that makes business sense. How can you claim to make a "profit" when your *star* employees are officially unpaid? Or is involuntary servitude legal in Arizona?
How can you claim to make a profit when you don't even make a good-faith attempt to account for your expenses? For example, the cost of tossing admission/grading standards. Athletic Dept accountants never factor in the cost of the numerous basketweaving departments which need to be maintained to give jocks academic cover, like Sociology, Physical Education, Sports Management, etc. Those real costs are conveniently shifted to social "science" college budgets. The old shell game.
FYI, that "$28M subsidy" figure is over the biennium.
Sorry, but UNLV will not renounce federal funding. Title IX *stays*.
[Livengood] kept [UAZ Athletic] department in the black
For college sports you can't really talk about black/red in a way that makes business sense. How can you claim to make a "profit" when your *star* employees are officially unpaid? Or is involuntary servitude legal in Arizona?
How can you claim to make a profit when you don't even make a good-faith attempt to account for your expenses? For example, the cost of tossing admission/grading standards. Athletic Dept accountants never factor in the cost of the numerous basketweaving departments which need to be maintained to give jocks academic cover, like Sociology, Physical Education, Sports Management, etc. Those real costs are conveniently shifted to social "science" college budgets. The old shell game.
FYI, that "$28M subsidy" figure is over the biennium.
Sorry, but UNLV will not renounce federal funding. Title IX *stays*.
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