Comments on: Where’s the Bailout for Schools? http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/25/wheres-the-bailout-for-schools/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:59:33 -0600 hourly 1 By: alinda wasner, librarian http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/25/wheres-the-bailout-for-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-4986 alinda wasner, librarian Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:16:56 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1516#comment-4986 AND make sure the big three AND wall street bankers (and legislators!)are paying their fare share of public school taxes in the areas in which their companies and plants, constituents are located instead of getting corporate welfare to avoid financing the public schools. Racism is at work when CEOs and legislators live in wealthy suburbs and send their kids to private schools. NB: I am Caucausian and having worked in urban schools all my career life, have watched the tax base erode due to the above. AND make sure the big three AND wall street bankers (and legislators!)are paying their fare share of public school taxes in the areas in which their companies and plants, constituents are located instead of getting corporate welfare to avoid financing the public schools.

Racism is at work when CEOs and legislators live in wealthy suburbs and send their kids to private schools.

NB: I am Caucausian and having worked in urban schools all my career life, have watched the tax base erode due to the above.

]]> By: Jay P. Greene http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/25/wheres-the-bailout-for-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-4912 Jay P. Greene Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:30:41 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1516#comment-4912 Great minds must think alike: http://jaypgreene.com/2008/11/25/guess-who-wants-a-bailout/ Great minds must think alike: http://jaypgreene.com/2008/11/25/guess-who-wants-a-bailout/

]]> By: Rachel http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/25/wheres-the-bailout-for-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-4911 Rachel Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:57:48 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1516#comment-4911 It isn't exactly a bailout for public education that's needed, its a bailout for state government who are seeing their tax base fall apart due to the economic crisis. But important as infrastructure is, I think its a mistake to focus only on physical, rather than human capital. At least in CA, everyone seems much more willing to build and renovated schools that to pay for the teachers to teach in them Investing in pre-K and small class sizes and after-school programs is just as much of an investment in the future as a highway or a bridge, and teaching is just as much of a real job as construction work. It isn’t exactly a bailout for public education that’s needed, its a bailout for state government who are seeing their tax base fall apart due to the economic crisis.

But important as infrastructure is, I think its a mistake to focus only on physical, rather than human capital. At least in CA, everyone seems much more willing to build and renovated schools that to pay for the teachers to teach in them

Investing in pre-K and small class sizes and after-school programs is just as much of an investment in the future as a highway or a bridge, and teaching is just as much of a real job as construction work.

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