The Educational Reform Act of 2001:
The several states and territories are hereby entitled to reimbursement for the same proportion of the salaries and benefits of qualified classroom teachers for those professional engaged in basic instruction, the federal government will contribute that same share of these employment costs as the teachers’ students are eligible for the free school lunch program.
The states and territories will be reimbursed based on approved plans and estimates of the numbers and costs with the U.S. Secretary of Education, who may approve definitions of basic instruction, classroom teachers, teacher qualifications, salary programs, and any incentive pay upon which the secretary may authorize quarterly advances and adjustments.
The states may include teachers from charter schools, schools being run by a contractor and non-public schools within an improved plan only in so far as these serve the eligible population.
About $15,000 for a million teachers - some with a small amount some at 100 % = 15 billion - not much more than title I and within range - even if twice that - If the feds pay teachers resources are free for other critical needs.
Then we can move toward a realistic salary - working conditions - qualifications - promotion and specialization system - professionals are the critical in education - then with this base things can really be improved.
The American Public and both parties say that education is their top priority but school reform has become so complex that no one understands what is going on - or is the story reported. Incremental is natural but has a PR problem when there is the complete lack of focus.
The bills them-self are endless - there needs to be a clear focus - something beyond testing because tests do not create solutions only let us know what we already know - a lot of children are not up to grade level.
The only meaningful answer is competition - charter schools if not vouchers - the charter provisions in the current bill are grants and information to state education agencies - or the fox gets the grants for the chickens or http://www.wiredbrain.net/public-policy.htm for a restructured with the feds taking a major responsibility for instruction. ( State and local build building, transportation, overhead and administration ) All this sound and fury will not do much - but then something is better than nothing. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:S.1.PCS original bill to extend programs and activities under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act or S.1 H.R.1
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mandatory student testing, help children learn to read by the third grade and
give states more leeway in spending federal education funds -- signature issues
for Bush during the presidential campaign. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010426/pl/congress_education_dc_11.html
Basic Education as a federal responsibility:
The national interest and general welfare require a large federal role in public compulsory education. This was not as true in the last centuries but is clearly one of the most important if not the most important federal function. "A 2000 PricewaterhouseCoopers report found that intellectual assets now account for 78 percent of the total value of American S&P 500 companies." "According to a 2000 OECD [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development] report, since 1985, the expansion of knowledge-based industries has outpaced gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the developed countries. Knowledge-based industries now account for more than half of OECD-wide GDP." Welcome, to the Knowledge Age.
BUT since we are a federal system and have a long history of local school boards we can not just start from scratch.
Each state with consultations with local school system should come up with a plan to provide basic education - reading ( the nation reads ) writing ( the nation writes ) algebra and other math ( the nation reasons and calculates ) students knows geography, history, government, humanities, the sciences and the scientific methods - all standards and evaluations set by the states.
Then there is a calculation of what the direct provision of these educational services cost.
Then the application for expected expenditures for the next quarter of 75 % of the costs as a entitlement - with adjustments for over and under payments from the last payment.
The states should report how much would be used for property tax relief - how much for salaries ( and if there would be a state wide pay scales with steps - grades like the GS system ).
These costs should not include support, administration, transportation, athletics, construction, maintenance, bureaucracy, etc. Because these costs remain state and local responsibility and are too much a can of worms.
The national estimated cost per student for instruction could be fairly clear at about $ 2,500 for elementary and $ 4,500 for secondary ( half the total cost ) x 50 million students ( 1 million x $ 1000 = 1 billion ) so 50 million x $ 3,500 = $ 175 Billion x 75 % = $ 132 billion.
Tax reform is a political winner.
The politicians clear out their inventory and can sell the same tax breaks over again.
There is more room for rate and capital gains reductions if special benefits are removed. Tax simplification improves the economy in many important ways - the key to growth is productivity - what is more unproductive than wasted time and effort of filling out forms and keeping useless accounts or making decisions based on tax law rather than real returns on investments ROI -
Real tax reform and real educational reform:
http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title04/0423.htm Using language similar to that for social services in the SS Act.. From the sums appropriated ( or by entitlement as it used to be ) and the allotment under this subpart, subject to the conditions set forth in this section, the Secretary ( DOE ) shall from time to time pay to each State that has a plan developed in accordance with regulations an amount equal to 75 per centime of the total sum expended under the plan in meeting the costs of State, district, county, or other local basic educational instructional services.
The federal government will pay 75 % of teachers salaries and benefits ( involved in direct instruction = about 2.5 million teachers @ $ 30,000 = 75 billion ) and left to the states and local school boards, all the other costs - administration, football, transportation, construction, utilities, then: We could become a modern civilized society with a world class school system, social justice, economic growth, and political democracy.
There could be substantial tax relief on property taxes - standards set for teacher certification - much better salaries for some low paid teachers and salary grades for high performing teachers tied to the GS federal scales:http://www.seemyad.com/gov/salary.htm
The big problems in American Public education are:
There is no career stream for classroom teachers - pay is only based on seniority and there is not much difference if you stay in instruction from start to finish.
There has been a vast growth in administrative overhead from 15 % in the 1960's to 50 % today so increases in resources are absorbed by overhead. In the last decade there has been a vast underhanded growth in ESE ( special education ) from 5 % of population to 25 % and a jungle of paperwork without functional outcomes.
The labeling of students make standards even harder - ESE students are not counted or counted differently - so if someone doesn't learn they are learning disabled and labeled - given more resources - and excluded from the testing of school outcomes.
There has been for decades weak support for standards - support in general but backing off when the tire hits the road and students actually FLUNK and are held back! Standards means that teachers have to teach content - multiplication tables, spelling, parts of speech, geography, algebra - not always fun and often hard - and student have to do their homework.Teachers can be tied to the GS 4 to GS 12 depending on performance - and the DOD ( Military base schools ) teacher pay scales as a base with districts able to do add ons.
For the money that is being considered as a tax cut - the federal government could give block grants to the states to replace property taxes that go to public schools. This would give real tax relief by removing most of the cost of public schools from the property tax rolls. No one would suggest public education should be supported by property taxes. It is so because it is so - and the cruel inequalities is because the money follows property values not educational needs.
The states pay about 50/50% of education - with a federal grant to pay the other 50 % ( adjusted for the capacity of the states to pay - rich states get 40 % while poor states get 60 % - such as in the Medicaid and other programs ) then we could have a rational and effective school system. Rational accounting could insure that money goes to actual instruction and efforts wasted on meaningless paperwork ( often required by federal regulations ) could be reduced from over 20 % to less than 5 %.
Of about $ 250 billion is 30 % waste = 75 billion, could be $ 125 federal and $ 125 state with local schools paying for construction and other instructional activities. Now less than 60 % goes to direct instruction - private schools cost 40 % less because they don’t have the central bureaucracies, government imposed overheads, paperwork, administration, and ESE, LSE, and 1001 other special requirements.
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 cleared out some of the special tax breaks bought by political money.
There could be another
The Tax Reform Act of 2001, to sunset most of the goodies added to the over loaded tax code.
The method has to be like the base closing process - a commission of tax lawyers, accountants, professors - to suggest a package of reforms which are voted up or down as a package. Last time 25 billion per year was found in saving that could be used to reduce tax rates - there maybe 5 % ( $75 billion ) or more now. Economic growth and international competition should focus the mind, VAT is a form of support for exports because the social costs are not added to exports that do not pay VAT while they do pay income and corporate taxes. Slemrod estimates that total administrative and compliance costs for the personal and corporation income taxes are about $75 billion, or 10 percent of revenue collected and wasted in the process of accounting and paying. A VAT is another issue. http://www.wiredbrain.net/salestax.htm tax reform
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Are you ready for the "new economy" ?
The first way was laisser faire ? Conservative thought from Burke and Hamilton to Reagan. Less government is better government and equality is the enemy of freedom. An idea of the rich.
The second way was a passion for equality and social planning. Government benefits were a payment for social stability and progress. Tradition liberal thought was about how government should solve problems. An idea of the poor.
The third way is about the new economy and growth. Good jobs are the best benefit and individual wealth the best security.
The third way depends on practical fiscal and monetary policy and education and training to develop the skills and attitudes necessary for a rapidly changing global economy.
The issue is that public schools, colleges and most of us are not ready.
The Democrats have decided that a new benefit ( drugs for Medicare ) will win the election. Republicans are stuck with tax cuts. Neither they are the third parties have faced the issue.
Through real educational opportunity the passion for equality ( of opportunity not results ) and the passion for less government and more freedom of choice can be a reality in peoples lives. BUT no one is prepared, no one knows how to do it, and resources are wasted in anti-terrorism, missile defense, and 1000’s of lower priory but more historic issues.
The shift from agricultural workers to the assembly line was traumatic but a lot easier.
The shift from manufacture to services has gone fairly smoothly.
The shift to global trade has not caused a panic. But the shift from low skilled and routine jobs to intellectual capital is much more difficult.
The shift from low skilled and routine schools and colleges to intellectual and creative life time learning centers and abilities is even harder. It is a process not a product. A process of constant improvement and change.
As parents we are challenged by industrial age education. As a society we really have to pay attention and go outside the dots.
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Real tax reform and real
educational reform:For the money that is being
considered as a tax cut - the federal government could give block grants to the
states to replace property taxes that go to public schools. This
would give real tax relief - remove public schools from the property tax rolls. No one would suggest public education should be supported
by property taxes. It is so because it is so - and the
cruel inequalities is because the money follows home
values not educational needs.
The states pay about 50/50% of
education - with a federal grant to pay the other 50 % ( adjusted for the
capacity of the states to pay - rich states get 40 % while poor states get 60 %
- such as in the Medicaid and other programs ) then we could have a rational
and effective school system.<
In contrast to small schools in
which most teachers and students know each other and will recognize a problem when
it arises, adult control and supervision and students' senses of belonging and
responsibility are not developed as readily in large schools.
For this reason, it is often argued that larger schools tend to have
more discipline problems, lower percentages of students who actually
participate in school clubs and activities, and more student feelings of
estrangement and alienation.
There are three steps to
performance: One goals
Two process
Three evaluation
The educational reforms in the
states - does it backwards - tests then curriculum then goals.
First the test, followed by
efforts to have an organized curriculum, test driven, so the content tested is
in fact taught in the class room. Teachers then need
to be provided with materials and training so that content and methods for
teaching mirror what has to be learned to pass the test.
Finally a rational regional or
national set of expectations or goals for each grade and subject. Students who fall behind are given extra help, summer
school, tutors etc. but do not pass into the next grade without the skills and
knowledge necessary to do the work required. Sounds
simple but does not exist in most of public education. Florida
With increased knowledge of
brain function, of motivation and marketing, advertising and commercials -
surely effective methods can be developed for teaching the multiplication
tables and phonics.
The same can be done on graphic CD’s, interactive games for geography, ( Carmen San Diego
They are not - educational
materials are almost all flat and dull. Can we develop
a mass market education technology that works ? Is
there money for materials, research and development, in service training ?
Goals 2000 was a orderly system
of setting the standards, then the materials, then the teacher training, then the
test. It didn’t work.
The National Assessment of
Educational Progress worked defiantly to find what is the
common expectations for schools.
The national associations for
math, science, history and other subjects have developed national curriculum models. When all is said and done the results will be very close
to these sets of expectations of school performance.
The A+ program in Florida = what
George W. wants to do in Texas is not very complex but the big remaining issue
is " Do schools know how to teach ? " and if they don’t
what is being done to develop realistic technology so they can do their job.
To keep in simple, fourth
graders are expected to do single digit multiplication - they should know their
times tables. Our son had to do 100 in one minute - so
he had to really know them - not think about it but have programmed automatic
responses. He is expected to read and write whole
complete sentences with proper grammar and punctuation. He
is expected to know countries, oceans, states, a little science and history. He takes the Iowa
Now the state of Florida
The public school system is
having a fit. Lots of schools will fail.
The big issue is do they know
how to teach ? What are they going to do ?
The tail is wagging the dog. If they haven’t been teaching multiplication
tables they will have to - so the test is setting the curriculum - which is not
standard and thus far has not been enforced. Some
fourth grade teachers were into arts and crafts, field trips, group activities,
and they all were having a good time until 80 % of the class fails their
multiplication tables . Some teachers are incompetent. Other have retired in place. Other
have classes out of control. Many have classes over 30
students. Most have poor and out dated materials.
In order to teach reading
teachers must know most of the 40 or so phonemes, the smallest phonetic unit in
a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning. Since computers can sound out English so can people. Word attack skills are necessary to convert sound into
letters. This is no longer a issue of science but of practice. Teachers don’t know phonetics
and many of their language arts professors don’t know
how to teach reading.
So after the test, then efforts
to have an organized curriculum that is in fact taught in the class room. Teachers have been trained to use materials that contain
what has to be learned. Sounds simple but does not
exist in most of public education.
With knowledge of brain
function, of motivation and marketing, advertising and commercials - surely
effective methods can be developed for teaching the multiplication tables and
phonics.
The same can be done on graphic CD’s, interactive games for geography, ( Carmen San Diego
They are not - educational
materials are almost all flat and dull.
A little synergy:
Two things happening -
educational reform and the Internet
Testing for performance - learn
your times tables
On line service providers of
whole systems using broadband connections
Could these come together ?
The ESSA
- the elementary and secondary school act - the major federal action in
education was motivated by the arms race - and included money for film and
equipment. This is because of connections between the
political process and educational film makers -
Can there be big bucks for
schools to buy materials to teach the time tables and reading and writing ? Not public programs of development but creating a market
for private enterprise using broadband ?
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/20000313.html
Great report - so much to think about
The welfare of the republic and
the mass use of the Internet depend on some skills and vision.
As we move to a utility system and service providers down a big pipe -
I was thinking about the
reflection in the mirror which reflects back - skills - learning - mass publics
- always on - broadband - education - where is the connection ? People learn by doing - organized or not -
There maybe a skills gap which
could be jumped by free and broadband access and service providers
"Application Service Provider" is that a school or process - TV
became a waste land - over commercial but nevertheless raised the vision of the
world ( a little ) but was passive- Is the Internet is
heading to become a mall with superficial hype and trash - just like other mass
media and politics.
Now a mass public sitting on
their bottoms with high speed access - will they learn anything ? Will they look into the corners and byways or just a Time
Warner CNN GO Disney ABC AOL ? In countries with an
educated public such as Europe and Japan
- or eager such as India , Indonesia or China
"It is not the strongest of
the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most
responsive to change." Charles Darwin A fitting thought for "Internet Time," indeed.
Then provide the IT talent by
remote server ?
The political issue is how does
a great material empire based on huge industrial firms relite
to a global intelligence system - can't someone from anywhere plug into the
e-market ? Assemble a car from parts over e-commerce -
or computers from parts ?
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know about errors ! Some of these pages date back up
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