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Post by Chris_Wendt on Feb 25, 2014 14:56:59 GMT -5
Below there is a link to the latest Siene College Poll covering NY Education matters, including the Common Core. My take on the most significant finding is NOT related directly to the Common Core, however: "By a 62-21 percent margin, voters say they trust SED more than the governor to set education policy, with 13
percent trusting neither." Read the poll results yourself, directly from the Siena website: linkYou may find this more authoritative and enlightening than reading it on Patch or in Newsday. Regards, Chris Wendt |
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Post by Chris_Wendt on Feb 26, 2014 14:25:16 GMT -5
I want to follow on to this post. I had posted a few scary photos of some of our nation's more controversial governors in the thread titled 'Round and 'Round. Later, rummaging through the literature on the web I came across a seemingly innocuous piece about the president of a Connecticut town's school board having been appointed to a post in Washington where he will be..."responsible for developing federal policy recommendations and communicating with Congress...about the education reform priorities of state boards of education".
This is wrong on every level. The Central Government should not be involved with any state's education priorities or policy, much less with the educational priorities and policies of all 50 states. Education is a state responsibility and a states-rights issue. To paraphrase a popular TV ad: "Get your schools back, America!"
This stuff should bother you, especially if you pay taxes, if you have kids in school, or, if you have kids in school and pay taxes.
Chris Wendt
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