Brewer: 1st-in-nation plan would tie academic performance, funding together
Jan Brewer
Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday defends her plan to expand the state's Medicaid program by having hospitals levy an assessment on themselves to draw down $2 billion in federal Affordable Care Act funds. She is flanked by Glenn Hamer, president of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which supports the plan. [Howard Fischer/Capitol Media Services]
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downtownresident posted at 9:35 am on Sat, Jan 19, 2013.
Oh, sure. Just how unfair is that?
Put the money where it is needed least? Sound like a typical misguided tea party ploy to me.
Let's take money away from the schools that are struggling and give it to the schools that don't need it.
We have achieved new depths of ignorance here in whacko land.
Dbruce1792 posted at 3:36 pm on Sat, Jan 19, 2013.
Why keep pouring good money after bad. It incentives the lower to do better. Will motivate teachers(hopefully) to actually care about the kids and their performance NOT their own retirement. That is all a lot of Tenured (Union protected) teachers care about.
soricobob posted at 6:03 am on Sun, Jan 20, 2013.
How soon we forget, Mrs. Governor. Do you remember when your special needs son was a student? Do you think the school he attended deserved less money because of his disability? Now, transform that to the hundreds of thousands of other disabled youngsters, whose schools could receive less with your proposal. Or, adversely, do you think it's fair that a Basis Charter School, that has its own advancement test, and doesn't allow any child to proceed to the next grade, receive more money than a school that allows all children to attend and proceed at their own pace?
remo303 posted at 11:36 pm on Mon, Jan 21, 2013.
Two out of three preceding comments indicate the need for adult learning in areas of reading comprehension and critical thinking.
"That means the best-performing schools could get up to an additional $500 a year on top of the $5,244 in basic aid. And the plan also is geared in a way so that even schools rated D or F on the scale, who are ineligible for this achievement bonus, could get some extra dollars if their overall performance improves.
But schools that are low performing now and cannot do better would actually end up with less money than they have now."
How do you people manage to get dressed by yourselves each day?