Schools' budgeting is unethical
The chairman of the Salem-Keizer School Board, Mike Basinger, (guest opinion, April 15), along with the Oregon School Boards Association president, Peggy Penland, (letter to the editor, April 25) and state Rep. Phil Barnhart (guest opinion, April 26), want Oregonians to believe that they are responsible and transparent budget wizards when it comes to school rainy-day reserves. Nothing can be further from the truth.
Let's do the math: Each ELL student brings around $2,400 extra each school year to school districts. In the past four years, the Salem-Keizer School District received an extra $48 million for the education of ELL children and spent only $25 million on their special programs. This practice begs the question, where did the other $23 million go? This is where the school district got its rainy-day reserves.
Unions: Money? jingle jingle What money? jingle jingle I don't see any money?
3 comments:
I like the idea of full immersion english rather than spending years and years teaching kids how to do math in spanish first in those ESL classes.
Of course, if we dealt with our illegal immigration problem that would go a long way towards solving this...
So you want to throw kids who happen to have additional challenges to the wolves. I had an IEP when I grew up in the pubiic school system and ended up going to one of the top 15 liberal arts colleges in the country (as determined by US News & World Roperts).
No, I want to help kids learn effectively. Currently the schools have a cash incentive to keep kids in ESL as long as possible. Why would they "graduate" them from this class when it gets them more money for their general fund? (since they do not spend all the extra federal dollars for their intended purpose)
Full immersion would solve this problem and help mainsream kids faster. The ability to speak English well is a must if you want to be successful in this country. Let's help the kids do that.
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