Get rid of the illegals in Texas classrooms and you might have enough money to teach the rest. Oh yeah...the teachers unions should go too and citizen parents should be given vouchers to insure their educational $$'s are spent well and not in dead end schools that are teaching liberal thinking and the politics of victimization or simply babysitting in the violence and feeding normal kids Ritalin.
Vouchers are the only way to give poor kids a fighting chance to make it in our society.
Interesting how you spin the Texas Clssroom report which lists its' priorities on the home page as:
Now is the time to focus on that area that matters most – the effectiveness of teachers to create excellence in the classroom across Texas. The basic elements of this plan are to:
- Strengthen standards and align coursework and achievement tests with these standards;
- Improve the statewide collection of information about student, teacher, administrator, and school performance;
- Create the best tools to measure the academic progress of students in order to increase teacher effectiveness;
- Dramatically improve the evaluation of teacher performance;
- Pay more to teachers who perform well and who take on greater and more difficult assignments;
- Support and retain teachers through improved professional development and other proven academic programs;
- Remove persistently ineffective teachers,
- Improve principal leadership; and
- Improve teacher preparation to increase the supply of more effective teachers.
Gee...nothing in those recommendations about early childhood at all let alone supporting your blatant bias. Guess their conclusions from the data and what is needed most are different than your! Could it be you are an early childhood educator looking for more job security by spamming???