Nevada enacts school choice

[Nice Squirrel]

TFT MOOCs of course.

To the MOOC mobile!

 

[Tom Sawyer]

The corporations writing and funding these laws are way ahead of you. They have been positioning themselves for years to sell parents "educational" tools that they can use their $5000 ESA funds for.

Prentice Hall: Conservative math - Citing tried and true papers written by true Americans, this curriculum will help end the liberal indoctrination in mathematics. No longer can X equal two different numbers to solve a second degree polynomial. Multiple answers can only lead to gender confusion. Help teach your children the true and accurate principals in math that help explain how lowering a number can actually increase it. Geometry can be difficult, having to prove theorems. Our new modifications allow your student to think for themselves and treat theorems as postulates. We trust your student to know what is true without having the arduous task of proving it. In addition, our curriculum helps separate the Islamic influence of math by transforming "algebra" into "Americabra" instilling national pride in your student.

It also eliminates the number seven because, let's face it, seven is a pretty faggotty number.

 

[Horatio Parker]

I think it's also important to note that the vast majority of non-public educational options available are religious in nature, as are the vast majority of home school materials. It's as much about eroding the separation of church and state in establishing religious education as it is about privatizing and pocketing the dosh.

Which brings up the question, how do we tap into this free money bonanza?

Keep your kid at home and cash the check. Start a home business creating your own ed materials showing an immense loss at tax time.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Prentice Hall: Conservative math - Citing tried and true papers written by true Americans, this curriculum will help end the liberal indoctrination in mathematics. No longer can X equal two different numbers to solve a second degree polynomial. Multiple answers can only lead to gender confusion. Help teach your children the true and accurate principals in math that help explain how lowering a number can actually increase it. Geometry can be difficult, having to prove theorems. Our new modifications allow your student to think for themselves and treat theorems as postulates. We trust your student to know what is true without having the arduous task of proving it. In addition, our curriculum helps separate the Islamic influence of math by transforming "algebra" into "Americabra" instilling national pride in your student.

It also eliminates the number seven because, let's face it, seven is a pretty faggotty number.

I tried to explain that to my two year old. I told her that 7 is just a bad number because you have no idea if a number is divisible by 7 or not. She didn't seem to get it.

 

[ksen]

The corporations writing and funding these laws are way ahead of you. They have been positioning themselves for years to sell parents "educational" tools that they can use their $5000 ESA funds for.

Prentice Hall: Conservative math - Citing tried and true papers written by true Americans, this curriculum will help end the liberal indoctrination in mathematics. No longer can X equal two different numbers to solve a second degree polynomial. Multiple answers can only lead to gender confusion. Help teach your children the true and accurate principals in math that help explain how lowering a number can actually increase it. Geometry can be difficult, having to prove theorems. Our new modifications allow your student to think for themselves and treat theorems as postulates. We trust your student to know what is true without having the arduous task of proving it. In addition, our curriculum helps separate the Islamic influence of math by transforming "algebra" into "Americabra" instilling national pride in your student.

kek

 

[Loren Pechtel]

There's a big problem here.

The problem is that they are basing this off the school budgets rather than what it actually costs the school for an ordinary student, not counting the special-ed budget.

Also, how much of this is going to religious education?

 

[ronburgundy]

There's a big problem here.

The problem is that they are basing this off the school budgets rather than what it actually costs the school for an ordinary student, not counting the special-ed budget.

Also, how much of this is going to religious education?

That is "a" big problem, but definitely not the only one. Not having any standards outside of reading and math about what is taught and to what level of proficiency is the bigger problem.

Also, the plan is backed by the standard conservative and "libertarian" attackers of public education. Thus, they had no choice but to ignore how special ed greatly inflates "per student" costs in public education, because is what every single conservative and "libertarian" argument against public education does.

 

[NobleSavage]

On Tuesday night, Nevada governor Brian Sandoval signed into law the nation’s first universal school-choice program.
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I didn't read the article and I haven't read the law, but I can see how this could go wrong and I can see how it might be a big improvement for some people (with the right safe guards). This is the great thing about federalism and having 50 states that can make their own choices. Let Nevada try I say, and those of us in the other 49 states can sit back and watch how it works out. I'm sure this is just the beginning for this experiment in Nevada, they will tweak the law every year.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

On Tuesday night, Nevada governor Brian Sandoval signed into law the nation’s first universal school-choice program.
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I didn't read the article and I haven't read the law, but I can see how this could go wrong and I can see how it might be a big improvement for some people (with the right safe guards). This is the great thing about federalism and having 50 states that can make their own choices. Let Nevada try I say, and those of us in the other 49 states can sit back and watch how it works out. I'm sure this is just the beginning for this experiment in Nevada, they will tweak the law every year.

Yup, the variety of options is a good reason to have states. Trying a variety of approaches generally ends up with a better final outcome than only doing the "right" one.

 

[ronburgundy]

I didn't read the article and I haven't read the law, but I can see how this could go wrong and I can see how it might be a big improvement for some people (with the right safe guards). This is the great thing about federalism and having 50 states that can make their own choices. Let Nevada try I say, and those of us in the other 49 states can sit back and watch how it works out. I'm sure this is just the beginning for this experiment in Nevada, they will tweak the law every year.

Yup, the variety of options is a good reason to have states. Trying a variety of approaches generally ends up with a better final outcome than only doing the "right" one.

We will never know how it works out, because the bill includes eliminating the means of evaluating the quality of the education that the kids get.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I didn't read the article and I haven't read the law, but I can see how this could go wrong and I can see how it might be a big improvement for some people (with the right safe guards). This is the great thing about federalism and having 50 states that can make their own choices. Let Nevada try I say, and those of us in the other 49 states can sit back and watch how it works out. I'm sure this is just the beginning for this experiment in Nevada, they will tweak the law every year.

Yup, the variety of options is a good reason to have states. Trying a variety of approaches generally ends up with a better final outcome than only doing the "right" one.

And all the good states can count on the dumb ones to make their stats look better.