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Old 12-04-2013, 01:50 PM
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Default Will our schools survive Obama's power grab?

I've covered the school board here in town for years now and watched as they salivated over the passage of Prop. 30., Gov. Jerry Brown's ballot initiative that raised personal income tax on the those jointly making over $500,000 or singly earning $250,000, which expires in 2018 and the four year quarter of a cent sales tax increase on everyone that expires in 2016. The school funds were formulated to depend on a thriving state economy which is not happening from what I can tell.

The implementation of Common Core State Standards will put a huge strain on schools throughout the Country, especially those states whose economy are not solid.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Executive Director of the Curriculum Mapping Institute, whose work school districts throughout the country are following, has a outlook in a straight line with the globalists. Jacobs considers present teaching skills and paper textbook to be dated. Her website states that teaching for the 21st Century requires overhauling and updating the K-12 curriculum replacing it with contemporary content and skills in a deliberate process of upgrading to technology and how these changes are transforming teaching. The site goes on to say that with these newer technology tools students will be motivated and more engaged, with the goal to encourage wanting to learn. What Jacobs is striving for are students becoming informed users of multiple forms of media and gaining a global perspective. Students writing essays or teachers standing at the front of the class giving a lecture is a thing of the past.

All these "shifts" (they don't call them changes, maybe it's too close to Obama's buzz work "change") are going to cost big $$$$$$ and are coming at a time when the cost of Obamacare is still a huge question.

Obama took a power grab with the two largest expenditures in our country, healthcare and education. While everyone is focused on the one, that being healthcare, the other is sliding on in at a cost of billions.

Within the Control Funding Formula that Gov. Brown put in place is a newly required Local Control Accountability Plan that will give schools a one time funding for Common Core upgrades. My school district is expected to receive $762,000 to buy technology upgrades and retrain teacher to align with Common Core; but making such "shifts" at a time when so much else is unsure, such as the Affordable Care Act and how or if that will be funded along with a soft state economy puts into question the availability of monies to make such drastic changes.

The Local Control Funding Formula out of Sacramento is the take from the middle class and give to the poor, Robin Hood formula.

The formula consists primarily of a three tiered structure based on student demographics, starting with base funding, which all students receive, next is supplemental funding for specific demographics and then concentration funding. Each district receives a per pupil base grant that vary between grades k-3, 4-6, 7-8 and 9-12. A supplemental grant of 35% of the base grant is provided for each student of these three special groups; English learner, economically disadvantaged or foster youth student. Those students that fall into more than one of the three categories can only be counted once for supplemental funding. Districts with an excess of 50% enrollment of the special group category are then given a concentration grant equal to 35% of the base grant for all student that exceed the 50% threshold.


Schools will transition to CFF using Proposition 98, a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 1988. But the future funds are not guaranteed.

These are issues that most parents haven't a clue about and the impact is great.
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