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- From: walker@skat.usc.edu (Michael D Walker)
- Newsgroups: ca.general
- Subject: Re: California Public Schools Funding: A Materplan for Failure
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 12:57:57 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <5649@bacon.IMSI.COM> jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:
- >This is news to me. Prop 13 showed clearly that California taxpayers
- >would rather have lower property taxes than good schools.
-
- No. They realized their money was being wasted on school bureaucrats,
- poor teachers, kids with bad parents, or to subsidize the rich with
- the UC system.
-
- >I've seen bumperstickers as long ago as 1980 that said "If you can
- > read this you probably didn't go to a California Public School" ...
-
- Yeah, and if your parent taught you to watch TV, instead of reading,
- you're gonna do great.... Schools vary.
-
- Thowing money at it hasn't worked. What I'm hearing is that CA is
- spending more on schools now then in the past, but the standards keep
- dropping.
-
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