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Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
Strikes me as a strange way to fix education when there are massive numbers of school districts on the brink of applying for state bailout loans. It's window dressing, from where I'm sitting. But it will be a convenient way to knock the teacher's unions when they oppose it.
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Fixing education is not the goal. Fixing the budget is. His proposals had no specificity, but what it sounds like he wants to do is "fix" the pension system for teachers and other state employees, and work some sort of incentive system into school funding.
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If pay were truly based on merit we'd be jacking teachers salaries UP, almost across the Board. Some of these people are doing yeoman's work in a time when the financial support is not there, at least in part due to the state raiding the K-12 cookie jar to balance its own budget and avoid raising income taxes back to Pete Wilson levels. I say some, not all, and I'm sure a lot of the folks who aren't pulling their weight are the tenured folks being paid the highest. But scapegoating only gets me so far when it comes to our budget problems.
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I don't think teachers are underpaid. They work 3/4 of a day and 3/4 of a year. Their salary should reflect that. My mother is a teacher. I have this discussion with her all the time.
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I expect him to work with the legislature because he was elected to be the executive in a republican (small r) form of government. Just because less than half of the state's voters voted for him in the recall does not mean he can ignore our elected representatives, no matter how stupid he, and you, think they are.
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query whether CA has a republican form of government, given the initiative process.
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I think AS's support is a mile wide, but not so deep. He didn't have a ton of opposition on his measures in the fall, it will be interesting to me to see what happens if he plays the ballot measure card again. Interesting, in the political sense; I will be annoyed at the continued use of blunt object policymaking.
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I think you are wrong here, but we shall see. I think a deal will be struck.
