[NormsRevenge]

The Best Intentions can shur kick ya in the butt sometimes!

It will be interesting to see if enough California voters showup to Flush Davi$ from office.

[Carry_Okie]

Here is my program for California's school system that I sent to the Simon campaign:

1. Cut off the NEA’s money. Enforce the U.S. Supreme Court decision Communications Workers v. Beck (487 US 735, 1988). Sue the NEA for non-disclosure of political campaign spending (actually Landmark Legal is doing precisely that).
2. Analyze any Federal program for insufficient funds and unintended consequences suspecting un-funded mandates and disband compliance to any Federal program that doesn’t provide a measurable and immediate benefit in test score performance. Cite New York v. United States (505 US 144, 1992).
3. Put parents in control of local school boards by breaking up large unified school districts. Here’s how: First, complete Step 1. Then assist formation of corporate service associations providing legal services and insurance coverage to those local school districts who divest into smaller, more personalized institutions under parent control if, and only if, they contract with such services and lay off large portions of the administrative bureaucracy.
4. Veto any bill requiring home and private educators to conform to State teacher certification standards.
5. Veto any bill requiring State supervision of home schools.
6. Use the private and home education markets to develop and test pedagogical tools and services for both general and specialized requirements. Private, third-party validation services would assess product performance against suppliers’ claims. School boards meeting standards of divestiture would be free to select guaranteed products for use in public schools.
7. Insurance on the guarantee would cover the cost of remedial education if the product fails to meet warranted performance. If the supplier will not provide the product without offering their own instructional professionals, so be it. There would be a concurrent reduction in force.
8. As broadband services proliferate, outstanding educators who can present effective lectures and multimedia presentations and organize trained tutorial assistants and test scoring services will make a killing in the new education market. There would be a concurrent reduction in force among public school teachers. Public schools as we know them will collapse under the competition.