Posted on 07/16/2004 8:33:58 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO – A government-reform team appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing a major shake-up of California community colleges that would fold them into the state's K-12 education system and place them under control of the governor's top education adviser.
But in a sign of coming battles faced by Schwarzenegger in his effort to "blow up the boxes" of bureaucracy throughout state government, community college professors and administrators are striking against the plan before it is even publicly released.
Spokesmen for Schwarzenegger's California Performance Review team declined to comment until release of the Review's roughly 2,000-page tome of government-reform recommendations.
The report was scheduled to be introduced July 1, but officials are keeping it under wraps to avoid interfering with budget negotiations.
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Please, no. Giving the community colleges to the k-12 educrats would ruin them. They remain the only fix to a horrible primary education system.
What a horrific possibility. If they do that in CA, the rest of the country will follow.
Please see the referenced post. Putting community colleges under control of the K-12 system would be, IMHO, disastrous.
Something else just occurred to me - if the community colleges are put under the K-12 system, that will make them *directly affected* by the No Child Left Behind act. It's even worse than it appears on the surface.
*sigh*
It's obviously a union ploy, coming to you, nationwide.
Time to fight it here and now.
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