Here it is. It's the infamous Marc Tucker letter to Hillary Clinton, which outlines their plans to transform education (and life as we know it)in this country from knowledge-based education to job training -- a seemless web of government interference from birth to death.
http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/marc_tucker/marc_tucker_letter.html Hillary and Bill Clinton sent their daughter to Sidwell Friends in Washington, DC. I don't think Chelsea had any "School-to-Work" training, but then again, she is among the elite. I read on this forum where she is going to accept a job for $100,000 a year.
Hillary was very big on public school students wearing uniforms to school, but several weeks ago, I passed Sidwell Friends and I didn't see any of those kids in uniform.
School-to-Work was tried in my state, but parents went ballistic. The plan was to have juniors and seniors devote one day a week to job training. That would have meant that they would lose 20% of their academic classes. If a student did not wish to particpate, he would be required to take some sort of job training on his own time (weekends, vacations). Today, we have various career classes and career academies, but nothing as radical as School-to-Work.
I believe the government tries to entice poor districts with School-to-Work. It's fine if that's what parents and students want, but parents in my state (who pay a big chunk of change in school taxes) want something better for their children than job training for menial jobs.
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OB
ladylib,
For what it's worth, "School-to-work" is based on the same model of education used in France and Germany.
In France, students start their placement exams for future university education eligibility as early as 11. If they they are still on the university track and pass the BAC exam at the end of lycee (high school), they go to university. Otherwise, they are dumped back into the technical schools or drop out completely. At anytime prior to 18, a student can fail their placement exams and fall off the university track onto the technical school route and there's no returing to the "higher track".
And one wonders why there are so many contributing causes to low European GNP growth.