Posted on 03/29/2015 2:43:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
They will fight tooth and nail to hold to their power, privilege and profits.
What product does Big Education produce? We know. There are thousands upon thousands of graduates who hold useless degrees, who face mega loan-induced servitude and suffer with liberal indoctrination and brain rot.
Walker believes dumping the EAB will “benefit schools by eliminating a costly and unnecessary regulatory burden,” according to his spokeswoman, Laurel Patrick. [money will remain in the schools' pockets - to be invested where they see fit - they will decide what they teach]
Educational Approval Board: Frequently Asked Questions for Schools, Students and Consumers
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14. What does the approval process involve?
The EAB has an application form, which is used to guide the process. The process generally look like this:
school requests application materials;
school personnel meets with an EAB education consultant to review application material;
school completes and submits the application materials and fee;
the education consultant does a completeness and compliance review of the materials submitted;
an industry consultant may evaluate programs;
the education consultant prepares and sends letter of findings to the school;
if needed, the school makes corrections to meet EAB requirements and resubmits revised materials;
when the application materials meet EAB requirements, the school is approved to operate.
15. Do schools renew their approval?
Every year a school must renew its approval by sending in a renewal application. The application is due in September prior to the calendar year for which the school is renewing its approval.
16. Are there renewal fees?
The annual renewal fee has two parts:
a $500 fee due in September with the renewal application; and
a second payment which is a percentage of the school's adjusted gross annual revenues minus refunds paid to students."......"
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More Walker budge “meddling.”
Haven’t we heard farmers decrying EPA rules, regulations and paper work - burdensome oversight eating up their time and profits - telling them how to run their family farms?
Below is an example of how Walker’s beating the environmentalists and their allies in the University system, bit by bit [chipping away], and leaving the money in the farmers’ pockets.
March 7, 2015 - Farm Bureau, others question Scott Walker’s proposed farm research cuts
“Researchers and supporters of a program that helps farmers run cleaner and more efficient operations say they were “stunned” and “blindsided” by Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut a third of the project’s funding.
Discovery Farms, a UW-Extension program that dates to 2001, applies science from a “plows-on” level, evaluates and monitors efforts by state farmers to control runoff, calibrate fertilizer use and employ techniques to conserve land and water.
It has a $750,000 budget, of which $248,000 would be cut in the governor’s proposed state budget.
UW-Extension officials noted the loss affects longstanding projects and the ability of the small program to leverage crucial additional grants and funds.
“We would have a 1.2-employee reduction of staff and we would pull back some of our sampling efforts, water quality analysis and a project (set) for Rock County,” said Amber Radatz, project co-director.
The project’s programs include monitoring 20 state farms and educating thousands of farmers on conservation strategies.
“This was a big surprise to our agency partners as well as our partners in farm groups and in UW-Extension,” she said. “We never had an inkling.”
The $248,000 comes from a surcharge on farm chemical sales that would be discontinued.”................
More Walker BUDGET “meddling.”
Eliminating it might be too extreme. Why not just cut way back on its reach? A consumer complaint board for education would be enough, one would think. And no passing mandates just because the feds like them!
If the proposal passes, are the schools left utterly adrift with respect to accreditation or would their next logical step be to affiliate with some national board? In engineering, for example, ABET is nationwide, not tied to a single state. Perhaps Walker is allergic to micromanagement here and the schools themselves a bit disingenuous.
Kids (should) come out of high school ready to make babies (taught OUT of them by sexual freedom indoctrination), ready to work and be a productive citizen (robbed by the fact there are no jobs that do not participate in socialist advance) and just shy of legal voting age (with no clue what a Republican or Democrat really is and MOST dangerous ... no clue what THEY are)
America's demise is squarely at the feet of the NEA and tributarial agencies
"“Almost every institution is confused as to why we would want to do this,” Dies said. “The EAB oversight really provides some legitimacy and integrity for the sector.”
Tony Evers: B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison MEd, University of Wisconsin-Madison PhD, Educational administration, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wisconsin's School Superintendent is an elected office.
Feb 2015: Court rules against measure letting Scott Walker halt school administrative rules "Madison — A unanimous state appeals court on Thursday deemed unconstitutional a portion of a 2011 law that gave Gov. Scott Walker the ability to halt administrative rules by state schools Superintendent Tony Evers, who is independently elected.
The ruling by the Madison-based District 4 Court of Appeals upholds a 2012 decision by Dane County Circuit Judge Amy Smith.
Walker signed the law in May 2011, which gave his administration a greater say in writing administrative rules, which are used to implement state laws. Administrative rules include more specifics than state statutes and carry the force of law.
The 2011 change required the governor to sign off on — or block — all administrative rules early in the process, even for agencies that are supposed to be independent. It also gave him a second chance to veto the rules before they were finalized.
Previously, the rules were written by state agencies and reviewed by the Legislature before they could take effect.
Parents of students and members of teachers unions sued Walker over the law as it applied to rules put together by the Department of Public Instruction, which is headed by Evers. Walker is a Republican and Evers is aligned with Democrats, though his post is officially nonpartisan.
The state constitution says "the supervision of public instruction shall be vested in a state superintendent and such other officers as the Legislature shall direct." In a 1996 case that the appeals court repeatedly cited, the state Supreme Court held that lawmakers and the governor cannot give "equal or superior authority" over public education to any other official.
The Supreme Court's ruling found that the state constitution prevented then-Gov. Tommy Thompson from transferring powers from the Department of Public Instruction to a new Department of Education overseen by the governor's administration.
"In sum, the Legislature has the authority to give, to not give, or to take away (the school superintendent's) supervisory powers, including rule-making power. What the Legislature may not do is give the (superintendent) a supervisory power relating to education and then fail to maintain the (superintendent's) supremacy with respect to that power," Appeals Judge Gary Sherman wrote for the court in Thursday's decision..................."
Six BILLION dollar yearly budget: Wisconsin Dept of Public Instruction - FY 2014 Budget: $5.94 billion
Superintendent of Schools "While the vast majority of the states that do have the statewide governmental position authorize the governor to appoint an individual to the office, there are at least 13 others who have opted to have public voters select the officeholders. These states include Arizona, California, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington, Wisconsin and, until 2013, Wyoming*."
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More on Walker and education [and battle with the state's School Superintendent, Tom Evers] :
Wisconsin Public Radio: Wisconsin's Superintendent Responds To Walker's Teacher Licensing Proposal "Governor Walker wants to change teacher licensing requirements in Wisconsin to, according to the Governor, create “alternative pathways to allow a candidate with real life experience to pass a competency test to gain a teacher license.”
This announcement came yesterday as part of the Governor’s workforce readiness plan and will be included in the two year budget proposal expected in early February.
The measure has already been criticized by the Department of Public Instruction and comes after State Superintendent Tony Evers warned on Wednesday of this week that what he calls “divisive mandates” on public education were on their way."
So to make a long story short, an enabling constitutional amendment referendum is now in the works?
It’s going to take a lot of lifting to roll back the education/government cabal in Wisconsin.
BUT this did happen during this battle [note last sentence]:
“...Walker was represented by the state Department of Justice, which is headed by newly elected Attorney General Brad Schimel. A spokeswoman for Schimel said he was likely to appeal the decision.
Lester Pines, the attorney who brought the case, said he was confident the appeals court’s decision would stand.
“I think the governor would be well advised and the attorney general would be well advised not to ask the Supreme Court to waste its time and reverse its own decision from 1996,” Pines said.
Pines said lawmakers should pay close attention to the decision as they consider school accountability legislation. Pines said he is monitoring the debate on that issue and will “absolutely” sue if he believes the final product interferes with the school superintendent’s constitutional powers.
“The new review process for administrative rules has a minimal effect for most state agencies because they are already controlled by the governor. But the 2011 law also gives the governor a say for the first time in rules written by independent agencies, such as Schimel’s Department of Justice and the Government Accountability Board, which oversees state ethics and elections laws.”
It is a turf battle that the governor might or might not win, but he is trying. I would not be looking at this in a vacuum but rather asking what has worked well in other states.
Beyond that, it was up to the colleges to assure a quality product. That worked just fine. The colleges were held accountable because their reputations and our employability depended on them getting it right.
I can't imagine how the public education mess gets straightened out unless the feds get out of it and the states' involvement becomes minimal. It's one of the reasons high schools aren't producing enough qualified workers anymore. Those that "know better" insist on high-level academics for all and all sorts of social priorities. If that would end, localities could go back to things like shop classes, basic finance, and other skills that would prepare students for the workforce. I just can't imagine how the mess can be fixed so that happens.
How can complaints increase if there is nobody left to complain to?
There are a lot of people graduating from these for-profit scam schools that are in the same boat. They exist just to get bodies through the door, collect tuitions and student loans, and deliver a produce a worthless degree or certificate. Anyone who honestly believes that they don't exist or that the market will sort it all out is a complete idiot. So if we can accept that some oversight of these organizations is necessary, then isn't it better that it be done at the state level rather than the federal level? And if Wisconsin is abandoning their responsibility in this then how can they prevent the feds from stepping in and doing the job for them?
This is a very short-sighted decision on the part of Governor Walker.
Typical govt over-regulation, accreditation already solves ths problem, as it des in other states.
It’s the nuts and bolts of being an executive.
Walker has a style that doesn’t animate, rally and mobilize the opposition. He just keeps doggedly pushing and then acts when he can. He keeps racking up successes, not making it personal and showing anger - just keeps pushing government to the right - dismantling as he goes.
The Left hasn’t figured out how to combat this. They’re used to someone running at them, which gives them time to coalesce the unions, universities, media and democratic party activists into an overwhelming force used to drive public opinion against an “evil” symbol. Scott doesn’t give them this tool (which the Left has fine tuned and uses very effectively - note the fear on Capital Hill to buck these forces on the Left).
Please read the entire piece.
There still will be oversight - just not by this shakedown organization, which is guided by the “elite educator class.”
Here is an article that touches on technical education [from a college news source, so fwiw]:
Wisconsin tech schools might see an increase in performance-based funding "....Nick Hillman, a UW professor in educational leadership and policy analysis, said many states are grappling with performance-based funding in higher education. This would make Wisconsin one of the most aggressive in terms of technical schools, he said.
“There’s no rationale, there’s no rhyme or reason as to why 100 percent is a desirable figure,” Hillman said. ..."
I read it. The responsibility will be parceled out to two different agencies, neither of which is primarily responsible for these kind of institutions and one of which is brand new. So how much oversight do you thing the scam schools and diploma mills will get under those circumstances? Say President Obama announced he was doing away with the Department of Defense and transferring its responsibilities to Homeland Security and the Commerce Departments? How well do you think that would work? This plan will guarantee that oversight will be reduced, abuses will grow, and people are going to get screwed without anyone to go to bat for them.
These agencies are designed to address these issues. Big Education needs to butt out. They want to control of every aspect of our lives.
Why are you taking this in the opposite direction? “What if, DoD goes to Homeland Security?” That is a strawman argument.
Walker isn’t a dictator - the Wisconsin legislature is in play.
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