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Tag: Investment

Charter Schools For All

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Tue Jun 21, 2011 at 11:09:27 PM EST
Tags: DPS, Detroit, Michigan, Schools, Choice, Charter, Contract Schools, Investment (all tags)

I mean it.

Given some recent examples of charter school performance versus public school performance.

The remainder of the scores are identical. Follow the image to a more complete representation. (PDF)

I have suggested before that schools be contracted out for the sake of the children. Don't teach the kids? Don't get paid.

"The best way for Detroit to clean up that mess, is to kick ALL the teachers, employees, and management in the Detroit schools to the curb. Then open contracts and bidding for the purchase or rental of the school buildings and resources."

Yep.

Fees for services rendered. How unconventional.

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Detroit Schools And Illiteracy

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Tue May 24, 2011 at 10:15:54 PM EST
Tags: DPS, Detroit, Michigan, Schools, Choice, Charter, Contract Schools, Investment, Throw the baby out (all tags)

I have a bit of writer's block.

Its not the lack of material that causes this, but rather a question of "where should I start?" An article that has been written and re-written by me for the last month is one that addresses the Detroit schools problem. Namely its inability to educate the kids, and then do so within a particular financial framework.

Something we outstaters call a budget.

PJ TV has a video released today worth watching. from the introduction:

Detroit has been controlled by liberals for years, but close to half of the people living there are functionally illiterate. Even more surprisingly, Detroit had a Public School Board President who had difficulty writing coherently.

Otis Mathis. The guy's name was Otis Mathis, and he was the Detroit School board president. And if one was to converse with him through the written word, one might find themselves banging a pained noggin on a wall somewhere. Otis' "issue" was document in March by the Blog Prof who penned a piece worth a second look.

Of course one might think this is old news as the 'old news' cycle goes. One might have been banging one's head too long over Otis' written word issues. Detroit STILL has a failed system. It has a new emergency manager in who thinks carefully slicing away with a scalpel is the cure for an unbelievably cancerous patient, when all that will be accomplished is a painful biopsy at best.

More below.

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A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

Michigan Business Done Right - Layaway

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Wed Oct 14, 2009 at 10:17:25 AM EST
Tags: layaway, Michigan, Free markets, Government, Investment (all tags)

"Investing in our future," is often a term we would hear from our governor when discussing the educational institutions, the MEDC, or new "green" technologies" in Michigan. It's hard to argue the merits of higher learning, job creation or even new energy sources being developed. But the method in which these desired results are obtained with the current administration can be compared to other attempts by our federal government to "prepare us" for the future.

Free markets have been supplanted through confiscation and redistribution to certain types of businesses and ideals that promote a particular flavor of a future supported by current office holders. Individual choice spoils on the shelf, and finds itself secondary to an overriding philosophy that suggests we must pool our collective resources to buy more robust "coming days."

Perhaps we have been patrons of this great department store before?

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