livingston
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Update - The Philly Soda Tax Scam…5 Years Later
Philadelphia slapped a tax on soda and promised to spend the money on education. 5 years later, here’s what happened.
Update - The Philly Soda Tax Scam…5 Years Later
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Philadelphia slapped a tax on soda and promised to spend the money on education. 5 years later, here’s what happened.
Acer-m14
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NYS Lotto was to help the Schools ..
well that was a mess
tones of $$$$ and kids are dumber these days
i do not think the $$$ went there ..
well that was a mess
tones of $$$$ and kids are dumber these days
i do not think the $$$ went there ..
The money goes there. More the issue is once you reach a certain point money doesn't improve performance. Ie. You need to have math books. Once you have math books adding in tablets, online classroom paper submission, etc. doesn't do anything to improve performance.
Generally the better schools are better funded but thats a smoke screen for the real driver, the real gain is from the types of people and lives they live and how that impacts the students. Single mom Laquita from the block with 3 different fathers of her kids vs. A nice supporting black family with both parents present and involved in the child's education. The second option is going to fare better because they are way more invested in raising their kids... oh, they also have more money too which translates to the schools having more resources - but the real performance gain comes from home.
Acer-m14
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Brooklyn middle school takes ‘math’ out of its name after students fail
The Math & Science Exploratory School MS 447 in Brooklyn plans to change their name because of lowered admission standards as their students performed poorly on their math tests.
nypost.com
spat
.950 JDJ
Or as I like to put it, you can't fix non-financial problems by throwing money at them.
But, just like some people will approach any car problem by adding gas, oil, and trying to jump start it, if the problem is something else, you're not helping.
In fact, a lot of the current problems are caused by *too much* money floating around in education. The whole common core debacle was literally some gifters aiming to siphon off some surplus.
dwa12479
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I can't say it enough. Education starts and ends at home. You could swap the entire teaching staff and budgets from the Rochester City School District and Pittsford (affluent suburb in the area) and you'd see the exact same results year over year. It's not a funding problem. It's not a teacher competence problem.