Arne Duncan wants Delaware to violate its own Constitution

Arne Duncan wants Delaware to provide capital funding to Delaware charter schools whichs violates Delaware’s Constitution

Delaware Constitution, Article X, Section 6 Property Tax; use limitations.

Section 6. No property tax receipts received by a public school district as a result of a property tax levied for a particular purpose shall be used for any other purpose except upon the favorable vote of a majority of the eligible voters in the district voting on the question.

Providing capital funding for charter school cannot legally come from property taxes local or even if the state imposed property tax without referendum.

Charter schools are corporations and the state would be crossing the line investing capital funds in a corporation. If the corporation (charter) fails the state would not be able to recover its loss. 

Arne Duncan’s backroom buddy is running for school board

US Rep. Danny Davis files for Cook County Board president, unsure on congressional race.

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Arne Duncan has brain fart

Test scores should be traced to ed schools, Duncan says

Education Secretary Arne Duncan called this morning for states to link student test data not only back to teachers, but also to the programs that trained them. New York State education officials said they are already working on it.

So Arne who do we blame for your fuck ups?

Arne Duncan Fails in Philadelphia (Part 1)

Arne Duncan visited Philadelphia today and like the failed Educational Management Organizations whom we wasted over 120 million taxpayer dollars on, he promoted a one size fits all plan to fix education.

Classified ! Duncan’s Sex Tapes

What Arne Duncan doesn’t tell you, is once the Race to the Top funding is distributed there’s no more.

The advertised goal of Race to the Top is a cover for the real agenda to advance charter schools by requiring the states to establish laws allowing charter school or expanding current laws that put caps on the number of charter schools.

Do you honestly think once the 4.5 billion dollar Race to the Top funding is exhausted in two years the goal of closing the achievment gap will be met within those two years?

States like Delaware who are under finanical constraints have no choice to chase the $$$ carrot on the stick. Arne Duncan is well aware of the carrot on the stick game he is playing and is like a child molester with a bag of candy.

Once Ducan perverted circus leaves town there will be a need to sustain the initiative putting the $$$ monkey on the backs of the local taxpayers.

What will be left in the dust is the same problem of addressing the achievement gap and the same children abandoned.

Duncan gives U of D $3,674,921.00

http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2009/09/09222009a.html

University of Delaware–Delaware Center for Teacher Education, Human Services Education and Public Policy Project Name: Unlocking Doors to Language and Literacy Project Director: Carol Vukelich DE $3,674,921.00

The program supports the development of early childhood centers of excellence that focus on all areas of development, especially on the early language, cognitive, and pre-reading skills that prepare children for continued school success and that serve primarily children from low-income families.

Sex scandal rocks USDOE, Duncan stands by his man!

“In a statement Wednesday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Jennings has devoted his career to promoting school safety.”

“He is uniquely qualified for his job, and I am honored to have him on our team,” Duncan said.

That’s Right Nate

Arne Duncan Clears Himself in Student Death

“As a country, we need to make sure that we do not have two educations systems–one for the privileged and one for everybody else.  Our country should be better than that.”

Arne Duncan Rapes Delaware Schools

“The State and its participating LEAs must use funds under this program to participate in a national evaluation of the program, if the Department chooses to conduct one. In addition, the Department is seeking comment on whether a State should, instead of or in addition to a national evaluation, be required to conduct its own evaluation of its program activities using funds under this program. The Department will announce in the notice inviting applications the evaluation approach(es) that will be required. (Section II.D.a, p. 37808)”

 The passage above was taken from Duncan’s guideless for state to participate in Race to the Top (RTT) 4.3 billion dollar initiative.

Duncan has an agenda of establishing a uniform national curriculum and standardizes testing. Duncan has a notion that a high school diploma should carry the same weight and value no matter what high school or state. In theory it sounds good but in reality there are many variables that determine the final outcome. Thinks about it, is a high school diploma the same when one student earns it with a 2.0 GPA and another with a 4.0 GPA? Yes it is the same diploma and both earned. However, the absolute measurement in the intelligence is in the student. A high school diploma will not get you in a college of your choice. The high school transcript is the deciding factor. Should Arne Duncan push legislation that college not look at high school transcripts and base admission on the diploma itself?

In my opinion Duncan’s ideology associated with standardization in curriculum and assessment across the United States has the mentality of those who formed the Hitler Youth Corp but not in the senses of war and hate but building robots all wired the same.  We’ve learned so much with DSTP and cannot go back to constrict the curriculum to obtain cookie cutter children. Not all children plan on attending college. Some barely met the basic to graduate high school even at the most successful schools.   What would we do with a world full of PhD’s and no one working in the trades or service industries? What would you do with hospitals with all nurses and no nurse’s aides? Who will drive the trash trucks?

Duncan’s grand scheme supported by many who just want to dip into his pockets goes beyond the goal of closing the achievement gap. The need to fix education is driven by the concerns with the achievement gap.  Raising the bar doesn’t help close the achievement gap. We all know what we need and want in our public schools. We want smaller class sizes, better intervention addressing discipline, enrichment programs for those student that do excel. We need schools that can meet the individual needs of students to learn and grow to their individual potential.

Duncan lacks real understand of the connection to events outside the school such as breakdowns in society impacting children way before they attend school. The virus that is killing our public schools system is incubating outside the doors of our schools and the treatment proposed can only address issues within the school build. We can try to address behavior issues in the school however the root cause may be a results of conditions outside the school. Teachers cannot go home with students to ensure they are reading and doing their homework. There are very few people in this world who have made it through public school or any school without studying. How does Arne Duncan propose to address the needs beyond the schools doors?

We need real community based education intervention however; whose hands do we put the money in? Hey Wendy Kopp let’s start a new program call Reach for the Homes! Have your recent college graduates setup shop in community centers and neighborhood study groups and perhaps reach out to parents with literacy program and basic parenting and life skill programs. But we will have a problem with financial oversight of such a plan and if it’s the same model use for oversight of current school funding we are in deep deep trouble.

The real problems exist in our own individual local communities and must be address at its roots.  Ideas are fine but reality dictates the day. We cannot effectively address local issues based on a centralized scheme. There is a rational reason we have local school boards as a community familiar with itself can be more effective in addressing issues than those reaching from outside.

Let’s dig for a fancy college word to describe my concerns about Arne Duncan. I got it, I am apprehensive about Arne Duncan’s involvement because he has no direct educational back ground as a teacher or administrator. He has been groomed by external parties outside education to promote theories and models that have not been tested independently by nonpartisan bodies. Some see him as a mole within the system as an agent of the business roundtables who feel they know best.  In Delaware DSTP is a product of the local business roundtable and DSTP was flawed from day one. Our elected official coward in the corner like mice fearing their lobbyist wouldn’t give them their political $$$$ cheese. If Carper didn’t go allow with the DSTP plan he would have never been elected to U.S. Senate.

There is a basic reason America is made up of independent self-governing states and refused to surrender that autonomy to the federal government establish after the American Revolutionary War. Many of us know the problem with the United States is a result of failures within the federal government and their inability to regulate and manage their financial books. This country broke away from British rule because of the domination and taxation without representation. The United State Department of Education is extending itself far beyond the mandate of its existence. Delaware is the first state of the union and I for one want to be the first to tell Arne Duncan to kiss my ass and go back to Washington. Taking “our” federal dollars and lacing it with stipulations to us them goes against the grain of our forefather’s intent and sacrifice of their blood.   DSEA may bow down and kiss Arne’s ass and feet but not me!   

Yep, Arne Duncan doesn’t know shit about civil rights

Chicago Public Schools: Mandatory Racial Integration  Published October 08, 2009

 

Gaining a major spotlight in national news are public schools in Chicago, who redesigned their enrollment practices to diversify their student population, according to the Chicago Tribune. However, these changes have ignited a frenzy of media and legal attention. 

 

In late September of 2009, a federal judge ordered Chicago public school leaders to end their mandatory racial integration efforts, citing that the practices were inadvertently causing unjust treatment and social malfeasance.  The judge’s decision, although welcomed by many educational leaders and community members, “presents district officials with a quandary increasingly shared by urban districts across the nation: how to achieve racial equality without making explicitly race-based decisions.” 

 

In examining Chicago’s race-based school assignment practices, the schools most recognized for enforcing racial quotas were many of the district’s 75 magnet schools, wherein at least 65 percent of the school’s classroom seats were designated for minority students.  Similarly, approximately 35 percent of classroom seats were reserved for Caucasian students; however, the prevalence of Caucasian students has gradually diminished, and statistics show that Caucasian students only make up 8 percent of the student population of the magnet schools.  

 

Chicago school leaders argue that their racial “standards” for schools were designed to de-segregate many of the primarily Caucasian and minority schools in the city.  As a result of the recent judgment to end these practices, “Critics fear the decision will cripple efforts to integrate the district, and point to other cities that have seen a school system become re-segregated once court-ordered integration ended.”  Adding more concern to this fear, many community members are worried that the magnet and elite schools will gradually become “bastions for the wealthy white.”

 

“We have two completely different worlds in this city,” said Don Moore, director of the education research group Designs for Change, who described the effort to integrate as a failure and the hundreds of millions spent on it “a total disgrace.”

 

MILLION SPENT ON IT, ” A TOTAL DISGRACE.”

Now Arne get’s billion to piss away in total disgrace!