Flying Pig Alert!!!
2009 August 26
The Los Angeles Unified School District approved a plan to turn 250 of its schools to the private sector for management as charter schools, after winning a battle with the teachers union.
HUGE HatTip to HotAir for this link to the story:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/26/la-unified-school-district-chooses-private-sector-competition/
If this stands, this is a MASSIVE loss for one of the largest Teacher’s Unions in the country. I guess pigs DO fly!
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Perhaps sanity is starting to return, after all.
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I’m glad to see this. It’s long past time for the teachers’ unions to stop hampering education! (Oh, the irony, but so true!).
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Where’s JM she ought to be jumping for joy. It is a step in the right direction.
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By the way the Leftists have pointed to means to have limited government — closed for lack of money. RI is going to shutdown everything but essential services for 12 days. Hmmm. Ok, could we go for a month? If you could go that long, how about 6months?
Can science develop a withdrawal patch?
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This was a complete surprise for most people, including the fact that LA’s mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was such an enthusiastic supporter of it!
If this decision sticks, and the schools designated to leave the LAUSD’s union fold do much better under a private system, it may very well effect the entire country. California may again be a leader of something “positive,” for a change!
This ruling could just be a byproduct of people getting tired of decades of democratic, union-run governance. We are in the pits economically. Our public schools are more like prisons. Sometimes you have to bottom out before you can go up!
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janzam, my fingers are crossed that the ruling stands. I’m always leery that this is simply Kibuki Theater…and a deal has already been reached.
Still…it DOES look hopeful!
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Good news. However huge threats still loom. Keep punching.
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Justrand — My instinct tells me it will not only stand, but that the “results” (better schools) will stand head and shoulders over the union-run schools under the LAUSD, which will force those schools to become competitively “better,” or be left behind.
I just love democracy when it works like this!
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O/T for a second…but, this is really scary!
Look who Obama appointed as the FCC’s Chief Diversity Office!
Going for the media’s throat American Thinker article
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…also, did anyone catch this article on Red State?
Rumors surfaces that Leon Panetta is resigning Link
There doesn’t seem to be any stability, rhyme or reason in the Obama Administration. This nation will rue the day they elected this man — I’m talking about those who voted for him!
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Jan – screwing with the CIA is not a good thing. They have people that can make you disappear and accidents do just happen. Unlike ‘zero’ and his people being amatures, those people are professionals.
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I still think France Securatie and British MI-6 already know the dirt on Obama. Somebody at the CIA just needs to pick up the phone.
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Sorry to dampen everybody’s spirits here, but how long until the teachers and their unions infiltrate the charter schools?
And why is it whenever the left wants to do anything, they NEVER have to worry about the ninth circus or some court telling them its unconstitutional?
Okay, I’ll stop dumping. If you’ve go school-age kids and live in SoCal, take advantage, because it isn’t likely to last.
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The FCC’s Chief Diversity Office is going to be the hammer with which they smash TalkRadio…the biggest “threat” against them.
Yup, the Left considers Free Speech a threat, unless it’s THEM freely speaking!
They won’t even need to go after FoxNews directly after that…they’ll choke them out by pressuring the advertisers.
The goal is ONE consistent message…regardless of how many outlets there are. Kind of like General Motors in the old days. Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Chevy and GM…all the SAME CARS, just with different appointments. But basically the SAME CARS!
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CT, I’m sure there’s a catch somewhere. But if the folks running these schools can get them ramped up quickly, then they can make a real statement. 250 schools means probably somewhere around 150,000 kids, maybe more. That’s a lot of pissed off parents if you then turn around and try to screw them up!
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Justrand —> I agree totally with your post #15. 250 schools is a goodly number of schools that get a chance to come out beneath the teacher’s union foot. I’ve seen committed parents, and they are a force to be dealt with!
Anyway, I don’t want to project pessessism right at the getgo of something as good as this!
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I’ve watched a few Glenn Beck video clip dealing with Obama’s Czars. The FCC guy is another Alinsky-like appointment. These people who Obama is surrounding himself, these so-called “advisors,” are so out of the American loop. It’s like that saying, that if you can’t tell what a man’s character is, just look at the people he chooses to be around.
I don’t like who I see around Obama!
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So AARP is now endorsing 0bamacare. I just saw a tv ad where they accuse opponents of lying.
It was a pretty good ad though. Shows an ambulance trying to make its way through city streets with sirens blaring while a bunch of small cars do everything possible to impede its progress.
assholes
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It was on the history channel during monster quest.
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There’s one more individual, sort of the liberal lion of the U.S. Senate, and that would be Ted Kennedy. If there’s one issue that Ted Kennedy likes more than any other, it’s taxes. In his mind, he’s the Robin Hood of the U.S. Senate. He’s going to steal from the rich and give to the poor. He talks about tax cuts or bonanzas for the rich and giveaways. He supports the inheritance tax in the name of social justice and says repealing it would benefit millionaires. He believes it’s that simple.
That’s what Ted Kennedy says about taxes. But what is the Kennedy record of actually paying taxes? Ted Kennedy of course is a millionaire. You’d think the inheritance tax would affect him. How has that worked out? The reality is that the Kennedys have set up dozens of trusts around the world to avoid paying the very tax that he says is important to pay in the name of social justice: the inheritance tax. What’s particularly ironic about this is, for a long time, their largest asset was Merchandise Mart, the real estate conglomerate. When they decided to set up a trust, where do they domicile that trust? Anybody want to guess? Was it Massachusetts, their home state? Florida? California? Delaware?
The Kennedys domiciled Merchandize Mart, with more than $600 million, on the Pacific Island nation of Fiji. Has Ted Kennedy ever been to Fiji? I don’t think there’s any record that he has. But they picked Fiji because it avoids IRS scrutiny, the sort that you would get if you domiciled the trust in the United States.
The reality today is that Ted Kennedy receives money from trusts established numerous times, from 1926, 1936, 1978, 1987, and 1997, and those trusts of course are designed to avoid paying the inheritance tax.
What does this actually mean in practical terms? Let me give you the bottom line. Ted Kennedy supports an inheritance tax of 49%. Forty-nine percent of what you have goes to the IRS after you die. Now, what rate did the Kennedys pay? The Kennedys have transferred $300 million, this is all according to their records, they have transferred $300 million from one generation to the other, and out of that, they have paid $132,000 in taxes, which is nowhere near 49%? Actually it’s .004 percent. The Kennedys, like a lot of other people on the left, love the idea of paying taxes for other people. When it comes to themselves, they’re not so interested.
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This is good news….but…..I am not jumping for joy just yet. Don’t want to jinx it
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Poast #20 —-> Unbelievable! The “Lion of the Senate,” a man who says “Do what I say, not what I do!.”
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Poast —> ??? must be thinking of toast, when I was trying to type Post! More coffee, please!
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rofl Jan, my coffee isn’t strong enough this morning either.
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Many difficulties will have to be overcome, but this is very big.