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Of course they went down. You put in children that have no hope of keeping up, and the scores will go down. That's how it works when you average it all out.

The right wingers have been using that to try to discredit the public schools and push segregation again.

You know, like how they drove up the debt to try to use that as an excuse to take the pooled wealth the working people have put into programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and others from the working people to give to the wealthy by privatizing them.

It's all a scam, run by con people who will never be happy until they have it all and are aristocrats, with the rest of us as slaves.
Posted by rablib]]> Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:02:55 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Coolbreeze 101]]> Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:35:17 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Doc]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:25:13 -0600 Arkansas Times
Gotta make all those white families send their shiny white kids go to school with African Americans. One day soon we will take over their safe havens of Cabot and Bryant.

Remember when the white kids do well in the classroom - the teacher cuts them off and has them become a teacher for the black kids so they can learn. Forget about challenging the white kids any further.....heck they have it too good already just by being white. The result of this is levelized test scores where the whites and blacks begin to level out (or when the white kids come down) to the black kids scores.....oops the secret is out.....gosh!

Posted by Coolbreeze 101]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:50:02 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Doc]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:44:17 -0600 Arkansas Times
Maybe we need a discrimination lawsuit by someone with a special ed child and a good lawyer to require these private campuses to modify and adjust their facility to include any child that wants to go. You take taxpayer money, you lose your ability to pick and choose. They should be forced to keep every child they accept and not have the right to kick them out and force their problems back on the public school system. You take the "public" money, you too are "public".
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:50:58 -0600 Arkansas Times
Although many proponents of these schools say it's based on school "choice" (they're all about "choice" until it comes to women's rights) what many of them don't get is this: as with all things in the US, small private schools will be bought up by large corporations until just 4 or 5 corporations control all schools in the country. And, that will be the end of school choice and critical thinking in this country. Plutocracy 1, you and me 0.

But I'm not sure the fight will be won by us. There's too much money, fueling too much propaganda made anger, and monied connections where it counts.

I feel this struggle is really about getting one of the last chunks of money from the American middle class. I think it's pretty much over for our middle class anyway--these large multinational corporations have discovered India and China and other nations who are now becoming more middle class. And their middle classes will dwarf the buying power of the American middle class, so why they bother with us? They'll take as much wealth (they've gotten nearly all of it) from us as they can and move on to China, India and other countries. That's what uncontrolled capitalism does.

So I often think it's over--they've bought it all up, schools, politicians and all. Still I guess we should fight it if we can.
Posted by spunkrat]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:10:56 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:15:14 -0600 Arkansas Times
These CS folks don't tell you about the 90/90/90 schools (Public, not private/charter)

90% minority 90% disadvantaged 90% proficient/advanced - they probably don't ever

mention Dr. Doug Reeves either.
Posted by mrprincipal07]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:41:39 -0600 Arkansas Times
90% minority 90%disadvantaged 90% proficient/advanced Now tell me which charter school in Arkansas can match this?
Posted by mrprincipal07]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:31:34 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Max Brantley]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:46:19 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Salieri]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:21:45 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by terry b]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:20:16 -0600 Arkansas Times
I tell you, these folks can't see themselves when they look in a mirror.
Posted by Silverback66]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:49:59 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/st…

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According to current figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- the federal agency responsible for deportations -- Obama has removed 1.4 million people during his 42 months in office so far. Technically, that's fewer than under George W. Bush, whose cumulative total was 2 million. But Bush’s number covers eight full years, which doesn’t allow an apples-to-apples comparison.

If you instead compare the two presidents’ monthly averages, it works out to 32,886 for Obama and 20,964 for Bush, putting Obama clearly in the lead. Bill Clinton is far behind with 869,676 total and 9,059 per month. All previous occupants of the White House going back to 1892 fell well short of the level of the three most recent presidents.

We wondered whether there might have been a surge of undocumented immigrants that explained the increase, but there wasn’t. During the first two years of Obama’s tenure, the Pew Hispanic Center estimated the illegal immigrant population nationwide at 11.2 million, compared to an average during Bush’s eight-year tenure of 10.6 million. And illegal immigration actually peaked late in Bush’s second term, at which point the recession hit and the numbers declined under Obama. Such patterns do not explain the 57 percent bump in monthly deportations that we found under Obama.
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Jeb and Romney R's held back somewhat for now... but the latino numbers won't allow it much longer... especially if latino's wake up. The r's seem far more willing and capable or at least aware of the need for pivoting than D's, who still only pivot rightward these days.

Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:41:59 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7x75gIYWjI
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:33:15 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by terry b]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:15:24 -0600 Arkansas Times
And the D party platform is now entirely aligned with and owned by proponents of privitization of public schools. All the whining about republicans without any scrutiny of D's by D's is oh so predictable and hypocritical.

Follow the money which funds both false sides... on everything AR Blog has posted about this and every morning... "ethics" "drug testing" "charter schools."
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:03:41 -0600 Arkansas Times
So, one more time.

It's anything but adorable, watching billionaire conservatives like the Waltons and Kochs steamroller Americans' long-standing entitlement to public education.

In addition to sucking at the teat of government funding (much derided, supposedly, by the GOP) for private goals, there is the inherent (though denied) and underlying racism and classism: i.e., private education for the best off, best connected, brightest and lightest pigmented . . . leaving everybody else to fend for themselves and fight over whatever resources remain.

More subtle is the conservative billionaire's agenda of controlling education and shaping young minds like the Thought Police they are.

Ultimately, among other things, that means furthering a subservient, obedient unquestioning mentality that accompanies religious conformity (creationism, rejection of scientific and medical training for stem-cell research, abortion, sex education, family-planning, etc.) and the creation of a dependent and docile working class who will work for minimal benefits and low wages for employers like WalMart--and think they're happy!

Other countries, meanwhile, continue leapfrogging over America in terms of educational achievements on the global stage, as we become a nation of stock clerks and greeters.

Cheers, Alice, David and Charles!
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:01:04 -0600 Arkansas Times
Will Gov. Beebe show up and adamantly repeat his recent quote about charter schools vs public schools? "If it ain't broke don't fix it."
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:49:29 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:47:30 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:31:02 -0600 Arkansas Times