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Extractions: Vouchers heading to vote, group says A group backed by a Silicon Valley venture capitalist announced Monday that it has submitted 1.15 million signatures to qualify a voucher initiative for California's November ballot that would offer each child $4,000 a year to pay for private schooling. Tim Draper, the initiative's author and a former member of the state Board of Education, said vouchers would give parents "real choices when making decisions regarding the education of their children." He predicted the measure which requires 670,816 valid signatures to be placed on the November ballot would qualify easily after the signatures are reviewed by county election officials. "This will be a debate about the future of California's children," Draper said. "Will we offer parents the sense of pride that comes from doing everything they can for their child, or will the state force them to continue sending their children to a low-performing school?" The California Teachers Association, which raised more than $14 million to defeat a voucher initiative touted by supporters who decried falling test scores and depressing dropout rates in their efforts to win voter approval in 1993 by a 3-1 margin, predicted that voters "will not be fooled" by the latest incarnation.
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Extractions: This article appeared in Upside (October 1993). Exactly four years after the Berlin Wall was breached, the front line in the struggle between state power and individual rights has shifted toof all placesCalifornia. This time, although the contest will lack the "made-for-TV" imagery of graffiti-covered concrete, refugee-packed embassies, and massive street rallies, the outcome may have a more dramatic impact on the daily lives of Americans, particularly those in high-tech. On November 2, Californians will vote on whether to revolutionize their public schools by replacing the traditional government monopoly with a system based on market competition. No one disputes the pathetic condition of California's (or for that matter, America's) public education. In the nation's largest state, 60% of students either drop out or graduate with skills below the 7th grade level. In an age of cut-throat global competition, companies are hard-pressed to find workers who can read and write, much less add and subtract. U.S. technology companies are being forced to spend scarce resources to redo the job that the schools should have done. Motorola, for example, is spending $120 million a year3.6% of payrollsending its workers to remedial classes. As low-skill jobs disappear, under pressure from automation and offshore competition, America's schools annually dump millions more semi-literates onto the labor market.
Extractions: I have always been a fan of competition. As a student I participated in lots of contests YMCA sports; art, drama, choral & instrumental competitions; geography & science projects; spelling bees and more. When I first moved to California a few years ago, I auditioned for singing/acting jobs and was fortunate to work in many movies, TV shows and several of Disney's special events around the country. My bulldog and I competed on a TV show, "You Lie Like a Dog" on Animal Planet where we won money for local animal charities. And, even today, I continue to participate in running, swimming and biking events. Spelling is important to me. In my current profession as a publicist/event planner, I have to do a lot of writing and reviewing of press releases. Good spelling and grammar are mandatory. When I send and receive e-mail messages, I like to make a good impression by sending documents that have perfect spelling, grammar and punctuation. I don't like to rely on "Spell-Check."
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Extractions: Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor LOS ANGELES Backed by deep-pocket millionaires, California and Michigan are giving new life to the controversial national debate on school choice. Two citizen campaigns now under way could drastically alter public education in their states and shape the direction and vitality of American education reform. Both campaigns deal with laws that would provide parents with state-funded vouchers to help pay tuition at private or parochial schools. Boosted by recent court rulings that say the government can use taxpayer money to support private schools, the votes could either bolster or stall the growing pro-voucher movement. "These are very important campaigns to watch not only because of the size of these states but because of the momentum they will create for other states to do likewise," says Bob Chase of the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers union. It is fighting the initiatives.
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Extractions: The first Diocesan records are kept with the arrival of Blessed Junipero Serra, a Franciscan Missionary, and his companions. Guadalajara becomes an archdiocese, with a suffragan diocese, Sonora. This includes the Mexican States of Sonora, Sinola, and Upper and Lower California. Mexico wins its independence from Spain. Rome erects the Diocese of Monterey to embrace the entire State of California. The first Bishop of the Diocese is a Spanish Dominican, Rev. Joseph Sadoc Alemany. He had become a naturalized American citizen. The Archdiocese of San Francisco is erected. The Diocese of Monterey receives its first bishop, Most Rev. Thaddeus Amat. Bishop Amat renames his jurisdiction as the Diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles. The Episcopal See moves to Los Angeles. Our Lady of Mercy Church in Merced is established.
Extractions: lamission@tminet.com By George Neumayr Editor's note: Author Tom Wolfe made a splash in the January 19 New York Times when he was quoted at a conference sponsored by the Children's Scholarship Fund saying, "Immediately stop all installation of computers and Internet apparatus in the public schools, and substitute chessboards." This follow-up interview appeared in Investor's Business Daily on January 21. Neumayr: What was the essential substance of your speech? I know The New York Times did a little report about your advocacy of chessboards over computers, but what was your real message? Wolfe: Let me give you the background. I said to these big-money guys: "Any of you who has any influence over installing computers or internet in classrooms, get on the phone right after lunch and tell them to get rid of it all and you will save America millions of dollars." As every good teacher knows, in order for children to learn, they have to use information actively. I'm talking about establishing memory here. Let's say the subject is the origins of the American Revolution, which is probably not even being taught in any public schools, that is part of the problem. Studying issues like this teaches kids to develop concepts and reach conclusions; in other words, to use their minds rationally. Now, the internet does absolutely nothing to create active learning of this sort. It tends to be used as a substitute for such activity.
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Extractions: A message from the California Association of Private School Organizations (CAPSO) Private schools are partners in the education of the public. California's private schools currently educate more than 640,000 students representing over 10% of the state's total K-12 enrollment. One out of every five K-12 schools in California is a private school. Private schools provide students with knowledge, skills and values that are essential for productive and responsible participation in a democratic society. Graduates of California's private schools make significant contributions to every aspect of life in the state, often distinguishing themselves for their social, cultural, economic, scientific, academic, legal, religious and political achievements and leadership. Whatever their particular orientation, California's private schools uphold and promote the values of public participation and service to community. Private schools are diverse and pluralistic. American private education reflects the diversity that is a hallmark of our country's strength, freedom and creativity. Private schools span the ideological gamut, from Society of Friends (Quaker) schools to military academies, include parochial schools associated with multiple faiths and denominations, and feature an array of non-sectarian schools with differing philosophies of education, visions and missions. Private schools are urban, suburban and rural, large and small, progressive and traditional, religious and secular, independent and networked in various associations. In short, private schools offer parents and students a broad and meaningful range of educational options.
Extractions: 6 November 2000 Use this version to print On November 7 voters in California and Michigan will cast ballots on state-wide initiatives to provide parents with publicly funded school vouchers to send their children to private or parochial schools. California's Proposition 38 (the National Average School Funding Guarantee and Parental Right to Choose Quality Education Amendment) would make a $4,000 voucher available to the parents of all school-age children. The official anti-voucher coalitions are largely made up of the teachers unions and other AFL-CIO affiliates and sections of the Democratic Party. But these forces offer no serious program or strategy for addressing the crisis in public education, and the danger consequently exists that growing numbers of parents, desperate to find better conditions for their children, may be susceptible to pro-voucher arguments, if not now, then at some point in the future. These forces have sought to exploit the widespread anxiety felt by working class and middle class families over deteriorating conditions in the public school system. The voucher proponents, however, conceal the fact that the crisis in the schools is the product of decades of federal, state and local spending cuts, tax breaks to big business and attacks on teachers' and other school employees' wages and working conditions.
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Extractions: Voucher Decision Puts Most Vulnerable Children at Risk By Kerry Mazzoni The Supreme Court's decision in the Cleveland school voucher case threatens to erode one of the most important foundations of our democratic society - the public schools - just as real progress is being made towards improving education for our neediest students. Governor Davis continues to make education California's top priority. Working with the Legislature, he has raised standards and expectations for students, provided more than 30 percent increase in school funding and focused significant extra resources on the state's lowest performing schools. Now is not the time to let vouchers impede that progress. We know that there have been disparities in public schools. We also know that with higher standards, accountability, well-trained teachers and a clear focus on achievement, it is possible to overcome excuses made in the past for the unacceptably low achievement of students who are poor, minorities or English learners. In California, voters have twice soundly rejected vouchers to allow parents to send their children to private, parochial schools, recognizing that vouchers are not the solution to improving schools or helping our most vulnerable students. Even before the significant education reforms of the past few years were made, voters wisely put their faith in the public schools as a bulwark of our democratic society. Public schools are the only institution where our increasingly diverse society is brought together daily and where children from all cultures learn and share our society's collective values - those laid out in the Bill of Rights and expressed in the concept of free public education itself.
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Extractions: Legislative Update California Senate Passes Budget with Tax Increase To close the $23.6 billion budget gap, the Senate has approved of a budget spending plan that would more than double motorists' vehicle license fees for one year, and suspend net operating loss tax credits (costing California companies $2 billion over the next two years) and the Teacher Tax Credit (costing California teachers $170 million). The spending plan imposes a 63-cent cigarette tax per pack, bringing the total tax to $1.50 per pack (costs to California smokers: $689 million), and further, limits liability for bad debt. The approval of this spending plan must come from the Assembly and then the Governor prior to activation. Supreme Court Upholds School Vouchers On June 27, the nation's highest court upheld the pilot private-school voucher program for inner city students in Cleveland, a decision that clears the way for sweeping change in American public schools. The tuition subsidies, 95 percent of which enriched religious schools, were found to be free of sponsoring religious indoctrination, which would have been unconstitutional. The Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling ruled state tax dollars can be directed away from public schools, used to send children to private and religious schools, so long as the choice between secular or parochial schools existed. As reported in The San Diego Union June 28, 2002, California's Governor Gray Davis, a staunch opponent of vouchers, vowed to keep state tax dollars out of private schools. "Just because vouchers are legal does not make them right," he said. "I believe it is a mistake to have a system that takes more money away from public schools, particularly when public schools are making progress."
Extractions: Ladies' Home Journal - SPECIAL REPORT Danger in the Schoolyard Studies show that pesticides can harm childrens health. Yet across the country, kids are being exposed to high levels of dangerous chemicals at school. By Carol Lynn Mithers When Robina Suwol, forty, dropped off her sons at Sherman Oaks Elementary School, in Los Angeles, on March 30, 1998, she noticed a man spraying something along the side of the building. He must be cleaning, she thought absently as she opened the car door for Banden, then ten, and Nicholas, then six. As the boys got out, mist from the spray wet their heads and faces. Yuck! said Nicholas, This tastes terrible! What tastes terrible? wondered Suwol, but with a line of impatient parents behind her at the curb, there was no time to find out. The more she thought about what had happened, however, the more anxious she became. The man had been wearing a hazardous-materials suit. If what he was spraying was so dangerous that he needed protection, why was it being used around kids? She called the school office, and was directed to the L.A. Unified School Districts maintenance department.
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Extractions: This is an internet resource offered by the California Council of Churches and the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California. Funded by The James Irvine Foundation, these organizations provide information and technical assistance to public and faith-based organizations in California that are attempting to engage in public/private partnerships. jorr@usc.edu Constitutional Decisions "Is Charitable Choice Constitutional?" The answer to that question, it turns out, is extremely complex. If and when Charitable Choice is directly tested in the Supreme Court, we'll have an answer. A substantial number of scholars, however, argue that Charitable Choice is amply covered by opinions that the Supreme Court has already handed down. The following is NOT a legal argument. It is merely an introduction to a few of concepts and Supreme Court decisions that are currently being cited in the debate about Charitable Choice. The Wall of Separation Between Church and State Surprisingly, the Supreme Court did not speak about a "wall of separation" until
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Extractions: A deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court declared for the first time Thursday that the controversial practice of giving tax-funded vouchers to parents to pay for private or religious schools is constitutional. The ruling delivered a blow to teachers unions and infused the school-choice movement with new momentum that could reinvigorate failed voucher bids in California, supporters said. The 5-4 decision settled the legal question at the center of the biggest national education showdown in a generation. The nation's highest court ruled that an Ohio program that provides up to $2,250 in tuition vouchers to Cleveland schoolchildren to attend private and parochial schools does not violate the Constitution's strict separation of church and state. The ruling makes vouchers valid as long as parents can choose from an array of secular and religious schools, the court's majority said.
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Extractions: http://www.ccclearn.com/ Ed.Net Briefs is a free weekly online education newsletter. Each issue is filled with summaries of the week's important education stories, including the source citation for those who want more information. Ed.Net Briefs is sent to subscribers via e-mail and posted here on the Simpson Communications Web site each week. RECEIVE A FREE SUBSCRIPTION BY E-MAIL . Fill out this online subscription request form and you will receive Ed.Net Briefs via e-mail each Monday morning. QUESTIONS? Contact us via e-mail. http://www.nytimes.com SUPREME COURT DEBATES PAROCHIAL SCHOOL FUNDING The Supreme Court is trying to develop a formula for deciding how much public aid to parochial schools is too much. The debate was provoked by a Louisiana case in which two Jefferson Parish parents challenged a federal program that loans instructional equipment, including computers, to parochial schools. A federal appeals court panel struck down the program as a violation of the First Amendment, which prohibits government establishment of religion. The appeals judges said they approached the case with caution because of the Supreme Court's confusing precedents in the area. In a string of cases over three decades, the Supreme Court has upheld some forms of aid to parochial schools, such as textbooks, but not others, evaluating each program differently. A decision in the case could come any time before the end of the Court term next summer. Tony Mauro, "Court debates funding for parochial schools" USA Today, December 2, 1999, 11A
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