The Kirwan Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education ended with a standing ovation on Thursday ― but there will be plenty more work to do in the upcoming legislative session.
With some reservations, 19 members of the commission voted in favor of putting forward a 10-year multibillion-dollar education reform plan and a new state education funding formula to support it. Three members of the commission ― citing financial and other concerns ― voted against the package. Three others were absent at the time of the vote.
The commission’s proposals for phasing in the reforms and the proposed funding formula will move forward to the General Assembly for further consideration once the session begins Jan. 8.
“This is maybe the best education reform package that has been produced by any state in this country in the history of this country,” House Majority Leader Eric G. Luedtke (D-Montgomery), a former teacher, said of the commission’s proposal.
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6 comments:
Letting the lunatics run the asylm? SCHOOL VOUCHERS NOW.stop the INSANITY AND comunist incursion further into the education tax sucking monster. ALL LIES
Hogan needs to step in and stop this lunacy. Let Montgomery have it and pay for it but don't force me to pay more taxes for these tax raising lunatics. MD is getting more like California, high taxes and poor people.
Stop paying taxes.
As the spouse of a "forward deployed" teacher in a Wicomico County elementary school I can tell you that unless they get the discipline under control we will be throwing good money after bad with the recommendations in the Kirwin Commission report. The schools in Wicomico County have lost control! In my opinion that makes them unsafe. Nothing in the Kirwin report mentions getting a handle on the unruly behavior of the student population. The schools are allowing a few children to model extremely bad behavior for the majority of the children. This is not a black/white thing this is a right/wrong thing. Good order starts with good discipline.
“This is maybe the best education reform package that has been produced by any state in this country in the history of this country,” House Majority Leader Eric G. Luedtke (D-Montgomery), a former teacher, said of the commission’s proposal.
How many times have we heard similar statements regarding education? I am also a former teacher, and after 35 years in the classroom I cannot even count the number of educational reforms that have cost billions of dollars with no beneficial outcomes. Our children are the unwilling test subjects for baseless experiments performed by self-proclaimed educational experts who are political pawns in a multi-billion dollar education industry. Classroom teachers are the real experts; if not, then why are they allowed in the classroom? Let teachers who know the educational, emotional, and physical needs of their students actually teach them.
I thank God my kids are OUT of school...the crap is only getting worse...
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